Spammers in the chatter talk like they're aliens from another planet.
- I harmonise with your conclusions and will thirstily look forward to your incoming updates. Saying thanks will not just be sufficient, for the phenomenal clarity in your writing.
Shit. Even when I try to sound smarter than I am, I don't sound like that, and sometimes I say some stupid, non-sensical bullshit.
So to kind of fill up chatter with more worthwhile posts, and cause I'm genuinely curious, what's on your agenda today Hubski?
I'm gonna make myself some kick ass scrambled eggs for breakfast. It'll have chopped onions, chopped pickled jalapeños, and maybe a little salsa. In a few hours, after traffic dies down, I'll head down to the used car dealership I like so much and see if they have anything cool to share. Last time I drove by, they had another Edsel, this one in much better shape than the last. After that, I'll hit up the comic shop, maybe work on the quilt, and do everything I can to ignore chores.
#procrastinate like a boss.
I'm going to work. I get to be nice to people all day. I think it's been really good for my soul, that my job is treating people graciously. Lots of positive interactions every day. I like people better now and I think I like myself now more than I did before. I might play some Zombasite at work if I have a slow bit. I might make dinner or we might get carry out. The kid wants Thai, I'm a lifetime sick of Thai food but there is a good chance I'll humor her. It's my day off tomorrow.
I have 28 minutes to finish my coffee and find out about the world. Then I pack a bag, put on shorts and a compression shirt, fill up the water bottle and pedal for an hour while listening, I believe, to the history of music during the Protestant reformation. I will then shower, make more coffee, get a little breakfast from downstairs and proceed to push faders while ten people making $175 a day carry out their weeks-long efforts to fire each other. At some point I will wander downstairs again and get something resembling dinner. Last night was a total win; they had humbows which are truly a weakness of mine. Once it's good and dark and my day has been truly long, I will put on another compression shirt (for the first is sweaty and awful and has been sitting in a bag for ten hours), fire up the lights and commence another hour-long bike ride. I will listen to something else tedious, dull and uninspiring about the fucking Reformation. I will then get home, take another shower, wonder what horrific mess my roommate has left for me this time (PROTIP: when you cook something so greasy and spitting that the floor ends up sticky under your feet, it's also sticky under MINE!), decide maybe I'll try watching Narcos again, but go to bed instead. With any luck, a rat won't try and climb up my leg tonight like he did last night. The glamorous Hollywood lifestyle, ladies and gentlemen. That's pretty much every day since May 31st.
Baozi!!! I love those so much and I feel so blessed that I work near Chinatown where they are cheap, delicious and plentiful. Condolences about your roommate and the leg-rat. Sometimes you've just got to pretend you didn't see certain things, I suppose. I brought my bicycle to London but the weather's getting colder and darker and the city streets are menacing. My housemate is contemplating buying an exercise bike which she has said I can share with her. An idea is forming.
Are you going to get a blood test? I've seen rats in London but they've never been hungry. Tactility gets me. I have a pair of sandals I wear around the house. If I touch something sticky or greasy that I cannot identify then that part of my body needs to be washed, pronto. I'm always surprised that the handles on the Central Line do not feel like that.
Same thing I do everyday Pinky, try to take over the world! Or more seriously, I'm going to alternate between playing Stardew Valley and messing around with more digital artwork. I'm tempted to try taking a course online so I can do something more interesting but, I dunno, I kind of like the stuff I've made just playing around with things so far.
"Try" is why he keeps failing. Beyond entry-level to understand the language, I've never taken a course or read a book on JavaScript. All the stuff I've learned so far was from playing around. As long as there's no responsibility for you to be good at something (job requirement, people depending on you etc.), just have fun. Having goals (in my case, different game concepts) helps one develop by making them search for something new, so chase something if you like it.Same thing I do everyday Pinky, try to take over the world!
I kind of like the stuff I've made just playing around with things so far.
Mixing music. Sewing some curtains. Hopefully eating before 3 PM for a change. Selling some empanadas from a bike. Going to an open mic night to play sad folks songs. Watching the Cubs game, because damnit, this city is making me care about sports for the first time in my life.
I'm procrastinating right now, but I've got a few things on my list today. - sharpen my knives for work - practice music for performance and audition - teach I also gotta tidy my room up a bit - bunch of sheet music left out.
