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Freehold DM wrote:But it's Thursday.HAPPY THANKSGIVING FAWTL!
leaps of faith into black Friday shopping madness
Actually — from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint — Black Friday's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly... timey-wimey... stuff.
...where the poor store staff are more soul-deadened than Cybermen, and most of the shoppers are less courteous than Daleks.
Edit: Geriatric nekkidness?! Oh my!
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I'm on a bus!
Are you listening to boss tapes of showband music, Elvis covers, Rebel songs seemingly accompanied by Brian Poole and the Tremeloes, etc ?
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Treppa wrote:Freehold DM wrote:But it's Thursday.HAPPY THANKSGIVING FAWTL!
leaps of faith into black Friday shopping madness
Actually — from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint — Black Friday's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly... timey-wimey... stuff.
...where the poor store staff are more soul-deadened than Cybermen, and most of the shoppers are less courteous than Daleks.
Edit: Geriatric nekkidness?! Oh my!
Scientific underpants are 950% off at Poundword! Rejoice, rejoice! You have no excuse!
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David M Mallon wrote:Ketchup is foul. Not as foul as mustard, but more foul than mayonnaise.Celestial Healer wrote:This is the North. That's not in my repertoireEvidently not far north enough. It's my firmly-held belief that New York and Vermont north of Whitehall/Rutland is what you'd get if you tried to cross Canada with the Deep South.
"I'll have the sawmill gravy with grits and ketchup, eh?"
And brown sauce is more delicious than all of them!
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Happy Thanksgiving Fawtl! :)
Hope you are all having a relaxing day. I'm chilling in my new favorite shirt while the turkey cooks. I'm a super lazy cook so I've managed to work it so I now have hours before I have to do anything else involving dinner prep. About twenty minutes before dinner there will be a flurry of activity, but that's not so bad.
We were going to go for a nice long walk but it keeps raining, so looks like an afternoon of video games for us. :)
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Happy Thanksgiving Fawtl! :)
Hope you are all having a relaxing day. I'm chilling in my new favorite shirt while the turkey cooks. I'm a super lazy cook so I've managed to work it so I now have hours before I have to do anything else involving dinner prep. About twenty minutes before dinner there will be a flurry of activity, but that's not so bad.
We were going to go for a nice long walk but it keeps raining, so looks like an afternoon of video games for us. :)
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Wow... I'm really beginning to believe that Microsoft is digging its own grave. Any privacy-advocacy lawsuits aside, even my kids see articles like that and ask, "Dad, how many of my Steam games will run on Linux?"
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Happy Thanksgiving all, The bird is happily being smoked should be done by 3 or so and now time to make cranberry sauce courtesy of freehold's favorite chef
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Happy Thanksgiving all, The bird is happily being smoked should be done by 3 or so and now time to make cranberry sauce courtesy of freehold's favorite chef
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My future sister-in-law brought scones, so I didn't have to make biscuits this morning.
Dinner is eaten. So much food. And, not to toot my own horn, but the candied sweet potatoes kind of stole the spotlight. They were made from scratch and I didn't hold back on the brown sugar (because Thanksgiving!)
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I am now bussing. I'll be on three by the end of the day. The first one is off to a grand start, but we haven't hit the country roads yet. :P It is reinforcing that I should really learn how to drive in the New Year. Bus schedules are not very flexible, after all. :)
Automania bad. Move to San Francisco. We don't have bus or train schedules here. The bus comes so frequently that you just go stand and wait, and when you get on they complete the route as fast as feasible instead of driving to a timetable.
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Xenthya, Nuzlocke Trainer wrote:Situation NormalTime to trim the pyramid again =)
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We don't have bus or train schedules here. The bus comes so frequently that you just go stand and wait, and when you get on they complete the route as fast as feasible instead of driving to a timetable.
This would drive me bananas. I need a schedule if I'm not operating on my own. I need to know at least an approximate time I'm going to be somewhere. I need to be able to plan this stuff in advance. That kind of lack of detail would kill me.
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Sorry you have to do that, Cap'n. I am doing my part by not shopping today (or tomorrow, but that's because I hate stressful shopping experiences).
am on line at target. They do not let you get the item - you have to wait on line until you get to the register and they get it for you. Line wraps around a ways, but at least it's moving.
Now we play the waiting game.
