Posts made by Luna

@Thenomain I...what? Oh. I think I see where you're misunderstanding. Maybe? Freeways here are generally 65-75. Actual speed limit, excepting the parts between major cities that hit up to 85. You enter them off the feeder, which are usually 40-50. The norm is to accelerate on the ramp and then stay in your lane until you're up to speed and merge before your lane ends or becomes an exit only, but some people...panic or something? I'm not sure, but they'll try to merge into moving traffic going 10-30+ miles below the posted speed. It's actually illegal, you yield to the major road, they have the right of way.

My point about going at least 10+ miles over is in the fast lane, or what we call here, the passing lane. It's for passing, aka going faster than other people. You can get a ticket for not passing people in the passing lane. Like I don't care if I'm doing 90, if a super car or a bike comes up behind me, I move over to let them by.

@Cobaltasaurus Cruise control is your best friend.

Hi, we haven't really met. I'm rather sarcastic.

My city is known for it's aggressive drivers. I want to say we rank in the top 10 in the country and first for speeding or something? Anyone in the fast lane is usually going about 80. The center lane is likely going 80...and likely the whole line of 18 wheelers are all going 80. It's just what we do. I've hit my governor simply by going with the flow and being in a long line of cars going the same speed. So for real, stay out of the passing lane.

But really, it's a very good way to get killed by trying to merge onto the 70mph freeway going 40 and people from other states do it ALL THE TIME. I think it's because our freeway system is truly nuts and does not work at all like it does in almost the entire rest of the country.

The last bit was tongue in cheek, because Texas.

ETA - Really thinking about it, 10 over is standard around here across the board on every fairly major road, except in the cities that only exist to be speed traps.

@ThatOneDude said:

People that drive slow in the fast lane, and, don't move out of the lane when they are holding up traffic.

Anyone who drives less than 10 mph over the speed limit. I don't care what that sign says, you add 10 at MINIMUM. And I want to murder anyone entering the freeway at 40. We all drive trucks and have at least 2 guns each, best to get out of the way.

@Wizz I knew it!!!

I keep trying to tell my kid she will never see snow here. She keeps asking if it's cold enough to snow. Bless her heart. I'll have to take her somewhere snowy so she doesn't end up like me at 20. I saw inches of snow for the first time in my life and thought it was a deadly blizzard.

@Cobaltasaurus That's a thing? I can't beieve that's a thing. I take classes entirely online, now I feel spoiled.

@Corruption I agree, winter needs to go. It feels weird though that I live somewhere 50 degrees warmer than you though. In my mind, people just instantly die in such temperatures.

Reasons!!

I like the way it looks. It's really pretty on my phone to boot.

@Catsmeow You're not missing anything. Promise. It's hot and dirty and I don't mean just the desert Playa. The local events were pretty much the same, minus desert, plus humidity. And a lot of naked people who shouldn't be naked. So basically quite similar to the Wiccan camp outs.

@Darinelle Are you not really bad, just drawn that way?

@Cobaltasaurus I also never really understood the hype. And I totally feel your irritation.

@Thenomain http://blog.burningman.com/2008/06/eventshappenings/what-is-a-burner-anyway/ - That. Or basically people who do Burning Man type events and then talk about how they have to come down from their spiritual crazy person amazing journey because burns are not just about getting high in the wilderness (yes, they pretty much are) but are about the JOURNEY. You know. The spiritual journey. You'd have to be there.

The friend in question got mad because people were like 'Hey maybe don't take your 4 year old to the event where people are getting high in the wilderness'. It cramps her spiritual journey to find a babysitter.

Burners. This goes along with the mention of Austin. I fucking hate Burners. I had to pull back from a friend of mine who started taking her kid to burns and is being a DJ and stuff. YOU ARE FUCKING 35. STOP DOING THAT.

I'm kind of over alt things in general. It's just become alt=irresponsible adult going nowhere in life. Obviously, yes, exceptions to the rule and it's hypocritical since I have blue hair but I assure you, I'm a complete sellout and I'm ok with it. When you start thinking about what shade to dye your hair in conjunction with what colors Kors is going to use in his spring bags, you've sold the fuck out.

So, Portland basically really is Portlandia?

Austin we scorn, bunch of crazy hippies. But all Texas cities have a sort of hate for the other ones. At least the major ones. San Antonio is trashy. Dallas/Fort Worth is full of snobs. (Mind you, people from Dallas/Fort Worth hate being lumped in together) Houston is AWESOME. (It's kinda awesome. I mean, I like it, but really id be at a loss of things that someone would just have to see if they visited. It's a really large city with a lot of diversity. That pleases me.)

@somasatori YES. So help me god I will punch the next person in the face that gloats about living in the Heights or bitches about the gentrification of Oak Grove and the building of 'McMansions'.

Houston isn't that cool and a bunch of falling down pier and beam tract homes are not that great.

Also, re credit reports - write letters. Single best way to improve your credit without spending money (except on postage) and yes, it does work.

@Cobaltasaurus That skirt is NOT what I pictured when you said tie dyed. That is infinitely way more awesome. Now I kinda wanna do that!

I may as well list all the crafts I DONT do rather than do, but school and moving has are my face so it's all boxed up.

I say post pics though!

@Cobaltasaurus I'm doing a bit of that and crafting all my gear. I was told that I was kinda fail for not having done that already. So I'm playing 'get all the leather!' now. Haha

I can't beat that part where you fix the rift. It says levels 8-11. I'm level 10. I just suck.

What device are you on? Works perfectly for me across ever iCrap thing I have, and I have a lot. I'm such a basic bitch.

You know, Momoko wasn't so bad. We got along, I didn't want to stab you in the eye. I'll gladly take the married in Asian in the uber Irish family any day over the stupid 'white girl belly dancer with the exotic name' any day.

Oh, the good old days.