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Helping out at one of the local charity shops and going through a batch of donated books to sort. Found myself buried in 70's Romance-Erotica for women.  Oh. My. God. The plotlines and heroines were just.. No words abound. I wonder how feminism actually made it through that time period.

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Voted.  The grand UK election, where votes come down via a process of elimination rather then having someone I actually wanted to vote for.

"I can't vote for them because their policies are ****.  I can't vote for these guys because the leadership is dodgy. I can't vote for these because they're intolerant jackasses. I can't vote for the others because they're so damn wishy washy and have no connection to real life. Oh, that leaves this political party who are just meh."

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Voted.  The grand UK election, where votes come down via a process of elimination rather then having someone I actually wanted to vote for.

"I can't vote for them because their policies are ****.  I can't vote for these guys because the leadership is dodgy. I can't vote for these because they're intolerant jackasses. I can't vote for the others because they're so damn wishy washy and have no connection to real life. Oh, that leaves this political party who are just meh."

that is pretty much how it goes in every single country.

as George Carlin once said "professional politicians are the people who failed miserably to be anything useful to society"

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The words freedom and liberty, are diminishing the true meaning of the abstract concept they try to explain. The true nature of freedom is such, that the human mind is unable to comprehend it, so we make a cage and name it freedom in order to give a tangible meaning to what we dont understand, just as our ancestors made gods like Thor or Zeus to explain thunder.

 

-Teknoman2-

What? You thought it was a quote from some well known wise guy from the past?

 

Stupidity leads to willful ignorance - willful ignorance leads to hope - hope leads to sex - and that is how a new generation of fools is born!


We are hardcore role players... When we go to bed with a girl, we roll a D20 to see if we hit the target and a D6 to see how much penetration damage we did.

 

Modern democracy is: the sheep voting for which dog will be the shepherd's right hand.

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I just looked at my student loan balance...

 

I'll be free of it within a month and a half!

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"Show me a man who "plays fair" and I'll show you a very talented cheater."
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My in-laws are moving in with us, so I've been working hard cleaning out our spare room and garage to accommodate them, plus helping them clean up the place they have lived for the last 2 decades.

 

 

Yay.  :p

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My in-laws are moving in with us, so I've been working hard cleaning out our spare room and garage to accommodate them, plus helping them clean up the place they have lived for the last 2 decades.

 

 

Yay.   :p

I cant believe you agreed to that, you a much better person than me  8)

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"Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”

John Milton 

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” -  George Bernard Shaw

"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela

 

 

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My in-laws are moving in with us, so I've been working hard cleaning out our spare room and garage to accommodate them, plus helping them clean up the place they have lived for the last 2 decades.

 

 

Yay.   :p

 

Condolences Hurl, may the pain not linger too long. ;)

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I had a good and relaxing weekend, no  unnecessary socialising or partying at all

 

I worked last night and cooked lunch for some friends yesterday but apart from that I have been playing Dishonored 2 and catching up on watching some TV series I haven't watched on PVR  o:)

"Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”

John Milton 

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” -  George Bernard Shaw

"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela

 

 

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I spent the whole day yesterday parked in front of my TV. Literally every waking moment. I watched sports all day. Tampa Bay Rays vs Oakland A's. USA vs Ireland in Rugby. That went about as well as you'd expect. We suck at rugby I'm sorry to say. After that is was Marlins vs Pirates and Redbirds vs Nashville.

 

Today however, I'm going to be a bit more productive.

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"While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

Thomas Sowell

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Learned yesterday that I'll need surgery to fix something in my wrist that's been causing debilitating pain for the past couple of years. Of course, I had previously decided to just become left-handed (including totally re-learning how to use a mouse and keyboard) in order to not deal with it and attempt to let it heal itself over the past couple of years, but since it still hasn't, I guess I'm finally going to deal with my phobias of anesthetics, knives, and being cut open.

 

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How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart.

In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

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I spent all day yesterday moving stuff, pulled in a respectable 22000 steps. The biggest surprise was finding a flat of wedding presents at the back of the trailer we were clearing out. 14 years ago we received a full set of beautiful fine china, 24 wine glasses, and a few other nice pieces. Now when we got married, it was a 300-person wedding, so there was a ton of gifts, and over the years we had thought we had pulled everything out and made use of it. But the china and wine glasses were still hidden away, and it was a nice treat to open all the boxes up and put them on display for the first time.  :)

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Am starting the process of moving myself back out to the midwest. Fed up with the management in this region, and if asked directly would basically point at the promotion that was offered, interviewed for, then heard ZERO about afterwords (and know that the position is still open). Even when directly asked, the management just ignored it.

 

Thus I contacted my previous region's GM (who runs MN, IA, and NE) and asked if it'd be possible to swap back there. The next morning I got an email back saying yes, but you need to get your current managers approval to fill out the paperwork, and I've got three spots in Minneapolis you could work in.

 

So... yeah, I'm doing all the notifications now, and if I have to I will strong arm my way back to that region.

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Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition!

 

Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.

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Learned yesterday that I'll need surgery to fix something in my wrist that's been causing debilitating pain for the past couple of years. Of course, I had previously decided to just become left-handed (including totally re-learning how to use a mouse and keyboard) in order to not deal with it and attempt to let it heal itself over the past couple of years, but since it still hasn't, I guess I'm finally going to deal with my phobias of anesthetics, knives, and being cut open.

 

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carpal tunnel syndrome? it's a very light operation that can even be done with just local anesthetics while you are awake... of course i don't know if that is a good idea in your case. and it does not heal itself, so waiting it out was pointless suffering on your part.

