@JinShei said in RL things I love:
My step-dad died earlier in the year, and it has been a pretty shitty one when it comes to family stuff. But yesterday my mother gave me his desk. My daughter and I smothered it in oil today and cleaned it, and made the drawers move...
I am sorry for your loss, but I will say that is an utterly gorgeous desk. I have a deep love for secretary desks.
@Derp Being able to gain muscle mass really easily, but struggling to lose fat (thanks thyroid condition and PCOS!) is a large part of my issue, too. The instant I start working out: boom, muscle mass. But then the other conditions make the fat take forever (if at all) to fall off.
@Sunny said in Holiday Recipe Exchange:
Mash all leftover potatoes together, sweet and yam and regular. Put all the marshmallows and syrup and everything right on in. Then add egg and milk and flour by sight until you have a batter that looks like pancake batter. Cook like pancakes. WIN.
(Wafflemaker.)
@mietze said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
@Arkandel I think what people are trying to get at is that, just in case you've never been fat or struggled with significant or stubborn weight loss or haven't experienced losing weight and then regaining or other things like that, those comments really aren't anything that they've not heard before, usually spoken in a very condescending or dismissive way.
As I have had to say to doctors and other people in my life during times where I am heavy (I've been all over the place as an adult), "I'm FAT not STUPID thanks."
And as others have said, and doctors who specialize in the treatment of obesity can tell you, it's actually NOT that simple. So unless you want to hurt the person, I really honestly would advise not telling anyone that. It's okay. Someone else has already told them, trust me.
This. So much of it.
I've been told 'just count calories!' so many times.
You know what I've found?
I usually don't meet the 'amount to lose weight' calories in a day. I just looked up a calorie calculator. OK. Amount to eat per day to lose weight: 1924.
Amount of calories I've eaten today: 1534.
And weekends are pretty high intake for me since I'm sitting around the house with the free time to cook. Most days would prob be closer to just 1000.
But I've gained weight over the past year. I haven't lost it.
Calorie counting, in my world, is a fucking laughable concept.
first major depressive episode of the season is setting in.
yaaaaaay
@Rinel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Christmas music shouldn't even be getting played. Christmas starts on sundown of December 24th and continues until Candlemas.
WE ARE IN ADVENT, PEOPLE.
/anglocatholic
one of the small things that helps me this time of year is christmas music so shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
@Alamias said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:.
START PUTTING UP YOUR SPOOPY DECOR ON JANUARY 1ST PEOPLE!
Hell, I never take them down to begin with.
My big ol' skull is still up on my desk at work.
As is my halloween wreath on my door at home. >.>
Woke up sick.
People, this is why you don't go to work sick. I'm p sure this is the fault of the lady who sits across from me and has been hella sick the past couple days.
OK.
Rant time again.
Being a professional writer is hard in a specific way.
I love it, but one thing is: people don't understand the 'creativity' requirement.
Many jobs are just sort of: get the work done did.
And I'm not negating the difficulty of said work. I've worked in various aspects of IT (help desk, sys admin, network admin). Even just 'data entry' levels of these can be grueling. The thing is, however, it's still often just 'buckle down and get it done.'
Writing, such as content creation and documentation has a creative component to it.
'Take this task, within this tool, and develop the best approach to walking a user how to achieve it.'
Esp. when you tack on creative the graphical elements.
Some days it might seem like I'm not getting a lot done, but I have on one of my screens a draft I've been writing/rewriting all day because it just won't gel. Because I need to keep stepping away until it 'clicks.'
Which makes it hard when a boss comes in and is like 'why isn't this done' in that 'Why is everyone else on my team able to get things done quickly and you can't?!' tone of voice (while everyone else's jobs are 'assemble this data into a presentation' or 'insert this data into a spreadsheet' or 'call these people').
I'm sorry.
Creativity isn't always 'on tap.'
The first draft is not always the last draft.
Some days what I write first gets scrapped completely (happened today) and I have to start over.
I love what I do, but I hate the effort in getting others to understand.
@Carex We've discussed the show on here before.
I do recommend people read the books, also. Show is good, books are better (aren't they always?).
Man, "books are better"is like my pet peeve. They're two completely different mediums.
Also, in this particular case, I'm pretty sure the show is better. It's certainly a hell of a lot less gross about its representation and the way the characters (and the narrative) deal with the fucked up shit that happens to them.
I feel like the pacing is better in the books. And the hedges get a lot better depth.
The show has its up sides, yes, but I felt like the story the hedges got was sort of throwaway just to get Julia back with the central crew and then they were just sort of there for story effect whenever needed.
