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I started a small rant about how little writing I felt I was producing, when I looked back on all of the essays and reports I did in college and realized that, just as a hobby, I'm putting out 50%+ more words than I did back then. Things are actually looking up, I realize, and it made for a really good, self-reflective evening.
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Had my workout group's annual Christmas workout today and then a bunch of us went and got dinner after we finished. Nice to have gym fam around while my wife is out of the country for Christmas 
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Dec 20, 2017 04:58
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After almost 2 years of being chronically ill I'm finally going to be tested for Lyme and its co-infections. 
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Dec 21, 2017 04:31
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Found out today that I'm moving off of night shift late next month. It's all I have wanted since I made the idiotic mistake of switching to nights almost two years ago.
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Dec 21, 2017 11:19
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I helped my fiance's mom wrap presents for the family-- a poo poo ton of presents-- and put up the tree. This will be the first real Christmas I've had in a decade. I'm so excited to see everyone open their stuff. Also I'm off work in a half hour, which is great because it's 30 degrees and my hands are numb.
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Dec 22, 2017 03:25
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I got feedback from my review for my class and I hit all my goals. The cast iron skillet I ordered came in today. I spent my day making crafts for my classes and listening to podcasts. All in all, a good rear end day. Okuteru has a new favorite as of 11:01 on Dec 22, 2017 |
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Dec 22, 2017 10:57
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My friend gave me her old Sony DSLR camera and I spent 3 wonderful hours today wandering the local parks photographing the local wildlife and listening to music. It feels great to be creative again and truly excited about a new hobby. Is there a photography thread somewhere?
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Dec 23, 2017 13:30
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I've been having a really lovely past 3 days but they just put on the KoTH episode where Bobby learns self defense. Makes everything better 
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Dec 24, 2017 02:49
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Someone posted a computer type drawing and then said they did it using Note on their phone. I didn't know about that, and played for hours, one of the things I drew was this version of Van Gogh's Two Peasant Women in the Peat Fields. Being able to use the back arrow to instantly erase is a GAMECHANGER.
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Dec 24, 2017 06:47
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I forgot some tissues in the pocket of a pair of pants I put in the wash, and somehow they didn't completely disintegrate and ruin the load of laundry, but rather I found them in a whole wet clump on the bottom of the washing machine. I'm baffled as to how this happened, but I'm definitely not complaining.
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Dec 24, 2017 09:36
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Megabound posted:My friend gave me her old Sony DSLR camera and I spent 3 wonderful hours today wandering the local parks photographing the local wildlife and listening to music. It feels great to be creative again and truly excited about a new hobby. There's a whole subforum. Have fun! https://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=247
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Dec 25, 2017 03:20
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I loving won Xmas! Took my nephew, dad, and brother in law to the Bears game (it was my nephew's first pro football game). Bought my niece a real pink cash register (with keys! {she's big into having keys right now}) so we could play store for real. Made the lasagne for our dinner (my mom made the lechon and black beans and rice.) Scared my dad with a fake snake in his present. Got my sister a spa day so she could get some time away for herself. And framed my grandfather's war medal with a picture of him and my grandma as a gift to my mom (that was a joint effort by me and my dad). I'm not usually a good person, but I am a good son/brother/uncle. Solice Kirsk has a new favorite as of 08:18 on Dec 25, 2017 |
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Dec 25, 2017 08:13
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My computer has one of those generic built-in 12-in-1 media card readers, and it out of the blue decided to stop reading anything. Couldn't update the driver because device manager didn't know what it was, couldn't figure out what it was even called to find a driver on my own, and I knew the drat thing was still working because it had a light on and the USB port still worked. I went into the BIOS, found it listed there as a generic USB device, and designated it as a hard drive. Now it reads any card I put in it and calls it a USB drive. I'm usually not computer savvy enough to figure poo poo like this out, and it made me feel like a wizard. Rollersnake has a new favorite as of 06:44 on Dec 27, 2017 |
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Dec 27, 2017 06:42
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I howled drunkenly into the night tonight and was answered by the voice of another who gets the dark romance of it. PurdWerfect has a new favorite as of 17:52 on Dec 27, 2017 |
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Dec 27, 2017 07:40
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My guitar came in earlier than expected. Now I can finally practice!
