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I love horror, blood, and gore.
CY is talking about scary movies, not your daily commuting through NYC on a bicycle.
Edit: Nekkid bicycle commuting?! That sounds chafe-y.
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A package's road from the US to me:
Ordered on October 23
Pre-Shipment Info Sent to USPS, USPS Awaiting Item, September 30, 2016
Shipment Picked Up, September 30, 2016, 3:24 pm, CLAWSON, MI 48017
Accepted at USPS Origin Facility, October 1, 2016, 12:15 pm, CLAWSON, MI 48017
Arrived at USPS Facility, October 1, 2016, 1:30 pm, CHICAGO, IL 60666
Arrived at Facility, October 2, 2016, 10:31 am, ISC CHICAGO IL (USPS)
Processed Through Facility, October 2, 2016, 10:32 am, ISC CHICAGO IL (USPS)
Arrived, October 2, 2016, 5:20 pm, CHICAGO, UNITED STATES
Departed, October 2, 2016, 10:05 pm, CHICAGO, UNITED STATES
Departed, October 3, 2016, 3:00 pm, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
Your item was processed through a facility in SWEDEN on October 4, 2016 at 8:28 am. The item is currently in transit to the destination.
Still wish I could've gone for a non-priority mail, though.
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My other half and I found a great house on Saturday, so here's hoping our app is first and best!We got the house!!!
Now comes the eternal question: To move ourselves, or to hire movers?
TS TS TS TS TS TS TS TS TS TS TS TS
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My other half and I found a great house on Saturday, so here's hoping our app is first and best!We got the house!!!
Now comes the eternal question: To move ourselves, or to hire movers?
Movers.
I don't care if you have to take out a loan.
Movers.
I've only moved 7 times in my life, but every time has been a nightmare because you can never pack up that last bit of stuff you need to live day-to-day. Silverware, glasses, some clothes, some pots and pans...
...and your friends show up to help, and since it's the last minute on moving day ALL of that day-to-day stuff you can't do without gets shoved randomly into an unlabeled box, is last out of the house, last on the truck, so first off the truck on the other side, isn't labeled, and ends up buried under 300 other boxes you really don't need because you packed them already and carefully labeled them.
Every. Single. Time.
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My other half and I found a great house on Saturday, so here's hoping our app is first and best!We got the house!!!
Now comes the eternal question: To move ourselves, or to hire movers?
Movers.
I don't care if you have to take out a loan.
Movers.
I've only moved 7 times in my life, but every time has been a nightmare because you can never pack up that last bit of stuff you need to live day-to-day. Silverware, glasses, some clothes, some pots and pans...
...and your friends show up to help, and since it's the last minute on moving day ALL of that day-to-day stuff you can't do without gets shoved randomly into an unlabeled box, is last out of the house, last on the truck, so first off the truck on the other side, isn't labeled, and ends up buried under 300 other boxes you really don't need because you packed them already and carefully labeled them.Every. Single. Time.
speaking of movers, has a certain Final Fantasy based package been delivered to your house yet?
I ask because this serum adapted to your dna I created is starting to become dangerously unstable. I want you unconscious so I can replace you, not to give you super powers or anything like that.
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My other half and I found a great house on Saturday, so here's hoping our app is first and best!We got the house!!!
Now comes the eternal question: To move ourselves, or to hire movers?
GRATZ!!!
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My other half and I found a great house on Saturday, so here's hoping our app is first and best!
We got the house!!!
Now comes the eternal question: To move ourselves, or to hire movers?
This is so daggum awesome! Congratulations!
As to what everyone else has said, I tend toward agreeing with the idea of movers - unless you have friends who are professional movers and/or happen to have enormous trucks - moving trucks, not pick-up trucks - just dying to do their job on their off hours... go with movers, if you can.
(I disagree with taking a loan. But I'm leery of loans. So...)
Congratulations! I hope my house hunt is also successful.