I'm just returning from an amazing long weekend in NYC. I forgot to bring any stickers, and wasn't in a photographic frame of mind - so pictures are few. It was a weird trip. I'm sorting through some weird emotional, professional, religious stuff right now - and for some reason it wasn't much of a mental vacation.... anyway, I digress... Today is catch up day. Catch up at work. Catch up at home. Catch up on Hubski. I also plan to go for a run later. It's time to catch up on that too. edit: oh - and your eggs sound delish...
Every time I see your name I secretly hope to myself that you're the same steve who did Pokey the Penguin.
Huge workload. No, wait. Disorganized workload. The lack of clarity around all the different things I am doing, and the order of operations to get them all done, is making it feel like I am way over-booked. I'm actually under-organized, it seems. So I am going to restart my computer, open up my outliner app, and write down everything that is on my plate. I am then going to organize all that stuff into logical groups. Then I am going to prioritize it all. Oh. And I bought this on Sunday:
Remember when you were in the third grade and you had that spelling test you had to study for because your dad said he'd ground you if you failed another one? Remember how it was a nice cool afternoon and you knew winter was right around the corner? You figured there wouldn't be many good afternoons like that one left in the fall, so instead of studying you snuck out and rode your bike down to the river to watch the ducks. What'd you get on that test? 3 out of 20 right? Your dad took away the Atari 2600 for the weekend, but you didn't care. It was worth it. Make that mistake again goobster. Go for a ride. Your dad's not here to take away your Atari this time.
ROFL! Spelling was always my superpower. Maybe that's why I'm a writer now. (I won every spelling bee I entered, and skipped all basic English classes, and went straight to studying Shakespeare and English Lit. In High School.) Actually I did go riding yesterday, but it was on my vintage BMW. Took it out between rain showers and got some nice coastal riding in. Then I met up with a guy who wants to buy it! So we will meet on Thursday and hopefully he'll take the bike home with him, and I'll take fifty $100 bills home with me. We shall see... (Oh. And mine was a Colecovision, not an Atari. :-) )
this gen of spammers is so stilted and unhuman-sounding. i almost like the massive walls of text better bc they were easier to identify... also on first glance i thought you were gonna kick your own ass. work day is almost over, gonna go home and nap, then I have Albanian lessons. tomorrow is Kosovo's first big international CVE conference so I gotta be bright eyed and bushy tailed for that
My theory is they're either bots or non-English speakers that are plugging their text into a translation program.this gen of spammers is so stilted and unhuman-sounding. i almost like the massive walls of text better bc they were easier to identify...
I've started writing again a couple, and I don't want to stop. It may be inane or of terrible quality, but I am writing. This story had to start at some point, anyway: it's been brewing in my head for more than five years. Along the lines, fictional language development. I've finally figured out what I want the verb system of one of them - Cyridar - to sound like, so I'm going to draft a table of the 100 most common verbs for it. Already made myself some food, which I'm proud of, considering I had to skip uni because I was too depressed. Chicken roll and rice with a sweet-and-sour sauce from the shop. The roll had too much sauce in it and no cheese, but it was a good snack either way. The rice was nice, too. Going to sleep earlier today. I've been doing the Five Thirty Challenge for the last two weeks, which has helped me stabilize my sleep and uptime. The goal, as per the title, is to get the wake-up time down to 05:30 AM. I could be making my mood plow through the floor, but as far as I'm concerned, I'm more productive than ever, barring the time when I was jogging (it's winter here, and while I'm looking into it, I'm not jogging for a long time).
Yeah, no shit. It's really stupid that my mind goes away from "I have stuff I can make food with, I just have to cook it" and towards "I'd rather get out of bed, go outside (!), walk for two bus stops (!!) to the shop and spend money on ready meals (!!!)". I'm better about it than I was a year ago, either way. That's progress, and that's good.it can be tough when you really don't feel like it
I helped a friend take the first steps in making a dining room table and other assorted goodies from trees on his cottage property: ^^ Interesting part. Came home and my mother had no idea where the dinner I had prepared for her was. The tupperware was in the sink and there was some evidence of her putting it down the garbage disposal but she didn't remember that. But apparently someone brought her a chocolate cake roll that she ate instead and she is not supposed to eat chocolate. Sat down to watch the baseball game while finishing drafting an Option to Purchase a resort property and a Defense and Indemnity Agreement. Am now just taking a break from that before I give them a final read through and send them off.
