...of course.
Nah my tummy is a little fat for that. But other then that I'm pretty shapely ;)
I know I can definitely oggle at girls if I so choose. Actually if I were caught in the act, I'd probably blurt out something like, Urm.. How did you get your tummy so flat, then ask for fitness tips, complaining that I've been working out at the gym all week.
And that's all true.
...am I a bad influence on you or a good one?
I guess we will have to go to the nude beach to find out.
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Whingey's Mom's birthday cake turned out GREAT. But, I left her gift at our house by accident. Oops.
I'm really glad the cake turned out great.
Looks like my phone is dead. :-(
Unfortunately because we're poor we have the pay as you go phones so someone is most likely getting a new number. :-(
NOOOOOOOOOO
PM me new number when you can.
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My co-workers were disappointed today they couldn't trick me. they went ahead and changed all the clocks for day light savings time and tired to make me think I came in early. they failed.
are you saying this while executing one of the coworkers as an example?
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Another FaWtLer helped me out.
I want to publicly thank those of you who did again. I posted on Facebook and nobody save my mom helped, but directly instead of through GFM. 100% of the GFM donations were my FaWtL friends. 100%
I can't properly articulate the scope of my gratitude. We were able to pay all the utilities and prevent late fees on credit cards for another month not because of people I know face to face, but because of the generosity of three people who know me as several blocks of text with a smartass personality. Know if prayers mean anything to you, you'll be in mine for as long as I can remember. If hope means anything, you always have mine on your side. If you ever wonder "did I make a difference in someone's life" - you did - both in this short term struggle of ours and in chipping away the layers of cynicism that life has piled on me over three and a half decades.
And for the cherry in the sunday, I have an interview for a job within biking distance tomorrow!
Looks like my phone is dead. :-(
Unfortunately because we're poor we have the pay as you go phones so someone is most likely getting a new number. :-(
NOOOOOOOOOO
PM me new number when you can.
Might just be a faulty SIM card, but the only place I can get a new one is Walmart.
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Another FaWtLer helped me out.
I want to publicly thank those of you who did again. I posted on Facebook and nobody save my mom helped, but directly instead of through GFM. 100% of the GFM donations were my FaWtL friends. 100%
I can't properly articulate the scope of my gratitude. We were able to pay all the utilities and prevent late fees on credit cards for another month not because of people I know face to face, but because of the generosity of three people who know me as several blocks of text with a smartass personality. Know if prayers mean anything to you, you'll be in mine for as long as I can remember. If hope means anything, you always have mine on your side. If you ever wonder "did I make a difference in someone's life" - you did - both in this short term struggle of ours and in chipping away the layers of cynicism that life has piled on me over three and a half decades.
And for the cherry in the sunday, I have an interview for a job within biking distance tomorrow!
AWRIGHT!
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Me, every time I watch Inuyasha:
"USE YOUR G~##$~N WIND TUNNEL MIROKU! F~@# the plot bugs, eat Naraku, die, and know you saved the world with your sacrifice. Hell, they can use a jewel shard to bring you back. Boom. Problem solved. You idiots!!"
I get very invested in TV shows.
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Kaikesi asura, a divine seductress giving birth to fiends and demigods...
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Kaikesi asura, a divine seductress giving birth to fiends and demigods...
unsurprisingly, freehold gives this two thumbs up.
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Kaikesi asura, a divine seductress giving birth to fiends and demigods...unsurprisingly, freehold gives this two thumbs up.
I am pretty sure that not only thumbs would be up during that encounter...
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Hmmm... Halfiend Freeholdson...
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Hmmm...
Okay.
Could definitely work.
I'm one of those people who can't really decide on what flavour of supers I really prefer. On one hand I'm very much in favor of 'incredible powers, but with serious flaws' kind of supers...but on the other hand I find that the truly 'godlike' supers can serve as an interesting and ultimately alien perspective when contrasted with the 'ordinary'.
I was waffling on the issue too, until Mrs Sunrise and I discussed it last night. :D She really likes the idea of power with drawbacks, and I think it plays to the humanistic theme we're going for.
