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Harmontown ended and I've listened since the beginning. I don't think I have got it in me to do a history or true crime podcast during my commute. I'm bummed out, but it did go for like 7 years.
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I'm going to be knitting blankets for my brothers, and one doesn't care what color so I can pick whatever. The other requested "earth tones" though, and the yarn I'm using has three colorways I think would work. I am struggling to decide which one to use.
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Dec 7, 2019 21:45
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Brown.
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Dec 8, 2019 06:46
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Found out I have to work on Christmas Eve
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Dec 8, 2019 20:21
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Washed my hands, then my face, then put hydrating cream on my face. Then I realised I hadn't taken my contacts out, so I had to wash my hands again (because I don't want to get hydrating cream in my eyes).
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Dec 8, 2019 20:56
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oldpainless posted:Found out I have to work on Christmas Eve /me checks calendar Aw gently caress, I'm working both Eve and Day. Although even if it wasn't a weekday I would probably work part of a day anyway because poverty.
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Dec 9, 2019 00:52
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I took a half day off work because I was expecting an important delivery this morning. I had paid for next-day delivery and got a confirmation that it was going to arrive no later than 2 PM. Then this morning at around 12 PM I got delivery exception notices mentioning "severe weather" in the area, which is total bullshit because it was 60 degrees and just a little wet today. Hopefully I can get a refund on the express fee I paid.
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Dec 11, 2019 00:35
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Drank a bit too much last night and now I am very slightly hungover, and my shoulder hurts like a bitch. I don't know if I slept on it weird or what, because it didn't hurt when I got up.. maybe I'm just old and fat and goony and managed to pull a muscle while sitting down.  Also I have to go to work in an hour.
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Dec 13, 2019 00:08
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Gamestop's website (yes yes I know, Gamestop is awful whatever) is seemingly convinced I live in Kentucky. No matter how many times I set my home store as the one close to me, it's always back to this one random Kentucky store the next time I go back. It's a tad annoying.
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Dec 13, 2019 13:11
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I am in a local aquarium fish club. I am in charge of the raffle we do every meeting, especially for the Xmas party. Usually I use an old pretzel jar, but lately more people have been coming to meetings, which means more tickets, which means the jar gets filled faster. The thing is, it works like so: I start by pulling a ticket, after shaking the jar, I call the name, person comes up, they pull the next ticket before they get their prize. Usually they shake the jar once, twice, or make a huge deal about digging through the jar to find "a good one." Today at the party one dude got a bit irritated with me and told me how we need a rolling drum/bingo style bin for the tickets because they don't get shaken much so the same people always win. I tried to explain to him that look, people have dirty hands, it's not just me pulling tickets but everyone, and EVERYONE loving SHAKES THE GODDAMN JAR, especially after I've rolled the tickets by hand. Some people also like to layer; they throw half their tickets in early, then the other half right before we start drawing. Somehow there's like 4 people who always grab out 5 tickets and then thrust them at me, as if they just have a hard time picking one. Today this guy sat back during the party (keep in mind this is a volunteer slot and I've been doing it for over a decade) and kept rolling his eyes every time four or five people would get drawn for prizes (he was not one of the people. He did have the same amount of tickets as a person who won about 9 times though). But here's the thing: I had the MOST tickets in the raffle. I got pulled six times. Other people had half what I did, the same kind of ticket material, the same loving tickets, mine were not a different texture or kind than theirs, and got seven or eight prizes. It's literally luck. I can't wait for the club to buy a new drum (it's $40 btw) for this, because I would think luck and randomness is the loving same. edit: The president of the club said he might get the drum because it looks nice, but he laughed about it changing who gets drawn for what. He agreed with me that people get caught up on the probability aspect, and I reminded him of a year when I had 40 tickets, everyone else had less than 35, and I got drawn for the last two prizes, which were gallons of snake oil. I didn't blame anyone or ask for redraws! Cowslips Warren has a new favorite as of 14:36 on Dec 15, 2019 |
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Dec 15, 2019 02:27
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I'm in a really frustrating position in my life. I have plenty of cash in the bank from a recent redundancy payment, and I haven't had to use it for bills so that's nice as at least I've been getting temp shifts, but the shifts are garbage and don't pay that much. So I have money, but can't use it for Big Fun Stuff as I haven't got the consistency yet. I've been applying for stuff similar to what I used to do and it all pays way better (my last job severely underpaid me), just none of the interviews have been successful yet. I just need to land and keep one of those good jobs so I can start having enough money in to actively put into my savings again, and I can use some of my pile o' cash for something nice like a Big Holiday. with consistency I could finally LIVE my life but it's just not coming yet.
