Real Life and What's Happening...

[AsenRG]

My father's cousin's widow died yesterday. She was 92, and had had a long battle with Huntington's chorea.

She was a delightful woman, but we weren't very close. So I am a little surprised to find myself so affected. That is the end of my parent's generation, and now my brother is the oldest person in the extended family. My generation are the elders now.

Sorry for your loss!

OTOH, don't worry, the young ones were seeing you as an elder already, it's just that you only realized it now!

 

[EmperorNorton]

Dealing with possible legal shit with my 16 year old daughter. One of her friend's parents filed a police report and is threatening to press charges over something (she did do it, and she shouldn't have done it, but it was also completely harmless, there was no physical or financial harm to anything, and the guy could have just talked to me and us worked it out without going to cops over it).

God I didn't need the stress today.

 

[chuckdee]

I challenge anyone not to read the above as cybervisor.

Go from there to hypervisor! That's virtually better!

 

[Raleel]

Go from there to hypervisor! That's virtually better!

We need a groan or dad joke emoji.

 

[AsenRG]

We need a groan or dad joke emoji.

Like this?

When you can't use just one, use a combo...

 

[Fenris-77]

Just now outside my work..

 

[Vile Traveller]

Wish we had sunsets. Our house is west-facing, but at this time of year at 15:00 the sun drops behind this bastard:

 

[Fenris-77]

Wish we had sunsets. Our house is west-facing, but at this time of year at 15:00 the sun drops behind this bastard:

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At least it's a pretty bastard.

 

[EmperorNorton]

Y'all live in pretty places. The view outside my house is just general older suburbia (so not cookie cutter suburbia, but like a ton of houses built in the 60s-80s)

 

[Vile Traveller]

Y'all live in pretty places. The view outside my house is just general older suburbia (so not cookie cutter suburbia, but like a ton of houses built in the 60s-80s)

Well, I do now. In Hong Kong I spent 7 years looking at the back of an industrial high-rise. Mind you, the 5 years before that I was looking at this, so I guess it's a pendulum (I dread to think what my next view will be like if that's true):

 

[Lofgeornost]

A local coffee shop is hosting a toy drive for Christmas. Among other things, they wanted games for c. 12-year-olds, so I bought a boxed set of D&D Essentials and donated it, suitably wrapped of course. Might as well get more recruits for the hobby.

 

[E-Rocker]

I have something resembling a date on Saturday evening, for the first time since the pre-pandemic era. Hopefully I won't make a complete ass of myself.

 

[Endless Flight]

I got a part-time job to help keep me occupied during the winter months. If I like it, I might make it a really permanent thing. I’d make more working in a Target or a Dunks, but I get choose my old schedule and I don’t have to really talk to anybody.

 

[Vile Traveller]

... and I don’t have to really talk to anybody.

I'd pay them for that kind of job.

 

[Bunch]

I have something resembling a date on Saturday evening, for the first time since the pre-pandemic era. Hopefully I won't make a complete ass of myself.

I hope you do and she still likes you. Those are keepers.

 

[Bunch]

I got a part-time job to help keep me occupied during the winter months. If I like it, I might make it a really permanent thing. I’d make more working in a Target or a Dunks, but I get choose my old schedule and I don’t have to really talk to anybody.

Not talking to anyone sounds glorious. I like people but 24/7 of any people, even ones you love, gets old.

 

[Endless Flight]

Not talking to anyone sounds glorious. I like people but 24/7 of any people, even ones you love, gets old.

Yeah and the other cool thing I can wear whatever I want as long as it’s not shorts and I don’t have any logos or anything on my shirts. Be comfortable they say.

 

[Bunch]

Yeah and the other cool thing I can wear whatever I want as long as it’s not shorts and I don’t have any logos or anything on my shirts. Be comfortable they say.

Are you going to be a store mannequin?

 

[Endless Flight]

Are you going to be a store mannequin?

No, I do have to move.

Its nice because I feel at my last job I was underpaid for all the shit I had to deal with. With this job It’s like a tenth of the hassle and a few bucks an hour less.

 

[Raleel]

I have something resembling a date on Saturday evening, for the first time since the pre-pandemic era. Hopefully I won't make a complete ass of myself.

they might be an ass person.

 

[spittingimage]

Me, at too early this morning:

"Ugh, the internet's slow. Guess I'll reset the router."

"Where's the power cable? I can't figure out these cords."

"Am I still dreaming, or is there no ethernet connector for the fibre box?"

"...This is a radio."

 

[Fenris-77]

Me, at too early this morning:

"Ugh, the internet's slow. Guess I'll reset the router."

"Where's the power cable? I can't figure out these cords."

"Am I still dreaming, or is there no ethernet connector for the fibre box?"

"...This is a radio."

I thought I'd add a picture of your computer for everyone following along at home...

 

[Bunch]

I thought I'd add a picture of your computer for everyone following along at home...

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I converted one of those full size stand up ones to a bar in my office. My wife can't find the whiskey it looks so stock. And that's why we still have whiskey in the house...

 

[Picaroon Jack]

I finally deactivated my dumpster fire known as twitter. Where is my daily dose of Social Media? That would be the Pub.

 

[bleys21]

I finally deactivated my dumpster fire known as twitter. Where is my daily dose of Social Media? That would be the Pub.

Good choice!

 

[chuckdee]

I finally deactivated my dumpster fire known as twitter. Where is my daily dose of Social Media? That would be the Pub.

I don't go regularly, but still have my account as it's become harder to read information without having one.

 

[EmperorNorton]

I have a twitter but it isn't really to post, it is just to follow specific people and ignore literally everything else on twitter.

 

[Imaginos]

I had to use Twitter to get updates from my daughters school system because they couldn’t get things set right on the phone call list. Fortunately they seem to have gotten it set now, so May be good to delete Twitter this winter as long as calls come through.

 

[Fenris-77]

Finally finished work for the term. Today we fly to Norway for Christmas.

 

[Bunch]

Finally finished work for the term. Today we fly to Norway for Christmas.

You live in a frozen wasteland and for vacation you go to cold places that are pretty? Are you actually a snowman?

 

[Fenris-77]

You live in a frozen wasteland and for vacation you go to cold places that are pretty? Are you actually a snowman?

The family is in Norway. I can neither confirm nor deny the possibility that I am actually a frozen delicacy.

 

[Giganotosaurus]

The family is in Norway. I can neither confirm nor deny the possibility that I am actually a frozen delicacy.

I can see the headlines now: Frosty the Snowman seen traipsing the Norwegian wilderness with snow trolls.

 

[Fenris-77]

I can see the headlines now: Frosty the Snowman seen traipsing the Norwegian wilderness with snow trolls.

 

[Bunch]

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No beard?

 

[Tulpa Girl]

I can neither confirm nor deny the possibility that I am actually a frozen delicacy.

Sometimes you're a salty delicacy!

 

[Fenris-77]

Sometimes you're a salty delicacy!

I feel seen.

 

[Fenris-77]

No beard?

My beard, much like my clothes, get absorbed in the transformation process. Magic is neat that way.

 

[Bunch]

My beard, much like my clothes, get absorbed in the transformation process. Magic is neat that way.

Thats cool and all but no beard, no pub. Sorry even we have admittedly low standards...

 

[3rik]

Thats cool and all but no beard, no pub. Sorry even we have admittedly low standards...

 

[urbwar]

Thursday I hung out with two different groups of friends, many whom I used to work with. We're all scattered at different jobs now, so I only see two of them like every 2 months or so.

Today I got another check in the mail, this time from Kaiser Permanente. I usually get one most years when I don't use enough of their services. It's only 15 bucks, but hey, it's 15 bucks I didn't have when I woke up this morning. On top of that, I had no problems with any transients today. Guess it was too cold for most of the crazy ones to come around.

On the downside, I couldn't find my Trimet card. I don't think I lost it outside my place, because it still shows having money on it (which means no one found it and tried to use it). I know I had it when I came home Monday night as I used it, but it slipped out of the card sleeve on my phone case somehow. Thankfully I have a digital card on my phone. What sucks is I was about 2/3 of the way towards earning a free monthly pass on it. Hopefully I will find it (probably weeks from now). If not, I'll have to start from scratch earning up to a free month.