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Of course the first day this week I decide to go without my shuffle so "I can hear what's going on around me" is the day I work with a hardcore country fan.
He's a good kid, great work ethic, bright, but damn does he need some taste in music.
your ipod shuffle still works?!
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Let's hope mine still works....
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We have two of them, both work great.
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Let's see...NH has...a wife...a couple kids...a couple cats...figure 3 email addresses per entity...that's 18 Lootcrate subscriptions. Congrats.
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Oh, and let's not forget 18 Dollar Shave Club subscriptions.
(Which, yeah, I will endorse Dollar Shave Club if asked.)
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If I had not discovered the majesty of merkur futur safety razors and parker straight razors, I might be right there with you.
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Oh update btw. I am having my gall bladder cut out next Thursday (not tomorrow but the next one.) Said it was minimal risk and recovery time would be short. So that's good anyways.
Ooooooooh. Oh. No good.
Good luck with the adjustments that come after...
Taking Aiymi to the emergency room. Possible ACL.
Oof! Quick recovery!
At the risk of embarrassing you publicly, that post right there? That's precisely why I find you admirable.So, since I'm waiting for a meeting and tomorrow will likely be extraordinarily busy for me,
** spoiler omitted **...
Ditto!
Kinda overdid it today. But (some) things got (mostly) done, kinda! So....that's.....something..... *sigh* Adulting is hard. :P
Anyhow, thanks for looking out for me, LM. Yesterday was rough and a PTSD episode would not have helped. <3
We finally replaced our rusted out grill, so tonight we're making my favorite, five-spice wings! Yummy! And if I'm really lucky I'll be able to eat more than two! That seems less likely, but a girl can dream. ;P
I kinda got frustrated earlier and went on a whole rant on twitter about this, but I've been having a lot of problems lately with my stomach not tolerating food and I have to eat tiny portions if I don't want to revisit my meals. Which has led to dropping a lot of weight way too quickly and none of my pants fit and it's frustrating because it's not really a good thing, but it's hard to convince people since I started out overweight. And I'm tired of the whole passing out thing because I can't eat enough. :(
But I did get some good suggestions for how to add calories to smoothies so that might help. Since I can just about always keep smoothies down.
E-huuuuuuuuuuuugs!
I've regained feeling in about 90% of my nose, I still can't blow my nose for five weeks however, and I still can't work as fast as I used to (I'll refrain from specifics) but I seem to be healing.
Slowdown and recovery faster! ... wait.
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All y'all gotta stop being sicker than me! Everyone should know that my constitution's crap and I should get all the illnesses! Dang it! Recover soon! Love you guys!
Of course the first day this week I decide to go without my shuffle so "I can hear what's going on around me" is the day I work with a hardcore country fan.
He's a good kid, great work ethic, bright, but damn does he need some taste in music.
Hey! Country's (sometimes) good music!
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Aaaaaaaaaand... it's official: We have closed out our storage unit and all of our worldly possessions are now on or about our property instead of spread across multiple houses and a storage unit.
HUZZAH~! Proud of you, my dude!
Now all we need is a good fire to get rid of it all...
... yeah, us, too.
This is basically the weather from Texas to North Dakota all the way over to Ohio. Temperature varies, but the constant threat of major storms popping up with no warning is an every single day thing.Now, you understand what it's like living in the Midwest.Yet another tornado warning for the county this evening.
Oh goody.I dont know how I would handle life down by you.
Everyone assumes new Yorkers live each day like their last but that just isnt true. I dont know how I would be able to handle the very real possibility that a tornado, flash flood, or other natural disaster could destroy my life at any given moment. I would either drink a lot more or have a lot more kids.
We're getting tornado warnings in some parts of FLA, too, today, but we tend to get pretty good projections before-hand.
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I even specified that you be given a professionally framed presentation quality copy of my will.Go for it. We've left you everything in our wills.Must... kill... everyone... on... FaWtL...
