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Yeah Lynora, hope your family gets better soon. And you manage to catch some sleep, TS.
Absolute statements like claiming max liberty, no security are very hard to justify. Things like that will just make my inner lawyer itch for an argument, even if I don't really bother about philosophy at the best of times. Granted, everyone has a threshold on what they think the amount of laws should be - that is up to the individual. Won't comment too much about that. And many times governments abuse their power that the people have given over them.
But on the very opposite side of it is anarchy, where society simply ceases to function.
Clearly this sort of thing is best done nekkid.
*wears clothes*
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Oh and last night I was officially introduced to my local Democrats as a new Precinct Committeeperson! Mrs Sunrise took video of my impromptu greeting to the party, and when I watched it afterward all I could think was "Wow, I would really like to never hear recordings of my voice ever again..."
:/
I know that feel. Sounds so different from the inside...
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??????? 2-3 year olds eat solid food...they’ve got all their teeth and everything. I mean, you have to watch them like a hawk because they try to eat things they shouldn’t and bits that are too big to swallow, but they def eat full solid food....I remember that stage well because that was the age when the kiddo would steal all the food off my plate and if I wanted to not starve I had to sneak food when they weren’t around....Vidmaster 7 – I think I was around 5-6 at that time. 2-3 the kid in question wouldn’t be eating full solid food…and definitely wouldn’t be able to eat a large portion of the chicken rice up. Not sure how my parents handled that. I’m sure they apologized, not sure if they actually bought the poor guy another plate. Or maybe that guy said he didn’t mind it’s fine…
My cousin was swinging on the handbars like a monkey, right till she landed on her music teacher’s feet. That one at least she was embarrassed about. My brother fell in the zoo moat and didn’t dare to tell anyone about it.
I remember my cousin not letting him eat outside food(2-3), still home cooked stuff, besides my parents didn't bring me out of the house until I was much bigger.
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I eat well, exercise, don't drink, and don't medicate, so in theory I could go in as early as Monday, October 22.
The earliest available appointment is Monday, December 17.
Thank goodness I don't live in one of those socialist countries with their national health care where you have to wait 2-3 months to get routine medical procedures!
Oh, wait...
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You mean those where if you don't want to wait (or somehow don't have public insurance) you can usually get a self-paid private appointment and still pay less than what uninsured person in USA, or even possibly less than insured one's co-pay (or what-it's-called)?
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You know, now when I read the name of NH's spoiler, my inner voice was all doing Jack Black's...
...with the requisite guitar background.
Supposedly it got up to 57 degrees today.
Not for me, I was working in a fully shaded backyard that was also, improbably, blasted by wind gusts all day.
So for me, the warmest it got was 34 degrees.
On the plus side, I added a foot of mud to that backyard, so hopefully no more broken hips.
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Dear Cool Kids:
I have spent like 8 hours editing a grant narrative that was only sort of written in English.
Do I
1. Go home, eat fancy M&Ms for dinner, and play video games
2. Drive in icky traffic to go pick up good comic books and get a really good Burger for dinner
3. Go home, swig some Bourbon, and fall into bed?
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The average age of the neighborhood where we're working is approximately Professor Farnsworth old. They're so old we're dealing with their elderly grandchildren.
The f$+%ed up part, it's not one of those old people condo communities, it's just a bunch of people that all built their houses in the 70s-80s and just kept living there.
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Dear Cool Kids:
I have spent like 8 hours editing a grant narrative that was only sort of written in English.
Do I
1. Go home, eat fancy M&Ms for dinner, and play video games
2. Drive in icky traffic to go pick up good comic books and get a really good Burger for dinner
3. Go home, swig some Bourbon, and fall into bed?
Option E, definitely.
That doesn't help!
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OK. Geico gets 4.5 stars (out of 5) for me.
Their web site expects me to know the make and model of the car of the insured, which is kind of stupid.
Otherwise, it was:
(1) Phone call on Monday to report the incident.
(2) Received an e-mail Tuesday morning asking me to fill out a form.
(3) Filled out the form.
(4) Received a phone call Tuesday afternoon authorizing full repairs to the car at a shop less than a mile from my house, plus a rental car for the duration (which I declined).
So holy carp, Geico, you've impressed the heck out of me! I'm definitely comparing them to State Farm when I get the kids insurance. I stand rather flabbergasted at just how well they treated me.
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Dear Cool Kids:
I have spent like 8 hours editing a grant narrative that was only sort of written in English.