I also really loved Q's whole tenure as a professor (well guest lecturer I suppose) and we never got that either.
The books had a lot of things that I felt really shaped the world and characters in strong ways that left the show sort of lacking for me personally.
I am really fuckin' honored that y'all kept that photo.
A lot of us don't have family or friends around to do anything with this year. Or we want to be able to do more than we have opportunity IRL.
Perhaps both.
I mulled over a few ways to do it and I figured this was the best option.
Thus I have a Google Form here for participation.
All gifts will be in the form of gift cards. Maximum dollar amount of $30. If you go over, no one but your recipient will know. I've asked for volunteers to be 'rescue agents' in case someone doesn't pull through and give their gift. Since it's egift cards, you can do everything through a brand new email address and never need worry about giving out any personal info.
I will be vetting sign ups. If you've never posted on the forums, if you're a brand new account, if you're a suspected troll: I won't be accepting your entry. In any of these cases, I'll be sending a message to the admins to let them know so people can check in.
Sign ups are due by December 15th at 11:59 (2359) CST. That's a week. Then I'll run the matching and get details out to everyone by the 18th. I ask that you try to send your gifts by Christmas Day, but preferably sooner. Anyone who hasn't received by New Years, I'll start reaching out to people who have offered to be rescue agents to step in and give gifts.
I know this may be a freaky, scary, weird idea to some... but hey. Maybe we can spread some cheer around to those that wouldn't otherwise get to have much of a holiday
And for anyone who doesn't trust me: literally all I'm collecting (as visible on the form) is your forum username, an email address you're comfortable with sharing, and details to give to your santa (such as what type of gift cards and whether or not you're willing to have the secret spoiled if they wanna contact you).
@Auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Managed to get to work today (despite doctor's note to stay out until the 12th: I simply cannot afford it because as noted previously, I am a contractor and unlike employees am not salary and do not have PTO)....... sort of wish I hadn't.
Chills and body aches kicked in on the way here.
But unlike Miss Employee last week, I'm wearing one of those face mask things. I'm also probably past the contagious stage but damnit. Gonna be polite.
I def overdid it yesterday.
Staying home today.
Fuck this flu.
Send chicken soup vibes.
@Ninjakitten said in Random funny:
@Cobaltasaurus @surreality Yeah, I was wondering too, 'cause it was the other one I specifically reported but it did include essentially 'maybe I'm old but this looks like a kid to me' and 'just hide those things from people working' happening sometime after that left me kind of uncertain. (The other one made me go wtf uncomfortably too but I honestly wasn't sure I wasn't just missing some reference.) If the flagging system isn't working right, that probably needs fixing.
Last I was an admin, the flag system was not notifying the admins and we had to manually go in and check those notifications.
I had hopes nodebb had fixed that bug by now but it sounds like maybe no. 
So people may need to directly DM the admin team for issues.
@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
So...
...Silver Kanye.
The fuck?
Am I not the only one that's really sick and tired of how pretentious this guy is? He's not nearly as talented as he thinks he is.
this post feels like when someone uses the 'unpopular opinion penguin' meme to post what is actually a commonly held opinion.
@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Pyrephox said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I want pho.
That is all.
Not enough upvotes. Pho is so good. now I want it too.
Even tho it's only in the 50s/60s here, this crisp fall-like weather is perfect for pho.
Kinda feel like I need pho right now
Pho is perfect chilly weather food.
my weighted blanket.
I dunno what it is about my ever-present leg pain that means pressure brings relief, but the pressure from the blanket is one of the only things I know (besides strong drugs) that helps. Makes getting into bed at night p awesome.
@Rinel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Dysphoria sucks
No matter how you may feel about your body (and I understand there are times it sucks terribly), know you are a lovely and beautiful lady who I (and many others!) appreciate having around. 
https://mashable.com/article/ok-hand-gesture-hate-symbol-anti-defamation-league-white-sumpremacy/
'In February 2017, 4chan users started the hoax "Operation O-KKK," a call to spread the sign around the internet and claim it as a symbol of white supremacy. The anonymous 4channer who started it added a graphic demonstrating how the gesture could spell out the letters WP for "white power." The same month, Media Matters for America accused Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft, who made the gesture in a photograph in the White House press briefing room, of using a "hate symbol."'
It was a 4chan troll effort. Now, white nationalists have begun to use it, but the assumption that every single person making the sign now is a white supremacist is basically just giving too much credit to what was a troll effort.
One I witnessed that didn't take off was an attempt to make 'waving with an open hand' a racist symbol. I don't remember all the reasons they were putting together as 'evidence' but I came across the thread nonetheless.