Oh...
Hmmm...
Different things:
Ah ok, that's fair. I haven't read the book so all I know is from Hulu.
(To take a stab at "Where are the churches?", I'd point out that all sects pick and choose what they take from their scriptures. Like are churches ever mentioned in the Gospels? Or are they only introduced in the various letters from Paul and other Biblical sections that the theocrats of Handmaid's Tale might consider secondary?)
Might be able to think of something…
Hmmm…
All I can come up with on the spot is:
Further Sol-system space exploration (maybe the to the moons of Jupiter or Saturn) brings back life in its early microbial stages (somewhat different from ours…), which sparks a new competitive space race.
Unfortunately out of this microbial soup crawls a new disease, which sweeps through the terrisal eco-system infecting all manner of life.
This decimates all life, by killing of roughly 30% of ever single species and permanently scaring roughly the same amount.
The wealthy, high ranking government officials, their lackys and the intelligentsia panic, repurpose the bulging space programs to lunch sophisticated space-stations (or Luna/Mars bases) from which they now rule a devasted earth…still populated by the remnants left behind.Back on earth occasional disease outbreaks still roam the planet, leaving a changed ecological system, that pressured into a sort of hyper-evolutionary mode, due to the disease, rapidly opening and closing biological niches and the introduction of 'a different strain of life' into it.
Oooh I really like this! Thanks Kjeld. :)
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Me, every time I watch Inuyasha:
"USE YOUR G+#!$~N WIND TUNNEL MIROKU! F@** the plot bugs, eat Naraku, die, and know you saved the world with your sacrifice. Hell, they can use a jewel shard to bring you back. Boom. Problem solved. You idiots!!"
I get very invested in TV shows.
Using jewel shards seems to have unwanted side effects like making you a puppet of Naraku - Kohaku.
So I really wouldn't, myself. Kikiyo is also another example who came back wrong, though she got better.
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TS, I like the idea of powers with drawbacks. Like I have lots of cheese but tapping into forbidden cheese makes me care only about winning and essentially turns me into a cold blooded monster.
Do it as a with great power comes great insanity, so those with powers regulate their power use, or they go rogue and have to be put down.
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* Tequila Sunrise could be the town's free-thinking mayor
Woot, in secular law we trust in Fawtlburg! I will govern with compassion, rants about DST and English grammar, and alternating three-day weekends!!!
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Quick poll:
I have heard of, but have no experience of non-s*&#ty printers. How much does one have to spend to get a simple, decent printer? I.e., it prints so long as it has the ink it needs (no "I'm out of yellow, replace so I can print in B&W), it has intuitive controls, it doesn't jam up at the drop of a dime, and it is absent a ton of finicky and largely useless 'features' that create maintenance costs.
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Quick poll:
I have heard of, but have no experience of non-s&#~ty printers. How much does one have to spend to get a simple, decent printer? I.e., it prints so long as it has the ink it needs (no "I'm out of yellow, replace so I can print in B&W), it has intuitive controls, it doesn't jam up at the drop of a dime, and it is absent a ton of finicky and largely useless 'features' that create maintenance costs.
I think we all know that is quite impossible.
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Hmmm...
Okay.
Could definitely work.
I'm one of those people who can't really decide on what flavour of supers I really prefer. On one hand I'm very much in favor of 'incredible powers, but with serious flaws' kind of supers...but on the other hand I find that the truly 'godlike' supers can serve as an interesting and ultimately alien perspective when contrasted with the 'ordinary'.I was waffling on the issue too, until Mrs Sunrise and I discussed it last night. :D She really likes the idea of power with drawbacks, and I think it plays to the humanistic theme we're going for.
Oh...
Hmmm...
Different things:Ah ok, that's fair. I haven't read the book so all I know is from Hulu.
(To take a stab at "Where are the churches?", I'd point out that all sects pick and choose what they take from their scriptures. Like are churches ever mentioned in the Gospels? Or are they only introduced in the various letters from Paul and other Biblical sections that the theocrats of Handmaid's Tale might consider secondary?)