That reminds me...
About a year and a half ago it came to my attention that I was inheriting a portion of the proceeds of a sale of farmland in Kansas. Today I received the final financial statement before they go in front of the judge to get it officially discharged and they cut the checks.
Apparently my great-grandfather in my paternal chain was a beneficiary of a trust entered in 1956, and they just now got around to selling this farmland that I didn't know existed.
I'm getting 0.75%. I'm rich. (Yes, it's still a useful amount of money and I'm not complaining.)
There's close to 90 beneficiaries now since none of the original trustees are still alive, and it takes 15 pages for the lawyers to show how all of them are tied to this single sale. Some genealogist is going to hit a gold mine with this document.
Amazingly, out of this group, there were only 4 they couldn't find.
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Mrs Sunrise and I, talking about Emma from Once Upon a Time, who has been a magical Savior for at least four seasons now.
TS: So, what exactly can Emma's magic do, btw?
Mrs. Sunrise: She can do, I don't know...like, sh!t.
I hate this show so much.
Mrs Sunrise and I, talking about Emma from Once Upon a Time, who has been a magical Savior for at least four seasons now.
TS: So, what exactly can Emma's magic do, btw?
Mrs. Sunrise: She can do, I don't know...like, sh!t.
I hate this show so much.
Is Emma that one woman with the kid? 'Cause the first season left me with the distinct impression that it was the kid that was the magical savior archetype.
(I've not had the opportunity to watch more than season one, though it's on my "to-do" list.)
EDIT: Also, I really liked the first season, but I'm given to understanding nothing quite matches up to that quality again. Also, yeah, it's been a while since I've seen it... *cough*
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Stuff
Also, please be sure to tell your wife a regrettably-belated happy birthday from me! I don't know if you actually saw my post or not, it was so late in arriving!
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Mrs Sunrise and I, talking about Emma from Once Upon a Time, who has been a magical Savior for at least four seasons now.
TS: So, what exactly can Emma's magic do, btw?
Mrs. Sunrise: She can do, I don't know...like, sh!t.
I hate this show so much.
Is Emma that one woman with the kid? 'Cause the first season left me with the distinct impression that it was the kid that was the magical savior archetype.
(I've not had the opportunity to watch more than season one, though it's on my "to-do" list.)
EDIT: Also, I really liked the first season, but I'm given to understanding nothing quite matches up to that quality again. Also, yeah, it's been a while since I've seen it... *cough*
I'll tell her you said happy b'day, she gets a big kick out of knowing that I talk about her here. :)
Yeah, Emma's the blonde ingenue with the kid. He does eventually attain phenomenal cosmic power, which he doesn't use because Reasons, but she's "the savior." Whatever that means.
A month ago Mrs. Sunrise was on the verge of giving up the show because the quality had gone so downhill, but now she says it's good again. I know she's in season six, but I couldn't tell ya where it goes downhill or comes back up.
All I know is that nobody ever thinks, nobody ever learns anything, nothing is ever resolved, and nobody ever dies.
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There is a FAWTL steam group. Everyone interested feel free to join.
I've put in my request to join.
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Been on the clock for work since 10pm. This is going to be a week where I take a day off and will still have to watch my hours on Friday to try to avoid OT.
At least I get to save my PTO for my Great Western Roadtrip? I'm tentatively looking to be doing that from Aug 1-16.
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Aaaaaaaaaand... it's official: We have closed out our storage unit and all of our worldly possessions are now on or about our property instead of spread across multiple houses and a storage unit.
Now all we need is a good fire to get rid of it all...
You gathered all those dusty things here?!
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Hey! Country's (sometimes) good music!Of course the first day this week I decide to go without my shuffle so "I can hear what's going on around me" is the day I work with a hardcore country fan.
He's a good kid, great work ethic, bright, but damn does he need some taste in music.
