Yes. Everyone dies at some point.
And we are all born into this world naked.
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I never got the coffee thing. I've been given a few cups over the years, by people trying to get me to realise the majesty of coffee, but it's always bitter and harsh tasting, I never make it past a few sips.
Give me energy drinks any day though. I'm currently trying to cut down, it used to be a regular one a day thing, but a Monster Ripper or Mango Loco is hard to turn down. :P
Edit: I also used to be a big drinker of "breakfast" tea, or as we Irish call it, tea. Firstly with lots of sugar, then eventually with no sugar, and then eventually I just went off the taste of it altogether.
Still drink airy-fairy herbal teas though. They can be quite nice. I remember chatting to Lynora about them way back in the day. She still hang out this neck of the woods?
See energy drinks taste just awful to me.
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I can't stand them either.
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So one of my co-workers B.O. is so bad it lingers for hours afterwards. What is the appropriate response to this?
Tell them nicely they smell? I told my BF that his breath stank.
Also super busy afternoon trying to cover for my colleague. The mango I looted from my aunts place was delightfully sweet though, and sitting around in the gym sauna was good.
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Coffee does help me with cutting down on my food, as the coffee surpresses my hunger impulse for a while.
So its easier to make it trough that last half hour before lunch.I'm not starving myself of course, but its hard to get your stomach used to less amounts of food, that perfectly serve your dietary needs. Stomach is a greedy bastard.
Caffeine on the other hand, has the effect of making me ravenous(it's about drugs affecting people differently), so I've been avoiding it like plague since I do not need to get any hungrier, thx.
I've been drinking herbal tea/water whenever I feel hungry to get my stomach to complain less when it's not time to nom yet.
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Eh, I can be violent. Ive punched people before. But people like this jerk really get my blood boiling. He is deliberately mean, especially to some of the interns. Because he can. And people who just s%%~ on someone vulnerable I just want to punch in the face.I think you need a vacation. You're not the violent sort,unlike me.Again, some people like gran deserve to be clawed. Running so many games and having to deal with idiots like those is driving you up the wall. I suspect that headache may be caused by stress. Consider some nice sunny island like the Maldives where you can chill and watch the fishies. If you want something more budget(though the airfare won't be), try pankor Island, I have a contact to live in an air-conditioned kelong down there.
Thank you. I had a headache the whole time yesterday. Behind my left eye. It left me exhausted.You are welcome ^^
And I hope you are feeling better today Woran.*Presents neck for strangling, so Woran doesn't get into too much trouble with her...Working in IT is going to end in death.
Either mine as I pop a blood vessel. Or someone elses as I loose it and strangle them with a cord.
The headache came back today, but I managed to make it go away with painkillers. Didnt manage to do that yesterday :( So its better now.
Thank you for the neck. But I made plans with my coworker to visit this one a-hole at his office. I'll hold him, and my co worker who is build like a bear, will punch him.
Makes me feel better thinking about it.
Actually I have never punched anyone in RL before. Just elbowed them in the ribs for leaning on my shoulder one too many times(believe me, they were warned first).
First time I give you the benefit of the doubt and warn you. Second time I place my elbow against your ribs. Third time, I jab.
I got in sooooo many fights in middle school. Best thing I learned is that there is no such thing as a fair fight.
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I don't want to fight because in elementary school I hit puberty faster then others so I was bigger then others. Why are you picking on someone smaller then you, again?
Then next, I'm a case of relatively higher strength and crap dex. So I may hurt people without intending to. I'm clumsy and have broken things by mistake before because I used too much force =(
And I watched WWE with my dad,so anyone grabbing me from the back might end up with a case of combat reflexes - an elbow to the stomach.
I didn't fight, I got along with everyone.
My nickname in middle school was "The Ambassador" because there wasn't anyone I wouldn't talk to.
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So, spring does terrible things to a male dog if they haven't been fixed.
And it isn't helped by also taking care of my dad's dog, who is a female beagle that also hasn't been fixed.
So, spring does terrible things to a male dog if they haven't been fixed.
And it isn't helped by also taking care of my dad's dog, who is a female beagle that also hasn't been fixed.
are they going at it?
Entertainingly enough, my decision has been made for me. The pilot on the living room heater blew out last night (as it does on occasion), so I'll just try not re-lighting it.
Lows are still in the high 40s at night, so I'm sitting in a 58° F living room in my bathrobe, but it's not too bad, so I'll give it a go. Save myself $100/month on gas. Yes, the living room heater is that bad, because it won't go below 60° F and the living room and kitchen are the worst-insulated rooms in our (practically) uninsulated house.
