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blk posted:My Xmas gift this year was my wife's positive pregnancy test this morning. I don't feel ready and am scared out of my mind, but we're not getting any younger. Congratulations. And buckle up. Babies will kick your rear end physically for a few years, then change to a brutal mental game. it's a long ride.
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blk posted:My Xmas gift this year was my wife's positive pregnancy test this morning. I don't feel ready and am scared out of my mind, but we're not getting any younger. Congratulations! It's not as hard as you imagine it will be, and more rewarding than you might expect. OBAMNA PHONE fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Dec 26, 2015 |
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Dec 26, 2015 04:07
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some texas redneck posted:This seems like appropriate weather for Christmas Day. Took me a second.
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Annnd a few minutes ago both my TV and stereo started going apeshit, which just creeped me out a bit after that. Well.. turns out something evil was responsible, but it's evil I live with. 
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BraveUlysses posted:Congratulations! It's not as hard as you imagine it will be, and more rewarding than you might expect. While I largely agree, it's a bit different for everyone, but if he's psyched, then I'm psyched for him! Congrats blk! And, I'm not sure on the stats, but generally, by the time of your first checkup (12 wks), you're pretty well set IIRC. In a similar vein - nobody give up the sekrats - #3 is expected in Aug. HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA  (really, we're psyched - but man, two is already a lot of work. Switching to a zone defense? that's just a disaster waiting to happen.  )
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blk posted:My Xmas gift this year was my wife's positive pregnancy test this morning. I don't feel ready and am scared out of my mind, but we're not getting any younger. Congrats dude! And don't worry you'll be fine. Just remember, people have kids all of the time! Merry Christmas AI! I hope you're all having a nice, chill day. And maybe some pizza for dinner like I'm about to partake in!
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blk posted:My Xmas gift this year was my wife's positive pregnancy test this morning. I don't feel ready and am scared out of my mind, but we're not getting any younger. Congrats! Like Mat said, people have kids all the time, and most of them are idiots!
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IOwnCalculus posted:Got some of those Wera laser screwdrivers, some Lego sets, a stack of Amazon GCs, some plane tickets for a family trip next May, and a Logitech G27 (that I bought for myself and stuck under the tree, lol). Oh, and a Raspi2 that I will probably use for my garage (webcam + relays = door opener and monitoring) Jealous of those drivers. I've had the Weras on my wishlist for a while. Did you get the green ones or the yellow ones?
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Merry Christmas, you goony goons, you. Had fun talking with part of the family (fairly small get-together, for my family) and a good friend of mine from high school that still lives in town. My mom, in a brilliant move of sheer kindness, invited him over. He's only got his (much) older brother and sister, and they have to work, so it was great having him over to shoot the poo poo with, and fly some drones around the pasture. Hope you guys had a good time of it, or at least the day went a little better than usual. edit: hah, just noticed that I posted one minute into 12/26, in my own time zone (Central US). Still Christmas Day west of me!
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Dec 26, 2015 07:01
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My brother got me a cordless drill, and I bought myself a new fishing rod and reel, but that's not important. This was the first time in many years where I had enough money to by everyone gifts instead of just the kids. And that's what's important about Christmas, what you give, and who you're with.
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My parents got me a set of Vessel JIS screwdrivers and GearWrench stud extractors. Suck it, Civic. You're going down.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Jealous of those drivers. I've had the Weras on my wishlist for a while. Did you get the green ones or the yellow ones? This set in particular. Haven't put them through their paces solidly yet but the difference is very apparent the first time you get one into a screw. I've demoted every other straight-blade screwdriver I own to "lovely prybar".
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I got cash (that will go to bills, yay adulthood), a tablet, and an electric impact. Now I'm going to start gathering impact sockets and more tools in earnest.