Is this akin to a research grant? My mother had to write oodles of those, so I know your pain (somewhat)
Do I
1. Go home, eat fancy M&Ms for dinner, and play video games
2. Drive in icky traffic to go pick up good comic books and get a really good Burger for dinner
3. Go home, swig some Bourbon, and fall into bed?
One of my "friends" in college swore by a breakfast of Froot Loops in beer. So I suggest getting the bowl of M&Ms, pouring bourbon over them, attempting to eat the mess while playing video games, then abandoning hope, declaring NobodysHome an idiot, and sleeping the rest of the righteous with a true and hopeless moron to hate.
It's the American way!
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I know that feel. Sounds so different from the inside...Oh and last night I was officially introduced to my local Democrats as a new Precinct Committeeperson! Mrs Sunrise took video of my impromptu greeting to the party, and when I watched it afterward all I could think was "Wow, I would really like to never hear recordings of my voice ever again..."
:/
Yeah I didn't realize I sound like a little kid when I speak =(
Its sort of hesitant.
I thought I had that low, confident kind of voice.
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Dear Cool Kids:
I have spent like 8 hours editing a grant narrative that was only sort of written in English.Is this akin to a research grant? My mother had to write oodles of those, so I know your pain (somewhat)
Do I
1. Go home, eat fancy M&Ms for dinner, and play video games
2. Drive in icky traffic to go pick up good comic books and get a really good Burger for dinner
3. Go home, swig some Bourbon, and fall into bed?One of my "friends" in college swore by a breakfast of Froot Loops in beer. So I suggest getting the bowl of M&Ms, pouring bourbon over them, attempting to eat the mess while playing video games, then abandoning hope, declaring NobodysHome an idiot, and sleeping the rest of the righteous with a true and hopeless moron to hate.
It's the American way!
Don't listen to him! Only madness lies in that direction!
*shudders*
I don't want to think of the mess that will result...
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Oh, and DQ! Welcome to your annual/biannual/triannual/whatever trip to the depths of FaWtL! Other than abject misery, what brings you back to our neck of the woods?
I say option 1, except eat literally anything but M&Ms, the most boring candy ever. I mean preferably eat something healthy like ramen with butter broth, but if you're gonna indulge in candy at least get some candy corn or marshmallow pips.
And depending on how tired you are, just fall into bed after dinner. Sleeping is my new favorite pastime, and I will sleep vicariously thru you...
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Am...Am I...Am I a cool kid? No?
Go with the burger, get home, have some bourbon while gaming, fall asleep on your keyboard. Or controller. Or whatever it is the cool kids have these days.
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No sh*t, candies does not a good dinner make!
I doth protest at unhealthy eating habits!
You are going to hate America. There's no healthy food here.
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Dear Cool Kids:
I have spent like 8 hours editing a grant narrative that was only sort of written in English.
Do I
1. Go home, eat fancy M&Ms for dinner, and play video games
2. Drive in icky traffic to go pick up good comic books and get a really good Burger for dinner
3. Go home, swig some Bourbon, and fall into bed?
2! Do 2!
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If you swig bourbon on an empty stomach you'll pay for it the next day!
No healthy food in America? Noooooo!
healthy food. In america? No way.
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Dear Cool Kids:
I have spent like 8 hours editing a grant narrative that was only sort of written in English.
Do I
1. Go home, eat fancy M&Ms for dinner, and play video games
2. Drive in icky traffic to go pick up good comic books and get a really good Burger for dinner
3. Go home, swig some Bourbon, and fall into bed?
Do all three!
First go get a comic book and a really good burger, then go home and enjoy bourbon and M&M's over video games. And if you play on a laptop, you can do it in bed.Why settle?
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Dear Cool Kids:
I have spent like 8 hours editing a grant narrative that was only sort of written in English.
Do I
1. Go home, eat fancy M&Ms for dinner, and play video games
2. Drive in icky traffic to go pick up good comic books and get a really good Burger for dinner
3. Go home, swig some Bourbon, and fall into bed?
4. Stay home, play video games, eat whatever is in fridge.
At least that's what I do when I finish things sort of written in English*
*usually more once I am done with them than they were when I got them
Ok, sometimes I go out and buy myself something to eat.
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2! Do 2!Dear Cool Kids:
I have spent like 8 hours editing a grant narrative that was only sort of written in English.
Do I
1. Go home, eat fancy M&Ms for dinner, and play video games
2. Drive in icky traffic to go pick up good comic books and get a really good Burger for dinner
3. Go home, swig some Bourbon, and fall into bed?
Oh my Freehold and I agreed on something!
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Nostalgia ride with some old videoclips...
DAMMIT!
Avril isn't old!
<.<
>.>
She's four years younger than me...
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So we all have bacterial infections. Antibiotics are helping. Pissed as hell with doc who should have known better. Further conversation during yesterday’s appointment confirmed that dude clearly does not understand how contagion works. Internally I’m just cursing our luck because I swear the kiddo’s primary doc is never in on days he gets sick. So we end up with....well, this. :/
So the kiddo is missing yet more school and we are all exhausted from days and days of coughing and I am so beyond cranky at this point
Get Well soon Lyn + family!