The new roof should help immensely.
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Speaking of the new roof, things are going along swimmingly with the new contractors: Called the solar guy and he came out, said the whole thing would be easy-peasy, and will get me a bid tomorrow.
I looked up average prices in my area online, and it says I should be paying $3.75 per watt. He recommended a 6.2 kW system so that's $23,500, plus $3000 to upgrade our drop from 100A to 200A, so roughly $26,500 expected.
OK. That's MUCH more in line with what I was expecting solar to cost.
On the other hand, as far as I've been told by both the solar guy and my accountant, I immediately get a 30% tax credit for all solar-related work, so there's $7950 off right there.
Ah, well, might as well actually wait for the bid to come in, since, y'know, he's actually doing something instead of making arbitrary promises and then not showing up...
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I KNOW coffee is a drug. I get withdrawal headaches when I don't drink it, or when I drink my mother's. My children both say "If Mama doesn't get her coffee, she gets grumpy" and think it's hilarious. And I don't care.
I love tea, but I can only drink it in the afternoons. If I drink tea (black, green, oolong, doesn't matter) in the morning, I get very nauseous.
Energy drinks are not good for me. I bought two of them once, driving long-distance by myself, and they gave me heart arrhythmia and tunnel vision and made my brain do weird things. Actually, almost exactly the same symptoms as when I get bit by cats, but minus the hallucinations.
Marijuana is not for me. I think it should be legal and is, on the whole, far safer and less dangerous than alcohol (both for the person taking it and for those in contact with them), but it's not a substance I particularly enjoy. It makes me stop caring about everything, laugh a lot, cook weird food, and then pass out. It's also inexperience with dosage; I know how to drink just a little to take the edge off and enjoy it without getting stupid unless I choose to (but I really hate being drunk, so I almost never do), but I have never been successful in having that little pot. So I stopped being interested in it.
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My contractors are installing the solar panels on Monday.
My contractors are installing the solar panels on Monday.
If you are willing to PM me what size you got and what it cost, that would be awesome. I'd like to do some comparisons, and I expect your system to be significantly cheaper than mine because location. But I'm curious...
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Ah, life with my kids:
A Few Days Ago, on Impus Minor's Birthday:
Impus Minor: Dad, do we have to do dinner with grandma tonight? With play practice and all this is my very first day to relax at home in 3 weeks!
NobodysHome: I can try to rearrange with her. Is anything else happening this week?
Im: Nope.
NH: Hey, guys! I moved dinner to Thursday night! Does that work for both of you?
Impii: Yeah!
NH: Hey guys, are we still on for tomorrow night for dinner with your grandma?
Impii: Yeah!
NH: There's nothing happening? You're totally free this week?
Impii: Yeah!
Impus Major: Oh, wait... when is March 14? Because that's the Superintendent's Concert.
The fact that my kids are utterly incapable of informing me of even major events is infinitely frustrating to me...
My contractors are installing the solar panels on Monday.If you are willing to PM me what size you got and what it cost, that would be awesome. I'd like to do some comparisons, and I expect your system to be significantly cheaper than mine because location. But I'm curious...
You can expect that, sure, but you'll be wrong. Prepare for amazement. PM coming as soon as I have a few minutes to dig up the numbers. Might not be until later tonight.
Random roof question for homeowners:
I've mentioned the upcoming necessity of re-roofing my mother-in-law's house. And the fact that, because it's been layered over three times, this time they will have to rip everything off and start fresh.
In recent talks with the MIL, we've learned that one of the things holding up the roofing project is that the house is not currently insured, because it needs a new roof. And in obtaining bids from roofers, she says that many won't even bid her because she doesn't have insurance. But she's not accepting help from WW with either trying to talk to insurance agents or in talking to roofers. She just says it's a catch-22.
Has anyone heard of this or have any advice? She hasn't given WW a DPA, she's holding control of everything herself (she's only 80), and says she doesn't need help. But she clearly does.
Random roof question for homeowners:
I've mentioned the upcoming necessity of re-roofing my mother-in-law's house. And the fact that, because it's been layered over three times, this time they will have to rip everything off and start fresh.
In recent talks with the MIL, we've learned that one of the things holding up the roofing project is that the house is not currently insured, because it needs a new roof. And in obtaining bids from roofers, she says that many won't even bid her because she doesn't have insurance. But she's not accepting help from WW with either trying to talk to insurance agents or in talking to roofers. She just says it's a catch-22.
Has anyone heard of this or have any advice? She hasn't given WW a DPA, she's holding control of everything herself (she's only 80), and says she doesn't need help. But she clearly does.