Good luck~! I'll be keeping you in prayer!
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I've moved 28 times, we never used movers, on top of that add on sporadic watching of 20/20 over the last four decades, and the fact that I have 7 brothers and we spent the majority of my life below the poverty line (like not even close to the top of the poverty line), and my only car that got totalled was hit by a moving truck, and you can see why.
Fun fact: when Pea Bear was a month old I moved our whole little family to a new apartment, all by myself, using only my 1984 Ford Escort Wagon and two ratchet straps. The General kept the baby happy and occupied.
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What are you doing! You can't give up! Live damn you, live!!!
Why!!! Damn it all to hell!!!! Why!?!?!?!!!
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Tiny T-Rex's new favorite yogurt is Pina Colada, or as he calls it "Wine Yogurt"
So far he won't call it anything else. Hopefully he doesn't call it that at school.
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"At last, my dreams have come true, and my 9-inch eyebrows and 9-inch moustaches are exactly the same length"
Congratulations! You must be so proud.
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Don't forget the three musketeers hat, it ties everything else together.
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I love horror, blood, and gore.CY is talking about scary movies, not your daily commuting through NYC on a bicycle.
Edit: Nekkid bicycle commuting?! That sounds chafe-y.
one usually prepares you for the other. Naked or clothed
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My other half and I found a great house on Saturday, so here's hoping our app is first and best!We got the house!!!
Now comes the eternal question: To move ourselves, or to hire movers?
Movers.
I don't care if you have to take out a loan.
Movers.
I've only moved 7 times in my life, but every time has been a nightmare because you can never pack up that last bit of stuff you need to live day-to-day. Silverware, glasses, some clothes, some pots and pans...
...and your friends show up to help, and since it's the last minute on moving day ALL of that day-to-day stuff you can't do without gets shoved randomly into an unlabeled box, is last out of the house, last on the truck, so first off the truck on the other side, isn't labeled, and ends up buried under 300 other boxes you really don't need because you packed them already and carefully labeled them.Every. Single. Time.
speaking of movers, has a certain Final Fantasy based package been delivered to your house yet?
I ask because this serum adapted to your dna I created is starting to become dangerously unstable. I want you unconscious so I can replace you, not to give you super powers or anything like that.
The moogle (source unknown), red contacts (Malaysia), and boots (German? Where are Fluevogs made?) are obtained. The dress has been shipped (Ukraine). Unfortunately, there are wig issues, as NobodysWife couldn't find any outside of China, read all kinds of warnings about ordering anything direct from China, went ahead and went through a highly-rated distribution company that was supposed to protect you from such nonsense, and got a shipper who provided a fake shipping ID anyway, then said, "Oh, we'll ship in on the 12th, and it'll be there in 20 days."
For the infamous... "after Halloween" on the 32nd of October.
Fortunately, NobodysWife has dark hair and can probably make it work with extensions.
So it's all coming together, and should be ready in time for our October 21 trip to D-Land.
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What are you doing! You can't give up! Live damn you, live!!!
Why!!! Damn it all to hell!!!! Why!?!?!?!!!
heh. Hehe heh. Heh. Haha. Haha. HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA A!
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My other half and I found a great house on Saturday, so here's hoping our app is first and best!We got the house!!!
Now comes the eternal question: To move ourselves, or to hire movers?
Movers.
I don't care if you have to take out a loan.
Movers.
I've only moved 7 times in my life, but every time has been a nightmare because you can never pack up that last bit of stuff you need to live day-to-day. Silverware, glasses, some clothes, some pots and pans...
...and your friends show up to help, and since it's the last minute on moving day ALL of that day-to-day stuff you can't do without gets shoved randomly into an unlabeled box, is last out of the house, last on the truck, so first off the truck on the other side, isn't labeled, and ends up buried under 300 other boxes you really don't need because you packed them already and carefully labeled them.Every. Single. Time.
speaking of movers, has a certain Final Fantasy based package been delivered to your house yet?
