Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-01-29T01:53:20-05:00
Between everyone supporting Big Brother wholeheartedly and an atheist calling down God's wrath on gays, it was a great time!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-29T05:29:43-05:00
Friday. Finally.
Glad to see you are having fun in Vegas GM. Makes me wish I could visit again
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2016-01-29T08:35:04-05:00
I am so jealous GM. Sounds like you are taking full advantage of your vaca.
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2016-01-29T09:10:05-05:00
Yeah for friday, kind of.
I still work half a day tomorrow. My friday won't actually start until noon tomorrow.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-29T09:21:11-05:00
@Trinkets: but that is the perfect time to drink! Can you say "three-martini-lunch"?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-01-29T09:56:21-05:00
Trinkets, He's taking full advantage of his vaca? His cow?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THAT POOR COW, GM?!?!?!
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I won't have an ideal weekend, but it promises to be plenty of fun. Plus, apparently after the week of not enough sleep, all I needed tonight was like 5 hours or so and I feel great! I have no idea how, but it feels like I had 10 hours of sleep! That, plus friday, plus few classes, plus 50 degree weather that I can fully enjoy knowing it'll be back to winter next week plus watching The Martian later on today in Chem Club means this promises to be a great day already! I should be careful, though, because that can usually turn around quick.
I can't wait for Saturday night. Going to see Cirqu Du Soleil's O, after having dinner and going to see the lovely server again(she even told us to ask for her).
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-01-29T13:13:04-05:00
Cirque du Soleil even! Sounds amazing! Meanwhile I got a free chick fil a sandwich and promotional handout for an apartment complex (sign a lease at Aspen within 48 hours and I can get a $350 visa gift card, apple watch sport, or keurig kold?! Oh boy!) while walking around campus. Not a bad start to a weekend.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-29T13:32:44-05:00
@GM: Should I get digging out my good dress to go to your wedding?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-01-29T13:34:53-05:00
Also, I discovered the cure for a week of not enough sleep: Not enough sleep! It's so obvious! I got like 5 1/2 hours of sleep last night if I was lucky, but woke up feeling perfect. Did I already mention this?
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2016-01-29T14:22:00-05:00
I think Zem is hallucinating from his lack of sleep, lol.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-01-29T14:28:57-05:00
If I'm hallucinating, I wish I did more often. I felt horrible all week, but a really fun game and not enough sleep later, I feel perfect!
The weirdest thing is that I thought I'd be pretty low on sleep today since I went to bed at like 1:30 am, but I woke up an hour early and just lied in bed for an hour. I thought I couldn't go back to sleep, but turns out I didn't even need to and somehow got the equivalent of 9 or 10 hours normally in just over half the time.
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2016-01-29T14:52:08-05:00
I got around 7 hours last night and I need a nap.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-29T15:20:23-05:00
I got six hours and I was up at 5:30 this morning.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-29T15:20:38-05:00
Where is LZ? I want to run an idea by him.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-01-29T15:57:23-05:00
Running is too much work. Let him come get the idea.
@Geist: Depends on how she feels above moving to Canada with me. Mind you, she is in school right now(going to ask her what for tomorrow when we see her). She did live in or near New York for most of her life, and she has been here for only 5 years.
Only another 50min until we are leaving for Freemont Street. Hopefully it's better to us on the gambling than the rest of the places have been(total, including buying a couple items, I'm down $100, about 40 of it on gambling....today I actually came back to the hotel slightly ahead from what I took this morning).
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-01-29T21:05:49-05:00
Well that was fun. Watched The Martian with Chem Club. Of course went over alot of the chemistry after as well. Got half a 2-liter of mountain dew left over at the end, too!
Powers of Tesla 2016-01-29T21:55:24-05:00
I no longer use hotel wifi. After having email account passwords skimmed and used to carpet spam my contacts list the last three times I used hotel wife's I simply use my phone now. So far no problems doing that.
@potatten- almost went to philly today. I had a crap week and needed to get away. Would have tried to meet up. But realized Philly is just another city. I had to stand on the edge of a ravine and scream.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-01-30T01:17:44-05:00
Whatever you went and did sounds fun anyways. Wait, what's this? Tired at midnight? So tired I could only just barely even set a new record for a song on Guitar Hero III at my house?! Wow, I need to go to sleep. It would be more amazing if I hadn't already set all the records for that song and I'm way better at it at this difficulty than I was then.
