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Ugh. This is the ONE DAY between November 24th and December 20th I could have conceivably turned off my alarm and slept in, so of course I've been awake since 430.
EDIT: Wearing pajamas.
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Meanwhile, I'm too lazy to find and copy the relevant passages, but as one of the resident Texans on the thread (I know there are a few of us), I for one feel you cannot bash the state vehemently enough. Rotten governance and deregulation have made this a miserable place to live. I could say more, but I would be smurfed for politics.
Ugh. This is the ONE DAY between November 24th and December 20th I could have conceivably turned off my alarm and slept in, so of course I've been awake since 430.
EDIT: Wearing pajamas.
I have *no* idea what happened, but I think it's more of the exhaustion from my mother's death, but I normally wake up between 3:30 and 4:50 am. This morning I didn't wake up 'til Morrigan came in for snuggles at 6. I haven't slept in until 6 in years. I feel far behind on my paperwork, but well-rested. And well-loved. Morrigan is the bestest.
And there we go. My mother passed away just before 9 pm last night. And in typical family fashion, my brother texted me the news, then I Discorded it to my family. Actually talk to one another? Never!
And all in all emotionally I'm exactly where I expected to me: Relieved that she's out of that state, a bit sad, a lot melancholy, and surprisingly physically tired; all I want to do is take the day off work and nap all day. But I'm sure I'll get bored and I've already done my turn-ins for the year so it's mostly just watching training so I might as well "go in".
I'm really glad older brother has the nightmare of dealing with all the post-death paperwork, though. I remember when my father died the paperwork was ginormous, and it was only because my mother was retired that she could deal with it all.
NH, PM sent
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Ugh. This is the ONE DAY between November 24th and December 20th I could have conceivably turned off my alarm and slept in, so of course I've been awake since 430.
EDIT: Wearing pajamas.
....
I am actually going to the stationary store today!
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Ugh. This is the ONE DAY between November 24th and December 20th I could have conceivably turned off my alarm and slept in, so of course I've been awake since 430.
EDIT: Wearing pajamas.
I have *no* idea what happened, but I think it's more of the exhaustion from my mother's death, but I normally wake up between 3:30 and 4:50 am. This morning I didn't wake up 'til Morrigan came in for snuggles at 6. I haven't slept in until 6 in years. I feel far behind on my paperwork, but well-rested. And well-loved. Morrigan is the bestest.
You misspelled "Mephisto".
NH, PM sentAnd there we go. My mother passed away just before 9 pm last night. And in typical family fashion, my brother texted me the news, then I Discorded it to my family. Actually talk to one another? Never!
And all in all emotionally I'm exactly where I expected to me: Relieved that she's out of that state, a bit sad, a lot melancholy, and surprisingly physically tired; all I want to do is take the day off work and nap all day. But I'm sure I'll get bored and I've already done my turn-ins for the year so it's mostly just watching training so I might as well "go in".
I'm really glad older brother has the nightmare of dealing with all the post-death paperwork, though. I remember when my father died the paperwork was ginormous, and it was only because my mother was retired that she could deal with it all.
Amazing! PMs actually work on the new web site! It's like they spent the time to test everything or something. Who does that these days?
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You misspelled "Mephisto".Ugh. This is the ONE DAY between November 24th and December 20th I could have conceivably turned off my alarm and slept in, so of course I've been awake since 430.
EDIT: Wearing pajamas.
I have *no* idea what happened, but I think it's more of the exhaustion from my mother's death, but I normally wake up between 3:30 and 4:50 am. This morning I didn't wake up 'til Morrigan came in for snuggles at 6. I haven't slept in until 6 in years. I feel far behind on my paperwork, but well-rested. And well-loved. Morrigan is the bestest.
Yeah. This morning he and I did battle over the attempted stealing of Nefret's food. I think his spelling is, "The Pestest."
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My Schnauzer, meanwhile, is doing his best to outdo cats in the "I brought you a gift of half of a rodent I caught, here it is on the doormat!" department.
They were originally bred to catch rats on ships, but in fifty years, I've never had one who actually did it.
This one does.
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Oh, good. We're going over my mother's will and Impus Minor said, "Hey, Mom! You need to put a puzzle in your will that we need to solve to get any inheritance."
At which point GothBard promptly decided that she's going to add, "And you must spend the night in a haunted house before you can get your inheritance," to her will.
*SIGH*.
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Oh, good. We're going over my mother's will and Impus Minor said, "Hey, Mom! You need to put a puzzle in your will that we need to solve to get any inheritance."