She must be talking to the wrong roofers. Neither roofer I talked to discussed homeowner's insurance at all.
It may be that she's volunteering the information and that's making the roofers leery. I know my mother's like that. "Oh, by the way, the last roofer said that he couldn't do work on my house because I don't have insurance. Will that be a problem for you?"
At least in California, there's absolutely, positively NO requirement that you have insurance on your home before people can work on it.
EDIT: Keep in mind that every contractor comes up with a different way to avoid taking work they don't want to take, because apparently just saying, "No," causes too much grief. In California they just up the price to the point that you'd be psychotic to pay it (we had an architect request $45,000 to design a 300 square foot studio). In Texas they may blame arbitrary rules and regulations. So some roofer didn't want to deal with it, started asking questions, hit the insurance one, and figured that gave him (or her) and easy out. And now your MIL is volunteering that information to the other roofers, who are seeing it as a red flag and fleeing.
You can expect that, sure, but you'll be wrong. Prepare for amazement. PM coming as soon as I have a few minutes to dig up the numbers. Might not be until later tonight.My contractors are installing the solar panels on Monday.If you are willing to PM me what size you got and what it cost, that would be awesome. I'd like to do some comparisons, and I expect your system to be significantly cheaper than mine because location. But I'm curious...
Well, my research showed that price goes up exponentially with wattage, rather than linearly as one might expect. A 20 kW system was 5x as expensive as a 10 kW system, and a 25 kW system was insane. So if you're a lot higher than my 6.2 kW, I'd expect the price to be much higher too. But I have work, too, so I'll be patient and see what your numbers are...
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I KNOW coffee is a drug. I get withdrawal headaches when I don't drink it, or when I drink my mother's. My children both say "If Mama doesn't get her coffee, she gets grumpy" and think it's hilarious. And I don't care.
I love tea, but I can only drink it in the afternoons. If I drink tea (black, green, oolong, doesn't matter) in the morning, I get very nauseous.
Energy drinks are not good for me. I bought two of them once, driving long-distance by myself, and they gave me heart arrhythmia and tunnel vision and made my brain do weird things. Actually, almost exactly the same symptoms as when I get bit by cats, but minus the hallucinations.
Marijuana is not for me. I think it should be legal and is, on the whole, far safer and less dangerous than alcohol (both for the person taking it and for those in contact with them), but it's not a substance I particularly enjoy. It makes me stop caring about everything, laugh a lot, cook weird food, and then pass out. It's also inexperience with dosage; I know how to drink just a little to take the edge off and enjoy it without getting stupid unless I choose to (but I really hate being drunk, so I almost never do), but I have never been successful in having that little pot. So I stopped being interested in it.
say what?
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That's true, given another year someone would probably try to take charge then it's back to smashing the likeable Asian kid's head in with a spiked baseball bat.You just described the first act of every episode of The Walking Dead.
Really gives me hope for humanity.
I haven't made it that far, good to know there's hope for the future (I find Glenn the most annoying of all).
And don't worry about spoiling anything, I just assume everyone dies at some point.
Oh sorry I thought that was common knowledge at this point, also Sephiroth stabs Aeris to death.
Ooooo ruining things is fun.
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I'm a bit behind, on everything, so no worries!
Captain Yesterday fun fact: Final Fantasy 7 was the only one I played.
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say what?I KNOW coffee is a drug. I get withdrawal headaches when I don't drink it, or when I drink my mother's. My children both say "If Mama doesn't get her coffee, she gets grumpy" and think it's hilarious. And I don't care.
I love tea, but I can only drink it in the afternoons. If I drink tea (black, green, oolong, doesn't matter) in the morning, I get very nauseous.
Energy drinks are not good for me. I bought two of them once, driving long-distance by myself, and they gave me heart arrhythmia and tunnel vision and made my brain do weird things. Actually, almost exactly the same symptoms as when I get bit by cats, but minus the hallucinations.
Marijuana is not for me. I think it should be legal and is, on the whole, far safer and less dangerous than alcohol (both for the person taking it and for those in contact with them), but it's not a substance I particularly enjoy. It makes me stop caring about everything, laugh a lot, cook weird food, and then pass out. It's also inexperience with dosage; I know how to drink just a little to take the edge off and enjoy it without getting stupid unless I choose to (but I really hate being drunk, so I almost never do), but I have never been successful in having that little pot. So I stopped being interested in it.
When I get bitten by cats.
I have the following symptoms:Heart arrhythmia.
Tunnel vision.
Brain fog (like when you're hypothermic).
All of which I also get on energy drinks.