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Dec 27, 2017 08:06
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This girl who hates me and threatened to stab me on more than one occasion got a tattoo and it's awful, in quality and content. It's a triangle, x, o and square, but because the linework is shite it's more like a very wonky triangle, x, 0, rectangle . I know it's petty and spiteful but eh.
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Dec 27, 2017 08:41
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Whitlam posted:This girl who hates me and threatened to stab me on more than one occasion got a tattoo and it's awful, in quality and content. It's a triangle, x, o and square, but because the linework is shite it's more like a very wonky triangle, x, 0, rectangle . I know it's petty and spiteful but eh. Are they a playstation?
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Dec 27, 2017 08:45
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Grassy Knowles posted:Are they a playstation? She is a "game journalist and social media personality". Which is a lot of words to say unemployed. Edit: as in, she genuinely just sits at home all day and will occasionally stream herself playing a game. Her boyfriend supports them both.
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Dec 27, 2017 08:47
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I’ll soon be gifted a new laptop, with a dedicated GPU. Only a matter of time before I can play XCOM at 30-60fps instead of a steady 10 fps. Personally I’d rather be gifted computer parts for a custom built pc, but I’ll take what I can get. Oh and I got A’s on my latest college exams.
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Dec 27, 2017 09:01
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I had a very productive writing weekend, cranked out a much more story. Tomorrow I revamp my website to make posts easier to find.
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Dec 28, 2017 07:58
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This is going to seem like a big tragedy, but everyone we dealt with so far has been amazing, we are on the path to recovery, and we've got enough percocet to kill like 7 elephants. On christmas day in my new (to me) beautiful manual tsx we were essentially scared off a road, a tire slammed into a train track, and we flipped a few times end over end before taking out a telephone pole. Going 50mph (~80?kmh) we totalled the car that I've had for three weeks. I got out of it with a cracked sternum, a broken nose, and a dislocated wrist. My wonderful, amazing wife had her ulna snapped, a couple broken ribs, and some minor internal injuries from laying down and essentially missing the airbag as it went off. The medics that responded to the call just *knew* we were dead before getting there, you don't hear the phrase "multiple flips, highway speed, telephone pole out of the ground" and think someone's still alive. But they saw to us so well. They treated us wonderfully, and once we explained that I'm in ems and she's an er nurse they cut the poo poo and told us what was going on, what they were currently worried about, what they could already rule out, etc. It was amazing piece of mind. At the hospital we both got snowed out on pain meds while they went through all the imaging needed to make sure we didn't have something fun like a bruised heart or a Subarachnoid bleed. Everyone was wonderful, I honestly couldn't have asked for better care for my wife or I. After two days we got to go home, we are walking, and we are gonna be okay. I'm just so, so loving thankful. We could have easily both died on impact or from complications. This probably sounds a bit muddled, vov I'm happy that I'm here, that she's here, that once our chests heal up I can hug the love of my life again. e: oh yeah and my inlaws just bought a crossfit gym so I've got free access to all the cages, bumper plates, oly platforms, and bars I could ask for once I recover. gently caress yeah son
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Dec 30, 2017 05:12
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SeaGoatSupreme posted:This probably sounds a bit muddled, vov I'm happy that I'm here, that she's here, that once our chests heal up I can hug the love of my life again. That is amazing and I'm glad the two of you are okay. Why I'm here: my parents cut me a check for the holidays. Unexpected money. Enough to pay my outstanding medical bills and buy a new pair of good shoes money. And SeaGoatSupreme and his wife are okay.
