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briefcasefullof
Sep 25, 2004
[This Space for Rent]

Tide posted:

Today has been an awesome day.

No work. No work on the house, really for my first real day off in what seems like 6 months. Not that I don't have an anything to do (so much is still in boxes or whatever). But today I MADE myself not do anything but spend time with my son. So...

Today has been nothing but me and the kid day. Got up, loaded up the boat, went to waffle house for breakfast. We went fishing (caught a boat load of bass and brim). Seriously it seemed like every other cast was fish on. Got some much needed sun. Bought a bunch of goodies from a farmers market. Grilled and fried said fish. Played some basketball, threw the football, played some plants vs zombies on the ps4.

Even more importantly was simply having quality time with my son. Needed it, big time. I think he needed it too. I was sitting on the couch, he came up out of the blue and gave me the biggest hug and said thanks for taking him fishing, thanks for a great time, hope you had a great birthday, and I love you.

In tears writing it and thinking about it.

Sounds like the type of day I remember having with my dad. In other words, great job.

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Ferremit
Sep 14, 2007
if I haven't posted about MY LANDCRUISER yet, check my bullbars for kangaroo prints

BrokenKnucklez posted:

I hate you fuckers. All I want to do the rest of the day is watch Roadkill and Dirt Every Day.

Its sunday, whys this idea such a problem?

I think ive finished the bits on the house i need to do for the interem, gotta service the better halfs car this arvo but for now its music and relaxing.

randomidiot
May 12, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 11 years!)

Oh god. I don't know what I did to piss off my body, but I pissed it off bad. Had a chicken salad sandwich for dinner last night, and a filet of tilapia (fully cooked, heat and serve) before bed. Woke up to one of my legs cramped up so bad that I wanted to scream (calf muscle pretty much seized up for about 30 seconds), when it finally stopped cramping I was seeing stars and out of breath. Felt "off" all morning, and my left calf is so sore I can barely walk.

Got to work, clocked in, and started to say something to my boss. Then my stomach put his old buddy Ralph on speakerphone, I ran to the bathroom and blew chunks in the sink several times. Boss asked if my buddy Ralph was related to a hangover or food poisoning, I said I didn't drink much last night, so he told me to clock out and go home. He called in another manager and helped the other lunch driver with deliveries.

I'm gonna guess it was the fish, there were a couple of pieces left. :barf: And yes, I cleaned up the sink (and everything else I touched) with gloves and commercial sanitizer, then ran the sanitizer bucket through the dishwasher to sterilize it.

Went straight to bed when I got home (1pm). Just now woke up. Feel like death, definitely dehydrated, a bit shaky from not eating, still nauseated. I have plenty of :420: to help with the nausea and appetite, along with some phenergan, but I don't think I should risk eating too much yet. Thankfully I'm off work tomorrow.


I've seen that IRL before, just not quite as bad.

Beach Bum posted:

Yo uh can we get an AI group buy for those bottle openers?

Yeah really, those are awesome as gently caress.

Tide posted:

Even more importantly was simply having quality time with my son. Needed it, big time. I think he needed it too. I was sitting on the couch, he came up out of the blue and gave me the biggest hug and said thanks for taking him fishing, thanks for a great time, hope you had a great birthday, and I love you.

In tears writing it and thinking about it.

Man, just reading that made me tear up a little.

Sounds like you guys had a great day.

Pham Nuwen
Oct 30, 2010



Beach Bum posted:

Yo uh can we get an AI group buy for those bottle openers?

This, and also are you guys shortwave? I want to tune in now.

Terrible Robot
Jul 2, 2010

FRIED CHICKEN
Slippery Tilde

Beach Bum posted:

Yo uh can we get an AI group buy for those bottle openers?

My Klein bottle opener needs some company.

Super Aggro Crag
Apr 23, 2008




And, of course as always, kill Hitler.


Ah yeah watching the fight at my friend's dad's bar. Free beers and no cover charge.

goatse guy
Jan 23, 2007
hello im back in ai buy me avatars plz :-*
Welp, saw my two ex-best friends at this birthday gathering and my work BFF bailed. Wish I has stayed home.