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Rosita the Riveter wrote:We don't have bus or train schedules here. The bus comes so frequently that you just go stand and wait, and when you get on they complete the route as fast as feasible instead of driving to a timetable.This would drive me bananas. I need a schedule if I'm not operating on my own. I need to know at least an approximate time I'm going to be somewhere. I need to be able to plan this stuff in advance. That kind of lack of detail would kill me.
we have a sorta kinda schedule here. Nowadays we have an app/website that lets you know where the bus is.
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Rosita the Riveter wrote:We don't have bus or train schedules here. The bus comes so frequently that you just go stand and wait, and when you get on they complete the route as fast as feasible instead of driving to a timetable.This would drive me bananas. I need a schedule if I'm not operating on my own. I need to know at least an approximate time I'm going to be somewhere. I need to be able to plan this stuff in advance. That kind of lack of detail would kill me.
Headway is under ten minutes for most lines I take outside of weekends, and the unpredictability of Bay Area traffic makes keeping a schedule very hard. VTA tries to do it, and it doesn't really work. I much prefer "Go stand there for, at most, ten minutes, and we'll have you on your way" to "We have a schedule, but you can't rely on it at all".
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Does anyone else hate Thanksgiving? I do. My parents and I don't get along, my sister hides her affection under a layer of abrasiveness, my brother doesn't get why my parents and I can't get along, and family dinners aren't a thing. My parents have always eaten in a separate room from my brother, and my brother and I ate processed frozen food when my stepdad cooked for him and mom. We had homecooked food on Thanksgiving, but still ate in a separate room. And don't get me started on that. When my sister became an adult, she earned the right to eat with my parents. When I became an adult, I got no such thing. I'm still not allowed to when I visit.
So, yea. Screw Thanksgiving. It's a stupid holiday that makes me depressed and I hate it, and I'm glad I'm alone in my apartment rather than at home.
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Orthos wrote:Headway is under ten minutes for most lines I take outside of weekends, and the unpredictability of Bay Area traffic makes keeping a schedule very hard. VTA tries to do it, and it doesn't really work. I much prefer "Go stand there for, at most, ten minutes, and we'll have you on your way" to "We have a schedule, but you can't rely on it at all".Rosita the Riveter wrote:We don't have bus or train schedules here. The bus comes so frequently that you just go stand and wait, and when you get on they complete the route as fast as feasible instead of driving to a timetable.This would drive me bananas. I need a schedule if I'm not operating on my own. I need to know at least an approximate time I'm going to be somewhere. I need to be able to plan this stuff in advance. That kind of lack of detail would kill me.
Yeah, it's just yet another reason added to an already-long list that I could never live in SanFran =P
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Does anyone else hate Thanksgiving? I do. My parents and I don't get along, my sister hides her affection under a layer of abrasiveness, my brother doesn't get why my parents and I can't get along, and family dinners aren't a thing. My parents have always eaten in a separate room from my brother, and my brother and I ate processed frozen food when my stepdad cooked for him and mom. We had homecooked food on Thanksgiving, but still ate in a separate room. And don't get me started on that. When my sister became an adult, she earned the right to eat with my parents. When I became an adult, I got no such thing. I'm still not allowed to when I visit.
So, yea. Screw Thanksgiving. It's a stupid holiday that makes me depressed and I hate it, and I'm glad I'm alone in my apartment rather than at home.
One of the good things about being an adult is, if your family situation isn't working for you, you can choose to do something else with your holidays. I hope that in time you find ways to celebrate occasions in your own way with people who do care about you.
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Orthos wrote:we have a sorta kinda schedule here. Nowadays we have an app/website that lets you know where the bus is.Rosita the Riveter wrote:We don't have bus or train schedules here. The bus comes so frequently that you just go stand and wait, and when you get on they complete the route as fast as feasible instead of driving to a timetable.This would drive me bananas. I need a schedule if I'm not operating on my own. I need to know at least an approximate time I'm going to be somewhere. I need to be able to plan this stuff in advance. That kind of lack of detail would kill me.
That would've been immensely helpful when I was living in AZ. Normally the bus system was great, almost always on time (or within acceptable parameters when not) and only occasionally super-crowded and uncomfortable. But being able to check and see if the bus is behind schedule because something went wrong or if it's just running late would have been really helpful back then.