Mama,
Mah truckIs goin'
To prison {ooh ooh ooh ooooh}
No longer
Will it ride
The highways free
Somebody robbed
The jeweller
Now it's goin'
To the cooler
Ah blamed mah truck, when really,
It was me.
Oh Mama,
Will the Lord On High forgive me,
For doin'
Such a goldurn
Dirty thing?
All ah taste is salty tears,
Every time
Ah drink mah beers,
And ah howl like ah'm in torment,
When ah sing.
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Hey! Country's (sometimes) good music!Of course the first day this week I decide to go without my shuffle so "I can hear what's going on around me" is the day I work with a hardcore country fan.
He's a good kid, great work ethic, bright, but damn does he need some taste in music.
The older the better.
I will unabashedly belt out Patsy Cline songs if I think no one is listening, and "My Rifle, My Pony, and Me" from the movie "Rio Bravo" was one of the lullabies I sang to Hermione as a baby.And I have a fondness for Hank Sr. and The Browns. And Willie.
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Aaaaaaaaaand... it's official: We have closed out our storage unit and all of our worldly possessions are now on or about our property instead of spread across multiple houses and a storage unit.
Now all we need is a good fire to get rid of it all...
Hi isn't willing to help? I mean, have you ASKED him?
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Go for it. We've left you everything in our wills.Must... kill... everyone... on... FaWtL...
I wish I could like this about a hundred times.
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Also,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NOBODY!
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Also,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NOBODY!
LOL. I knew you'd "out" me.
But ugh. Last night Impus Major decided to be out 'til 3:00 am, then have a friend crash on the couch. Not only did I lose 2-3 hours of sleep (that I needed), but my back's all sore and today is the first day of a 4-day marathon of assaulting the boxes in the side yard.
Curse you, Impus Major!
But I'm sure he had fun, and I remember back when I was his age and there was nothing like roaming around with a pack of friends in the wee hours of the morning for no reason.
3:00 am is still late, though. I remember always wrapping up between 1 and 2.
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I even specified that you be given a professionally framed presentation quality copy of my will.Go for it. We've left you everything in our wills.Must... kill... everyone... on... FaWtL...
That reminds me...
About a year and a half ago it came to my attention that I was inheriting a portion of the proceeds of a sale of farmland in Kansas. Today I received the final financial statement before they go in front of the judge to get it officially discharged and they cut the checks.
Apparently my great-grandfather in my paternal chain was a beneficiary of a trust entered in 1956, and they just now got around to selling this farmland that I didn't know existed.
I'm getting 0.75%. I'm rich. (Yes, it's still a useful amount of money and I'm not complaining.)
There's close to 90 beneficiaries now since none of the original trustees are still alive, and it takes 15 pages for the lawyers to show how all of them are tied to this single sale. Some genealogist is going to hit a gold mine with this document.
Amazingly, out of this group, there were only 4 they couldn't find.
Uncle Vany? Its me, Freehold! You remember, your nephew!
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Also,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NOBODY!
Happy birthday!
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Okay, because Scint's post reminded me of it, here's a song about death and the crap we leave behind by one of my favorite Texas bands.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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So, since I'd had a bottom-of-the-barrel, "old" tech "smart" phone for the past five years, I am going through a bit of tech shock with the replacement phone the insurance company sent me. Apparently this one is "old" as well (Galaxy j7v), but it's making me feel like a caveman. And I'm being ultra-careful with it until the tempered glass screen protector and the otter box I ordered on ebay get here. I haven't even peeled the plastic film off of the screen. It's a bit unnerving.
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So, since I'd had a bottom-of-the-barrel, "old" tech "smart" phone for the past five years, I am going through a bit of tech shock with the replacement phone the insurance company sent me. Apparently this one is "old" as well (Galaxy j7v), but it's making me feel like a caveman. And I'm being ultra-careful with it until the tempered glass screen protector and the otter box I ordered on ebay get here. I haven't even peeled the plastic film off of the screen. It's a bit unnerving.
you got a galaxy J?!