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I just dug out my old Dreamcast. Figured I'd hook it up. I have a home theater receiver with a bajillion inputs, including HDMI, component, S-video, and composite, and my TV is hooked up via HDMI. wait... why am I getting sound, but no video? I finally downloaded the manual from Onkyo's website.  Wait what? The whole reason I got an AV receiver with a billion inputs was so I would only have to run one cable to the TV, and never switch inputs on it.  At least I had some long RCA cables sitting in a box. The picture quality is loving terrible when run through the A/V receiver too - I know it's not because I'm using an LCD TV, because I've had my Dreamcast hooked up to this TV before.Oh well gently caress it. Time to get stoned as poo poo and play Rez. Then hook up my ancient Playstation and see if I still have my copy of Nitrous Oxide.  e: found the Playstation and Nitrous Oxide, can't find a controller. 
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my wife got me a Steam Link and Steam Controller. It is probably the best gifty anyone has ever gotten me because it speaks to someone knowing me so well I didn't even have to explicitly say what I wanted. On the other side, my mom got me 3 self-help books about being a better salesman. I am not a salesman by trade. These are a common gift from her.
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some texas redneck posted:As predicted, holy gently caress am I sore today. I can barely stand up, much less walk. Ouch. quote:I got... a massive pile of clothes, and a gift card for a restaurant. Only clothes I got this year was a pair of socks, but they're Doctor Who socks, and she brought them back from her trip to New Zealand, so that's A-OK. Like I said, my fam is usually pretty good at guessing what I will wear. I don't have any unusual tastes or anything, so not that hard. quote:73 right now. Our normal high this time of year is in the 50s. Wasn't it snowing here in DFW last year? My sister and brother did me pretty well - she got me a 2-pack of PB B'laster and GDL (Garage Door Lube), a vintage MPC model, MISB, of a convertible early Corvette, a cool Hot Wheels drink cup, one of those that looks like a cheap clear plastic soda cup and lid with straw, but is actually double-walled and the top screws on, and gave me her late fiancee''s copy of Blade Runner on Blu-Ray, which gave me a small case of the sniffles. Bro found me a Doctor Who coffee tumble and ID bage lanyard, and some nifty computer screen wipes he said impressed him on his own Mac. Digital calipers from dad - the cheap ones, but he's got a set just like them he use more often than his Mitutoyos. Works for me. A Kobalt precision screwdriver set (with little torx bits), a set of gift cards to Lowes and a couple restaurants, a nifty LED lantern, and some other misc small stocking-stuffer stuff from Mom or Mom and Dad. A nice card table and chairs from Mom for me and my wife together. Oh, a windshield snow-and-ice shield for the cars from my mom. Not sure if we'll get to use it this year. Maybe come Sunday. Grandmom gave all the grandkids (myself included) portraits of President Grant, in green etching. We've tried to tell her before that she doesn't need to give us anything, but that never seems to work with grandmoms. Way too much good food, some fortified eggnog, and several hours of chatting family. Good year, over all. IOwnCalculus posted:Got some of those Wera laser screwdrivers, some Lego sets, a stack of Amazon GCs, some plane tickets for a family trip next May, and a Logitech G27 (that I bought for myself and stuck under the tree, lol). Oh, and a Raspi2 that I will probably use for my garage (webcam + relays = door opener and monitoring) I have to admit that I was mildly disappointed that I saw no actual lasers after Googling those. blk posted:Thanks - we're trying to decide if we should get a dog now or just wait until after we have the kid (if the kid sticks; my understanding is there's a 50% chance of miscarriage in the first trimester). Congrats and good luck! That sounds about right. Our first bump did that, just after I'd gotten used to the idea of having a kid, which sucked mightily. Very hard on the wife, when the doctor says something like "I don't hear a heartbeat." I hope you don't get the experience, but if you do, be supportive. some texas redneck posted:I just dug out my old Dreamcast. Figured I'd hook it up. I have a home theater receiver with a bajillion inputs, including HDMI, component, S-video, and composite, and my TV is hooked up via HDMI. I hate, hate, hate AV receivers that will not cross connect all the inputs to the HDMI output. Pisses me off something fierce. Here's a better one: I bought a used Pioneer AV receiver, with HDMI, cheap, for the bedroom. Hook everything up - no sound from the Xbox 360. Turns out the festering turd of lazy design and engineering DOESN'T USE THE loving SOUND CHANNELS ON THE HDMI. What the gently caress did you think the HDMI was FOR, Pioneer? I had to hook up the analog sound adapter as well as the HDMI on the Xbox. Good thing I already had that adapter to use with the wireless headphones. But it was like, why bother to put and HDMI in/out on you stupid damned receiver? What does it do, exactly? Because this one won't pass the analog ot composite from the PS2 to the HDMI, either. All it does is switch two HDMIs to the one output, and still require you to hook up separate audio, for maximum clutter and cables. Fortunately, in this case, I didn't care about surround, just stereo, so I could get away with analog, rather than trying to find a Toslink cable, if the stupide receiver would even accept that. Would have put me off of Pioneer, if I didn't already know that this was a model from early in HDMi, and I hadn't had a much different, much more positive experience installing my mother in law's new Pioneer networked receiver last year. Sorry, you touched a nerve, there. Think I'll go to bed now. 'Night!