That said, kinda irrelevant now, even if I moved back to AZ I wouldn't bother with the bus, now that I have a car and know how to drive.
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Rosita the Riveter wrote:Yeah, it's just yet another reason added to an already-long list that I could never live in SanFran =POrthos wrote:Headway is under ten minutes for most lines I take outside of weekends, and the unpredictability of Bay Area traffic makes keeping a schedule very hard. VTA tries to do it, and it doesn't really work. I much prefer "Go stand there for, at most, ten minutes, and we'll have you on your way" to "We have a schedule, but you can't rely on it at all".Rosita the Riveter wrote:We don't have bus or train schedules here. The bus comes so frequently that you just go stand and wait, and when you get on they complete the route as fast as feasible instead of driving to a timetable.This would drive me bananas. I need a schedule if I'm not operating on my own. I need to know at least an approximate time I'm going to be somewhere. I need to be able to plan this stuff in advance. That kind of lack of detail would kill me.
Or New York. Definitely no time tables for the subways :)
Edit: Buses, maybe, as Freehold pointed out. But not the subway.
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Orthos wrote:Rosita the Riveter wrote:Yeah, it's just yet another reason added to an already-long list that I could never live in SanFran =POrthos wrote:Headway is under ten minutes for most lines I take outside of weekends, and the unpredictability of Bay Area traffic makes keeping a schedule very hard. VTA tries to do it, and it doesn't really work. I much prefer "Go stand there for, at most, ten minutes, and we'll have you on your way" to "We have a schedule, but you can't rely on it at all".Rosita the Riveter wrote:We don't have bus or train schedules here. The bus comes so frequently that you just go stand and wait, and when you get on they complete the route as fast as feasible instead of driving to a timetable.This would drive me bananas. I need a schedule if I'm not operating on my own. I need to know at least an approximate time I'm going to be somewhere. I need to be able to plan this stuff in advance. That kind of lack of detail would kill me.Or New York. Definitely no time tables for the subways :)
Edit: Buses, maybe, as Freehold pointed out. But not the subway.
My biggest worry with the subways would actually be less the time and more whether my claustrophobia would let me use them.
My case is a lot more minor than a lot of people, in that I can handle crowded (but not too crowded) spaces and I can handle driving through tunnels in a vehicle. The question is if I could handle both happening at the same time.
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Rosita the Riveter wrote:One of the good things about being an adult is, if your family situation isn't working for you, you can choose to do something else with your holidays. I hope that in time you find ways to celebrate occasions in your own way with people who do care about you.Does anyone else hate Thanksgiving? I do. My parents and I don't get along, my sister hides her affection under a layer of abrasiveness, my brother doesn't get why my parents and I can't get along, and family dinners aren't a thing. My parents have always eaten in a separate room from my brother, and my brother and I ate processed frozen food when my stepdad cooked for him and mom. We had homecooked food on Thanksgiving, but still ate in a separate room. And don't get me started on that. When my sister became an adult, she earned the right to eat with my parents. When I became an adult, I got no such thing. I'm still not allowed to when I visit.
So, yea. Screw Thanksgiving. It's a stupid holiday that makes me depressed and I hate it, and I'm glad I'm alone in my apartment rather than at home.
Moving 1250 miles away seems to have been a good first step towards that.
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Celestial Healer wrote:Orthos wrote:Rosita the Riveter wrote:Yeah, it's just yet another reason added to an already-long list that I could never live in SanFran =POrthos wrote:Headway is under ten minutes for most lines I take outside of weekends, and the unpredictability of Bay Area traffic makes keeping a schedule very hard. VTA tries to do it, and it doesn't really work. I much prefer "Go stand there for, at most, ten minutes, and we'll have you on your way" to "We have a schedule, but you can't rely on it at all".Rosita the Riveter wrote:We don't have bus or train schedules here. The bus comes so frequently that you just go stand and wait, and when you get on they complete the route as fast as feasible instead of driving to a timetable.This would drive me bananas. I need a schedule if I'm not operating on my own. I need to know at least an approximate time I'm going to be somewhere. I need to be able to plan this stuff in advance. That kind of lack of detail would kill me.Or New York. Definitely no time tables for the subways :)
Edit: Buses, maybe, as Freehold pointed out. But not the subway.
My biggest worry with the subways would actually be less the time and more whether my claustrophobia would let me use them.
