Also, I woke up today to no electricity. Took almost 90 minutes for the lines to be fixed. That was not the best hour and a half of my life.
No lie, I had to read this at least three times before I realized there was no hidden pun or joke.
(It’s the cadence - you wrote with the same stops you would had it been a joke.)
Either way, sorry, man: that’s unpleasant.
EDIT: dang ninja captain yesterdays. Sigh. *gets dressed*
That's fine, but if you need an index card because you can't remember all the different types of ground meat in it, that doesn't make it "elevated", it just means you got ripped off by your butcher.Yeah, the next person that says they "elevated" meatloaf I'm laughing in their face, a full throated, no question there's sarcasm, Gilbert Gottfried laugh.What if they simply and quite literally just placed meatloaf in an elevator and sent it to a higher floor?
I would have used the levitate spell and just kept levitating it until I didn’t have to deal with it anymore, until I didn’t have to deal with it anymore, [s]if I only knew magic[/i] if I only knew magic.
That said, my mother-in-law’s is actually pretty good, but that’s because she has this huge filler of cheese inside. My mother’s is decent, but that might just be because I’ve grown up eating it - I know there were times when I was younger that my opinion was very different, so.
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That's fine, but if you need an index card because you can't remember all the different types of ground meat in it, that doesn't make it "elevated", it just means you got ripped off by your butcher.Yeah, the next person that says they "elevated" meatloaf I'm laughing in their face, a full throated, no question there's sarcasm, Gilbert Gottfried laugh.What if they simply and quite literally just placed meatloaf in an elevator and sent it to a higher floor?
Not gonna argue that point. I've had some really good meatloaf in my life, but at no point would I have considered any of it to be "gourmet" or "elevated" or "as Gordon Ramsay would do it" or anything like that. It's meatloaf.
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The only thing that should be made into a loaf is bread.
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So last Friday night, between Aiymi not getting home from work until 8:30pm and me having to be back in the office at 10pm, didn't have a lot of time - we went out for a very late dinner together where she told me that one of the co-owners of the company she works for wants to talk to me about a position they're opening up in their company...
Hmmmm....
Small company. Less than 50 employees. Still in start-up mode. Different list of headaches to deal with, which as a change of pace, may be just what I need.
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I kind of did that last year (the company I work for was founded 8 years ago) I'm happy with my results.
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Used tie rips to tie my collegue to his chair.
Because he said I wouldnt do it.
Your colleague doesn't seem to understand terms like "risk management", "I dare you", or "Oh god I'm sorry I didn't mean it please stop".
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Another spamless day from me with my excel filing sheet refusing to take new entries right when I'm trying to archive to clean up my outlook, which keeps crashing.
I did do my physical assessment and did 27 knee push ups in a minute, followed by 31 crunches. I never practiced crunching per se...
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So last Friday night, between Aiymi not getting home from work until 8:30pm and me having to be back in the office at 10pm, didn't have a lot of time - we went out for a very late dinner together where she told me that one of the co-owners of the company she works for wants to talk to me about a position they're opening up in their company...
Hmmmm....
Small company. Less than 50 employees. Still in start-up mode. Different list of headaches to deal with, which as a change of pace, may be just what I need.
I say go for it. You are slowly turning into your avatar at your current job.
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I learned yesterday that Mac N Cheese pizza is better than it sounds, which is to say, it's okay.Why would anyone have a mac and cheese pizza, isn't that a carb overdose?
Yeah, that's obesity is so rampant in the Midwest, personally, it was our first time and only because Tiny T-Rex had to try it.
It was okay, nothing special.
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So, I know I've tiraded about it before, but it's SO frustrating spending a lifetime trying to teach your kids a couple of basic lessons and having their peers and the media completely unravel everything you've tried to accomplish over all those years.
Today's tirade: Stuff breaks.
It's a fact of life. Stuff broke before we had kids. Stuff broke after we had kids. I'm honestly astonished at how little they upped the ante; they're really, really good.
I have made it clear since they were born that I do not care who did it; I only want to know how it happened so we can all learn from the experience.
The moment you assign blame, everyone who is not the accused tunes out everything else you say, there is no learning, and you have failed.
So the *only* time I have ever punished my kids when things have gotten broken has been when they've tried to blame ANYONE for it, even themselves. I've made it VERY clear that assigning blame is the worst possible thing you can do in such a situation.
And yet another dish is missing, so someone broke it and hid the evidence because they don't want to get "blamed" for it.
*SIGH*. Can you just tell me the dish broke and how it happened so I can buy a new one, please!??!?!?!?
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Your colleague doesn't seem to understand terms like "risk management", "I dare you", or "Oh god I'm sorry I didn't mean it please stop".Used tie rips to tie my collegue to his chair.
Because he said I wouldnt do it.