At which point GothBard promptly decided that she's going to add, "And you must spend the night in a haunted house before you can get your inheritance," to her will.
*SIGH*.
The real catch will be finding an authentic haunted house...
Imagine family squabbling and suing over the fact that in the opinion of those who were skipped over in the will, the heir didn't fulfill the will because it wasn't really a haunted house in the first place...
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The Junkos have taken over for "can you please get out of the feeder while I'm pouring" award despite usually being ground feeders. I don't know if they feel even braver moving in because there's a gang.. flock...? of them or if they did something to the chickadees, or if they just like the cheaper stuff with less sunflowers...
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Deadspin put it beautifully: "FIFA Awards Donald Trump the Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence."
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Now, now, FIFA is a fine, upstanding institution with an almost inhuman dedication to the betterment of the sport, and if anyone so much as hints at suggesting that it's nothing more than a way to channel huge bribes to elderly Continental pervs, I shall rise from my seat and biff them on the conk.
BIFF!
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Question of critical import for Limey: Who has the better Christmas Faire, Leamington Spa or Warwick? GothBard'll be in the U.K. again next week and she can only attend one or the other.
I'm nowhere near either, but based on Vibes Alone, I'd say probably Warwick, it being the older town (to the best of my knowledge).
If I'm wrong, at least Warwick has a castle.
Um, you live in the U.K. There's no such thing as "nowhere near". I think you get to call it, "An inconvenient drive," at best. :-P
Portsmouth to Durness Lairg: 12 hours, 48 minutes (703 miles)
Albany to Seattle: 12 hours, 28 minutes (795 miles)
Yeah, drove that last week. Twice.
What were you doing in Durness Lairg?
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Damn kids and their participation trophies.. get off my lawn!
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*shakes*
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Meanwhile, I'm too lazy to find and copy the relevant passages, but as one of the resident Texans on the thread (I know there are a few of us), I for one feel you cannot bash the state vehemently enough. Rotten governance and deregulation have made this a miserable place to live. I could say more, but I would be $mu^f3d for politics.
Strong second as an escapee thereof. I spent the first 18 years of my life in Texas and have returned only twice since, both times for funerals.
It's basically in the same box as Tennessee for me: a (mostly) beautiful physical place with gorgeous scenery and large expanses of lovely terrain, but I NEVER want to live there again.
Ok this seems safe to ask...
Is texas pretty desert or are there nice forests around? its weirdly hard to find on a map but oddly I've never google earthed it...
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Ok this seems safe to ask...
Is texas pretty desert or are there nice forests around? its weirdly hard to find on a map but oddly I've never google earthed it...
Both.
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You misspelled "Mephisto".Ugh. This is the ONE DAY between November 24th and December 20th I could have conceivably turned off my alarm and slept in, so of course I've been awake since 430.
EDIT: Wearing pajamas.
I have *no* idea what happened, but I think it's more of the exhaustion from my mother's death, but I normally wake up between 3:30 and 4:50 am. This morning I didn't wake up 'til Morrigan came in for snuggles at 6. I haven't slept in until 6 in years. I feel far behind on my paperwork, but well-rested. And well-loved. Morrigan is the bestest.
Yeah. This morning he and I did battle over the attempted stealing of Nefret's food. I think his spelling is, "The Pestest."
There are several languages where there is no difference, or minimal difference, between the P and B sounds.
Hence, Mephisto is the Bestest.
Also. He wasnt stealing Nefret's food. He was taste testing. Repeatedly. He was caring about her taste buds.
Keep it up, Mephisto. You are the B/Pestest.
My Schnauzer, meanwhile, is doing his best to outdo cats in the "I brought you a gift of half of a rodent I caught, here it is on the doormat!" department.
They were originally bred to catch rats on ships, but in fifty years, I've never had one who actually did it.
This one does.
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Oh, good. We're going over my mother's will and Impus Minor said, "Hey, Mom! You need to put a puzzle in your will that we need to solve to get any inheritance."
At which point GothBard promptly decided that she's going to add, "And you must spend the night in a haunted house before you can get your inheritance," to her will.
*SIGH*.
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Ok this seems safe to ask...
Is texas pretty desert or are there nice forests around? its weirdly hard to find on a map but oddly I've never google earthed it...
Texas is so big that it has pretty much every biome found on earth except tundra.
The best forests in the state are on the Louisiana border and are wild and a bit swampy, but we also have drier hardwood forests full of oaks and bois d'arc.
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Ok this seems safe to ask...
Is texas pretty desert or are there nice forests around? its weirdly hard to find on a map but oddly I've never google earthed it...