...Might be able to think of something…
Hmmm…
All I can come up with on the spot is:
Further Sol-system space exploration (maybe the to the moons of Jupiter or Saturn) brings back life in its early microbial stages (somewhat different from ours…), which sparks a new competitive space race.
Unfortunately out of this microbial soup crawls a new disease, which sweeps through the terrisal eco-system infecting all manner of life.
This decimates all life, by killing of roughly 30% of ever single species and permanently scaring roughly the same amount.
The wealthy, high ranking government officials, their lackys and the intelligentsia panic, repurpose the bulging space programs to lunch sophisticated space-stations (or Luna/Mars bases) from which they now rule a devasted earth…still populated by the remnants left behind.Back on earth occasional disease outbreaks still roam the planet, leaving a changed
please check out the rpg. I wish Ihad a copy to send.
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My language, so beautiful :P
...which is why the number one pick-up line in Polish bars is, "Hey, baby, can I buy you a vowel?"
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Honestly, that's why I married a man with a ridiculously anglo surname. I wanted vowels.
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Quick poll:
I have heard of, but have no experience of non-s*+*ty printers. How much does one have to spend to get a simple, decent printer? I.e., it prints so long as it has the ink it needs (no "I'm out of yellow, replace so I can print in B&W), it has intuitive controls, it doesn't jam up at the drop of a dime, and it is absent a ton of finicky and largely useless 'features' that create maintenance costs.
We needed a new one when we moved to Texas (we'd been using our landlord's in CA). WW bought us a Brother DCP-L2550DW series on Amazon and also bought the optional protection plan for a few extra bucks in case something goes wrong. He says he researched it and it was a good deal. I didn't ask questions. So far we're happy with it, though.
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I ended up getting a new phone.
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My language, so beautiful :P...which is why the number one pick-up line in Polish bars is, "Hey, baby, can I buy you a vowel?"
Now I wonder if I could try to use "hey, baby, can you share some of your spare vowels with me?" in American bar?
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>.>
It's not like the English-language is using them correctly anyway...
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Honestly, that's why I married a man with a ridiculously anglo surname. I wanted vowels.
Meh. Vowels are overrated.
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What does that say about my social skills that I cringe at the thought of "pick-up line"?
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Quick poll:
I have heard of, but have no experience of non-s##&ty printers. How much does one have to spend to get a simple, decent printer? I.e., it prints so long as it has the ink it needs (no "I'm out of yellow, replace so I can print in B&W), it has intuitive controls, it doesn't jam up at the drop of a dime, and it is absent a ton of finicky and largely useless 'features' that create maintenance costs.
I swear by my Brother laser Multi-Function Printers (MFPs). Last FOREVER, one $70 laser cartridge lasts a few years, and the things scan, fax, and print.
But they're black and white.
This is the one I have, but you probably want to buy one of the newer ones. On the other hand; they run around $120 for the cheapest and you're stuck with black and white.
You can get color dot matrix for less than half the price, but oh, the ink. The ink.
The ink.
EDIT: For color we have a Canon Pixma ip7220. Notice it's half the price of the cheapest Brother, and it does good photo-quality prints. It's lasted for years. But holy carp even printing in black and white we go through roughly one $25 ink cartridge a month. Darned expensive thing.
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FedEx is my printer.
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*Steps onto Mayoral soapbox*
Yeah, it's not like we have enough characters for the vowels we use either.
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There is nothing like going into the final 48 hours before an emotionally-charged election knowing that you voted almost two weeks ago.
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Impus Major: Do you think that in the "Cars" universe, the Pinto has dwarfism?
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Honestly, that's why I married a man with a ridiculously anglo surname. I wanted vowels.Meh. Vowels are overrated.
Seriously. My maiden name was ten letters long, only two of them vowels.