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2016-01-30T08:40:19-05:00
Good morning all.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-30T09:57:51-05:00
Morning Trinkets.
Let the snow melt begin! It's supposed to get up to 52 degrees today
lol, well if any of you are ever here or coming let me know. We can definitely plan/do something. Tourism, food, drinks, ect. Just let me know. Know Geist said she would be by sometime this year too, maybe we could even do a KC thing?
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-30T11:12:10-05:00
I'm up for a mini KC con. I still wanna visit GM & BaKhan up north when it isn't -20 degrees.
@Potatten: would you be able to get me a list of all of Philly's small/independent book stores?
I finished Making a Murderer last night. The whole thing pisses me off.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-30T12:08:33-05:00
Thanks Potatten. My goal this year is to explore each states used book stores. I am hoping to go to NYC and visit a few of their stores
Lord Zombitten 2016-01-30T12:24:55-05:00
Geist, what idea did you want to run by me?
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-30T13:11:51-05:00
@LZ: this is the idea I thought up as a way for you to raise some money for your hot sauce business.
You are a talented cook. What are two things that go great together? Beer and bacon. Why not invent some recipes using those two ingredients. Host a KS campaign to raise money for the book. If it takes off, you should have enough funds left over to help get your hot sauce business off the ground.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-30T13:13:55-05:00
Or your second campaign would be the hot sauce campaign with a built-in support base from your first campaign
Lord Zombitten 2016-01-30T13:23:54-05:00
Hmmm, not a bad idea
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-30T13:29:14-05:00
Something to think about. Having built-in customers that will crow about your cooking and sauces is a pretty good way to help pay for the bottling expenses
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-01-30T22:56:20-05:00
Sorry I haven't been on all day, though it's a tame weekend, so that shouldn't've been a problem. Did a couple things, one of which we drove 2 hours each way for, so that's what took the longest.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-01-30T22:58:09-05:00
Geist de la Muerte Gatito about 13 hours ago
Let the snow melt begin! It's supposed to get up to 52 degrees today
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Let the snow melt. It got up to 50-ish today! And on monday night through tuesday night, we'll get likely a foot and a half! WOOHOO!!! It's just like how the water level sinks before a tidal wave. ;)
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-01-30T23:03:08-05:00
Geist, your plan for one year is to hit all 50 states? And visit specific locations, likely several per state? And probably buy something in a large portion of those? Good luck. Though I would have some great suggestions for Nebraska, including an awesome one next door to my favorite restaurant in Lincoln, a really good local greek place. The best part of A Novel Idea? They have 2 really big and friendly cats! There's always one in the windows watching out and the other is usually around the store greeting the customers.
@Geist: You can return that dress to your closet. Found out that the awesome beautiful server is engaged...hope her fiance is a nice woman(found that out tonight as well)
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2016-01-31T07:26:13-05:00
@GM What happens in Vegas gets told to the KC!!
Too bad. Maybe you should ask her if she has a sister?
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-31T08:00:16-05:00
@GM: wait a tick. Did she have an engagement ring on her finger? If not, then she was politely saying "no".
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-01-31T12:06:59-05:00
Extra hard polite denial. Both the fake engagement AND pretending to be gay?! ;)
No, I think she was probably telling the truth, Geist. But still, wishful thinking! We still have a few Corps members with no significant other, and this must be rectified at once!
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Trinkets, as I said sometime earlier before he left, what happens in Vegas stays in KC.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-01-31T13:57:20-05:00
So apparently yesterday in the late afternoon, my O chem professor sent out a shit ton of homework due monday early morning in class. Unfortunately, I went to my grandpa's birthday and my brother's honor band and didn't even get back and see it until like 11:30 pm. Now today I'm seeing my dad off because he's going to travel for work and vacation for the next month. I should probably be getting back to my dorm where I left all my notes and materials so I can start working finally at like 8-10 o'clock. 9 problems, 2 of them in-depth 3 parters. In a matter of like a couple hours. I'm pretty sure it goes against several rules to drop that much homework late in the weekend by surprise in a method not everyone will see and only half will have the materials to complete and expect it done before the end of the weekend.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-02-01T09:15:59-05:00
Morning Creeper. Is the snow finally melting in NYC?
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2016-02-01T11:06:10-05:00
Good morning all.
Stupid busy at work.
Well, looks like we're getting 10-15" of snow starting tomorrow.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-02-01T11:22:20-05:00
Morning Trinkets.
