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I'm not allowed to dance.
The UN directly forbides it.
"Cruel and Unusual" they called it.
Edit: they're not going to like that...
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And it looks like we're not a very prom-oriented group. I hope no one takes offense when I admit I'm not surprised...
It's all good, all the coolest people I have known fall into the "freaks and geeks" category.
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I just came back from sprout. I had stir fried brocolli with carrots and black fungus, lion head mushroom rendang, 5 takoyaki balls, a scoup of dark chocolate ice cream and my shopping bag has pesto sauce, blueberries, an aloe Vera ice jelly, a soy pudding, 250g of cocrodile tail meat, some chufa nuts and a bottle of elderberry mead in it. Talk about retail therapy...
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no musical instruments? That's even stranger. What reason was given for that?** spoiler omitted **
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Oh, also, Hi lynora!
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You know, I'd like to go get a group of folks and went for some dancing bobbing on a dance floor at a rockoteque (like a disco but with rock and metal music).
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I just remember my mom's utter shock when I asked to go to prom with a group of friends. "Oh my God, you're being social." She then dropped everything to take me dress shopping.
....and I then proceeded to spend the entire time I was there loitering off to the side because I didn't want to dance, mostly chatting with the teachers chaperoning.
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RIP Jack. You were a good boy, a good cat, and a good friend. I will miss my foot cat.
Poor kitty…
Sorry for the really trying times you're in right now Sharoth*Sends backpats'n'hugs*
It must have been either a Golden Delicious or a Granny Smith apple.
Hi, Kjel. You doing okay?
I'm hesitant to say I'm doing 'really badly' as there are people here who are having a rawer deal currently…and I don't want to overshadow that in any way.
But No, I'm don't doing so well currently. It's a bit of everything, mentally and emotionally I'm spent and raw, been feeling lonely and missing companionship and life/work has been letting me down lately.|
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Hey all, not sure if it interests ye, but Age of Wonders III is free on the Humble Store for the next 32 hours, if you want to grab a copy. :)
Hmm was I too late? It isnt free now...
Anyway I couldn't have gotten there any earlier since only now Im at my home comp. Also ahh I figured it out.
They have limited number of keys, so even though its 8 am Pacific Time on 11 May at this point of the post, they probably ran out of keys.
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Oh, also, Hi lynora!
*waves* Hi, Yuu! Hope things are going well for you!
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Oh, also, Hi lynora!*waves* Hi, Yuu! Hope things are going well for you!
They weren't for a long while but things have been looking up recently, so that makes me happy!
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Sorry the opioid crisis screwed you over, I like how they stripped you of a non narcotic med yet they keep trying to double my Oxycontin prescription. It's good to see a stable fair hand being applied in all cases =P
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Health care systems of the world unite!...in our raging incompetence!
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RIP Jack. You were a good boy, a good cat, and a good friend. I will miss my foot cat.Poor kitty…
Sorry for the really trying times you're in right now Sharoth*Sends backpats'n'hugs*
It must have been either a Golden Delicious or a Granny Smith apple.
Hi, Kjel. You doing okay?
I'm hesitant to say I'm doing 'really badly' as there are people here who are having a rawer deal currently…and I don't want to overshadow that in any way.
But No, I'm don't doing so well currently. It's a bit of everything, mentally and emotionally I'm spent and raw, been feeling lonely and missing companionship and life/work has been letting me down lately.
that's what we are here for. I hope things turn around for you. It's not long ago I was where you are now.
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Sorry the opioid crisis screwed you over, I like how they stripped you of a non narcotic med yet they keep trying to double my Oxycontin prescription. It's good to see a stable fair hand being applied in all cases =P
lol. Oh, hells yeah! Because if anyone ever figures out how the system works we might actually be able to use it to get what we need! Horrors!!! :P
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I'm hesitant to say I'm doing 'really badly' as there are people here who are having a rawer deal currently…and I don't want to overshadow that in any way.