I ask because this serum adapted to your dna I created is starting to become dangerously unstable. I want you unconscious so I can replace you, not to give you super powers or anything like that.
The moogle (source unknown), red contacts (Malaysia), and boots (German? Where are Fluevogs made?) are obtained. The dress has been shipped (Ukraine). Unfortunately, there are wig issues, as NobodysWife couldn't find any outside of China, read all kinds of warnings about ordering anything direct from China, went ahead and went through a highly-rated distribution company that was supposed to protect you from such nonsense, and got a shipper who provided a fake shipping ID anyway, then said, "Oh, we'll ship in on the 12th, and it'll be there in 20 days."
For the infamous... "after Halloween" on the 32nd of October.
Fortunately, NobodysWife has dark hair and can probably make it work with extensions....
Excellent. Excellent.....
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You have my express permission to lose your mind, good friend. We'll keep you in cryostasis till the Spring Thaw.
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Folks are getting houses! Awesome!!
Skip the movers. If the yard sale or letitgo.com or whatever can't sufficiently reduce the amount of raw materials you need to transport, my alter ego has an excellent suggestion:
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Burn it!!
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So Blue Apron gets their first "D" from me. Last night was roast pork sandwiches on ciabatta rolls with kale pesto and caper-infused mayo, with a pear and lettuce salad on the side.
So it was a HUUUUUUUUUUGE amount of work, chopping and zesting and browning and reducing and so forth, all for:
- A perfectly decent roast pork sandwich, though you couldn't taste the "pesto" at all (so why did I spend 20 minutes slaving away to make it?)
- A pretty pathetic salad. (Lettuce and pear? That's it? With a lemon juice and olive oil dressing? Meh.)
In short, in terms of flavor it was perfectly OK, but 40 minutes of hard labor to produce something that I could have done in 10 was just busywork for the sake of being "fancy", something I don't appreciate in cooking.
Ah, well, Thursday is green thai curry. Let's see how that one goes!
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Thai curry with chicken is about as easy as cooking gets, and easy to get right. As long as you start with curry paste, of course.
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Skip the movers.
No.
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Roast pork and pesto seems kind of odd.
Do you pick it out or do they have a planner doing it...
I looked at their website but I didn't delve too deeply.
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Roast pork and pesto seems kind of odd.
Do you pick it out or do they have a planner doing it...
I looked at their website but I didn't delve too deeply.
It was kale "pesto", which was cooked-and-chopped kale, lemon, and olive oil.
Any resemblance to "real" pesto was only in color and consistency...
And they basically post a menu of what they'll be sending you that goes a month in advance. So I don't choose. They tell me. You can request a menu change right up to the last minute, but there were some articles on how Blue Apron was having labor issues with its warehouse workers (not over pay, but over the stressfulness of the job), so I figure I'll just be a good little customer and eat what they send me.
It's interesting, and hey, they can't all be winners.
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Yeah, I have a brother that works in the warehouse for a restaurant wholesaler, it can get stressful I'm told.
I would also let them do their thing for awhile, if only out of curiosity.
All very interesting stuff. :-)
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Movers. Definitely movers.My other half and I found a great house on Saturday, so here's hoping our app is first and best!We got the house!!!
Now comes the eternal question: To move ourselves, or to hire movers?
I hired movers because no family with vehicles were available to help. Night before, I remembered the live ale in the fridge. That goes bad if it's not kept cold, so I had to consume it or toss it. It was a high abv bomber and I chugged it, then woke up hungover like I'd been drinking cheap wine all night or something.
Those movers got one hell of a tip for doing all the work while I nursed my head.
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Thai curry with chicken is about as easy as cooking gets, and easy to get right. As long as you start with curry paste, of course.