But with cat bites, also add:
Hallucinations.
You remember "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and "Cool World"? Animation layered over live-action film? It's like that. The real world stays the same, but there's this whole other layer of hallucinated characters and set designed on top of it that no one but me can see. Really freaky. I hate it a lot. This is why I will not pet a cat. Because cats are evil m************rs who are all sweetness and fluff until they capriciously sink the fangs in, much like toddlers, but less sticky.
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say what?I KNOW coffee is a drug. I get withdrawal headaches when I don't drink it, or when I drink my mother's. My children both say "If Mama doesn't get her coffee, she gets grumpy" and think it's hilarious. And I don't care.
I love tea, but I can only drink it in the afternoons. If I drink tea (black, green, oolong, doesn't matter) in the morning, I get very nauseous.
Energy drinks are not good for me. I bought two of them once, driving long-distance by myself, and they gave me heart arrhythmia and tunnel vision and made my brain do weird things. Actually, almost exactly the same symptoms as when I get bit by cats, but minus the hallucinations.
Marijuana is not for me. I think it should be legal and is, on the whole, far safer and less dangerous than alcohol (both for the person taking it and for those in contact with them), but it's not a substance I particularly enjoy. It makes me stop caring about everything, laugh a lot, cook weird food, and then pass out. It's also inexperience with dosage; I know how to drink just a little to take the edge off and enjoy it without getting stupid unless I choose to (but I really hate being drunk, so I almost never do), but I have never been successful in having that little pot. So I stopped being interested in it.
When I get bitten by cats.
I have the following symptoms:Heart arrhythmia.
Tunnel vision.
Brain fog (like when you're hypothermic).All of which I also get on energy drinks.
But with cat bites, also add:
Hallucinations.
You remember "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and "Cool World"? Animation layered over live-action film? It's like that. The real world stays the same, but there's this whole other layer of hallucinated characters and set designed on top of it that no one but me can see. Really freaky. I hate it a lot. This is why I will not pet a cat. Because cats are evil m************rs who are all sweetness and fluff until they capriciously sink the fangs in, much...
Huh, I wonder what that reaction is about. Are you allergic to cats? Or perhaps the cats in your area have evolved to be venomous? In which case old cat ladies and their packs of vicious feline killers make me even more nervous!
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I'm a bit behind, on everything, so no worries!
Captain Yesterday fun fact: Final Fantasy 7 was the only one I played.
you poor, poor man.
In completely unrelated news, final fantasy x and x-2 are available on xbone.
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say what?I KNOW coffee is a drug. I get withdrawal headaches when I don't drink it, or when I drink my mother's. My children both say "If Mama doesn't get her coffee, she gets grumpy" and think it's hilarious. And I don't care.
I love tea, but I can only drink it in the afternoons. If I drink tea (black, green, oolong, doesn't matter) in the morning, I get very nauseous.
Energy drinks are not good for me. I bought two of them once, driving long-distance by myself, and they gave me heart arrhythmia and tunnel vision and made my brain do weird things. Actually, almost exactly the same symptoms as when I get bit by cats, but minus the hallucinations.
Marijuana is not for me. I think it should be legal and is, on the whole, far safer and less dangerous than alcohol (both for the person taking it and for those in contact with them), but it's not a substance I particularly enjoy. It makes me stop caring about everything, laugh a lot, cook weird food, and then pass out. It's also inexperience with dosage; I know how to drink just a little to take the edge off and enjoy it without getting stupid unless I choose to (but I really hate being drunk, so I almost never do), but I have never been successful in having that little pot. So I stopped being interested in it.
When I get bitten by cats.
I have the following symptoms:Heart arrhythmia.
Tunnel vision.
Brain fog (like when you're hypothermic).All of which I also get on energy drinks.
But with cat bites, also add:
Hallucinations.
You remember "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and "Cool World"? Animation layered over live-action film? It's like that. The real world stays the same, but there's this whole other layer of hallucinated characters and set designed on top of it that no one but me can see. Really freaky. I hate it a lot. This is why I will not pet a cat. Because cats are evil m************rs who are all sweetness and fluff until they capriciously sink the fangs in, much...
that is both insane and amazing. I am both sorry and amazed.
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You can expect that, sure, but you'll be wrong. Prepare for amazement. PM coming as soon as I have a few minutes to dig up the numbers. Might not be until later tonight.My contractors are installing the solar panels on Monday.If you are willing to PM me what size you got and what it cost, that would be awesome. I'd like to do some comparisons, and I expect your system to be significantly cheaper than mine because location. But I'm curious...