My case is a lot more minor than a lot of people, in that I can handle crowded (but not too crowded) spaces and I can handle driving through tunnels in a vehicle. The question is if I could handle both happening at the same time.
I ride the subway every time I go to work. I just got a new book about subways. I need more of those. I suppose my aspergers should make me most uncomfortable with cramped cars, but I find my general reaction to it is pretty neutral. And when it comes to cramped spaces, I'm like a cat.
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Orthos wrote:Rosita the Riveter wrote:Yeah, it's just yet another reason added to an already-long list that I could never live in SanFran =POrthos wrote:Headway is under ten minutes for most lines I take outside of weekends, and the unpredictability of Bay Area traffic makes keeping a schedule very hard. VTA tries to do it, and it doesn't really work. I much prefer "Go stand there for, at most, ten minutes, and we'll have you on your way" to "We have a schedule, but you can't rely on it at all".Rosita the Riveter wrote:We don't have bus or train schedules here. The bus comes so frequently that you just go stand and wait, and when you get on they complete the route as fast as feasible instead of driving to a timetable.This would drive me bananas. I need a schedule if I'm not operating on my own. I need to know at least an approximate time I'm going to be somewhere. I need to be able to plan this stuff in advance. That kind of lack of detail would kill me.Or New York. Definitely no time tables for the subways :)
Edit: Buses, maybe, as Freehold pointed out. But not the subway.
they do have ones for the subway, but it's not super reliable/useful underground.
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Celestial Healer wrote:Sorry you have to do that, Cap'n. I am doing my part by not shopping today (or tomorrow, but that's because I hate stressful shopping experiences).am on line at target. They do not let you get the item - you have to wait on line until you get to the register and they get it for you. Line wraps around a ways, but at least it's moving.
Now we play the waiting game.
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David M Mallon wrote:...what would I be? The Florida Keys?Celestial Healer wrote:This is the North. That's not in my repertoireEvidently not far north enough. It's my firmly-held belief that New York and Vermont north of Whitehall/Rutland is what you'd get if you tried to cross Canada with the Deep South.
"I'll have the sawmill gravy with grits and ketchup, eh?"
The Florida Keys are what you get when you cross Cuba with New Jersey.
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Thanksgiving dinner with my folks, my aunt, and my Irish grandparents. Lots of awkward pauses, talking about death, complaining of various aches and pains, and stories about second and third cousins. At least my mother hasn't given me the "make sure I get cremated after I die so you can take all of my gold teeth" speech yet, so that's good.
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Xenthya, Nuzlocke Trainer wrote:Despite All My RageXenthya, Nuzlocke Trainer wrote:Situation NormalTime to trim the pyramid again =)
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Thanksgiving dinner with my folks, my aunt, and my Irish grandparents. Lots of awkward pauses, talking about death, complaining of various aches and pains, and stories about second and third cousins. At least my mother hasn't given me the "make sure I get cremated after I die so you can take all of my gold teeth" speech yet, so that's good.
Are you sure we're not related? :P
That sounds a lot like my last familial visit. And only because I'm getting better at not engaging when they try to start the drama. And this is why they've been limited to no more than two visits per year and never at thanksgiving. I can't cut it down any more than that without moving out of state. :)Aranna |
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Does anyone else hate Thanksgiving? I do. My parents and I don't get along, my sister hides her affection under a layer of abrasiveness, my brother doesn't get why my parents and I can't get along, and family dinners aren't a thing. My parents have always eaten in a separate room from my brother, and my brother and I ate processed frozen food when my stepdad cooked for him and mom. We had homecooked food on Thanksgiving, but still ate in a separate room. And don't get me started on that. When my sister became an adult, she earned the right to eat with my parents. When I became an adult, I got no such thing. I'm still not allowed to when I visit.
So, yea. Screw Thanksgiving. It's a stupid holiday that makes me depressed and I hate it, and I'm glad I'm alone in my apartment rather than at home.
Wow that is so wrong.
I mean my mom is the exact opposite but not in a good way.
There is holy hell to pay if you dare avoid a Thanksgiving dinner. She demands the whole family be there for her enormous feast. And she is an excellent cook. The food is so good even with the entire table jammed full of the extended family that my claustrophobia somehow does not trigger. The biggest drawback of course is listening to how big a failure I am for not being married with children by now. Or for not being as hospitable as my brother. Or for ... well no sense in boring everyone with the numerous ways I have failed in life. Still I treasure Thanksgiving. The whole family gets to catch up and it is the one holiday nobody expects me to do anything except show up and be friendly.