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Darchangel posted:Only clothes I got this year was a pair of socks, but they're Doctor Who socks, and she brought them back from her trip to New Zealand, so that's A-OK. I tend to wear slim pants, and shirts that aren't plain - generally t-shirts, it's very rare you'll ever see me in a shirt with a collar, and you never see me in a button up shirt unless I'm going to an interview. And yeah, it was at least cold by now last year. The GDL reminds me that I need to do some maintenance on this loud as hell screw-drive door opener we have, you can hear it through the entire house. The track and screw are dirty as poo poo - I really just need to spend an hour cleaning it up and re-lubing it. The door itself is silky smooth and silent. I keep hoping the door opener will take a poo poo so I have an excuse to replace it with something quieter, but it's 21 years old and still thinks it's invincible. Kobalt makes surprisingly good tools, especially for the price. I've been bashing on the same set of Kobalt sockets/ratchet for 5+ years, often taking a sledge to the ratchet to break a bolt loose, and I've had zero issues. This receiver is several years old, but supports HDMI 1.3a, according to the manual. This is my first time hooking up any video source to it that wasn't HDMI though, and it was a lower end home-theater-in-a-box setup that came with a complete set of (garbage) speakers (the only one I kept was the sub). At the time, it was the cheapest "good" brand 5.1 receiver Fry's had that had 4 HDMI inputs, and I needed a sub at the same time (my old powered Infinity sub crapped out). It's also bitchy about 5.1 playback from the PC - it'll do it over HDMI, but then I lose regular audio playback (it takes about a second to do the handshake when any sound plays, so no system sounds and a bit of annoyance in general). I finally ran an optical cable to it, but every now and then (once or twice a year) the receiver goes full retard and decides "you wanted me to pull the audio signal from HDMI right?  ", or decides it only wants to do 2 channel playback (which means I have to dive into the menus to fix it). It's kind of soured me on Onkyo in general, but it was on clearance and priced right. My TV has a reasonable number of inputs (2 HDMI, 2 components, 2 composite, 1 VGA), but it's wall mounted, and pretty high up on the wall (it's above my closet, since I generally watch it from bed), so running new cables is kind of a PITA. Plus the main reason I got the receiver was so I wouldn't have to gently caress with switching inputs on the TV, damnit.I thought about a networked receiver for awhile, but I have a Chromecast plugged into mine - so I can always throw music on from either my web browser or my phone. I need to track down a PS1 or PS2 controller. I know there's 1 or 2 somewhere in the house, but damned if I can remember where.