I only started working here in januari, but you would think that three full months would be enough for them to learn I take those things seriously.
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I learned yesterday that Mac N Cheese pizza is better than it sounds, which is to say, it's okay.Why would anyone have a mac and cheese pizza, isn't that a carb overdose?Yeah, that's obesity is so rampant in the Midwest, personally, it was our first time and only because Tiny T-Rex had to try it.
It was okay, nothing special.
it still weirds me out that there is so much space out there yet noone walks.
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Yeah, my mother used to make us meat loaf and I liked it, but not enough that I've ever made it for my kids. I know it's supposed to be a low-cost meal, but considering that two chicken breasts can make a massive stir-fry that will feed a LOT more people than a meat loaf will, I've never really seen the point.
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So, I know I've tiraded about it before, but it's SO frustrating spending a lifetime trying to teach your kids a couple of basic lessons and having their peers and the media completely unravel everything you've tried to accomplish over all those years.
Today's tirade: Stuff breaks.
It's a fact of life. Stuff broke before we had kids. Stuff broke after we had kids. I'm honestly astonished at how little they upped the ante; they're really, really good.
I have made it clear since they were born that I do not care who did it; I only want to know how it happened so we can all learn from the experience.
The moment you assign blame, everyone who is not the accused tunes out everything else you say, there is no learning, and you have failed.
So the *only* time I have ever punished my kids when things have gotten broken has been when they've tried to blame ANYONE for it, even themselves. I've made it VERY clear that assigning blame is the worst possible thing you can do in such a situation.
And yet another dish is missing, so someone broke it and hid the evidence because they don't want to get "blamed" for it.
*SIGH*. Can you just tell me the dish broke and how it happened so I can buy a new one, please!??!?!?!?
...it was me.
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it still weirds me out that there is so much space out there yet noone walks.I learned yesterday that Mac N Cheese pizza is better than it sounds, which is to say, it's okay.Why would anyone have a mac and cheese pizza, isn't that a carb overdose?Yeah, that's obesity is so rampant in the Midwest, personally, it was our first time and only because Tiny T-Rex had to try it.
It was okay, nothing special.
I find it disturbing that I live in one of the "healthiest" areas of the U.S. in terms of the percentage of people who exercise regularly, yet over 50% of parents drive their kids to school here...
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...it was me.So, I know I've tiraded about it before, but it's SO frustrating spending a lifetime trying to teach your kids a couple of basic lessons and having their peers and the media completely unravel everything you've tried to accomplish over all those years.
Today's tirade: Stuff breaks.
It's a fact of life. Stuff broke before we had kids. Stuff broke after we had kids. I'm honestly astonished at how little they upped the ante; they're really, really good.
I have made it clear since they were born that I do not care who did it; I only want to know how it happened so we can all learn from the experience.
The moment you assign blame, everyone who is not the accused tunes out everything else you say, there is no learning, and you have failed.
So the *only* time I have ever punished my kids when things have gotten broken has been when they've tried to blame ANYONE for it, even themselves. I've made it VERY clear that assigning blame is the worst possible thing you can do in such a situation.
And yet another dish is missing, so someone broke it and hid the evidence because they don't want to get "blamed" for it.
*SIGH*. Can you just tell me the dish broke and how it happened so I can buy a new one, please!??!?!?!?
I don't care.
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Oh, and it's going to rain today.
Because of course it is.
One of my rotten wood ferrets was on the roof all day Saturday prepping the roof for it, and he said, "I don't think it will leak anywhere except into the garage."
That would be such a vast improvement over the previous state of the roof that I said, "Wow, that would be awesome!"
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One thing is that hauling your sorry arse around takes time. Like maybe half an hour from one subway station to another? If you subwayed it'd just take 5 min.
For me is not so much on distance but rather how much time I want to spend covering it. I tried a weekend solely on foot and covering the distance between subway stations took me like 2hs going back and forth.
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So, I know I've tiraded about it before, but it's SO frustrating spending a lifetime trying to teach your kids a couple of basic lessons and having their peers and the media completely unravel everything you've tried to accomplish over all those years.
Today's tirade: Stuff breaks.
It's a fact of life. Stuff broke before we had kids. Stuff broke after we had kids. I'm honestly astonished at how little they upped the ante; they're really, really good.
I have made it clear since they were born that I do not care who did it; I only want to know how it happened so we can all learn from the experience.
The moment you assign blame, everyone who is not the accused tunes out everything else you say, there is no learning, and you have failed.
So the *only* time I have ever punished my kids when things have gotten broken has been when they've tried to blame ANYONE for it, even themselves. I've made it VERY clear that assigning blame is the worst possible thing you can do in such a situation.
And yet another dish is missing, so someone broke it and hid the evidence because they don't want to get "blamed" for it.