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Rosita the Riveter wrote:Does anyone else hate Thanksgiving? I do. My parents and I don't get along, my sister hides her affection under a layer of abrasiveness, my brother doesn't get why my parents and I can't get along, and family dinners aren't a thing. My parents have always eaten in a separate room from my brother, and my brother and I ate processed frozen food when my stepdad cooked for him and mom. We had homecooked food on Thanksgiving, but still ate in a separate room. And don't get me started on that. When my sister became an adult, she earned the right to eat with my parents. When I became an adult, I got no such thing. I'm still not allowed to when I visit.
So, yea. Screw Thanksgiving. It's a stupid holiday that makes me depressed and I hate it, and I'm glad I'm alone in my apartment rather than at home.
Wow that is so wrong.
I mean my mom is the exact opposite but not in a good way.
There is holy hell to pay if you dare avoid a Thanksgiving dinner. She demands the whole family be there for her enormous feast. And she is an excellent cook. The food is so good even with the entire table jammed full of the extended family that my claustrophobia somehow does not trigger. The biggest drawback of course is listening to how big a failure I am for not being married with children by now. Or for not being as hospitable as my brother. Or for ... well no sense in boring everyone with the numerous ways I have failed in life. Still I treasure Thanksgiving. The whole family gets to catch up and it is the one holiday nobody expects me to do anything except show up and be friendly.
I will gladly attend a thanksgiving feast as your faux husband.
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Does anyone else hate Thanksgiving? I do. My parents and I don't get along, my sister hides her affection under a layer of abrasiveness, my brother doesn't get why my parents and I can't get along, and family dinners aren't a thing. My parents have always eaten in a separate room from my brother, and my brother and I ate processed frozen food when my stepdad cooked for him and mom. We had homecooked food on Thanksgiving, but still ate in a separate room. And don't get me started on that. When my sister became an adult, she earned the right to eat with my parents. When I became an adult, I got no such thing. I'm still not allowed to when I visit.
So, yea. Screw Thanksgiving. It's a stupid holiday that makes me depressed and I hate it, and I'm glad I'm alone in my apartment rather than at home.
Sounds like some serious crap going on there. People say that blood is thicker than water, and it is... But not by much, really. Nobody should have to go through that.
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Aranna wrote:I will gladly attend a thanksgiving feast as your faux husband.Rosita the Riveter wrote:Does anyone else hate Thanksgiving? I do. My parents and I don't get along, my sister hides her affection under a layer of abrasiveness, my brother doesn't get why my parents and I can't get along, and family dinners aren't a thing. My parents have always eaten in a separate room from my brother, and my brother and I ate processed frozen food when my stepdad cooked for him and mom. We had homecooked food on Thanksgiving, but still ate in a separate room. And don't get me started on that. When my sister became an adult, she earned the right to eat with my parents. When I became an adult, I got no such thing. I'm still not allowed to when I visit.
So, yea. Screw Thanksgiving. It's a stupid holiday that makes me depressed and I hate it, and I'm glad I'm alone in my apartment rather than at home.
Wow that is so wrong.
I mean my mom is the exact opposite but not in a good way.
There is holy hell to pay if you dare avoid a Thanksgiving dinner. She demands the whole family be there for her enormous feast. And she is an excellent cook. The food is so good even with the entire table jammed full of the extended family that my claustrophobia somehow does not trigger. The biggest drawback of course is listening to how big a failure I am for not being married with children by now. Or for not being as hospitable as my brother. Or for ... well no sense in boring everyone with the numerous ways I have failed in life. Still I treasure Thanksgiving. The whole family gets to catch up and it is the one holiday nobody expects me to do anything except show up and be friendly.
Oh my don't tempt me.
Still I can't see that working for SO many reasons:
1- Your real wife might get upset at having to be alone on Thanksgiving while you attend a feast with a fake wife.
2- I have never been able to lie convincingly to my mother.
3- She might kill us over not being invited to the wedding.
4- She probably would kill us over not being allowed to plan our wedding.
Still... it might be worth the shock from the family that I ran off and got wed in secret.