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I got my dad a pretty expensive tap and die set, and I was really excited for him to open it, because all of his are old and lovely. He was SUPER happy when he opened it. Except he had opened his gift from my sister and her fiance. They got him the same exact loving set. Oh well, we both had gift receipts, so he can take one back and get something else he needs.Then, I got my mom a "night time dog walking kit." She always walks her two dogs after dark, and she mentioned she's concerned about visibility for both her and the dogs and wanted something along those lines. I got an LED "harness" type thing for her, a really bright red LED collar for the oldest dog who won't be around for much longer. For the other dog, I got a super bitchin' NoxGear NightHound LED dog harness. I played with it for a bit before putting it in the box with the other stuff, and it had a million different awesome LED settings, and tons of different colors, and generally really solidly built. Was so excited to see her open it. She didn't even take the harness out of the box to look at it.  On the other hand, my sister's fiance is a huge Bruins fan, so I got him a really nice Bruins winter hat, and a Bruins hockey stick, and he was so loving excited about it. He didn't stop fiddling with the hockey stick all night. Also, I got a big rear end Chinese drone with an "HD" camera. It's totally going to get broken, but I flew it around in the dark in front of my parents house for a bit, and it's hilariously fun. Then cash for a set of car dollies, nice leather dress boots, a nice shave set, super fuckin' cozy looking socks made from Alpaca wool, an Amazon Firestick, and some shirts/sweatshirts. I'll always remember to be thankful for whatever I get. My sister and her fiance got me a bunch of nice stuff this year, they're awesome.
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Well, color me surprised. I won the game, but only with like $6. Apparently the great mood we had from driving down thinking of all the dumb poo poo my Mom would say/do set the whole day off to a great start. Things went really well! We ended up making a massive filet thing called Chateu Briaunt. I ended up making it and that meat was so tender I could cut it with a butter knife. We got the cats one of those present shaped scratchy things. Taco, my 30 pound Maine Coon, decided he needed to show the internet that if he fits, he indeed sits.  I finally finished building up my new bike, a specialized allez e5 smartweld, it's so hot. I love how it's raining and stormy in Houston today, just in time for me to have all the rides in town cancelled   there's like a treasure hunt of stuff in that picture, I'm sure Bahaha will recognize some things I got that Garmin edge all set up last night too, what a poo poo-hot piece of tech. I can't wait to even do trainer rides! The sensors for it are separate now. I thought it'd be a little box on the chainstay, but there's one that rubber bands onto the non-drive pedal, and one that goes around the rear wheel hub. Neat!  All in all, we had a great time yesterday. And my Mom won the game of cards agains humanity 
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For Christmas I got my dad a gps with lifetime maps, my sis some Bluetooth headphones, and my niece a Chromebook. For my Christmas I got a block of wood.
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Dec 26, 2015 14:42
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Cakefool posted:I can't drink, I'm driving tomorrow as the M6 is going to be loving mental and my wife is a little timid a driver versus my willingness to let some dipshit put my fender into his door if he wants my space and thinks I'll let him have it just because his bmw is worth more than every car I've ever owned well news for you fuckface I know you'll yield first so think again. Rules of the road in the UK, the cheapest car always wins. My £1000, v8, 1800kg Toyota never has any trouble with ze Germans.
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some texas redneck posted:I just dug out my old Dreamcast. Figured I'd hook it up. I have a home theater receiver with a bajillion inputs, including HDMI, component, S-video, and composite, and my TV is hooked up via HDMI. You can always hook up your Dreamcast to a computer monitor: http://www.amazon.com/Tomee-Sega-VGA-Cable-Sound-Adapter/dp/B00HPU96FI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1451141782&sr=8-1&keywords=dreamcast+vga Highest quality available without modding the system.
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My wife got me both of the little BB-8 droids, one of which is controlled with dedicated IR remote, the other fancier one that is app-controlled from my phone. They're super neat.  the dog disagrees
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My son made out like a bandit again this christmas, he got a bunch of gifts under the tree, and today we're going to Orlando for the Magic vs. Heat game then spending the night and going to Disney World tomorrow
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ShittyPostmakerPro posted:Rules of the road in the UK, the cheapest car always wins. My £1000, v8, 1800kg Toyota never has any trouble with ze Germans. You own all of the uks soarers don't you? The M6 was surprisingly clear, only 2 major accidents. E@ my parents, got more booze, more books.