Texas is so big that it has pretty much every biome found on earth except tundra.
The best forests in the state are on the Louisiana border and are wild and a bit swampy, but we also have drier hardwood forests full of oaks and bois d'arc.
Birnam woods comes alive and attacks the french?
OH osange orange. Droooool. That stuff is supposed to be great for bows and bowls. Good carving if you don't mind sharpening/stropping a lot.
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Ok this seems safe to ask...
Is texas pretty desert or are there nice forests around? its weirdly hard to find on a map but oddly I've never google earthed it...
Texas is so big that it has pretty much every biome found on earth except tundra.
The best forests in the state are on the Louisiana border and are wild and a bit swampy, but we also have drier hardwood forests full of oaks and bois d'arc.
I have heard that everything is bigger than Texas. It is why I want to visit.
I have heard that everything is bigger than Texas. It is why I want to visit.Ok this seems safe to ask...
Is texas pretty desert or are there nice forests around? its weirdly hard to find on a map but oddly I've never google earthed it...
Texas is so big that it has pretty much every biome found on earth except tundra.
The best forests in the state are on the Louisiana border and are wild and a bit swampy, but we also have drier hardwood forests full of oaks and bois d'arc.
The pizza might be bigger but I doubt its better
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The pizza might be bigger but I doubt its betterI have heard that everything is bigger than Texas. It is why I want to visit.Ok this seems safe to ask...
Is texas pretty desert or are there nice forests around? its weirdly hard to find on a map but oddly I've never google earthed it...
Texas is so big that it has pretty much every biome found on earth except tundra.
The best forests in the state are on the Louisiana border and are wild and a bit swampy, but we also have drier hardwood forests full of oaks and bois d'arc.
i might try their pizza.
As a new yorker, they will have no choice but to listen to me when I critique it.
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Sometimes I forget Mephisto's lineage; his father is a 20-pound engine of death who was originally obtained as a barn cat to eliminate the rats. All the rats died. The smaller birds of prey that were stupid enough to swoop down to try to pluck a chicken died. He'd initiate fights with the local raccoons or coyotes and hold them at bay until his "big brother" the 80-pound rottweiler showed up. Never heard of coyotes dumb enough to get killed by domesticated dogs before, but apparently Mephisto's dad lured them to their doom. Once everything not welcome on the property was dead, he promptly moved inside and made himself at home. And impregnated the local lady. (The vet insists they neutered him. Putting him side-by-side with Mephisto there is no doubt whatsoever as to Mephisto's lineage.)
So, yeah. Mephisto is a big dumb single-minded sweetheart. He's never touched any of us nor the other cats with his claws. But sometimes, when he's playing with an inanimate object, you realize just what a monster we have in our house. The cat ladder we brought in was stripped to the wood within a month, and now the wood is splintering. When he extends his claws to explore something you realize they're the biggest, longest, nastiest set of claws you've ever seen on a cat.
It's like the opening segment of an action movie. At some point something's going to happen. A neighborhood bully cat is going to attack Nefret. A raccoon is going to slip past us an get into the house. And those claws will get used. And it won't be pretty.
He is a lovable, huggable, adorable, terrifying beast.
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i might try their pizza.
As a new yorker, they will have no choice but to listen to me when I critique it.
Oh, don't. Get. Me. Started. On. Texans.
My friend moved there and put it really well. "It's really nice here. In California all you ever do is complain about what's wrong with your state. In Texas they're absolutely proud of everything about the state. Don't you dare criticize anything about Texas in front of a Texan or you'll be in for a fight."
I do not consider blind faith in anything to be an asset. (Stereotypical) Texans do. Beware criticizing even their pizza.
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Fantasy Monster: Festival Specter
You are doing the festivities wrong... WRONG!
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I passed through Texas briefly last Friday. I made a point to mess with it while I was there.
In more delightful news, I had GothBard do her best impression of the phone lady for my cell phone's voice mail message. "I'm sorry, but the number you have reached, xxx-xxx-xxx has been disconnected or is no longer in service. Please check the number and dial again."
And in spite of that so many people left voice mail that my mailbox is now full and my phone hangs up on people without even the opportunity to leave a message.
Yes, I am all delight.
No, I will never listen to any of those messages.
I still have yet to set up my voicemail on my phone.
I've now been working for 10 days straight, and 13 out of 14 days.
I've now been working for 10 days straight, and 13 out of 14 days.
Employees pay with organ failure because we don't pay employees enough to get a bunch of them is NOT a viable business model....
Ok this seems safe to ask...
Is texas pretty desert or are there nice forests around? its weirdly hard to find on a map but oddly I've never google earthed it...