*SIGH*. Can you just tell me the dish broke and how it happened so I can buy a new one, please!??!?!?!?
My mom used to lecture me for going for blood donations saying I lose enough blood in the monthly cycle. Now I stop telling her when I'm even going for blood donations. Then she starts complaining that I'm secretive.
But why should I be lectured for something that isn't a crime in the first place? And if it causes trouble when I am honest, why should I be honest about it next time, then?
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So last Friday night, between Aiymi not getting home from work until 8:30pm and me having to be back in the office at 10pm, didn't have a lot of time - we went out for a very late dinner together where she told me that one of the co-owners of the company she works for wants to talk to me about a position they're opening up in their company...
Hmmmm....
Small company. Less than 50 employees. Still in start-up mode. Different list of headaches to deal with, which as a change of pace, may be just what I need.
Give it a shot?
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Same here (though I'm sure they're pitiful in comparison) but we're a college town with hundreds of miles of bike trails.
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...My mom used to lecture me for going for blood donations saying I lose enough blood in the monthly cycle. Now I stop telling her when I'm even going for blood donations. Then she starts complaining that I'm secretive.
But why should I be lectured for something that isn't a crime in the first place? And if it causes trouble when I am honest, why should I be honest about it next time, then?
Er, totally different in my mind:
NobodysHome: OK, everyone, what did we learn?
Kids: Not to carry dishes in a giant stack!
Impus Major: But *I* didn't do it!
Why? Because since Impus Major was more focused on "blame" than on "learning", he learned nothing from Impus Minor's mistake.
The best way to learn is through mistakes. The most important thing is that they don't have to be your mistakes in order for you to learn...
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As long as the kids are forthright and accept responsibility they won't get in trouble, it's the cover-up that gets them into trouble.
Still doesn't keep them from trying to cover it up from time to time.
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As long as the kids are forthright and accept responsibility they won't get in trouble, it's the cover-up that gets them into trouble.
Still doesn't keep them from trying to cover it up from time to time.
Yep. Pretty much this.
How my father did it, and how I'm trying to do it.
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The bycicle yards at schools here are huge.
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I should note I'm the only one that's broken dishes this winter and I haven't told a damn person, except now, I guess.
But, in fairness, no one has noticed.
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Yeah, the next person that says they "elevated" meatloaf I'm laughing in their face, a full throated, no question there's sarcasm, Gilbert Gottfried laugh.What if they simply and quite literally just placed meatloaf in an elevator and sent it to a higher floor?
We massaged its chakras with amethyst and activated Manuka turmeric water dust and sent it to a higher plane, in fact. Love and Light!
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I must be missing something. I've used Turbotax for years and they never charge a cent for federal taxes (beyond a $4 service fee for if you pay owed taxes via credit or debit card) for their basic service.
Or are you guys talking about the paid advanced services, or filing state taxes? Or both?
Honestly all I know is we saw a $120 rate, and I volunteered to do our taxes by hand as I've done all my life. Last year was our first year filing jointly and Mrs Sunrise handled everything with Turbotax as she's always done. I know she used it for both state and federal, but I don't think she used any special/extra options.
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I have started watching Amazon's The Tick, and I love it. I feel like it's a comedic deconstruction of the supers genre -- where Watchmen is a tragic deconstruction -- but I'm terrible at assessing this sort of thing.
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I've been doing my own taxes since I had my first job, my mom insisted on it.
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Freehold...
Nobody in the Midwest walks unless they're in one of the bigger cities/towns. It's because otherwise there's absolutely nothing close by that you'd want to walk there and back.
Cap is an anomaly in these regards for the Midwest, but again, as he's pointed out, Madison is a bit different.
Even where I live...if I want to go to the grocery store for a jug of milk (because I am not going to pay $6 for it at the gas station 2 blocks away)...it's about a 5 mile round trip walk with most of that having to walk on the shoulder of the road - no sidewalks on the road I live on. I'm not saying I can't physically do that, but driving takes a lot less time out of my day, and I'm much more likely to do that as a much bigger errand on the way home from work rather than as a separate trip out with limited cargo capacity.
You said it yourself, everything is spread out here, and that's precisely why very few people walk anywhere as a basic mode of transportation. If they're walking, it's usually just for exercise with no destination in mind.
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Reminds me of when I worked at Toys R Us and a cashier asked "How come Captain Yesterday can come into work 15 minutes late and no one says anything?" And the store manager says "Because Captain Yesterday can lift 80 pounds".
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"We learned when to use passive aggressive and active aggressive voice."
So close and yet so far.
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I'm also reminded of when I was working with whoever it was and he asks me how I stay in shape in the winter and I say "I walk three miles (round trip ( every day to the grocery store" and he thinks about it for a minute and says "not worth it!".