Better you than me. I've had enough with the stinking snow.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-02-01T11:23:00-05:00
Ok BaKahn. You can come out of hiding now. You are beginning to worry me.
Lord Zombitten 2016-02-01T12:05:08-05:00
Ugh! Remember: if you're going to ask your friends to help you move for free, pack your crap up before moving day!
Lord Zombitten 2016-02-01T12:06:32-05:00
Also, good Monday, kittens!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-02-01T12:09:58-05:00
Morning future hot sauce mogul
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2016-02-01T13:31:55-05:00
Geist, we've had our share already, too. 20" so far. This should put us between 26"-35" for this year.
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2016-02-01T13:33:01-05:00
LZ, that's bogus as all heck!!!
I would have left and came back when it was all packed and ready to move.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-02-01T13:36:52-05:00
Wait, what? They hadn't packed up first? I agree with Trinkets.
And I would at least give my friends SOMETHING. Free lunch, movie tickets, something as a way of saying "Thanks".
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2016-02-01T13:41:35-05:00
Probably helped my friends move a half dozen times or so as I am the only one with a truck. Each time, they bought pizzas and beers. I think that is always a fair thing.
Lord Zombitten 2016-02-01T13:41:49-05:00
He did purchase a liter of soda for each of us and told us he owes us all a dinner or something. Thing is, he had to be out by yesterday because he lost his job and couldn't pay rent. So we felt bad enough for him that we didn't rage quit.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-02-01T13:42:16-05:00
We're supposed to get 8-16 in. today! WOO! Hopefully everything's canceled tomorrow, my hell day! Plus, snow!
"Better you than me. I've had enough with the stinking snow." How can you say such a thing, Geist?! ;)
Besides, you'll probably be getting your fair share here soon, though it'll probably be rain at that warm. Well, at least it looks like nature finally sorted out who likes snow in winter and who would rather have 60 degrees! Good job, weather!
Lord Zombitten 2016-02-01T13:54:57-05:00
Also, why would anyone build a yeast culture into the system under the title of fungal culture? Fungal cultures look for yeast and mold. Yeast cultures only look for yeast! This isn't difficult!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-02-01T14:02:22-05:00
Yeah! What he said!
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Also, regarding that surprise O chem homework I was up till 1 working on and only finished 3 problems of that I talked about yesterday, I got bored and it was getting hard visualizing this molecule, so I actually made a full model of it. It took like half of the connections I have, but I finally made it. And then was too lazy to take it apart, plus it was late and I had stuff to do. So now I just have a huge molecular model sitting on my desk staring at me to put it away. Maybe later since it takes up so much space. I guess it's not quite as funny here, but it is pretty large and imposing, just sitting on my desk for no apparent reason.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-02-01T15:34:22-05:00
@LZ: That puts a different spin on it. Although, you usually know a few weeks in advance whether or not you can pay the rent so that you can pack up and be out of the unit before the sheriff comes. Hope your friend finds another job soon. I know all to well what it's like to be out of work.
Lord Zombitten 2016-02-01T15:40:42-05:00
He found another job, but he won't get his first paycheck for another week or two.
When his mom commented on his lack of packing, he replied that he's been busy job hunting. She reasoned that he hadn't been doing that 24/7 since he knew he'd have to move out. Our friends said the same thing, in less than cordial terms.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-02-01T16:19:20-05:00
Geez, it's dead quiet everywhere. I think this is a good time to catch up on sleep. Haha. Like I could ever actually catch up. Sleep is just so fast.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-02-01T16:41:55-05:00
@LZ: When I was unemployed, the most amount of time I would devote to job hunting was 10 hours. After that, I had to step back from the computer and clear my head. So he could have been packing for at least a few hours.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-02-01T18:28:59-05:00
Wait, how did people comment then? I refreshed a dozen times between my last two comments but they only came up this time! 2 comments just out of nowhere.
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2016-02-01T19:09:03-05:00
Cthulhu must have eaten those comments temporarily
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-02-01T19:14:41-05:00
And then I appeased him with my sacrificial nap in his name, so he pooped them back out for me to read or something? Does Cthulhu poop?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-02-01T19:44:58-05:00
This is a really quiet day for a monday. Where is everyone?
Lord Zombitten 2016-02-01T21:48:10-05:00
Monitoring the caucuses
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-02-01T23:19:08-05:00
WOO! Snow Day!