Galler
Jan 28, 2008


Beach Bum posted:

Yo uh can we get an AI group buy for those bottle openers?

Nthing this. Can't have too many openers and that one would be pretty baller.

Queen_Combat
Jan 15, 2011

Beach Bum posted:

Yo uh can we get an AI group buy for those bottle openers?


Motronic posted:

gently caress yes.


some texas redneck posted:

Yeah really, those are awesome as gently caress.


Pham Nuwen posted:

This, and also are you guys shortwave? I want to tune in now.


Terrible Robot posted:

My Klein bottle opener needs some company.


Galler posted:

Nthing this. Can't have too many openers and that one would be pretty baller.

Quoting this so I can remember who to ship to in awhile. I'll probably be back in August or so, and I can pick up a few of them. Everything is Hawaii prices down here due to everybody getting regular biweekly large deployment paychecks, though, so they're like $10 apiece. Not shortwave, though. 102.1 and 103.1 FM down here, and the very expensive antennas are specifically aimed so we don't leak over the fenceline into cuba.

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

🤗YOU'RE WELCOME🤗

Geirskogul posted:

Quoting this so I can remember who to ship to in awhile. I'll probably be back in August or so, and I can pick up a few of them. Everything is Hawaii prices down here due to everybody getting regular biweekly large deployment paychecks, though, so they're like $10 apiece. Not shortwave, though. 102.1 and 103.1 FM down here, and the very expensive antennas are specifically aimed so we don't leak over the fenceline into cuba.

I'll gladly fork some cash over for one of those as well. That's loving tits.

BrokenKnucklez
Apr 22, 2008

by zen death robot

Ferremit posted:

Its sunday, whys this idea such a problem?

I think ive finished the bits on the house i need to do for the interem, gotta service the better halfs car this arvo but for now its music and relaxing.

Its Saturday in the states....


Also I'm in for bottle openers.

Senior Funkenstien
Apr 16, 2003
Dinosaur Gum

iwentdoodie posted:

I'll gladly fork some cash over for one of those as well. That's loving tits.

Same here. I'd be up for about 10

Tide
Mar 27, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
Thanks all.

Thing is, it really kicked my head back to what's important. Yeah, the house is a wreck and needs work but it can wait because I know I have the rest of my life to paint a piece of crown molding. I don't have that luxury with him due to the finite number of days of him being a kid. Time goes by too fast, and I don't want to wake up 10 years from now with him walking out the door to make his own way and have missed anything. I work enough hours in the week that I don't need nor want to spend what little free time I have not being there for my kid or wife or friends or other family.

Just a drat good day all the way around. Today was the swift kick in the head I needed to repriotize. Thankful the kick in the head came from an awesome experience rather than the other way around. There's nothing in the world I love more than being Dad.

Tide fucked around with this message at 05:35 on May 3, 2015

Professor Bling
Nov 12, 2008

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Count me as another one down for the bottle opener

Ether Frenzy
Dec 22, 2006




Nap Ghost

Geirskogul posted:

Quoting this so I can remember who to ship to in awhile. I'll probably be back in August or so, and I can pick up a few of them. Everything is Hawaii prices down here due to everybody getting regular biweekly large deployment paychecks, though, so they're like $10 apiece. Not shortwave, though. 102.1 and 103.1 FM down here, and the very expensive antennas are specifically aimed so we don't leak over the fenceline into cuba.

I'd take one too.

Tide
Mar 27, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
"Heat" is a drat fine movie

Ragnarok the Red
Jun 21, 2002

Professor Bling posted:

Count me as another one down for the bottle opener

I mostly lurk here but I'd love one as well.

Sinestro
Oct 31, 2010

The perfect day needs the perfect set of wheels.
I need one of those bottle openers.

Beach Bum
Jan 13, 2010

Geirskogul posted:

Quoting this so I can remember who to ship to in awhile. I'll probably be back in August or so, and I can pick up a few of them. Everything is Hawaii prices down here due to everybody getting regular biweekly large deployment paychecks, though, so they're like $10 apiece. Not shortwave, though. 102.1 and 103.1 FM down here, and the very expensive antennas are specifically aimed so we don't leak over the fenceline into cuba.