Pretty much. We put a jig on a chainsaw and once you get the top curve off and level it goes something like this jig to it. Except that guy looks pretty experienced and we had to stop and sharpen the chain half way through every cut. It took about five hours to do the one log. The top is going to be a bench on his deck and the rest are going into a table top.
I woke up, took several calls and made several calls. Then I took my mom to lunch. Then I walked to my daughters bus stop with my son and waited. Then we all walked back. Then I was driven to the airport by mom mother and my children. Then my children cried. Then I checked in and my flight was delayed. Then I changed planes and was upgraded to first class. Now I'm sitting on the plane, phone NOT in airplane mode, cuz that's a bunch of bullshizzle. About to take off! Miami, here I come.
It's 7pm here, so most of my day is already gone! I spent the morning at uni, had one regular lecture and one guest-lecturer. You know how some presenters are very nervous and laugh at their own jokes for the first minutes or so? Imagine that, but lasting almost two hours. It was a bit of a drag. After that I had lunch and studied for a bit. Later in the afternoon I tried the local gym for the first time. It's been over a year since I've set foot in a gym and I'm still undecided whether I should get a membership again. The gym turned out to be great but memberships ain't cheap. Now I'm just relaxing. Probably going to play some Overwatch with a friend of mine.
I started chicken stock in the crock pot before I left for work this morning. I have enough loose ends to finish to keep me busy at work maybe another 2 days, and yesterday I the lead engineer said he would line up plenty for me to do before he leaves town in the afternoon. So the second half of my day will be trying to understand what the hell he meant so I can get some work some before he gets back next week. Nothing exciting planned for the evening. The wife has an extra choir practice for their upcoming requiem concert, and I plan to work out, strain chicken stock, and then clean the kitchen this evening.
Whenever I buy whole chickens I put the bones in a ziplock in the freezer, so I had ~2 1/2 chicken skeletons, one roasted, the rest raw. Added a yellow onion, a couple carrots, and a couple celery stalks all very coarsely cut. Then a couple bay leaves, thyme, a little sage, and some kind of seasoning mix that is mostly dried and powdered vegetables I think.
Applied for a job. It's just a 6 months internship and it's marketing for KLM/Air France. It's weird but I actually hope I get it. Would allow me to save up some money for an epic summer, gain work experience and you know how I feel about all things related to travel...
I'm at work (technically, it's a work from home day), and am trying to find more and more elaborate ways to not do anything. The fact that the VPN on my work computer can't stay connected for longer than about 10 minutes helps with this. Overall, burnout continues. After I'm done, I'm going to the store. I got out of going to a Halloween party on Saturday that I just wasn't up to (even if I like everyone who attends, except for one guy one year I thought I may have had to fight). Instead, my wife is going to something else, and I'm staying home. After I put our daughter to bed, I plan to have tasty beer and/or bourbon (which I'll also have to buy while I'm out) and fun snack food of some kind while playing Stellaris and/or Cities Skylines. I'll likely be on IRC too. The other reason for the mid-week grocery store trip is that Sunday is my wife and I's annual viewing of The Crow. We're doing fondue (and, of course, booze). Finally, I'm in the process of spending a bunch of money on ammunition (in another tab, to be exact). Those of us who are gun people have us a little chuckle when a news report tries to make someone sound crazy for having a couple thousand rounds of ammunition in their house. Here's a little secret: everyone who shoots does this. Ammunition is non-perishable. Ammunition is far cheaper online, but you have to order in bulk not to get killed by shipping (it's also heavy). There's really no reason not to buy 1,000+ rounds at a time. TRIGGER WARNING: I'm also buying ammunition for one of those scary guns. Meanwhile, I want desperately to write something, I just don't actually know what that is. I'm in kind of a preachy mood, and am trying not to let that get out of hand.
Oh god, my ex always faced the "well if I buy this much it's x per round BUT if I buy even more it's only x amount" then another sale comes along and he just has to buy the biggest amount again. It got to the point I had to say okay I get it but there will be other sales and as a person who hates clutter where are you even planning on putting this so it won't bother you constantly ? He also shopped at Costco as a single guy and got irritated when I didn't cook an obnoxious amount of food at once so there would be leftovers so I think he just loved bulk things. Also cooking as infrequently as possible.