When I would get mail, it was like someone took a handful of Scrabble tiles and threw them at the wall. Even though there were no Z's in my name, I would frequently see it misspelled with between 1 and 3 Z's thrown in at random, because someone imagined they ought to be there.Because America.
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Okay, I am, like, done with all these well-meaning people tromping through my house and tracking mud and dirt everywhere, making snide comments about its cleanliness, and all the daggum construction (which, as an aside, didn't actually succeed, considering all the stinkin' leaks in the roof we discovered with the first piddly little rainstorm we've had in months - fortunately in front of them, so no one could deny whatever). I mean, I'm grateful for the addition, but I'm so daggum tired of people in my house.
Oh, hi, everyone~! My dad's giving us a ridiculous generous gift of an extra room, "done right" - unfortunately, the contractor seems to have missed that last part, at least a bit.
Anyway, the parade of building goes on...! Miss hanging out, here!
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There is nothing like going into the final 48 hours before an emotionally-charged election knowing that you voted almost two weeks ago.
I almost pity the poor people that knock on my door when I open it and say "I'm not interested!" and close the door "But are you going to vote..." they trail off before walking away.
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Honestly, that's why I married a man with a ridiculously anglo surname. I wanted vowels.Meh. Vowels are overrated.Seriously. My maiden name was ten letters long, only two of them vowels.
When I would get mail, it was like someone took a handful of Scrabble tiles and threw them at the wall. Even though there were no Z's in my name, I would frequently see it misspelled with between 1 and 3 Z's thrown in at random, because someone imagined they ought to be there.Because America.
No Zs? Surprising, they could be easily used to pad the consonant to vowels ration together with s and c, to form sz/cz (that's sh/ch for you English-speakers).
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There is nothing like going into the final 48 hours before an emotionally-charged election knowing that you voted almost two weeks ago.
Meh. It's got me down. I voted early for the first time in my life. Going to my precinct on election day is an almost religious ritual for me. Citizenship should feel more like duty and less like a privilege.
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Actually, a lot of American surnames are simplified versions of their European counterparts, 'cause Ellis Island. I knew a guy with the last name Apostolou who said his grandfather's real last name was Apostoloupolopolis
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Tacticslion appeared...
And suddenly the number of likes grew by a significant number.
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No Zs? Surprising, they could be easily used to pad the consonant to vowels ration together with s and c, to form sz/cz (that's sh/ch for you English-speakers).Honestly, that's why I married a man with a ridiculously anglo surname. I wanted vowels.Meh. Vowels are overrated.Seriously. My maiden name was ten letters long, only two of them vowels.
When I would get mail, it was like someone took a handful of Scrabble tiles and threw them at the wall. Even though there were no Z's in my name, I would frequently see it misspelled with between 1 and 3 Z's thrown in at random, because someone imagined they ought to be there.Because America.
You don't have any Z's either, and you have more vowels than me. I'm going to mug you and take your vowels.
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G'night, John!
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My name has 7 letters. 4 of them vowels. And no Zs.
But since it's math and I know Freehold LOVES him some math:
Full Birth Name: 15 letters, 5 vowels
Full Married Name: Added 5 letters, 3 vowels.
Married Name I Go By: 12 letters with 7 vowels
Any way you slice it, I live a vowel-rich life!
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I'm very seriously considering leaving Security. The idiots that manage my garage, from another garage across the river, insist that it's now my job to fix the gate arms after some brainless college kids pop the gates. Apparently, I'm now a mechanic, also. I hate my job. :(
Do you even have the tools to fix the gate arms? And if you werent in Security, what other field would you look into?
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So I mentioned that we were going to have a celebrity staying with us. Turns out that is inaccurate its only that persons staff. I'm super relieved.
It was the Vice president (of the USA) BTW. Who was rumored but is not staying with us.
Well you were right. I can probably say without offending anyone politically that he's more well known and less liked than the singer of Weezer.
It is not a bad thing to be less well liked than a rock star. It's like being shorter than a storm giant - you may or may not yet be short.
I heart me some storm giants. My longest played character was a storm giant. Probably still my favorite too.