Posts made by Auspice

@Autumn said in RL Anger:

"What's that? You want to pay for something online? No problem at all! We'll instantly debit your card so you won't have to endure the sight of that money on your balance a moment longer than necessary."

"Oh, you're getting a refund? Sorry, it'll be 3-5 business days before your funds are available. Maybe more! But usually 3-5. Have a nice day!"

I will say, however, that is entirely on the bank.

Jared Leto to play Hugh Hefner in biopic.

@TNP said in RL Anger:

@Auspice Too far for a bicycle?

7 miles. I have a bad hip and fibro. Def. too far.

I hate buses. And yeah. Brand new to city. Brand new to system. I mean, I may eventually get the hang of it, but right now it's jus majorly anxiety-inducing.

I'll just be over here in my corner eating pizza for dinner because bus home was a miserable mess.

Missed first bus (because rain gave me a hitch in my step leaving work).
Got all turned around at my swap to second bus, so I missed it.
Then my app crashed and I wasn't able to reload it to double-check what my stop was and when I finally worked up the nerve to ask the driver... I'd missed it, adding an extra half mile onto the mile I already had to walk from the stop to get home.

Really hope getting to work tomorrow is, uhm. Smoother.

The work itself is fine. If I had a vehicle or I could afford Uber to/from every day, I'd be OK. It's definitely the bus part that's the bulk of my anxiety.

@Arkandel said in Good TV:

The Inhumans was the worst...thing I've ever experienced.

Whyyyyy.

@Ganymede said in RL Anger:

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

So overall I'll be $75 'up' from where I have been.

Do you mean $75 up per week?

Per month. (That's after factoring the cost of a monthly bus pass, mind.)

Realized this morning I fucked up in taking this position.

So overall I'll be $75 'up' from where I have been.
Which is OK. I mean, my paycheck this past week was $0.75 more than my rent check. With what I carried over from my previous check, I have enough money for the bus, food, but I have to skip on my meds for a week and a half (fingers crossed the withdraw from anti-depressants and migraine meds isn't too bad; I'm off both as of today).

But being up $75 will be good. Getting my meds shifted (after Struggle Week) to mid-month check will be good. I can afford them all on that check.

The big place I fucked up...

I can't even work-vacay anymore. Previously, I could work wherever I was. I could at least travel with people and work from 'a different place.' It meant I could still see my family once a year.

They've already locked in going to San Antonio in December and having me join them.

I can't. Unless I take time off work to do so.
But if I take that time off, I can't pay my bills.

So it looks like I don't get to see them this year.

@Lithium said in Dead Celebrities: 2017 Edition:

Tom Petty isn't dead yet, afaik, but he has no brain activity and has been removed from life support, so who knows how long till he is finally gone.

I am so not happy right now.

His daughter has said he's not dead and she's railing against Rolling Stone. They apparently jumped the gun on reporting him as dead and other news agencies piled on.

I haven't updated to iOS11 yet, but with the number of apps having issues still, I'm holding off doing so.

Physicists find we’re not living in a computer simulation

There goes hitting reboot.

Monty Hall, Co-Creator and Host of ‘Let’s Make a Deal,’ Dies at 96

@Thenomain said in RL things I love:

@WTFE

The Nintendo cards are notably better designed. It's always amazing how much little touches can make night-and-day differences.

It's like when you see the '$500 vs. $100' tattoos. The depth of detail.

I'd never heard of these before, so I was looking at it. Is it actually a knock-off or a variant?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanafuda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go-Stop - this says November/December are swapped around for the variant deck/game.

It tastes great, but the recipe was indeed no good. It was too wet, dough didn't want to rise. I'll eat it, but it came out... flat. I mean, it'd be good alongside pasta or soup to tear into and dip in, but no good for, say, sammiches.

I've already got another recipe in the prep stages. We'll see if it's any better, tomorrow.

First recipe for sourdough does not seem very good. It's on the 2nd rise, but I'm doubting that it's gonna be any good whatsoever. I'm half tempted to just give up on it already, but we'll see it through.

Already got another batch of dough going (using a wholly different recipe) because, well, why the fuck not. I've got enough starter!