Yeah, it's a vicious cycle. Wait, don't you live in Canadia where they hate freedom? We do CostCo for some stuff, but only non-perishables generally, since otherwise end up dealing with the same problem you describe.
You can buy guns of the internet there? Technically you can do that in the U.S. too, but you still have to have it sent to a local dealer who can do the background check.
Ya because here we already do the background check before you get the PAL number. If it's a restricted one the seller gets your number and then calls to transfer ownership. Eventually they get ownership transferred ( the wait time on that varies by province) then you send it regular mail right to the person. If it's unrestricted you get the PAL # from the buyer and you should call to verify that it matches the name and address you're sending it to then you send it.
With the unrestricted ya but the people doing the selling are generally good at actually checking because they don't want any more restrictions. Plus these are normally sites specific to selling firearms where people are rated when they sell or buy. So the seller can see if somebody is a new user and be a bit more careful. Plus you'll find out if the # you were given doesn't match the person or address of the potential buyer.
Gotcha. Even as pro-gun as the U.S. is, people would completely lose their shit if such a system were proposed here.
Getting shit done kind of day. Lot of testing at work today. Going to buy a pipe wrench and a new shower head since mine sheared from the pipe two days ago and try and change that out. Going to physical therapy to keep on keepin' on with trying to not have a hurt knee. Going to go for a run with a neighbor who I met a couple days ago at the end of a run.
kleinbl00 too, here's what I'm looking at: http://imgur.com/a/6oUjF So, pipe wrench to remove the remaining metal connected to the threading? Or vise grip? Then replace that tape, put on the new showerhead, call it a day? It's a 1/2" ID pipe. (If you couldn't tell, I'm new to this)
The flat that's on there fits some wrench or other, it's just stupid skinny. It probably came with the shower head originally. Now that it's torn off, you have two choices: 1) Grip the ferrule with something toothy, either a pair of channel locks, a pair of vice grips or a pipe wrench. The advantage of the pipe wrench is that it increases grip with leverage. It's a nice little mechanical trick. The disadvantage of vice grips or channel locks is that you can graunch down on it to the point where you destroy the pipe. Which is okay, 'cuz you can replace the pipe real easily too. 2) Grip the thrashed part with something toothy, either a pair of channel locks or a pair of vice grips. The disadvantage of... no, there is no disadvantage. That part be thrashed, thrash it more. Honestly? Take your phone to Ace or Lowes or Home Depot and show this picture to the guy in the tool department. He'll take care of you. This is well within your ability and will be an esteem-building exercise.
That's pretty much the plan right after work. Just in time for a date tomorrow night.Take your phone to Ace or Lowes or Home Depot and show this picture to the guy in the tool department.
esteem-building exercise
Pretty much what Kb said. The pipe wrench kind of cuts into the pipe to provide grip against a round pipe without crushing it so that's why I prefer it for this application. For shower heads I really like the rain shower heads larger the area the better
On the other end of procrastination: the bad side... as if there was a good side. Tying up plans to go to Sacramento next weekend (any stragglers from the last Hubski meetup over there?) for my club's national convention. In the process of it all I tabled a major project for my interdisciplinary course which involves an "Intellectual Autobiography" that I have pulled up on another screen. After that, a personal statement, then a paper I have to write on a book I haven't read. Lastly, club meeting tonight at 7:30 that runs until wee hours before my due dates.
I'm doing a lab report for tomorrow. It's about measurement of birefringence in various materials using an organic dye laser. While cool, it was just painful to get up to speed with theory for it. Parts of the required knowledge I had to recite without all that much understanding, because (surprise and twist) second year students have little to none background with third year courses (quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, non-linear optics). I feel like I should point out that it's 1AM where I live so that's not even your 'today'. ;P
Get up early, get to work early then take an hour out sometime in the mid-morning or mid-afternoon to get a haircut. A long, long overdue haircut. It's too long. Getting up early is really difficult, especially when it's dark outside at 7am so if I want to get extra things done in the morning then it will be at night. I guess that's just how it is for half the year.... Slightly dismayed that SoundCloud has audio ads now. So much for freemium. I wish I could make some wild rant on how the people that run the site are greedy capitalist pigdogs for wishing to squeeze a bit more money out of the thing, but advertising is and will be for the foreseeable future the primary funding model of the WWW. Oh well. Tried to update my OkCupid profile again. Why am I still on that damned site?