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VE, that sounds awesome! So glad that things are working out for you job wise and that you’ve been able to negotiate things financially for a bit. Good luck with the move and I hope you find a good rental quickly!
Edit: whoops! Once again I am a little too enthusiastic in my encouragement...=^.^=
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So, thanks to everyone for the advice; you seemed to echo what my friends I spoke to in person and over the phone said. 90% of the results are "get going while the going is good", and...
1. Found an old credit card over a decade old with a huge limit. Used it to consolidate all of my credit cards. So that helps a lot.
2. Yamaha said they'll assess no fees while I can't pay due to not having a job, so my scooter won't be repo'd. It won't be useful in winter, but in Spring and Summer...well, Athens is a really small town, geographically speaking, so a scooter is real useful. (GF has her car.)
3. We got "Official Job Offer" letters coming in the mail, so...we made our decision. We're moving to Ohio.
Any chance your GF's family can offer you a couch or a basement until you can afford to get your own place?Possibly. Right now she's talking to a family member with property rentals, and seeing if he has any available reasonably. If not, there's lots of affordable rent in Athens cause it's a college town.
The job, BTW, is actually sorta in my BS field (psychology) working with autistic and mentally disabled adults and children. It's everything I liked about teaching and working at the mental hospital (helping people who REALLY need it) with none of the stupid b&**+%&! hoops to jump through because it's privately owned by someone I personally know! Plus, a very wise man I trust once told me, and I take it 100% to heart, that the inwardly focused man will never find true happiness. To get paid to actually do some meaningful stuff and help people? Hell yeah!
F%%@ yeah, bro! Fist bump, c'mon! Here have a piece of cake, bro!
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Yup, definitely gonna need new shoes after work tomorrow, that's three pairs this summer.
Please note, it doesn't matter what it costs (trust me, expensive shoes don't last any longer on my feet then cheap ones, I've tried) I'll destroy the footwear.
VE, that sounds awesome! So glad that things are working out for you job wise and that you’ve been able to negotiate things financially for a bit. Good luck with the move and I hope you find a good rental quickly!
Edit: whoops! Once again I am a little too enthusiastic in my encouragement...=^.^=
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I don't understand, what would leggings be if not pants?
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I don't understand, what would leggings be if not pants?
Glorious.
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I don't understand, what would leggings be if not pants?
So, as I attempted to compose an answer to this, I realized that every objection I had to tights-as-pants (and yes, lynora is correct; leggings-as-pants aren't an issue) was something that made me think less of myself as a person.
So I had to discard them all and rethink myself.
Tights-as-pants are fine, ladies. Carry on!
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Eh, tights-as-pants will always strike me wrong because they've always been written up in my head as a hybrid of underwear-socks. Leggings at least seem pantslike.
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I don't understand, what would leggings be if not pants?So, as I attempted to compose an answer to this, I realized that every objection I had to tights-as-pants (and yes, lynora is correct; leggings-as-pants aren't an issue) was something that made me think less of myself as a person.
So I had to discard them all and rethink myself.
Tights-as-pants are fine, ladies. Carry on!
That right there is why I love you.
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So much to throw away.
A U-Haul would be 700+ bucks and gas.. The drive in the car is about 150 worth of gas. So we're packing the trunk with what fits of absolute essentials, the dogs in the backseat and ferrets in a porta cage and collapsing the big one to bring in the trunk. The rest...we throw away or wait for her dad to bring from his garage when he visits (he visits Ohio 2-3 times a year). We buy a bed when we get there and rebuild the rest with time.
Even with everything I purged after my divorce there's so much to toss. So much to give to the Salvation Army. So much to sell on Craigslist (though we've been trying with the TV and couch for a while). So much to do...
Still no luck apt hunting. We'll get there.
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We moved to Seattle without any jobs, no apartment, didn't know a single person and everything packed in our trunk and car top carrier.
You'll do great!
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Well, three kinds of laxative, three kinds of enemas, and one kind of suppository has failed. So they are going to put a tube down my throat, vacuum me out, and then fill me with more laxative. It sounds awful, but at this point I would cut my own self open to eat again.
...That sounds like I would eat my own poo, which is unfortunate phrasing, but I need something to laugh at so I'm leaving it there.
Man, if you ever wanted to ask me, "NobodysHome, why are you paying double the going rate and waiting 6 months for a single roofing contractor?", just looking at the state of construction in this area is my answer.
NobodysWife's New Bus Terminal.
The building across the street.
It's funny; back in 1997 when I was teaching at CCSF, I found a statistic from 1990 that said something along the lines of, "Since the widespread adoption of AutoCAD, catastrophic building failures has tripled."
They attributed it to old-school engineers being uncertain as to their calculations and hence "fudging" by doubling the tolerances, while modern engineers were told to "just do what AutoCAD says".
But considering that every major building project in our area is now failing even before it's a year old (Bay Bridge, anyone?), I fear for our area in the next big earthquake.
Don't ANY construction/manufacturing people do a decent job any more? (It's hard to throw blame at the construction workers when so far every last case has boiled down to faulty materials.)
Just le sigh.
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Well, three kinds of laxative, three kinds of enemas, and one kind of suppository has failed. So they are going to put a tube down my throat, vacuum me out, and then fill me with more laxative. It sounds awful, but at this point I would cut my own self open to eat again.
...That sounds like I would eat my own poo, which is unfortunate phrasing, but I need something to laugh at so I'm leaving it there.
go for it. We are here if you need support.
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Well, three kinds of laxative, three kinds of enemas, and one kind of suppository has failed. So they are going to put a tube down my throat, vacuum me out, and then fill me with more laxative. It sounds awful, but at this point I would cut my own self open to eat again.