Lisamarlene....please...get a note 9!
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It really is kind of sad how our fear-based society has driven normally-rational people to do really out-and-out bizarre stuff.
As I've mentioned before, Albany is a low-crime area to the point that a lot of people don't bother locking their doors unless they're asleep or out of the house. The last home invasion occurred in 2014, and that was in the student housing, which is a separate city in and of itself.
Yet we still have people who move here from other areas and insist that they won't feel safe until they've installed a chain, a no-key deadbolt, a can't-break-it-down door stopper, a steel gate, or whatnot.
Whatever. Not my house. Not my money. Not my problem.
*Except* that I just learned that we had a friend crashed on the couch because his parents are one such couple, and they couldn't conceive of going to bed without all the locks in place, thus preventing their own son from coming home. And they wanted to sleep, so they told him to find somewhere else to sleep.
I know it's different in other areas of the country, but in Albany, "I'm sorry, son. You can't come home because we're going to bed and putting the house on lockdown so you can't get in," suggests some major traumatic experience in the family's past.
Which they haven't had.
*SIGH*
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A/C guy came by. It's basically what I was afraid of. Need to replace it because it uses the old R22 freon. And the furnace is so old it makes sense to replace it as well. Good news is that the power company has an incentive program right now that saves me $750, but I'm still looking at about $5000. Oof.
OUCH
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It really is kind of sad how our fear-based society has driven normally-rational people to do really out-and-out bizarre stuff.
As I've mentioned before, Albany is a low-crime area to the point that a lot of people don't bother locking their doors unless they're asleep or out of the house. The last home invasion occurred in 2014, and that was in the student housing, which is a separate city in and of itself.
Yet we still have people who move here from other areas and insist that they won't feel safe until they've installed a chain, a no-key deadbolt, a can't-break-it-down door stopper, a steel gate, or whatnot.
Whatever. Not my house. Not my money. Not my problem.
*Except* that I just learned that we had a friend crashed on the couch because his parents are one such couple, and they couldn't conceive of going to bed without all the locks in place, thus preventing their own son from coming home. And they wanted to sleep, so they told him to find somewhere else to sleep.
I know it's different in other areas of the country, but in Albany, "I'm sorry, son. You can't come home because we're going to bed and putting the house on lockdown so you can't get in," suggests some major traumatic experience in the family's past.
Which they haven't had.*SIGH*
indeed you all sound crazy to me. We have a solid lock or two on our door, and it is locked every night. Noone has a key except the occupants, however, which makes the parents sound less vigilant and more like a~$~&&@s.
That said, having set hours for when your kid needs to be home and making them spend the night elsewhere if they miss their curfew could be good, if strict, parenting.
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Happy Birthday Nobody!
<.<
>.>
If I get your address today I could sent you a fancy cup tomorrow as I have currently access to mugs AND postal service that would be paid by someone else!
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What do you mean by "NO MORE CRAP!"?!
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So, since I'd had a bottom-of-the-barrel, "old" tech "smart" phone for the past five years, I am going through a bit of tech shock with the replacement phone the insurance company sent me. Apparently this one is "old" as well (Galaxy j7v), but it's making me feel like a caveman. And I'm being ultra-careful with it until the tempered glass screen protector and the otter box I ordered on ebay get here. I haven't even peeled the plastic film off of the screen. It's a bit unnerving.you got a galaxy J?!
Lisamarlene....please...get a note 9!
It. Was. FREE.
Okay, $19 insurance deductible.After four years with the abysmal HTC Desire (not my choice, WW picked it because it was the cheapest), ANYTHING is good.
Except I wouldn't have an iphone, even free. Their pattern of scheduled obsolescence is criminal.
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It really is kind of sad how our fear-based society has driven normally-rational people to do really out-and-out bizarre stuff.