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I am too, LZ, but the card caucuses. The Contender game creators actually went there, since it's a political game, and had their own card caucus and played the game with the candidates' teams.
Also, don't worry. Historically, the first caucuses aren't a good representation whatsoever as to how the rest of the primaries and final elections will go.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-02-02T02:56:17-05:00
2 am and the weather is barely what they said it would be several hours ago. They'd better not be wrong about this "heavy snow/ wind" from 5:30 to 6:30! You know, Lincoln usually gets more than the surrounding areas. At least we got tomorrow off. But if it proves to be terrible enough at the end of the day, they might call off wednesday as well just like last year.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-02-02T05:17:08-05:00
After 2 hours of downloading something, searching through my files for it, trying to export files and reprogram things, and trying to install the driver at the very end, I learned something: it's not worth this amount of crap to hook up an X box controller to your computer to play games with. If I had Windows 10 or an X box 360 controller, it could work, but otherwise, after finally exporting the files to the last step, my computer just couldn't find the file to finally install. All those problems I had to go through and fix and move all the way to just installing it.
On the plus side, at least the snow really opened up finally.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-02-02T08:38:22-05:00
Cthulhu must have eaten those comments temporarily
I thought Cthulhu ate Mormons and hanging chads?
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2016-02-02T08:53:24-05:00
I thought Cthulhu ate Mormons and hanging chads?
And souls
Good morning Geist.
Ugh. I can't stand when the boss is making me do something that is a waste of time and money, even when I tell him it will be. And he agrees with me that what he wants me to do might not work. So why the heck am I doing it?!? Aaarrggghhhh!!!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-02-02T09:21:35-05:00
Good Morning Kittens!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-02-02T10:09:29-05:00
BaKhan! Where the heck were you! You had me worried sick! No maple syrup or poutine for you!
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2016-02-02T10:11:24-05:00
No poutine! No poutine!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-02-02T10:13:27-05:00
@Geist, sorry to worry anyone! I had thursday and friday off last week, and spent the whole time working on painting and assembling the minis from my AvP KS that I recieved a partial shipment from. I have been waiting on this one for over two years! Yesterday was a write off for me as I was having problems with my breathing machine (bi-pap and oxygen multilplier), and it basically inflated me. I have never been more uncomfortable! So yesterday I was dealing with that and my extremely sore ankle. Sorry!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-02-02T10:14:04-05:00
I'm fasting right now anyways, so poutine is definitely off the list!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-02-02T11:00:53-05:00
Good to know you are still alive. Looks like my Canadian KC members are chilling. (Pun intended) Now I just need a Vegas update from GM.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-02-02T11:44:39-05:00
@Geist, well, so far so good. I go in for that procedure on Thursday, so I'll have a better idea of how my heart is really doing shortly thereafter. If they call me on Friday, I'll probably freak out, as the faster they get back to you, the more serious it is. So I'll just have to see.
I hope GM is having a good time, that guy has seriously needed this vacation!
Lord Zombitten 2016-02-02T11:55:42-05:00
Here's hoping it takes two weeks for them to get back to you, then! ;-)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-02-02T12:04:50-05:00
@LZ, thats what I'm hoping! I am trying to stay positive. Its tough though.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-02-02T12:41:09-05:00
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-02-02T14:14:25-05:00
BaKhan, here's hoping they lose the paperwork, forget about it, and you're never notified!
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Good... afternoon, corps! I would have semi-stuck to my schedule, but the thing about the controller below kept me up to 4 am, 2 hours longer than I'd hoped, and then I watched some Sherlock with my roommate until 5 because of one of the funniest parts in the series. Now I just have to get back on schedule for tomorrow.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-02-02T14:41:22-05:00
Birthday? I love birthdays! Drinks for everyone!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-02-02T15:08:42-05:00
I'm drinking lemonade. Does that count? Sorry, I don't have anything to make it hard lemonade.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-02-02T17:01:46-05:00
Seriously, this week so far in here has been like a weekend. Is work actually exciting for once? I mean, for GM, it makes sense to only have one or two comments at all, but we have a quota, people! Pick up the pace!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-02-02T17:12:07-05:00
@Zem, my work is not exciting, but as I've missed three days of work (didn't really miss them though), I've got a lot of catching up to do, with some very needy people. Effen people!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-02-02T17:23:25-05:00
Some people suck. (No pun intended)
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2016-02-02T17:25:59-05:00
Between everyone supporting Big Brother wholeheartedly and an atheist calling down God's wrath on gays, it was a great time!