*Attempt to package a crotch kick for Lyn to open on the quack that saw to them the first time*
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Coming from one of said socialist countries with national healthcare, I'll add a slight eye-roll.
Though I'll chip in with the fact that wait-times for non-emergency medical procedures* do in fact up here extend to 30 days. After which if a public hospital can't offer the procedure, you have the right to get referred to a privat hospital to have the procedure (paid by the state), though you personally have to do quite a bit of the leg-work of finding, planning and setting up appointment for treatment at such a private-hospital.* Though there is problems with the non-emergency part, as some treatments, procedures and cases aren't covered by the '30 guarantee' particularly in the psychiatric field.
Dear Cool Kids:
I have spent like 8 hours editing a grant narrative that was only sort of written in English.
Do I
1. Go home, eat fancy M&Ms for dinner, and play video games
2. Drive in icky traffic to go pick up good comic books and get a really good Burger for dinner
3. Go home, swig some Bourbon, and fall into bed?
Mix 1 and 2, and you're golden.
Yeah I didn't realize I sound like a little kid when I speak =(Its sort of hesitant.
I thought I had that low, confident kind of voice.
Dawww…
You don't meow.
You mew.
*Nuzzles Mort*
No sh*t, candies does not a good dinner make!
I doth protest at unhealthy eating habits!
*Waves dark chocolate in front of Mort*
You were saying?
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Subway has Salads.If you swig bourbon on an empty stomach you'll pay for it the next day!
No healthy food in America? Noooooo!
But are they edible?
I should sort my YouTube bookmarks according to... Not sure what the criteria should I use. There is so many bands/authors that appear only once that using them would only add more subfolders than it is worth.
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Full dive into nostalgia head-first. Sisters Of Mercy.
Huh... Nostalgia broke.
I had certain impressions associated* with the Temple Of Love which are now gone.
And now that small shard of magic seems gone.
Ah, well.
Floodland remains one of my favorite nostalgia albums.
Too much of nostalgia to have favorite album.
Also, too often I only have a vaguest memory of a few sounds, and nothing solid to track the melody haunting me.
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Nobody's Home: yes, it was a research grant. 14 pages of "you keep using that word, but I don't think it means what you think it means."
Just a Mort: You convinced me to go out.
Tequila: These were fancy M&Ms (they were actually Unreal Quinoa Crunch Dark Chocolate Candy Gems, which look like M&Ms but are made of organic ingredients and crack)
OKAY: Lisamarlene and Kjeldorn got closest.
I went home, ate the Unreal Candy Gems to raise my blood sugar, and went out for comics and tasty burger and am now home. Games for a half an hour, then bed.
I had a beer at the burger place so I probably don't need the bourbon, but we'll see.
(Alternately, we could call this "option E," Cap.)
Why am I here? I had no decision making skills left. Asking y'all for advice? Well, I had no decision making skills left. ;)
(And all y'all are the cool kids table. :) )
Feel better Lynora and fam.
(And all y'all are the cool kids table.)
We are?
Speaking of nostalgia...
Maybe I should catch up with LBGT Gamer community thread?
If I only knew where I was...
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Speaking of nostalgia...
Maybe I should catch up with LBGT Gamer community thread?
If I only knew where I was...
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Option E!
I won! Whoo hoo!!
Speaking of nostalgia...
Maybe I should catch up with LBGT Gamer community thread?
If I only knew where I was...
I don't know where I was, but I mostly don't drink. Also, I know where am I.
The dawn & Possibility Of An Island for a change. Completely non-nostalgic as I discovered that song this year.
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*Pats Drejk on the back*
Nostalgia can both lighten our hearts or it can be a fetter, bind us to past experiences long gone.
Found an old picture of me and my date at the Galla (the rough equivalent of Prom) a few weeks ago.
Still fiddling around with it...not really knowing if I should frame it or not.
Anna was a sweet girl in many ways, definitely an brutally honest one, as I was flabbergasted at her asking my to the Galla back then (we were in very different social circles, and she was as some put it "way out of my league").
Back to the point though…
Off the top of my head I couldn't tell you a single song played that night (though hearing one might jog my memory) as my brain was firmly fixed to Anna for at least the first half of the evening.
But as such stories tend to end...it wasn't meant to be. I'm not going to get into the nitty gritty of it, as frankly I don't feel comfortable ascribing any motives to her...might just have been me being oblivious or dense.
What I do 'remember' though is leaving Anna to her devices, getting smash drunk, making out with a girl in a electric wheel-chair (Mie - she was paraplegic) and walking her and her helper/chaperone home.