Posts made by Auspice

@mietze said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

Yeah, sorry for spelling error. I do really love feeding people, but not usually that way.

We know what that copy of To Serve Man really is.

I sit near the alcohol buyers at work.

Friday, I overheard them making a lot of 'blech' sounds. So, on my way out (they do their tastings end of day for obvs reasons) I went over to be like 'OK, what's so terrible?'

They handed me a small cup and were like 'OK, if you like it, be honest. We want to know.'

It was so bad. It was one of those White Claw knockoffs and hoooooboy. It was bad.

But they invited me to stick around, try some other things (all better than the first one). They gave me a six-pack of Truly (which I thoroughly enjoyed this weekend). And we finished out with this Japanese whiskey that a buyer trying to get into the US market sent them.

...that stuff was amazing. I need to ask the guy (when I see him again this week) what the name of it is to keep an eye out. It was the smoothest. fucking. whiskey. I've ever had. Hands down.

@Ghost said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

The only MU'ers I ever truly hung out with in person involved a hotel party where it was a ton of rum and coke, cards against humanity, and then my SO and I hooked up in our room, which the MU person littered with rose petals and a dreamy picture of Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Figured 1 and done. No more. Never again. I'll call it ending on a high note.

Sounds like they set a high bar.

@Packrat
LOOK AT THAT FACE

Dungeons & Dragons: Teacher Edition

@Killer-Klown said in Potent Potables:

@Auspice Yeah, it's actually not on menu here either; but they have Moscow Mules out the wazoo cause we also have a lot of things called 'gastropubs'. So I'm usually just like "So, you have some really kinda dark rum, right? Make me a mule with that instead of vodka."
And they look at me like I'm the Claw from Toy Story or something.

Yeah, Moscow Mules are still really popular. Which, esp. rn....
that's a summer drink aholes.
Bring out the stuff that's spicy and warm....

@Killer-Klown said in Potent Potables:

1> Dark and Stormy (Black Rum, like Goslings, and Ginger Beer with a twist of lime)

This was my first mixed drink after turning 21 and it has stayed one of my favorites.
Kraken is prob the best, IMO, if you can't get like, a local rum.

True story: in Greenville, SC, you couldn't get a Dark and Stormy ANYWHERE downtown, but I knew people in the restaurants there (ex-husband is a cook, worked in them) so I began hassling my bartender buddies about it and one finally put it on the menu. It was super successful. So it spread and now you can get one ALL THE PLACES.

YOU'RE WELCOME.

@Narson said in Narson's Playlist:

Brilon, Kolin, various others @ Harpers Tale

oh look another game we both played on

@Jaded said in Good TV:

The total costs of my streaming services now equal a cable bill. We cut cable because that was a high cost with a lot of wasted filler. And now we're doing the same thing with streaming services for one or two shows off each service.

I thought that competition in the market might push some of the prices down but they're ticking upwards in some cases. This is more than mildly frustrating.

That's been an issue a lot of people are complaining about, yeah.
As more companies split off from Hulu or Netflix to make their own, it's only getting worse. It's stupid. People are looking at going BACK to cable with DVR.

@Macha

Dilaudid is the only one where I've ever had that 'oh so this is what it's like to be drugged' feeling.
The others (vicodin, hydrocodone, etc.) dull the pain some, but that's it.

Morphine is a bad time for me. I hate it.

And the -caines (licodaine, novocaine, etc) might as well be nothing.

I hate being broken, I swear.

@hedgehog said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

You know what helps my fibro? Weed. Kratom. Actual opioids when and if I ever obtain them.

Yeeeeep.
I partake of weed (I'd say 'smoke' except I prefer edibles and the like when I can get them) because of what it does for the pain.

Opioids sadly don't even help me much thanks to genetics (I've got that thing where I'm highly resistant to them). I am desperate for full legalization.

@Macha said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

I don't want to hear about Yoga, or CBD oil (Which I was using, and was helping, until I could no longer afford it), or this miracle snake oil, or diet or... whatever.

I will admit, this was like, 20% of the reason I quit Facebook. I'd have people message me with the 'Oh I know you have fibro and I wanted to tell you that my sister's friend's aunt's boyfriend's sister with fibro went on a gluten free diet and it cured her fibro so you should totally do it!'

And ofc if you tell them no you're a terrible evil unappreciative person who is then subject to an hour of guilt-tripping for not listening to their advice.

Let me take care of myself and do what I need to do for my own body kthx.

@hedgehog
TOOL - Fear Inoculum
(this was the obvious choice)

@hedgehog said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@Auspice

How conducive /receptive is your boss to being requested to give a goddamn concrete answer since you now have this housing hunt hanging over your head? Because maybe doesn't work for rental applications.

At least that would be something solid to work with, and know, rather than it just hanging there in the vapor.

Are you in an area where you can do short term corporate-type housing while securing a lease? It's not ideal, but I've stayed in Residence Inns that were nicer than the first apartment I had with my then-boyfriend after we had to leave the glorious three-bedroom flat in a two-flat that we were sharing with other people. At least they take pets, if that is a concern. Likewise the TownePlace brand.

Alternately, do you want to move altogether? Can you talk to your landlord about a month-to-month lease? Or an extension of some sort? Unless you already have, and it's a non-starter.

I don't think/know that it's entirely up to her. Like, I think it's more a 'she makes the recommendation and then it comes down the line' sort of deal. I can ask, but I also dropped a few balls recently so I feel it's a bad time to ask.
(thanks for that, ADHD. thanks a lot.)
I don't wanna say 'hey can you extend my contract' when I've been underperforming (not terribly, but still) vs. exceeding.

As for the rest: I dunno that I would wanna do short-term. They're expensive and that'd hurt for affording a place. I'd barely scrape by as it is rn.

And.... I COULD extend month-to-month. My complex keeps begging me to stay. But they are a shiiiiiiiithole and I've been wanting out all year. And month-to-month would increase my rent by $200/mo.

I have to move by December 30th (lease is up).
I have no idea where I'm moving to.
My contract with my job ends on January 10th and while it looks very likely it will get extended OR that I'll even get a brand new 6th month contract for ANOTHER project (they already had me review the project and sit in on meetings and my boss said she's considering just keeping me for it vs hiring someone), I don't know anything for certain.

aka after the new year everything about my life is just one big question mark.

While I am SURE everything will be JUST FINE (next week while work is a lighter workload of getting caught up vs trying to get caught up while more and more gets piled on my plate I plan to clean up my resume so I can job hunt just in case)...... right now I keep having complete panic attacks and I'm sleeping like shit and I just wanna crawl in a hole and never come out.

@Rucket said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

i'm not ready to be killed by a serial killer

can I pencil you in for next Tuesday?

@DareDaemon said in Potent Potables:

and bourbon instead of anything worth drinking.

Oh, so in another episode of 'Americans can't park for shit:'

Getting home tonight, I turn towards my apartment to witness a big ass truck trying (and really seeming to fail) to back into the spot next to the one I park in. He stops, nearly in the middle of the lane, and waves me by. I gesture for him to continue because I'd like my spot tyvm.

He leans out his window and starts frantically waving for me to go by.

Fine.

Whatever.

So I swing around and neatly park in my usual spot.

...realizing his error and how much more difficult he just invited me to make his attempt to park, he pulled away and went to park elsewhere.

omfg Dragon Prince season 3 right out the gate with feels

So I didn't get myself a weighted blanket during the Target sale cause the one I'd've wanted had already sold out.

.....got home today to a package. My mom had seen the same sale and bought me one.

totally gonna fall asleep in my desk chair under this thing