Friday. Finally.
Glad to see you are having fun in Vegas GM. Makes me wish I could visit again
I am so jealous GM. Sounds like you are taking full advantage of your vaca.
Yeah for friday, kind of.
I still work half a day tomorrow. My friday won't actually start until noon tomorrow.
@Trinkets: but that is the perfect time to drink! Can you say "three-martini-lunch"?
Trinkets, He's taking full advantage of his vaca? His cow?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THAT POOR COW, GM?!?!?!
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I won't have an ideal weekend, but it promises to be plenty of fun. Plus, apparently after the week of not enough sleep, all I needed tonight was like 5 hours or so and I feel great! I have no idea how, but it feels like I had 10 hours of sleep! That, plus friday, plus few classes, plus 50 degree weather that I can fully enjoy knowing it'll be back to winter next week plus watching The Martian later on today in Chem Club means this promises to be a great day already! I should be careful, though, because that can usually turn around quick.
I can't wait for Saturday night. Going to see Cirqu Du Soleil's O, after having dinner and going to see the lovely server again(she even told us to ask for her).
Cirque du Soleil even! Sounds amazing! Meanwhile I got a free chick fil a sandwich and promotional handout for an apartment complex (sign a lease at Aspen within 48 hours and I can get a $350 visa gift card, apple watch sport, or keurig kold?! Oh boy!) while walking around campus. Not a bad start to a weekend.
@GM: Should I get digging out my good dress to go to your wedding?
Also, I discovered the cure for a week of not enough sleep: Not enough sleep! It's so obvious! I got like 5 1/2 hours of sleep last night if I was lucky, but woke up feeling perfect. Did I already mention this?
I think Zem is hallucinating from his lack of sleep, lol.
If I'm hallucinating, I wish I did more often. I felt horrible all week, but a really fun game and not enough sleep later, I feel perfect!
The weirdest thing is that I thought I'd be pretty low on sleep today since I went to bed at like 1:30 am, but I woke up an hour early and just lied in bed for an hour. I thought I couldn't go back to sleep, but turns out I didn't even need to and somehow got the equivalent of 9 or 10 hours normally in just over half the time.
I got around 7 hours last night and I need a nap.
I got six hours and I was up at 5:30 this morning.
Where is LZ? I want to run an idea by him.
Running is too much work. Let him come get the idea.
I'm here. What's the idea?
@Geist: Depends on how she feels above moving to Canada with me. Mind you, she is in school right now(going to ask her what for tomorrow when we see her). She did live in or near New York for most of her life, and she has been here for only 5 years.
Not quite my thing, but this is pretty cool: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1314680699/children-of-zodiarcs-a-new-tactical-jrpg-by-aaa-ve
@Potatten: That one looks decent....but it's a tactics game, I'm not a fan of those myself.
That's why I said it wasn't quite my thing GM :) I'm very finicky when it comes to tactics games myself.
Only another 50min until we are leaving for Freemont Street. Hopefully it's better to us on the gambling than the rest of the places have been(total, including buying a couple items, I'm down $100, about 40 of it on gambling....today I actually came back to the hotel slightly ahead from what I took this morning).
The WiFi in this hotel really sucks.
I've never had very good hotel WiFi
Well that was fun. Watched The Martian with Chem Club. Of course went over alot of the chemistry after as well. Got half a 2-liter of mountain dew left over at the end, too!
I no longer use hotel wifi. After having email account passwords skimmed and used to carpet spam my contacts list the last three times I used hotel wife's I simply use my phone now. So far no problems doing that.
Hello all. Sleepy kitty is sleepy. Adventure day. Much nature. Many rocks.
@potatten- almost went to philly today. I had a crap week and needed to get away. Would have tried to meet up. But realized Philly is just another city. I had to stand on the edge of a ravine and scream.
Whatever you went and did sounds fun anyways. Wait, what's this? Tired at midnight? So tired I could only just barely even set a new record for a song on Guitar Hero III at my house?! Wow, I need to go to sleep. It would be more amazing if I hadn't already set all the records for that song and I'm way better at it at this difficulty than I was then.
Good morning all.
Morning Trinkets.
Let the snow melt begin! It's supposed to get up to 52 degrees today
lol, well if any of you are ever here or coming let me know. We can definitely plan/do something. Tourism, food, drinks, ect. Just let me know. Know Geist said she would be by sometime this year too, maybe we could even do a KC thing?