Texas is so big that it has pretty much every biome found on earth except tundra.
The best forests in the state are on the Louisiana border and are wild and a bit swampy, but we also have drier hardwood forests full of oaks and bois d'arc.
Birnam woods comes alive and attacks the french?
OH osange orange. Droooool. That stuff is supposed to be great for bows and bowls. Good carving if you don't mind sharpening/stropping a lot.
YES! It was widely traded for bows on the frontier. Really nice wood.
I've now been working for 10 days straight, and 13 out of 14 days.Employees pay with organ failure because we don't pay employees enough to get a bunch of them is NOT a viable business model....
Snow removal in WI. It's hard to get people willing and capable. Most quit fairly quickly.
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As a new yorker, they will have no choice but to listen to me when I critique it.
The only group Texans disdain more than New Yorkers is Californians. You have been warned.
That whole gag in commercials for Old El Paso salsa where they s#!t on other salsa brands for being made in NYC and then threaten to lynch the guy who brought any brand other than Old El Paso? That's how people in Texas actually talk. If anything, the commercials and the violence they (imply to) inflict on the people using NYC-made products is tame compared to how real-life Texans talk about anything from NY or CA.
This is not a joke. If you are going to travel to Texas, be very careful about talking about being from New York. Unless you spend every moment of talking about the state ensuring everyone around you knows you hate it in NY and are taking any and every opportunity to leave, you WILL risk violence against yourself.
And that goes [u]double[/u] if you make it well-known to too many Texans that you're from there and think ANYTHING about it is better than Texas. And that goes quadruple if you're in a rural area or smaller town.
I know this looks and reads as hyperbolic but I assure you I am not in any way joking.
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I passed through Texas briefly last Friday. I made a point to mess with it while I was there.
It says something that people have completely forgotten within the span of 30 years that the "Don't Mess With Texas!" slogan started as an anti-littering campaign. It got co-opted by political opportunists so quickly that its original purpose was little more than a footnote.
And at this point I think any anti-littering campaign would get a large portion of the state's populace to litter more just to thumb their nose at the "environmentalist wackos".
...aaaand doing my 60-day password reset...
...aaaand cursing IT for a bunch of fools...
CATS RULE DOGS DROOLMy Schnauzer, meanwhile, is doing his best to outdo cats in the "I brought you a gift of half of a rodent I caught, here it is on the doormat!" department.
They were originally bred to catch rats on ships, but in fifty years, I've never had one who actually did it.
This one does.
it seems this is the wrong kind of dog.
Whoops.
Still. Amazing, sad history.
No animal should be hated in this way.
Snow removal in WI. It's hard to get people willing and capable. Most quit fairly quickly.I've now been working for 10 days straight, and 13 out of 14 days.Employees pay with organ failure because we don't pay employees enough to get a bunch of them is NOT a viable business model....
pay me in dairy queens and I will shovel all the snow you want.
I am not the young Freehold I once was, however. I will need to be reminded to take breaks for rest and hydration.
As a new yorker, they will have no choice but to listen to me when I critique it.The only group Texans disdain more than New Yorkers is Californians. You have been warned.
That whole gag in commercials for Old El Paso salsa where they s#!t on other salsa brands for being made in NYC and then threaten to lynch the guy who brought any brand other than Old El Paso? That's how people in Texas actually talk. If anything, the commercials and the violence they (imply to) inflict on the people using NYC-made products is tame compared to how real-life Texans talk about anything from NY or CA.
This is not a joke. If you are going to travel to Texas, be very careful about talking about being from New York. Unless you spend every moment of talking about the state ensuring everyone around you knows you hate it in NY and are taking any and every opportunity to leave, you WILL risk violence against yourself.
And that goes [u]double[/u] if you make it well-known to too many Texans that you're from there and think ANYTHING about it is better than Texas. And that goes quadruple if you're in a rural area or smaller town.
I know this looks and reads as hyperbolic but I assure you I am not in any way joking.
Orthos. It means the world to me that you would worry for me so. I am aware of the ugliness that occurs in Texas with respect to NY rivalry, and I would certainly do my best to make sure I was not being an ugly tourist. If things got bad(a long ago trip to OH, and a very specific con in CT comes to mind...), I would extricate myself from the situation quickly and with courtesy.
But when it comes to pizza specifically, I will happily take on all comers. I invite Texans to attempt to make a pizza there and compare it to NY pizza. I would include Chinese food but I have heard of the very real Chinese disaspora and have been educated/informed that this is the wrong kind of competition to engender, so I would like to try Texas Chinese.