But No, I'm don't doing so well currently. It's a bit of everything, mentally and emotionally I'm spent and raw, been feeling lonely and missing companionship and life/work has been letting me down lately.
It's good to say that you're not doing well when you aren't. It's not a competition for who has it worst. You're feeling not so great and those feelings are real and valid and you don't have to apologize for having them. Sometimes the brain weasels get out of hand and you need a little help remembering that you're not bad and everything else won't be bad forever even if it's bad right now. *hugs*
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Sorry the opioid crisis screwed you over, I like how they stripped you of a non narcotic med yet they keep trying to double my Oxycontin prescription. It's good to see a stable fair hand being applied in all cases =Plol. Oh, hells yeah! Because if anyone ever figures out how the system works we might actually be able to use it to get what we need! Horrors!!! :P
Health Care System Overseer:Hmmmmm, give them what they need? That sounds simple...but no, that's exactly what they expect us to do! We won't fall for that trap!
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** spoiler omitted **no musical instruments? That's even stranger. What reason was given for that?** spoiler omitted **
"Going beyond" or "adding to" the scriptures is the in-house terminology used for doing anything not explicitly or implicitly commanded, or failing to do anything explicitly or implicitly instructed. These were pretty much universally rolled into "presumptuous sin" - and generally characterized as humans acting as if they "knew better than God" in their choice to do something he hadn't given direct permission to do.
Almost all of the big church-splitting disagreements in the past century of the C of C's history come down to differences of opinion about whether presumptuous sin is actually sin or not. Musical instruments in worship, check. Using church funds to support out-of-church organizations, check. Evangelical movements in schools, check. Use of extra-Biblical creeds and (modern-)human-written texts as doctrine, check.
Really the only major divisions that can be traced down to a direct conflict of commanding scripture vs. dissenting practice, rather than two differing opinions on the interpretation of scripture and where the authority of action begins and ends, were the divisions over women in positions of authority and over disagreements regarding the issue of divorce and remarriage.
See Wiki for further info.
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"The Bible/Constitution does not explicitly nor implicitly give the Church/Government the authority nor instruction to (insert activity here)/(insert activity here), therefore Church Treasury Funds/Tax Funds should not be spent on (insert activity here)/(insert activity here)! If you wish to support (insert activity or organization here)/(insert activity or organization here), it should be done in the name of charity/generosity with personal individual funds, not Church Treasury Funds/Tax funds."
It's exactly the same mindset, coming from exactly the same people more often than not, with exactly the same definition: that which is not explicitly or implicitly commanded or allowed is by definition prohibited, and to go beyond that limited command is presumptuous (because it implies that we [whoever wishes to do the going beyond] know better than the source of the authority [the writers of the Constitution/God]) and being presumptuous is wrong/bad/sinful.
Prom: In the very early 90's in a very rural area, proms in our area we're usually $20-25 per person. That's about $35-40 today.
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So, it's May and not even the highest point of the sun yet (stoopid Daylight Savings Time. Hate you SOOOOOOOOOO much!!!!), and our system hit 5.02 kW. Considering its peak rating is 5.78 kW, I am impressed.
Kind of like your car being rated 57.8 mpg by the EPA, and getting 50.2. You'd be happy.
Happy, I say! Happy!
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I am 40 today, a nice round number, and also the only age I'm likely to reach which rhymes with the word 'snorty'
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I am 40 today, a nice round number, and also the only age I'm likely to reach which rhymes with the word 'snorty'
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIMEY!!!!!!!
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Happy birthday Limey! <3
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Happy Birthday, Limey!
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Happy Birthday Limey, may it be a pleasant one.
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GETTING HAMMERED WITH MOM FOR MOTHERS DAY TODAY BECAUSE TOMORROW IS BAD WEATHER WOOOOOOOOO
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I am 40 today, a nice round number, and also the only age I'm likely to reach which rhymes with the word 'snorty'
FOURTY SNORTY WOOOOOOOOO
So, it's May and not even the highest point of the sun yet (stoopid Daylight Savings Time. Hate you SOOOOOOOOOO much!!!!), and our system hit 5.02 kW. Considering its peak rating is 5.78 kW, I am impressed.