I'm up for a mini KC con. I still wanna visit GM & BaKhan up north when it isn't -20 degrees.
@Potatten: would you be able to get me a list of all of Philly's small/independent book stores?
Here is a list of all bookstores in general: http://www.newpages.com/independent-bookstores/pennsylvania-bookstores
Here is a list of independents: https://phillyreads.wikispaces.com/Independent+Bookstores+in+Philadelphia
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/top-lists/best-indie-bookshops-in-philadelphia/
The listings for center city would be for the City of Philadelphia. Everything else is a little further out, though not necessarily too far. I think the Whodunit? books store went out of business though.
I finished Making a Murderer last night. The whole thing pisses me off.
Thanks Potatten. My goal this year is to explore each states used book stores. I am hoping to go to NYC and visit a few of their stores
Geist, what idea did you want to run by me?
@LZ: this is the idea I thought up as a way for you to raise some money for your hot sauce business.
You are a talented cook. What are two things that go great together? Beer and bacon. Why not invent some recipes using those two ingredients. Host a KS campaign to raise money for the book. If it takes off, you should have enough funds left over to help get your hot sauce business off the ground.
Or your second campaign would be the hot sauce campaign with a built-in support base from your first campaign
Hmmm, not a bad idea
Something to think about. Having built-in customers that will crow about your cooking and sauces is a pretty good way to help pay for the bottling expenses
Sorry I haven't been on all day, though it's a tame weekend, so that shouldn't've been a problem. Did a couple things, one of which we drove 2 hours each way for, so that's what took the longest.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito about 13 hours ago
Let the snow melt begin! It's supposed to get up to 52 degrees today
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Let the snow melt. It got up to 50-ish today! And on monday night through tuesday night, we'll get likely a foot and a half! WOOHOO!!! It's just like how the water level sinks before a tidal wave. ;)
Geist, your plan for one year is to hit all 50 states? And visit specific locations, likely several per state? And probably buy something in a large portion of those? Good luck. Though I would have some great suggestions for Nebraska, including an awesome one next door to my favorite restaurant in Lincoln, a really good local greek place. The best part of A Novel Idea? They have 2 really big and friendly cats! There's always one in the windows watching out and the other is usually around the store greeting the customers.
@Geist: You can return that dress to your closet. Found out that the awesome beautiful server is engaged...hope her fiance is a nice woman(found that out tonight as well)
@GM What happens in Vegas gets told to the KC!!
Too bad. Maybe you should ask her if she has a sister?
@GM: wait a tick. Did she have an engagement ring on her finger? If not, then she was politely saying "no".
Extra hard polite denial. Both the fake engagement AND pretending to be gay?! ;)
No, I think she was probably telling the truth, Geist. But still, wishful thinking! We still have a few Corps members with no significant other, and this must be rectified at once!
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Trinkets, as I said sometime earlier before he left, what happens in Vegas stays in KC.
So apparently yesterday in the late afternoon, my O chem professor sent out a shit ton of homework due monday early morning in class. Unfortunately, I went to my grandpa's birthday and my brother's honor band and didn't even get back and see it until like 11:30 pm. Now today I'm seeing my dad off because he's going to travel for work and vacation for the next month. I should probably be getting back to my dorm where I left all my notes and materials so I can start working finally at like 8-10 o'clock. 9 problems, 2 of them in-depth 3 parters. In a matter of like a couple hours. I'm pretty sure it goes against several rules to drop that much homework late in the weekend by surprise in a method not everyone will see and only half will have the materials to complete and expect it done before the end of the weekend.
@Geist: She did have a ring. Diamonds and silver. She also did agree when I mentioned she would be a great wingman.
Oh well, I will find someone nice sometime. Just hoping I'm not too much older before then.
Come on, Tuesday, let it snow! Supposed to get 8-16 in. over monday night through tuesday and blizzard conditions, so hopefully everything closes!
Morning kittens. It is currently 52 degrees and it's supposed to get as high as 62.
After last week, Mother Nature owes us a break
Morning kittens
Morning Creeper. Is the snow finally melting in NYC?
Good morning all.
Stupid busy at work.
Well, looks like we're getting 10-15" of snow starting tomorrow.
Morning Trinkets.
Better you than me. I've had enough with the stinking snow.
Ok BaKahn. You can come out of hiding now. You are beginning to worry me.