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I'm cutting down to just one soarer! My thread hasn't caught up to current events yet. I used to have 3, lol.
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The best Christmas present I got was hanging out with the best dog in the world. Hes blind, deaf, has no teeth and only 3 legs. I love him so much. I keep bugging my step mom to give him to me. And my Christmas weekend vision quest continues. On to the Wild Turkey next. 
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BloodBag posted:All in all, we had a great time yesterday. And my Mom won the game of cards agains humanity
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ilkhan posted:If you're playing CAH with parents... You've already lost. My dad is even more twisted than I am. I guess 23 years in the service will do that to you.
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some texas redneck posted:I tend to wear slim pants, and shirts that aren't plain - generally t-shirts, it's very rare you'll ever see me in a shirt with a collar, and you never see me in a button up shirt unless I'm going to an interview. And yeah, it was at least cold by now last year. Kobalt is fine. I have had no trouble with either them or Husky, and HD and Lowes will actually have tools to buy unlike the barren aisles of Sears. The Harman-Kardon receive I have in the living room is great - it will send any of the video sources through to the HDMI out. It's only problem is that I bought it (refurbished, from H-Ks official eBay outlet) over 7 years ago before it was all-HDMI all the time, so it's only got 2 HDMI inputs, but 3 components. That was fin when I was using an early Xbox 360, a PS2, the Uverse box (which has component, AV, and HDMI) and had a DVD player. Now I've got an XBONE, a PS3, and a later 360 slim, plus the Uverse. They all want HDMI, except the Uverse, so the analog inputs go unused on the Harman-Kardon. A newer model seems to be quite a bit more expensive than when I bought mine, so I'm looking at Pioneer, where you can get like 6 HDMI inputs, WiFi, iPod/iPhone connection and such for less than $300. You can still get PS1/2 controllers at GameStop, I think.
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Darchangel posted:Kobalt is fine. I have had no trouble with either them or Husky, and HD and Lowes will actually have tools to buy unlike the barren aisles of Sears. I'm not a huge fan of Pioneer, I like Onkyo or Denon. At that price point (approximately) there are some really great A/V receivers - http://www.amazon.com/Onkyo-TX-NR636-7-2-Ch-Network-Receiver/dp/B00IQ0SE22/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1451159747&sr=8-2&keywords=tx-nr545
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I would rather kill myself than play CAH with my parents. Anyways, glad to see the MA DOT has a sense of humor... 
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Late Merry Christmas everyoneSuperDucky posted:e30 bros, this head has seen some poo poo like, its gotten super duper, sear meat hot. I really should send it off to be decked, right? Regardless, its not happening today, so pour up the Mount Gay and watch the loving world burn. BloodBag posted:All in all, we had a great time yesterday. And my Mom won the game of cards agains humanity Played a ton of Fallout 4 (brother brought home PS4) and ate a ton of food. Got some clothes which is actually all I wanted this year. Has been a good week of lounging around the house and playing with their dogs. Head home tomorrow night and have the week off to work on stuff I've been neglecting.
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Christmas Haul: Cast iron pan Enameled cast iron dutch oven Fox-shaped bowls, like cereal bowls Pretty good. I worked Christmas Eve and Christmas 1300-0100 (sweet, sweet holiday pay) so we opened gifts today. I gave my fiancee: Six-pack of a hot sauce they don't make anymore but she loves. Individually wrapped. 16" Stitch doll (she loves Lilo and Stitch) Case for her tablet Another unnamed plush
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At my parents being all gross and snotty and ill and my dad recommended whiskey so I started on his "gulping" whiskey then we moved into glenmorangie and gently caress me if whiskey and salted crisps and strong cheese aren't a more effective medicine than any of the thousand tablets I've stuffed down me recently. I may be converted. I'm definitely drunk.
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