Oh poo poo, look what I started :v:

Yeah :10bux: is totally fine, those are gonna be a hell of a conversation starter. Hell, I want four of 'em.

EDIT: Because I feel bad

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Beach Bum fucked around with this message at 06:12 on May 3, 2015

randomidiot
May 12, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 11 years!)

Looks like a bunch of us will have to send Geirskogul a bunch of money.

If he can even get his hands on that many.

So I have 2 more days to finish all of the onboarding "training" for Pizza Hut (most of mine has expired, the only one I could renew was my food safety, and only because I was able to pass a 15 minute quiz). Left sick today, don't work tomorrow, scheduled only for dinner rush tomorrow.

So I'm doing it from home, and writing down when I start and when I finish, and my boss will adjust my hours for this pay period. At least I got the most important one (for my position) done already, the driver-specific stuff. Still have to knock out all the customer service poo poo.

This poo poo is cheesy as hell, thank gently caress I have a second monitor (and I went through the 2013 version, they've just added more cheesiness to the videos). I'd take a couple of screen shots, but apparently that can get me fired.

e: what the gently caress, I just saw one of my former GMs in one of the videos, and the front of my first PH. They didn't even bother fixing one of the broken neon signs first (it was a sunset shot, that store closes in a couple of weeks anyway, and the bar has been closed for over a month).

randomidiot fucked around with this message at 07:45 on May 3, 2015

ilkhan
Oct 7, 2004

Ok then

CommieGIR posted:

Hooray for privatized medical care.
Sounds more like a union backlash than privatized health care rant.

Turbo Fondant
Oct 25, 2010

MrChips posted:

No, it's an Early Access game made by a big studio who has no loving business doing anything of the sort. I don't care if it's the best game in history, I'm not going to buy it now or ever.

:goonsay:

And it's a sequel in a pretty successful franchise. It's a bizarre and lovely move-like if :boom: did a kickstarter for her next album.

Das Volk
Nov 19, 2002

by Cyrano4747

Geirskogul posted:

Quoting this so I can remember who to ship to in awhile. I'll probably be back in August or so, and I can pick up a few of them. Everything is Hawaii prices down here due to everybody getting regular biweekly large deployment paychecks, though, so they're like $10 apiece. Not shortwave, though. 102.1 and 103.1 FM down here, and the very expensive antennas are specifically aimed so we don't leak over the fenceline into cuba.

Yes please, I'd like two - I need to replace my defunct startup-branded opener at this point.

ExplodingSims
Aug 17, 2010

RAGDOLL
FLIPPIN IN A MOVIE
HOT DAMN
THINK I MADE A POOPIE


I'll throw down for a bottle opener as well.
poo poo's cool yo

INCHI DICKARI
Aug 23, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Name your price for three guaranteed.

In random chat, I always love the reactions of Normal people who just got introduced to Zdzisław Beksiński for the first time.

E: just noticed the price, just say when you need it and where to.

MustardFacial
Jun 20, 2011
George Russel's
Official Something Awful Account
Lifelong Tory Voter
I would also like one of those bottle openers. I'll toss down whatever the cost.

In other news, I think I have food poisoning. Helped a buddy move a mattress and some other stuff into his new place and he took me out to a fairly out of the way sushi restaurant. Cue a few hours later and it feels like my stomach is about to turn inside out and I'm firing out the back end hard enough to pressure wash the driveway.

randomidiot
May 12, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 11 years!)

Watching Roadkill with the low road rider.

It is awesome. I've always wanted a classically done low rider anyway (and I will have one some day), but this is just bathit insane.