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Dec 15, 2019 21:25
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There isn't any decent way to play Tony Hawk games on PC. If you have a copy of THUG 2, you can get that mega mod that gives you basically every game up to THUG but it goes for $85 or so.
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Dec 16, 2019 00:36
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I'm manning my store alone as per usual and people think I'm lonely so they're trying to force conversation for my supposed benefit but I'm not very social and would really rather be left alone. But I can't tell them that because it's bad customer service so I just have to humour them until they're done.
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Dec 17, 2019 04:51
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My work changed my start and end time to half an hour earlier and it's completely throwing off my routine 
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Dec 17, 2019 05:01
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I still can't adjust to actually having money. It legitimately confuses me. That's the ultimate first world problem, I think; went from horrid, crushing poverty to a profession that pays very well. I look at the number on my paycheck like "what the gently caress do I even do with this? I guess I can...buy some things? What do I even want?"
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Dec 18, 2019 12:17
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UPS is going to try to charge me $30, on a gift package, for the privilege of waving it at CBSA as it crosses the border into Canada and being told I owe a buck in duty fees. This is over and above what the guy paid to send it to me. No, they don't do this to Americans, why do you ask? Anyway, hopefully I can say the magic words at them loudly enough that they will send me the info I need to do a self-clearance and pay that buck all on my own.
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Dec 18, 2019 15:00
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I still can't adjust to actually having money. It legitimately confuses me. Gimme some. Problem solved.
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Dec 18, 2019 15:22
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Not certain this counts as strictly a "first world problem" but the president of our company gave out his family christmas card today. Owns to see his multi-child family on their family boat on vacation #6 or 7 for the year when I'm not even relatively certain my wife and I (childless btw) will be able to retire. Glad they can't afford yearly inflation raises *at the absolute least* but could pay the recently retired president $4 million dollars earlier this year. This was also our best year, but our bonus was smaller than last years. Can't quit because I earn just enough that disrupting this at all would cost us a lot of money, so I feel trapped and insanely depressed quite frequently but at least we get to finagle two extra days of christmas break so we can take a tiny vacation to visit family a couple states away. Anything further is cost prohibitive because I want to jump off of a bridge any time I think about spending an appreciable amount of money on a trip somewhere. Watching that much money evaporate when I know how long it took to earn is such a horrible feeling now.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I still can't adjust to actually having money. It legitimately confuses me. Make a budget, save a chunk, throw whatever surplus you have at someone worse off (but not hard enough to injure them)
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I still can't adjust to actually having money. It legitimately confuses me. Are you maxing out your 401k, IRA, HSA, and 529 for possible kids? Because if so, you pretty much won the game.
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Dec 18, 2019 18:46
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I still can't adjust to actually having money. It legitimately confuses me. Other posters nailed it already on the advice front, but congrats on clawing your way out of dead end jobs. While I'm not making beau coup bucks I can relate. In the past few years I am doing better than I've ever done in my life, and it was a little strange having money for nice things at first, too. My only advice is: A) If you haven't already, create an emergency savings fund of however many months income you feel comfortable having on hand for an emergency. That has saved my rear end a couple of times like when my car broke down and our washer broke. That would have ruined me before, or I would have put it on a credit card that woulda taken me years to pay off on a barely above minimum wage job. B) Watch out for lifestyle creep. If you let it get too far then you're still living paycheck to paycheck.
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Mist be some kind of computer toucher job. So do what the rest of them do and lord it over people I guess?