Kind of like your car being rated 57.8 mpg by the EPA, and getting 50.2. You'd be happy.
Happy, I say! Happy!
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME FOREVER
AN EXTRA HOUR OF DARKNESS IS A GOOD THING
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Happy Limey Day!
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I ate a green apple today. They aren't as sour as people claim.It must have been either a Golden Delicious or a Granny Smith apple.Aren't Grannies the sour apple? If there's one more sour, I would like to try it. :)
My bet is Mort ate a Golden Disgusting. Barely sweet. Not sour. And no redeeming traits.
Yes, if there is an apple harder and more sour then a granny smith, I need it.
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Yes, if there is an apple harder and more sour then a granny smith, I need it.I ate a green apple today. They aren't as sour as people claim.It must have been either a Golden Delicious or a Granny Smith apple.Aren't Grannies the sour apple? If there's one more sour, I would like to try it. :)
My bet is Mort ate a Golden Disgusting. Barely sweet. Not sour. And no redeeming traits.
Cooking apples?
Crab apples?
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"My name is Mrs. Smith, I've made apples out of bread and dripping, a bit of green paint, and corrugated iron." "No, these are horrible apples, Mrs. Smith. Go away, Mrs. Smith! Go away until your daughter has a baby." "Shag, daughter, shag! It's a marketing idea, shag for babies! [mimes running back] My daughter's had a baby, I'm Granny Smith now!" "Come in, Granny Smith! You wonderful idea, you! Come in with your shiny apples."
Yet another reason I love Eddie Izzard.
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I'm hesitant to say I'm doing 'really badly' as there are people here who are having a rawer deal currently…and I don't want to overshadow that in any way.
But No, I'm don't doing so well currently. It's a bit of everything, mentally and emotionally I'm spent and raw, been feeling lonely and missing companionship and life/work has been letting me down lately.
*lots of hugs*
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OK. HOPEFULLY my final update 'til winter:
(1) The system maxed out at 5.18 kW at exactly 1:00 pm. Impressive
(2) It's only 3:13 pm and we've generated 25.84 kWh today. Considering our average use is only 17, I think our solar guys might have really fudged the numbers a bit for our benefit. (You're only allowed to get panels up to 15% above your average use, unless you plan on a future electricity hog. I'm hoping to eventually get an electric car, so he put that in to his calculations.)
(3) The way PG&E works it is that they track your net usage for the entire year and send you a single check or bill. Of course, the check is for $0.04/kWh or the bill is for $0.21/kWh, which incenses me, but giant megamonopolies manipulating the market for their own enrichment is nothing new.
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And personally, Granny Smiths are one of my three favorite apples of all time, so there's that...
I like Egremont Russets the best, myself.
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** spoiler omitted **** spoiler omitted **** spoiler omitted **no musical instruments? That's even stranger. What reason was given for that?** spoiler omitted **
I am 40 today, a nice round number, and also the only age I'm likely to reach which rhymes with the word 'snorty'
Congratulations on being older than me (again).
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So, it's May and not even the highest point of the sun yet (stoopid Daylight Savings Time. Hate you SOOOOOOOOOO much!!!!), and our system hit 5.02 kW. Considering its peak rating is 5.78 kW, I am impressed.
Kind of like your car being rated 57.8 mpg by the EPA, and getting 50.2. You'd be happy.
Happy, I say! Happy!
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME FOREVER
AN EXTRA HOUR OF DARKNESS IS A GOOD THING
Winter time is the only true time.
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I am 40 today, a nice round number, and also the only age I'm likely to reach which rhymes with the word 'snorty'
Have a happy snorty birthday!