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Dec 30, 2017 05:27
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I had to call an ambulance today, not for the first time, for my alcoholic mother, who I thankfully don't live with anymore. After a series of texts back and forth with family members about how she's doing, I had gotten increasingly frustrated at hearing to same info a bunch of times, which I voiced to my 90 year old grandfather, said I loved him, and that he was precious. He replied with this: "And to all, a good night! Your pleasant, granddaughterly way makes me happier than a parrot at a Nabisco plant. Yo, Chris! Nite all, LOVE Gpa And u have personsaaaality out the Wazoooooo! Happy at school? I Must crash... Been a day that's was longer than a pauper's hope. Mańana Gpa" Nice to know I've become a weird sarcastic rear end in a top hat from everyone in my family. *chris is my husband's name, but he hadn't been mentioned at all in the conversation. Sugar Bean has a new favorite as of 06:30 on Dec 30, 2017 |
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Dec 30, 2017 06:27
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I am one step closer to being able to say 'suck it' to part-time and especially to retail. Hospital job woot!
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Jan 3, 2018 00:06
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Wrong thread
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Jan 3, 2018 02:08
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Megabound posted:Wrong thread I hope you have something to post in this thread soon.
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Jan 3, 2018 06:07
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Playing Quake Champions, there's a character who mutters Russian phrases now and again. For the first time, tonight I actually started picking out a word here and there that I recognized from my studies.
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Jan 3, 2018 08:42
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My scrubs came in today!
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Jan 9, 2018 00:06
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So I'm a professional balloon artist, and the company that makes my balloons, Qualatex, just released an amazing new product yesterday. Here's their video introducing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AD4WhtdKdw That doesn't do them justice, even. I got given a few samples to play with:  They are seriously shiny as hell, and I can't wait to order them.
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Jan 10, 2018 05:26
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That's actually really cool! I'll have to remember those when my niece's birthday comes around.
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Jan 10, 2018 05:57
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TwystNeko posted:So I'm a professional balloon artist, and the company that makes my balloons, Qualatex, just released an amazing new product yesterday. Here's their video introducing it: 
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Jan 10, 2018 17:59
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This morning started with me being invited to speak at a small local conference, continued with an actually good sales presentation, and concluded with me writing a surprising number of words about authorship and writing itself. Other than my wife being sick, today was a really drat good day.
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Jan 11, 2018 10:27
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My mom is awesome.
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Jan 14, 2018 22:10
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Mikl posted:My mom is awesome. I think your mom is awesome too
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Jan 14, 2018 22:29
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The new SALR now has almost all the functionality of the old one that Firefox v57 broke!  It makes me happy, anyway; I used the poo poo out of a lot of its features.
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Jan 15, 2018 04:45
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First my new camera lens came in (my first prime that's going to be perfect for indoor shooting) and then my housemate called up and asked if I was going to get a camera bag, and if I'd rather a satchell or backpack. Then he came back with a $150 camera bag he got for free from work. Put me in the best mood.
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Jan 15, 2018 05:58
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After loading my last Saint's Row IV save to find a near-completed state, I realized it'd been just long enough that I don't really remember many details about Saints Row 3. It'll practically be a new game again, which always is a thing for replaying games for me. Generally, I remember too much to ever play things again.
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MisterBibs posted:After loading my last Saint's Row IV save to find a near-completed state, I realized it'd been just long enough that I don't really remember many details about Saints Row 3. It'll practically be a new game again, which always is a thing for replaying games for me. Generally, I remember too much to ever play things again. SR3 has only .05% percent of stuff in SR4; SR3 sucks really really really bad; but you’ve made me want to play 4 again; the game is amazing. My favorite part is when you play it as a 2D game to save a very important person. And omg I love the songs in that level. Day has gotten better cause I’m listening to those songs.  super spoiler You’re gonna have a link instead of an imbedded video because BB code is confusing right now Saints Row Spoiler http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cmP6HnjuZdw Saints Row spoiler
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Jan 16, 2018 11:19
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I ate some sour gummy worms
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Thin Privilege posted:SR3 sucks really really really bad Eh, I liked it once and I'm enjoying playing it again (honestly, at the moment my interest is in more of a driving action game instead of a superpower action game), especially since it's been long enough that I can make a new Boss with a different voice and I'm not getting the THATS NOT THE BOSS spergnoyance like I otherwise would.
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