Yeah, I'm just a little disappointed that it's using the paste. I got a fantastic book on Indian curries called 50 Great Curries of India by Camellia Panjabi that is wonderful in that you have to do everything from scratch. You even make your own garam masala!
What's awesome is that that lets you learn how the seasonings all go together, so when you later use a paste you can season it to taste, and you make mind-numbingly tasty curries.
So I always want to know the base ingredients, to work with them to get an idea as to how the flavors work, and to THEN use pastes because they're much easier, but you can now adjust them.
Ah, well. Food snob.
So... as I learned today, High School DxD is not about D&D, and I really feel dumb for not having guessed that before watching some of it*. Welp. Another series that I shan't be pursuing. I still don't know for sure what the "DxD" stands for, but it I'm guessing it's some sort of female and devil related pun.
To call it a "fan service" anime is... mild. Ahem. I do not recommend this anime based off of the very brief and small amount that I have seen. Freehold, you might like it? Dunno - didn't watch enough to know for sure. Sorry.
Anyway: gas and air. Why do I always need these things? Sigh. Cars, guys: they're expensive.
*
So... as I learned today, High School DxD is not about D&D, and I really feel dumb for not having guessed that before watching some of it*. Welp. Another series that I shan't be pursuing. I still don't know for sure what the "DxD" stands for, but it I'm guessing it's some sort of female and devil related pun.
To call it a "fan service" anime is... mild. Ahem. I do not recommend this anime based off of the very brief and small amount that I have seen. Freehold, you might like it? Dunno - didn't watch enough to know for sure. Sorry.
Anyway: gas and air. Why do I always need these things? Sigh. Cars, guys: they're expensive.
*
I already have one part of it saved on my YouTube favorites. You can guess which part.
Edit- I cannot find it. It may have been removed.
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Moving isn't so bad if you have a lot of family.
Step 1- Get lots of boxes, packing foam, and warehouse pallet wrap.
Step 2- Remove all drawers and pallet wrap them. No need to empty them first.
Step 3- Empty all closets into the boxes. Label them.
Step 4- wrap all breakables in packing foam then box them up.
Now you should have a house full of filled boxes and wrapped drawers.
Step 5- Rent a big enough truck for all the furniture.
Step 6- Invite the family over to help move. Bonus if any of them drive trucks.
Step 7- Have them fill their cars and trucks with the boxes and drawers. Put all the furniture into the big rented truck.
Step 8- Everyone heads to your new place. You supervise where everything goes as they bring it all in.
Everything should be in the room it belongs in now.
Step 9- Unpack it all.
Step 10- Clean up as required.
Moving in 10 easy steps.
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Thai curry with chicken is about as easy as cooking gets, and easy to get right. As long as you start with curry paste, of course.Yeah, I'm just a little disappointed that it's using the paste. I got a fantastic book on Indian curries called 50 Great Curries of India by Camellia Panjabi that is wonderful in that you have to do everything from scratch. You even make your own garam masala!
What's awesome is that that lets you learn how the seasonings all go together, so when you later use a paste you can season it to taste, and you make mind-numbingly tasty curries.
So I always want to know the base ingredients, to work with them to get an idea as to how the flavors work, and to THEN use pastes because they're much easier, but you can now adjust them.
Ah, well. Food snob.
The problem with not using pastes is that you have to stand and chop spices for bloody ages, for something that then takes about ten minutes from start to finish to prepare. I am all about learning the principles, but not in the fast food file.
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Captain Yesterday's Obvious Observation For Today.
American Horror Story is a really, really f@#&ed up show.
So... as I learned today, High School DxD is not about D&D, and I really feel dumb for not having guessed that before watching some of it*. Welp. Another series that I shan't be pursuing. I still don't know for sure what the "DxD" stands for, but it I'm guessing it's some sort of female and devil related pun.
To call it a "fan service" anime is... mild. Ahem. I do not recommend this anime based off of the very brief and small amount that I have seen. Freehold, you might like it? Dunno - didn't watch enough to know for sure. Sorry.