As I've mentioned before, Albany is a low-crime area to the point that a lot of people don't bother locking their doors unless they're asleep or out of the house. The last home invasion occurred in 2014, and that was in the student housing, which is a separate city in and of itself.
Yet we still have people who move here from other areas and insist that they won't feel safe until they've installed a chain, a no-key deadbolt, a can't-break-it-down door stopper, a steel gate, or whatnot.
Whatever. Not my house. Not my money. Not my problem.
*Except* that I just learned that we had a friend crashed on the couch because his parents are one such couple, and they couldn't conceive of going to bed without all the locks in place, thus preventing their own son from coming home. And they wanted to sleep, so they told him to find somewhere else to sleep.
I know it's different in other areas of the country, but in Albany, "I'm sorry, son. You can't come home because we're going to bed and putting the house on lockdown so you can't get in," suggests some major traumatic experience in the family's past.
Which they haven't had.*SIGH*
indeed you all sound crazy to me. We have a solid lock or two on our door, and it is locked every night. Noone has a key except the occupants, however, which makes the parents sound less vigilant and more like a*!%%!*s.
That said, having set hours for when your kid needs to be home and making them spend the night elsewhere if they miss their curfew could be good, if strict, parenting.
I want to know why a self-respecting, able-bodied teenager isn't able to pop out a screen, jimmy a window, and shinny themself in. That's what I would have done at his age.
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I want to know why a self-respecting, able-bodied teenager isn't able to pop out a screen, jimmy a window, and shinny themself in. That's what I would have done at his age.It really is kind of sad how our fear-based society has driven normally-rational people to do really out-and-out bizarre stuff.
As I've mentioned before, Albany is a low-crime area to the point that a lot of people don't bother locking their doors unless they're asleep or out of the house. The last home invasion occurred in 2014, and that was in the student housing, which is a separate city in and of itself.
Yet we still have people who move here from other areas and insist that they won't feel safe until they've installed a chain, a no-key deadbolt, a can't-break-it-down door stopper, a steel gate, or whatnot.
Whatever. Not my house. Not my money. Not my problem.
*Except* that I just learned that we had a friend crashed on the couch because his parents are one such couple, and they couldn't conceive of going to bed without all the locks in place, thus preventing their own son from coming home. And they wanted to sleep, so they told him to find somewhere else to sleep.
I know it's different in other areas of the country, but in Albany, "I'm sorry, son. You can't come home because we're going to bed and putting the house on lockdown so you can't get in," suggests some major traumatic experience in the family's past.
Which they haven't had.*SIGH*
indeed you all sound crazy to me. We have a solid lock or two on our door, and it is locked every night. Noone has a key except the occupants, however, which makes the parents sound less vigilant and more like a*!%%!*s.
That said, having set hours for when your kid needs to be home and making them spend the night elsewhere if they miss their curfew could be good, if strict, parenting.
I haven't been to the house in question, but I'm betting secure windows (bars or whatnot) as well.
And yeah, if it were a simple, "If you're not home by xxx, don't bother coming home," I'd still be unhappy with it (yeah, having them spend the night somewhere else is going to make them better-behaved how!?!?!), but at least I'd understand that he'd broken a rule.
From his description of it, they just wanted to lock up and didn't want him to wake them up so they told him to sleep somewhere else.
Not something I'd do with my kids, 'cause sleeping somewhere else is where parenting nightmares begin...
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And yeah, Strange Aeons is really beginning to get to me.
It was bad enough when it was, "Go to the house of a man with questionable associations, break in, and try to find some dirt on him. And oh, by the way, you need to rob him blind while you're there."
But the next section is, "A public official asks you to investigate a public library that has been haunted. Go in, deal with the haunting, and steal all the rare books and preservation supplies while you're there."
The AP is no longer relying on PCs being Chaotic; it's relying on them being out-and-out chaotic neutral or worse.
Reminds me of the worst section of Carrion Crown: