Posts made by surreality

@Auspice As someone who has attempted suicide a number of times and still has suicidal ideation regularly, I can't get behind that one, sorry.

• defenestration
• teledildonics

In both cases, because: '...there's a word for, specifically, that?'

Fuck surely deserves an honorable mention.

I liked synergy until it became a buzzword, at which point it skipped over to the hate/wince column.

With lots of coughing, you can pull something. The rib/suitcase incident comes to mind since, well. Moving. Hauling lots of things. While that may sound like the most serious thing... it really isn't. It's just 'take it easy and rest and don't lift heavy things for a while', which, all things considered? Not so scary as it initially sounds.

I looked up our recent local travesty and got derailed by giggling at 'Husbands' Run' which was also on the map. I think it's a creek, but I can't be certain. It is not far from The Blue Ball Barn (also on the map) and again, I am not making this shit up. I couldn't if I tried.

I think it's fair to say it's very much a bone thrown to fandom in one big way: A New Hope was a space western, and going so strongly back to those roots is doubtless gonna tug hard on some of the old fart fans that have been around and watching since those days. (It is a fairly different vibe from the second trilogy, to be certain.)

The Mandalorian grabbed all the classic Old West/Samurai Film plots and did them quite well. It's a hell of a space opera love letter to them all.

The Witcher was great fun to watch (as someone who never played the game or read the books) as a fantasy saga.

They're too different to readily compare re: quality for a variety of reasons, I feel, as they're different animals from very different kinds of sources. Even beyond that, the similarity is more or less 'eh?' outside of 'will appeal to geeks'. Different slices of geekdom in a lot of ways, really.

It is indeed easier to break a rib than you might think, and you may not always immediately realize it when you have.

I did once while hauling a too-heavy suitcase out of my trunk too quickly. I thought I just pulled some muscles. I was very wrong. The doctor didn't believe it, either, until he felt it pop under his hand and the x-rays confirmed it.

@Auspice The latter half of 2019 was an insane road construction period for Delaware. Like, deeply insane. You could not go anywhere without seeing at least two of them, or a signal crew to let people through since one lane would be closed.

...maybe they're breeding.

@Auspice Sometimes I have to wonder if states handle detour signs like they do senators: every state gets X many, and we're just smol.

@Auspice Truth, we totally did. Do you have any idea how much of a pain in the ass it is for us to have to dedicate parts of our garages to those signs? Our property taxes are so low because of that commandeering of garage space.

In all fairness, in recent years we turned a perfectly sensible traditional intersection with this traffic circle/cloverleaf hell hybrid that really will send you inescapably several miles before you can turn/correct in any of six or seven directions. New Jersey is contagious and all the chemical companies (it's right near DuPont's ancient powder mill and Astra Zeneca, just to name a few) mutate that shit into true WTFery.

...nobody show that image to any civil engineers from New Jersey, or we're really in for some shit.

ETA: For those unfamiliar, it is the land of traffic circles, jughandles, and cloverleafs. 'Traffic circle' is the mid-atlantic US way of saying 'roundabout'.

ETA2: Put it this way, they would rather send you in a half mile loop over state lines and back again than let you just make a left turn.

@Roz I feel that one SO HARD after this past week or so...

Holy fuck, new item on lottery house wishlist right there. Damn. Yes.

I blame all of you for this string cheese I'm calling 'probably lunch and dinner' because y'all have made me feel like this is a valid life choice at this point.

(This post brought to you by my urge to avoid cooking more today because I already ADD'd the oven timing and burned what I was going to be eating when I fell down a pinterest vortex.)

@Ghost Whether Penis Man has gone flaccid from the media heat can't yet be determined.

...I had to send this to my father. He will appreciate every bit of this, as a former journalist always eager to sneak shit like that into everything he wrote.

@Ghost said in RL things I love:

PENIS MAN

Who is "Penis Man" and why has he come?

^ That really is the only way that article should have opened, and I am quietly proud of them for going there.

@Auspice These were freeform embroidery... which when I started the first one, I had never actually done before. I would try to get newer/better pictures but I am pretty sure my mother has this in a vault somewhere, wrapped in acid free paper.

(For folks who don't know, I used to make designer doll clothes for a living. One of many insane jobs I've had.)

...it's all couched in metallics and then... overkill. I adapted a design from a Dover clip art book of art nouveau borders for it.

I am still hunting for more of that fabric.

@Auspice I feel you on the metallic thread. I do. I went so overkill on it for one project I haven't actually touched it since. If I can find a pic somewhere, I'll link it, and I think you'll understand immediately.

@Ganymede said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

My years of experience here (and elsewhere on WORA, IGU, Snark, etc.) paid off!

I had a job like this for a few years. I don't miss it. Not even a little.

I still have those 36 hour days for just me and the handful of people I know who truly need them on backorder.