The words freedom and liberty, are diminishing the true meaning of the abstract concept they try to explain. The true nature of freedom is such, that the human mind is unable to comprehend it, so we make a cage and name it freedom in order to give a tangible meaning to what we dont understand, just as our ancestors made gods like Thor or Zeus to explain thunder.

 

-Teknoman2-

What? You thought it was a quote from some well known wise guy from the past?

 

Stupidity leads to willful ignorance - willful ignorance leads to hope - hope leads to sex - and that is how a new generation of fools is born!


We are hardcore role players... When we go to bed with a girl, we roll a D20 to see if we hit the target and a D6 to see how much penetration damage we did.

 

Modern democracy is: the sheep voting for which dog will be the shepherd's right hand.

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It was a bit windy at work yesterday, with some pretty strong gusts of wind. One of these gusts got hold of a big trailer door that I was opening and wrenched it out of my hands and hit me in the head, wich caused me to loose my balance and stumbled a few metres before I fell over. I overextended my thumb and I've got a pretty vicious headache, so I'm staying home from work today to let it clear.

Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken

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Learned yesterday that I'll need surgery to fix something in my wrist that's been causing debilitating pain for the past couple of years. Of course, I had previously decided to just become left-handed (including totally re-learning how to use a mouse and keyboard) in order to not deal with it and attempt to let it heal itself over the past couple of years, but since it still hasn't, I guess I'm finally going to deal with my phobias of anesthetics, knives, and being cut open.

 

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carpal tunnel syndrome? it's a very light operation that can even be done with just local anesthetics while you are awake... of course i don't know if that is a good idea in your case. and it does not heal itself, so waiting it out was pointless suffering on your part.

 

It's actually not carpal tunnel syndrome. From what I understood the doctor say, something in there is just bent out of shape, and it's causing a sort of chain reaction of pain between bones and nerves (...or at least, this is what I was told after I had xrays on it). They're actually going to put me under to fix it, which seems a little excessive, but I guess it's better than being awake through it... They said that a local anesthetic would be too risky because they apparently need it to be absolutely still. And yes, it really was totally pointless suffering, as it clearly did not heal itself. On the plus side, I'm that much closer to being ambidextrous after forcing myself to be left-dominant for the past few years...

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How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart.

In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

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sounds like it from the description. CTS is when the tendons and nerves get squished together too much and end up tangled, so when you try to move the wrist the tendons pull on the nerves

The words freedom and liberty, are diminishing the true meaning of the abstract concept they try to explain. The true nature of freedom is such, that the human mind is unable to comprehend it, so we make a cage and name it freedom in order to give a tangible meaning to what we dont understand, just as our ancestors made gods like Thor or Zeus to explain thunder.

 

-Teknoman2-

What? You thought it was a quote from some well known wise guy from the past?

 

Stupidity leads to willful ignorance - willful ignorance leads to hope - hope leads to sex - and that is how a new generation of fools is born!


We are hardcore role players... When we go to bed with a girl, we roll a D20 to see if we hit the target and a D6 to see how much penetration damage we did.

 

Modern democracy is: the sheep voting for which dog will be the shepherd's right hand.

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I actually looked up more about CTS last night after you mentioned it, and it actually did sound a bit like it. Maybe they just didn't tell me that was what it was.

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How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart.

In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

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Had one of those days where every 5 minute job spiralled out due to complications, the back room where we've been storing a lot of mom's stuff as we've been sorting it and getting rid has been discovered to be swarming with carpet moths, one of the Enchantica dragons I was given years ago got knocked off the side and shattered into half a dozen pieces, and I had to fill out and send off various application forms.

 

Fun. Now I am debating whether to pick up the Cyberpunk 2020 set that Bundle of Holding are offering at the moment...

"Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."

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Got a good laugh out of some guy heckling some girl from his truck only to get her ice cappuccino all over his windshield. Good arm on her.

 

Always surprised how full of scumbags this city is.

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Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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Got a good laugh out of some guy heckling some girl from his truck only to get her ice cappuccino all over his windshield. Good arm on her.

 

Always surprised how full of scumbags this city is.

Brilliant, this post made me laugh  :biggrin:

"Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”

John Milton 

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” -  George Bernard Shaw

"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela

 

 

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Today I came to the Obsidian forum. Also I'm about to head out to grab some late lunch because my stomach is rumbling. I lost 12 pounds 5-6 months ago and have kept it off, but my brain keeps wanting to eat so those last 8-10 pounds still hang around. Oh well, whatever. At least my middle (where all excess weight goes) no longer looks like a loosely packed sack of russet potatoes. Maybe a tightly packed bag of mini-red potatoes.

 

Been pretty busy, out of town a lot, lots of time with the hubby (we read each others minds 90% of the time now, which is hilarious), the cat who never shuts up or leaves me alone for a second. Same ol' same ol', basically.  :biggrin:

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Am starting the process of moving myself back out to the midwest. Fed up with the management in this region, and if asked directly would basically point at the promotion that was offered, interviewed for, then heard ZERO about afterwords (and know that the position is still open). Even when directly asked, the management just ignored it.

 

Thus I contacted my previous region's GM (who runs MN, IA, and NE) and asked if it'd be possible to swap back there. The next morning I got an email back saying yes, but you need to get your current managers approval to fill out the paperwork, and I've got three spots in Minneapolis you could work in.

 

So... yeah, I'm doing all the notifications now, and if I have to I will strong arm my way back to that region.

 

That sucks the Northwest didn't work for you. I know it was closer to your family. Hopefully Minneapolis will treat you better. 

"While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

Thomas Sowell

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