Anyway: gas and air. Why do I always need these things? Sigh. Cars, guys: they're expensive.
*
I already have one part of it saved on my YouTube favorites. You can guess which part.
Edit- I cannot find it. It may have been removed.
I, uh... I don't know which part, anyway. Maybe the five minute mark of episode one? That's about the part that I stopped watching - something like that, anyway.
But I'm glad you like it! The premise sounds like it could be pretty epic from Wikipedia. The execution was, um... surprising.
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Robotech being on at 5:30 on Saturday morning was the closest I've really gotten to Anime, I've seen a bunch of Kung Fu and Samurai movies though.
Also tried watching Heavy Metal as a teenager, I found it very confused and boring.
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TheGreenTeaGamer and anyone else in Florida, I sincerely apologize if my relaxed attitude about Hurricane Matthew gave you a false sense of security. It looks like it's coming after all. Please don't panic, but do please take all the necessary preparations to ensure you and your family's safety.
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Captain Yesterday's Obvious Observation For Today.
American Horror Story is a really, really f!%~ed up show.
Freehold has enjoyed just about every episode thus far.
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Robotech being on at 5:30 on Saturday morning was the closest I've really gotten to Anime, I've seen a bunch of Kung Fu and Samurai movies though.
Also tried watching Heavy Metal as a teenager, I found it very confused and boring.
... My God.
So much wrong here.
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It is a great show, the fifth episode of season one is up next. :-)
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TheGreenTeaGamer and anyone else in Florida, I sincerely apologize if my relaxed attitude about Hurricane Matthew gave you a false sense of security. It looks like it's coming after all. Please don't panic, but do please take all the necessary preparations to ensure you and your family's safety.
please be careful, Amby. You are my only slaad, and I can't lose you to inclement weather.
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TheGreenTeaGamer and anyone else in Florida, I sincerely apologize if my relaxed attitude about Hurricane Matthew gave you a false sense of security. It looks like it's coming after all. Please don't panic, but do please take all the necessary preparations to ensure you and your family's safety.please be careful, Amby. You are my only slaad, and I can't lose you to inclement weather.
Thanks. :)
Unless Matthew does a big jog west, I'm safe. Sanibel will see some wind, but no storm surge (so no beach/property erosion). We'll get beaucoups of rain, which always sucks, but I don't really have anywhere to go and I'm well provisioned to ride it out.
The execution was, um... surprising.
Only if you know nothing of anime. :P
I think it's heavily dependent on the anime, really.
I've watched a lot of anime with substantially less FaWtL-top-page-y results.
... but fair enough.
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TheGreenTeaGamer and anyone else in Florida, I sincerely apologize if my relaxed attitude about Hurricane Matthew gave you a false sense of security. It looks like it's coming after all. Please don't panic, but do please take all the necessary preparations to ensure you and your family's safety.
please be careful, Amby. You are my only slaad, and I can't lose you to inclement weather.
Thanks. :)
Unless Matthew does a big jog west, I'm safe. Sanibel will see some wind, but no storm surge (so no beach/property erosion). We'll get beaucoups of rain, which always sucks, but I don't really have anywhere to go and I'm well provisioned to ride it out.
We're prepped. We're praying for our fellow Floridians!
You stay safe, Amby and TGTG and any other Floridians!
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Don't forget to tie down the alligators!
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I am more worried about the 10 to 15 inches of rain that Savannah, GA is supposed to get.
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Governor declared it a state of emergency yesterday. Schools all close tomorrow and Friday. The beach areas are all mandatory evacuated. The governor strongly suggested a voluntary evacuation. I hear the wind is still well over 120+mph, with storm surges of over twenty feet.
Both my job and my wife's expect us to come in.
I f@#!ing hate corporations. F###ing state of emergency, but no, let's squeeze out every nickel we can, because f$~@ the safety of our expendable tools we call employees.