A few years ago, I blew past a Chevy pickup that was almost laying frame on the highway, with tasteful wire wheels and a nice paintjob. Gave the guy a thumbs up, and he honked back and hopped it multiple times (at 70 mph :stare:).

fjelltorsk
Sep 2, 2011

I am having a BALL
This thread just changed my plans for today, I was going to look over all the ls7 bentley stuff, but you know what? Me and the twin boys are going to take the local museum railroad, visit the technical museum and finshing up with a birthdayparty at their great grandmothers. Only problem is that after my wife got their hair cut yesterday i constantly mix them up. #twinproblems i guess.

meatpimp
May 15, 2004

Psst -- Wanna buy

:) EVERYWHERE :)
some high-quality thread's DESTROYED!

:kheldragar:

In for 2 bottle openers if I'm not too late.

Jeherrin
Jun 7, 2012
gently caress today. Overslept, missed what I planned in doing this morning, and have to go out to play music with a friend in two hours, an open mic night at a bar I loving hate. I will get basically nothing I want to do done today, which is just to work on the house and hang out with the other half.

angryhampster
Oct 21, 2005

Looks like my photo shoot scheduled for this morning has been rained out. I'm not heartbroken. I spent Friday morning moving furniture on my own to clear out the new baby's room, and worked 10 hours at a wedding yesterday.

Now if tonight's softball double-header gets rained out we're sittin pretty.

beep-beep car is go
Apr 11, 2005

I can just eyeball this, right?



I'll absolutely give you money for two of those too. Name what you want (include shipping and money for your effort too!)

mariooncrack
Dec 27, 2008
Oh poo poo, can I get two of those bottle openers? I don't even drink but those are awesome.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.
The weather forecast said it would rain at around 6pm. Moments after I get underneath the Landie on my driveway, this is proven to be an abject lie. Jesus Christ. At least the bits of me that were under the thing are dry. I think I'm going to watch that latest Roadkill and play GTA instead.

Of course it's sunny out there now, but I'm not falling for that one!

Elmnt80
Dec 30, 2012


I too would like to purchase two of these fine bottle openers and would happily send money for them to a predetermined place.

(watch us run them out of bottle openers)

Queen_Combat
Jan 15, 2011
Holy crap, I'm going to have to start buying them now and at every payday in-between until August, then. They're a pretty small outfit and it takes awhile for them to restock. They usually restock after media is on island, though, and we just sent a group home Friday, so I'll check on wednesday during my radio show.


Yeah, I said radio show. While I'm an EMT/medic, I was pulled into a public affairs position. Writing magazine articles, radio shows, those cheesy army posters you see ("Sharpen the Saw," etc), escorting journalists, etc.

Sir Pukesalot
Nov 3, 2012
gently caress trains (e: only Danish cross country). Hard. In the rear end. Train just started rolling again, after 30 loving minutes stuck because of someone decided to dig thru a cable, and no one gave the train a "go" (before we had been sitting for 30 minutes all least). They pretty much told us "next ~90 minutes are going to be a PITA because of work on the tracks and lotta train traffic...

Elmnt80
Dec 30, 2012


Truck has been sitting for over a year. With nothing more than a new battery, an at extension housing seal, a few fluids and new plugs/wires, she fired up like I'd only left her sitting overnight. I missed my truck. :kimchi:

Super Aggro Crag
Apr 23, 2008




And, of course as always, kill Hitler.


I am about to go to my grandma's house to see if I can get the fuel door open on her 2000 Audi A4 1.8T. I assume there is some kind of manual release in the trunk?

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Sir Pukesalot
Nov 3, 2012

Sir Pukesalot posted:

gently caress trains (e: only Danish cross country). Hard. In the rear end. Train just started rolling again, after 30 loving minutes stuck because of someone decided to dig thru a cable, and no one gave the train a "go" (before we had been sitting for 30 minutes all least). They pretty much told us "next ~90 minutes are going to be a PITA because of work on the tracks and lotta train traffic...

:suicide: one hour and four loving minutes delayed now, but at least we are past the worst bit.

Super Aggro Crag posted:

I am about to go to my grandma's house to see if I can get the fuel door open on her 2000 Audi A4 1.8T. I assume there is some kind of manual release in the trunk?

I don't think so, but I can look in an hour and a half on when my non picks me up in her '96 (also 1.8T), but I assume that it will be too late.

Sir Pukesalot fucked around with this message at 18:17 on May 3, 2015

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