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I'm making okay money but still less than average for my city (Portland is crazy expensive) and between my job stability and my partner's gainful employment, we finally could afford a decent house. We waited for years on the sideline with everything ready to snipe a good house in our price range. After a lot of stress we got something bigger and cheaper than my boss's house and it's not even a McMansion. Actually having something for the long term is making me freak out because everything in my life has been fleeting and temporary.
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Dec 18, 2019 22:32
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A podcast I really like has been delayed for more than a day because their producer had some kind of health thing.
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I applied for a more permanent version of my current job, and the only other person still in the running besides me has a tenth of my seniority, but the interview process keeps getting delayed and it's probably going to be January before I actually get interviewed  I want dental benefits dammit.
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Dr Christmas posted:A podcast I really like has been delayed for more than a day because their producer had some kind of health thing. How rude.
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Inzombiac posted:I'm making okay money but still less than average for my city (Portland is crazy expensive) and between my job stability and my partner's gainful employment, we finally could afford a decent house. This was me but buying a car. It actually made me super nervous agreeing to a car loan.
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The dogs I am dogsitting keep slurping when they are sleeping and it is super loud and I don't want to yell at them because they are likely enjoying dream steak, but loving stop it! They have plenty of water, they just slurp nonstop and want to sleep right by me. My neighbor's kids are little fuckheads. No, one of them is a fuckhead. He's maybe 8? And has a habit of throwing trash in my back yard. Today it was a loving used diaper. I confronted my neighbor about it (this is the second time since summer) and he acted like he had no idea how it got there. Dude, I do not have kids, and he admitted the diaper was the same kind his granddaughter wears. So do we need the Mystery Machine to crack this case?
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Dec 20, 2019 03:55
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Man. Total poo poo-show at work today. We cooperated and got everything done, but still. 12hrs criss-crossing four counties, and a full tank of gas later, I'm wiped. What do I get upon returning home? "Hey! I'm glad you're back. Can I borrow some cash?" "Here's the three bucks I got as a tip [we don't accept tips, but ol' gal was insistent. Also, all the cash I have right now]." "Well, I was hoping to get a beer. Can I borrow your card? [lol, no] Thank you for the three dollars anyways." "
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madeintaipei posted:Man. Total poo poo-show at work today. We cooperated and got everything done, but still. 12hrs criss-crossing four counties, and a full tank of gas later, I'm wiped. Uhh, the r/relationships thread is that-a-way —>
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Cacafuego posted:Uhh, the r/relationships thread is that-a-way —> Oh, hey. Been meaning to ask, Cacafuego like the ship, or just regular poo poo-fire?
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madeintaipei posted:Oh, hey. Been meaning to ask, Cacafuego like the ship, or just regular poo poo-fire? I'm not good with usernames, but I had been reading "The Story of Britain" for like the 3rd time and I always loved the tale of Drake's capture and looting of the Spanish galleon, nicknamed(Caca/)Cagafuego. Some fuckin' goon already had "Cagafuego", but I took the alternate spelling 
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Imma see one of them star wars today and I can just feel that someone is gonna spoil it for me in the next 6 hours.
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I bought a game off Steam that was in my "only if it's really cheap because I really don't know about it" section of my wishlist for 2 dollars, and it sucks. I am irrationally bummed.
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Inzombiac posted:Imma see one of them star wars today and I can just feel that someone is gonna spoil it for me in the next 6 hours. Turns out that Leia and Luke are siblings. I have to admit I did not see that one coming. Was the franchise sponsored by Folger's or what?
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I'm working alone all day and night on Christmas Eve. It's going to boring as heck because it's been really slow this year too.
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I left a guild in a mobile game due to excessive drama and made a new guild with some other people, then they stopped playing so I joined a new guild that apparently is in the middle of also collapsing due to excessive drama  I just want to make numbers go up
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“Needing” to sign of for a credit card and then making sure to use it to prove you have good credit is some bullshit. Related first world problem: my stupid procrastinating brain failing to do this despite my dad bugging me about it.
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I got promoted into a supervisor position at work, and got about a 40% increase in pay (not that I made a ton before, nor do I now), and it still seems like my wife and I don't have very much money. I get paid more, my check is bigger, so how the gently caress is it that it doesn't seem like we actually have more money?
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