...That sounds like I would eat my own poo, which is unfortunate phrasing, but I need something to laugh at so I'm leaving it there.
Well, if you're anything like my family member who will remain unnamed, once the dam breaks it's a LOT easier from there on out.
Just watch out for periodic purges. If you start blocking up again, I still think the 2 liters of Gatorade with 14 capfuls of Miralax works wonders.
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NH - even if you told me what to wear, I'd probably ignore you =) There was this incident when I was younger when my parents tried to put me into a dress, because they thought it was cute. I didn't appreciate it.
#Pants4Eva!
Well ok now I'm older I DO wear dresses in the office, just because they're easier to put on. (Just slip on and you're done, you don't have to worry about which blouse goes with which pants)
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Gosh, I just saw Teensy Impus Major's height and weight in the "have you met a famous person thread". I'm envious.
I'll have to send you a photo of his totally-undeserved 6-pack.
Boy looks like he works out 4-5 hours a day.
Instead of sitting around playing video games and searching for dank memes.
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Well, three kinds of laxative, three kinds of enemas, and one kind of suppository has failed. So they are going to put a tube down my throat, vacuum me out, and then fill me with more laxative. It sounds awful, but at this point I would cut my own self open to eat again.
...That sounds like I would eat my own poo, which is unfortunate phrasing, but I need something to laugh at so I'm leaving it there.
I hope that you feel better soon.
Every dress should be a bit tight.
I used to have the metabolism of a hummingbird, sadly as I've aged it's more like an energetic bunny.
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I prefer them looser so I can eat more without my tummy sticking out after lunch. I've been known to eat so much as to unbutton my pants after a meal >< oops! But I still am a foodie.
I don't really have much in the name of metabolism since yeah, pen pusher.
Also might have done something to my thumbnail yesterday(not sure what, it was bleeding a bit) while trying to pry a stubborn roomba sensor open yesterday to check what size the batteries were to get spares.
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Every dress should be a bit tight.
I used to have the metabolism of a hummingbird, sadly as I've aged it's more like an energetic bunny.
Hate. You.
You can hate me too. I can eat whatever I want, and my doctors want me to eat whatever I want, and I will still hover around 180 regardless.
Just watch out for periodic purges. If you start blocking up again, I still think the 2 liters of Gatorade with 14 capfuls of Miralax works wonders.
Yeah, I'm going to be very conscious of my regularity from here on out. Normally an apple a day or a cup of Miralax clears up any irregularity I have.
It's only because I let this build up for literally months that it's become so dire. (I've never been dangerously constipated before, so I thought "Oh I'm just getting older and putting on weight...," and I even had a doctor agree with me.)
Did they figure out what was causing all those blockages?
My suspicion is that this is yet another result of me being chronically dehydrated over the past year. My bowels got drier, poo got drier and harder, I passed less and less poo until...this.
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Update: The attending gastro doctor changed her mind, and just put me on more laxative. Apparently today's x-ray shows improvement, though I don't know how, so she doesn't think drastic measures are justified. And my nurse emphasized to me just how horrible an NG tube is, so I didn't argue.
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I respect your doctor's opinions, but I would have gone the vaccu-suck route.
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Thanks for all the support. I am, admittedly, terrified at times. I'm also psyched, though. If we can just find a place.
Shoot something or someone, then you'll be a Texan.
Just don't go to prison. Texan prisons are apparently among the worst in the country.
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I kind of wish I could get away with wearing a dress it seems so free. Oh Wait I could get a kilt. BOOM.
o_O
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♫ Hold me closer, Tony Danza ♫
♫ Count the headlights on the hiiiiigh-waaaaaaay ♫
♫ Lay me down on beets and onions ♫
♫ You've had a busy day today-yaaaaay ♫
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Some guy threatened me with a coffee cup and took my wallet. Yep, I got mugged.
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My BF and I were talking about this
He was like pointing out how Roll20 screwed up on their customer service(sure they did), and that guy should be able to take actions against them.
But on Roll 20 Terms of Service it states:
“We may block, restrict, disable, suspend or terminate your access to all or part of Roll20 at any time in our sole discretion, without prior notice or liability to you.”
“If you think we removed your access by mistake, let us know and we’ll give you our reasoning. We also have a quick way to restore access without losing any of your data.”
I personally think the guy who got banned is better off going to fantasy grounds to meet his RPG needs then kicking a fuss on the internet, since by their terms and conditions they can just ban him at their discretion. So what if you can prove that you’re not related to another account that has been posting stuff – they don’t even NEED to give a reason to ban you, as per their terms and conditions.
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Hope the internal situation resolves itself soon, TS- that does *not* sound like much fun at all...
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Hmm I mean I guess they can ban who they want. Its not good business but they can do it.
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But I'll say I generally don't approve of people being drama kings/queens and doing flame wars over the internet. Because on the internet we have all vastly different tolerance levels, so what is acceptable to one may not be acceptable to the other.
Had my account gotten banned, unfairly or not, I'd just go find another place to set up shop, and would not bandy it all about the nets. Not sure why my BF is so keen to see justice done and all that, I see nothing worth while in an internet flame war.
Legally they can. Whether it is a good business decision or not, doesn't concern me. Things concern me only if it's stated in contract and there's a breach.
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Well I suppose their is some causes I will back but this one seems to far out there for me. I do have a free roll 20 account mind you not that I even use it that much. Its probably good to let people know that the people in charge of the site are a bit unhinged I guess.
Roll what now?
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Plus most women's pants have no pockets or fake ones anyway.