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Winter time is the only true time.So, it's May and not even the highest point of the sun yet (stoopid Daylight Savings Time. Hate you SOOOOOOOOOO much!!!!), and our system hit 5.02 kW. Considering its peak rating is 5.78 kW, I am impressed.
Kind of like your car being rated 57.8 mpg by the EPA, and getting 50.2. You'd be happy.
Happy, I say! Happy!
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME FOREVER
AN EXTRA HOUR OF DARKNESS IS A GOOD THING
Mr.Drejk, are you trying to seduce me?
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Prom: In the very early 90's in a very rural area, proms in our area we're usually $20-25 per person. That's about $35-40 today.
Senior prom, 1992, in rural Florida about 45 minutes away from Tac.
Prom was at the National Guard Armory next to the Dairy Queen and tickets were, I believe, all of $15 each. Which was, for that place and time, expensive. For dinner, we drove all the way to Ocala to the Olive Garden, because that was swank. My date ate a piece of the floral arrangement on the table to prove it was real. It was fake.My best friend/platonic boyfriend (his excuse for no physicality of any kind was that his church was super conservative, not even kissing until marriage, turns out he was actually just very, very gay) took a girl from his church that his mother picked as his date (she didn't approve of me because I was still Catholic back then, and everyone there knew that Catholics were going to hell).
So I went with my *other* best friend, whose fiance was away in the Army because she had graduated the year before, and she allowed him to take me, because if I was dating the guy who everyone knew was gay, then I was clearly gay, too, and therefore no threat.
Except no one told me any of this until a few months later, when we were all away at separate colleges, after Boy #1 finally came out and Boy #2's fiance dumped him for an officer and he quit school to join the Air Force.
The next boy I dated, later that year, left me to go into a monastery in Juarez.
My dad joked that we should have shirts made up that said, "I dated LM and survived."
So, on the whole, I wish I'd saved the $15 and bought a book instead. Then I wouldn't have had to listen to Garth Brooks all night.
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Prom: In the very early 90's in a very rural area, proms in our area we're usually $20-25 per person. That's about $35-40 today.Senior prom, 1992, in rural Florida about 45 minutes away from Tac.
Prom was at the National Guard Armory next to the Dairy Queen and tickets were, I believe, all of $15 each. Which was, for that place and time, expensive. For dinner, we drove all the way to Ocala to the Olive Garden, because that was swank. My date ate a piece of the floral arrangement on the table to prove it was real. It was fake.My best friend/platonic boyfriend (his excuse for no physicality of any kind was that his church was super conservative, not even kissing until marriage, turns out he was actually just very, very gay) took a girl from his church that his mother picked as his date (she didn't approve of me because I was still Catholic back then, and everyone there knew that Catholics were going to hell).
So I went with my *other* best friend, whose fiance was away in the Army because she had graduated the year before, and she allowed him to take me, because if I was dating the guy who everyone knew was gay, then I was clearly gay, too, and therefore no threat.
Except no one told me any of this until a few months later, when we were all away at separate colleges, after Boy #1 finally came out and Boy #2's fiance dumped him for an officer and he quit school to join the Air Force.
The next boy I dated, later that year, left me to go into a monastery in Juarez.
My dad joked that we should have shirts made up that said, "I dated LM and survived."
So, on the whole, I wish I'd saved the $15 and bought a book instead. Then I wouldn't have had to listen to Garth Brooks all night.
I was dating a girl from another school in 90, and sophomores were (damn autocorrect keeps changing were to we're) allowed to attend prom at her school. Mom was displeased, since it meant an extra tux rental.
Junior year in 91 was with a different date: the daughter of the science teacher. So the kids of two of the teachers went to prom together. That didn't make us look like giant nerds at all.
Senior year and a different girl from yet another different school. Mom was displeased because she had multiple ear piercings and a butterfly tattoo on her shoulder blade. This was long before "good people" sported a tattoo and multiple piercings were fashionable. She was also displeased because it meant two different tux rentals that year.
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I like Egremont Russets the best, myself.
Give me honeycrisps or give me death.