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@Rinel said in RL things I love:

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

He's not really social at all, but he texts with me sometimes. Either about the family cats (he'll send me photos of them <3) or about whatever games he's playing (he sent me clips from Untitled Goose Game the other day).

On the contrary, I think my life would be vastly improved if my communications with most people consisted largely of catpix and Untitled Goose Game.

Haha. I mean, that's all he and I talk about rn (well, he'll text me to ask if I've watched this or that anime but I'm not really an anime person so).

"Some are 6 inches, others are 8 inches."

@Ghost said in RL Anger:

@Ganymede Hah. No, nothing so weird or severe. Stuff like "Hey this guy is a former metal musician like me and I love talking music and wrestling with them BUUUUUUT..."

Neat people that may be wonderful conversationalist but just failing in the ethics department.

Or in MU terms: Great concept, cool PB, great wiki, wonderful writer...but a pain in the ass to deal with OOC.

It's always a shame when someone would be SO COOL if not for some behavioral issues.

Hence the: "I want to like them, but..."

I can understand this completely.

goddamnit I love you all

"Do we care about the stripper contacts?"

@Lotherio said in Spooktober GIFs:

@WildBaboons said in Spooktober GIFs:

https://i.imgur.com/Ew0B0Ma.gif

What is this turn of the century nonsense, I have to actually click it.

I ain't no peasant. I don't CLICK on gifs.

What's depressing in life is all I truly want out of the NFL this year is a Super Bowl without the Patriots and that's probably the hardest ask of all.

Ok
Wow

Maybe do not suddenly ride up to the single woman at the drive thru on your bike and begin demanding she buy food for you.

I get that maybe (I can't tell because you startled the shit out of me and essentially cornered me even though yes I am in my car) you may be homeless but holy fuck that is not the way to do it and I am not the person to approach I mean the car in front of me had three people in it and the car behind me had four and you didn't ask either of them

You knew what you were doing and it was not good

@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Maybe do not suddenly ride up to the single woman at the drive thru on your bike and begin demanding she buy food for you.

I may or may not have opened my door into this kind of person repeatedly, and then left them there.

The downside to having a new(er? It's a 2017 that I keep looking nice) car is people assume I have money.

I mean. It's a Fiat 500. It's not like I drive a Lexus.

Tho I did love the time -- when I was between jobs -- that I was at the HEB on the 11th of the month. I was getting out of my car and this woman came up to me and began begging for money. I just looked at her and said: "Lady, I'm here to try to pay my rent."

She stopped, processed what day of the month it was and what that must mean for how my week was going, and replied: "I am so sorry" before walking away.

@Ghost said in RL things I love:

TMW you're moving and find the romantic, shirtless Jean-Claude Van Damme pics @auspice left for you.

best prank ever

"I'm gonna ask a question and I don't care what the answer is-"

"8."

@Sunny I am so glad to hear it!

I found someone that looks perfect who does virtual visits through that site which is what I need. It means that I can schedule on my time and even if it means tucking away in a corner at work with my phone, I can still make time.

I'm really really glad it helped. I was just like holy shit this exists and it is affordable and how have I never known about it before????

@gryphter said in What's your monitor setup?:

At work I put my laptop on a dock and it becomes my main monitor, with two additional monitors added on. At home the work laptop gets plugged into one extra screen, its screen remaining the main, and I'll have my personal computer also running on the desk. All the screens, all the computers.

I'm still sorting out my work setup, tbh. I haul my laptop to meetings too often to just close the lid and use the two monitors, so I absolutely count as 'three monitors' at work, but currently I have the 'upper left' (I guess you could say?) set as the primary, but that means all my windows freak out when I get back to my desk and plugin. So I might just do as you are.

At home, my left is absolutely my primary and my arrangement is usually:

Potato + Discord on the left, plus secondary (usually has stuff like PDFs, teaching cert stuff, etc) Chrome
Primary Chrome + whatever I might be watching or playing on the right

Took another day off work.
Can afford it. Barely but can.

Mostly I'm just trying to actually listen to my body for once rather than pushing myself too hard. I feel better but not a ton better and I know an extra day of taking it easy will do me good.

Also: this is the first time I've ever had the whole suite of sick symptoms (coughing, congested, body aches, etc etc etc...) and my temperature has been really low. A whole 97.1! Really putting the cold in cold.

@Lisse24 said in The Work Thread:

@silverfox said in The Work Thread:

Also.

I'm not allowed to RP again until I grade the damn pile of essays on my plate.

I hate essays guys. I hate them. Even if they're only one paragraph long. I. hate. them.

Never did ELA, but did you ever try this method?
https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/rubric-codes/

Oh! This site looks neat. Hopefully I remember to bookmark once I drag my sick butt out of bed.

@Aria said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Boss's Day.

I just got an email about it from one of my coworkers about pooling together money for our two manager's.

Why? Why does this bullshit "holiday" exist?

doesn't sound like a real holiday to me.

Sounds like your coworkers have a bit of stockholm syndrome going.

@Aria said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Aria said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Boss's Day.

I just got an email about it from one of my coworkers about pooling together money for our two manager's.

Why? Why does this bullshit "holiday" exist?

doesn't sound like a real holiday to me.

Sounds like your coworkers have a bit of stockholm syndrome going.

No. It's definitely a thing. It's on October 16th. There's a line of Hallmark cards and everything, despite it violating the usual office etiquette of gifting down rather than up.

Ugh.
Super gross.

I can see, say, getting your boss something as a group for their birthday (esp if they're a good boss)... But not for something as dumb as 'Boss' Day.' Esp since none of the other arbitrary days have I ever been gifted something by a boss other than to have them go 'hurr hurr did you hear it's <insert day here>?'

Hey more on OpenPath being awesome.

They contacted me after I signed up to verify that I qualified since I have insurance and I briefly panicked. I explained that yes, I do, but my insurance is one of those '20% after deductible' types for mental health and ha ha I can in no way afford to pay full market cost up front rn (that's like $200+ a visit). They assured me that yes, I absolutely qualify and they just have to double check.

So yes, pro service. Totally recommend.

Hey Texas when I said I wanted cooler weather I didn't mean go from upper 90s to lower 50s in the space of 24 hours.