Well, my research showed that price goes up exponentially with wattage, rather than linearly as one might expect. A 20 kW system was 5x as expensive as a 10 kW system, and a 25 kW system was insane. So if you're a lot higher than my 6.2 kW, I'd expect the price to be much higher too. But I have work, too, so I'll be patient and see what your numbers are...
Yeah, which is why our sales guy did his level best to keep us under a 10 kW system, because that's one of those price breaking points. Hence we're getting a 9.8 kW system.
Also, an important financial note to all of this - in Illinois they are currently giving out a lot of tax credits if you switch your home over to solar. A lot. Like $16-18k in my case. When you apply those tax credits to the loan required to get the solar panels, it drives the monthly bill down to less than my average monthly electric bill normally is. So I'm not going to be paying that normal electric bill, paying the loan instead at a lower monthly cost, hence saving money overall, and saving even more money once that loan is paid off in full. It's the only way I could afford to do this.
I have never played any 'Final Fantasy' games, mainly because of the bloke with the chisel-like sword that's twice as big as he is.
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I have never played any 'Final Fantasy' games, mainly because of the bloke with the chisel-like sword that's twice as big as he is.
worry not, he does not appear in final fantasy 1-6. Or X or X-2. Or the greatest final fantasy of all, tactics.
I have never played any 'Final Fantasy' games, mainly because of the bloke with the chisel-like sword that's twice as big as he is.worry not, he does not appear in final fantasy 1-6. Or X or X-2. Or the greatest final fantasy of all, tactics.
10 and Tactics are amazing. 10 made me legit cry and tactics...uh kinda traumatized me as a child, still love it though.
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And six, can't say enough good things about six!
Lulu and Tactics are amazing. The lack of lulu as a playable character in X-2 made me legit cry and tactics...uh kinda traumatized me as a child, still love it though.I have never played any 'Final Fantasy' games, mainly because of the bloke with the chisel-like sword that's twice as big as he is.worry not, he does not appear in final fantasy 1-6. Or X or X-2. Or the greatest final fantasy of all, tactics.
FIFY
FIFYLulu and Tactics are amazing. The lack of lulu as a playable character in X-2 made me legit cry and tactics...uh kinda traumatized me as a child, still love it though.I have never played any 'Final Fantasy' games, mainly because of the bloke with the chisel-like sword that's twice as big as he is.worry not, he does not appear in final fantasy 1-6. Or X or X-2. Or the greatest final fantasy of all, tactics.
I was in love with Auron not lulu but yeah.
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I have never played any 'Final Fantasy' games, mainly because of the bloke with the chisel-like sword that's twice as big as he is.worry not, he does not appear in final fantasy 1-6. Or X or X-2. Or the greatest final fantasy of all, tactics.
Wait a minute, Cloud does actually appear in tactics doesn't he?
Sure does!
I thought so, though I think he is a hidden recruitable character or something.
Freehold is going to deny it because of that. :P
=p
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In other news I just started playing Hollow Knight, the PC is adorable! I need a plushy or something of him!
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Wait a minute, Cloud does actually appear in tactics doesn't he?I have never played any 'Final Fantasy' games, mainly because of the bloke with the chisel-like sword that's twice as big as he is.worry not, he does not appear in final fantasy 1-6. Or X or X-2. Or the greatest final fantasy of all, tactics.
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Sure does!
Nope.
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Sure does!I thought so, though I think he is a hidden recruitable character or something.
If he is hidden then he really isnt IN the game, is he?
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Freehold is going to deny it because of that. :P
I deny nothing!
I like that they added Balthier to the Psp version, I still play that version to this day when the mood strikes me. It's been awhile though, I should play Tactics again after Hollow Knight.
Yeah, which is why our sales guy did his level best to keep us under a 10 kW system, because that's one of those price breaking points. Hence we're getting a 9.8 kW system.You can expect that, sure, but you'll be wrong. Prepare for amazement. PM coming as soon as I have a few minutes to dig up the numbers. Might not be until later tonight.My contractors are installing the solar panels on Monday.If you are willing to PM me what size you got and what it cost, that would be awesome. I'd like to do some comparisons, and I expect your system to be significantly cheaper than mine because location. But I'm curious...
Well, my research showed that price goes up exponentially with wattage, rather than linearly as one might expect. A 20 kW system was 5x as expensive as a 10 kW system, and a 25 kW system was insane. So if you're a lot higher than my 6.2 kW, I'd expect the price to be much higher too. But I have work, too, so I'll be patient and see what your numbers are...
Weird. Any idea why the cost goes up exponentially?
Will you be using an inverter? More panels than your roof can support?