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Thanks to whomever mentioned Audible a while back, it really is a great service.
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Honestly all I know is we saw a $120 rate, and I volunteered to do our taxes by hand as I've done all my life. Last year was our first year filing jointly and Mrs Sunrise handled everything with Turbotax as she's always done. I know she used it for both state and federal, but I don't think she used any special/extra options.I must be missing something. I've used Turbotax for years and they never charge a cent for federal taxes (beyond a $4 service fee for if you pay owed taxes via credit or debit card) for their basic service.
Or are you guys talking about the paid advanced services, or filing state taxes? Or both?
The free version of most free tax filing software is fine if you're just plugging in some W2s and/or 1099s and don't have to file a lot of additional forms. As soon as you start having to mess with Schedule E and Schedule D and blah this and blah that, then the software starts getting more and more expensive. If you're poor, it's prohibitively so.
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Decided to listen to the Drizzt series starting with the Crystal Shard, I know that series draws a lot of flak but it really is quite good, at the beginning for sure at least.
A large part of the excitement early on I think is Drizzt isn't presented as almost unstoppable quite yet, he almost dies like 7 times in the first book alone.
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Freehold...
Nobody in the Midwest walks unless they're in one of the bigger cities/towns. It's because otherwise there's absolutely nothing close by that you'd want to walk there and back.
Cap is an anomaly in these regards for the Midwest, but again, as he's pointed out, Madison is a bit different.
Even where I live...if I want to go to the grocery store for a jug of milk (because I am not going to pay $6 for it at the gas station 2 blocks away)...it's about a 5 mile round trip walk with most of that having to walk on the shoulder of the road - no sidewalks on the road I live on. I'm not saying I can't physically do that, but driving takes a lot less time out of my day, and I'm much more likely to do that as a much bigger errand on the way home from work rather than as a separate trip out with limited cargo capacity.
You said it yourself, everything is spread out here, and that's precisely why very few people walk anywhere as a basic mode of transportation. If they're walking, it's usually just for exercise with no destination in mind.
but you see that is what weirds me out.
There is so much to see by you. Glorious landscapes. Wonderful nature. Beautiful streams and the like. I'm getting excited just thinking about it.
But everyone would rather just drive past it. And worse, without sidewalks, those who do want to stretch their legs are targets for the cops. And then obesity skyrockets. It's just insane.
Then again, I didn't take my bike today because it was supposed to be horrific thunderstorms all day. We've got bad wind, yeah, but no thunderstorms so far...
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I'll pass on walking by the ten miles of cow smell, thanks.
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Yeah, if I want to go for a walk I'll drive to the area I want to walk in. Grandview Drive is a great example of an area lots of people walk and jog in the afternoons and evenings.
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I'll pass on walking by the ten miles of cow smell, thanks.
Or the fun of trying to breathe during harvest season.
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Freehold...
Nobody in the Midwest walks unless they're in one of the bigger cities/towns. It's because otherwise there's absolutely nothing close by that you'd want to walk there and back.
Cap is an anomaly in these regards for the Midwest, but again, as he's pointed out, Madison is a bit different.
Even where I live...if I want to go to the grocery store for a jug of milk (because I am not going to pay $6 for it at the gas station 2 blocks away)...it's about a 5 mile round trip walk with most of that having to walk on the shoulder of the road - no sidewalks on the road I live on. I'm not saying I can't physically do that, but driving takes a lot less time out of my day, and I'm much more likely to do that as a much bigger errand on the way home from work rather than as a separate trip out with limited cargo capacity.
You said it yourself, everything is spread out here, and that's precisely why very few people walk anywhere as a basic mode of transportation. If they're walking, it's usually just for exercise with no destination in mind.
but you see that is what weirds me out.
There is so much to see by you. Glorious landscapes. Wonderful nature. Beautiful streams and the like. I'm getting excited just thinking about it.
But everyone would rather just drive past it. And worse, without sidewalks, those who do want to stretch their legs are targets for the cops. And then obesity skyrockets. It's just insane.
Then again, I didn't take my bike today because it was supposed to be horrific thunderstorms all day. We've got bad wind, yeah, but no thunderstorms so far...
In fairness, you're only a target for cops if you look like a hippie or aren't white.
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Or the fun of trying to breathe during harvest season.
I'll pass on walking by the ten miles of cow smell, thanks.
I've hardly smelled any of those things in years and I do just fine.
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Yeah, if I want to go for a walk I'll drive to the area I want to walk in. Grandview Drive is a great example of an area lots of people walk and jog in the afternoons and evenings.
damn that's pretty.
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I've hardly smelled anything in years and I do just fine.Or the fun of trying to breathe during harvest season.
I'll pass on walking by the ten miles of cow smell, thanks.
Fixed. ;)