Ugh! Remember: if you're going to ask your friends to help you move for free, pack your crap up before moving day!
Also, good Monday, kittens!
Morning future hot sauce mogul
Geist, we've had our share already, too. 20" so far. This should put us between 26"-35" for this year.
LZ, that's bogus as all heck!!!
I would have left and came back when it was all packed and ready to move.
Wait, what? They hadn't packed up first? I agree with Trinkets.
And I would at least give my friends SOMETHING. Free lunch, movie tickets, something as a way of saying "Thanks".
Probably helped my friends move a half dozen times or so as I am the only one with a truck. Each time, they bought pizzas and beers. I think that is always a fair thing.
He did purchase a liter of soda for each of us and told us he owes us all a dinner or something. Thing is, he had to be out by yesterday because he lost his job and couldn't pay rent. So we felt bad enough for him that we didn't rage quit.
We're supposed to get 8-16 in. today! WOO! Hopefully everything's canceled tomorrow, my hell day! Plus, snow!
"Better you than me. I've had enough with the stinking snow." How can you say such a thing, Geist?! ;)
Besides, you'll probably be getting your fair share here soon, though it'll probably be rain at that warm. Well, at least it looks like nature finally sorted out who likes snow in winter and who would rather have 60 degrees! Good job, weather!
Also, why would anyone build a yeast culture into the system under the title of fungal culture? Fungal cultures look for yeast and mold. Yeast cultures only look for yeast! This isn't difficult!
Yeah! What he said!
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Also, regarding that surprise O chem homework I was up till 1 working on and only finished 3 problems of that I talked about yesterday, I got bored and it was getting hard visualizing this molecule, so I actually made a full model of it. It took like half of the connections I have, but I finally made it. And then was too lazy to take it apart, plus it was late and I had stuff to do. So now I just have a huge molecular model sitting on my desk staring at me to put it away. Maybe later since it takes up so much space. I guess it's not quite as funny here, but it is pretty large and imposing, just sitting on my desk for no apparent reason.
@LZ: That puts a different spin on it. Although, you usually know a few weeks in advance whether or not you can pay the rent so that you can pack up and be out of the unit before the sheriff comes. Hope your friend finds another job soon. I know all to well what it's like to be out of work.
He found another job, but he won't get his first paycheck for another week or two.
When his mom commented on his lack of packing, he replied that he's been busy job hunting. She reasoned that he hadn't been doing that 24/7 since he knew he'd have to move out. Our friends said the same thing, in less than cordial terms.
Geez, it's dead quiet everywhere. I think this is a good time to catch up on sleep. Haha. Like I could ever actually catch up. Sleep is just so fast.
@LZ: When I was unemployed, the most amount of time I would devote to job hunting was 10 hours. After that, I had to step back from the computer and clear my head. So he could have been packing for at least a few hours.
Wait, how did people comment then? I refreshed a dozen times between my last two comments but they only came up this time! 2 comments just out of nowhere.
Cthulhu must have eaten those comments temporarily
And then I appeased him with my sacrificial nap in his name, so he pooped them back out for me to read or something? Does Cthulhu poop?
This is a really quiet day for a monday. Where is everyone?
Monitoring the caucuses
WOO! Snow Day!
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I am too, LZ, but the card caucuses. The Contender game creators actually went there, since it's a political game, and had their own card caucus and played the game with the candidates' teams.
Also, don't worry. Historically, the first caucuses aren't a good representation whatsoever as to how the rest of the primaries and final elections will go.
2 am and the weather is barely what they said it would be several hours ago. They'd better not be wrong about this "heavy snow/ wind" from 5:30 to 6:30! You know, Lincoln usually gets more than the surrounding areas. At least we got tomorrow off. But if it proves to be terrible enough at the end of the day, they might call off wednesday as well just like last year.
After 2 hours of downloading something, searching through my files for it, trying to export files and reprogram things, and trying to install the driver at the very end, I learned something: it's not worth this amount of crap to hook up an X box controller to your computer to play games with. If I had Windows 10 or an X box 360 controller, it could work, but otherwise, after finally exporting the files to the last step, my computer just couldn't find the file to finally install. All those problems I had to go through and fix and move all the way to just installing it.
On the plus side, at least the snow really opened up finally.
Cthulhu must have eaten those comments temporarily
I thought Cthulhu ate Mormons and hanging chads?
I thought Cthulhu ate Mormons and hanging chads?
And souls
Good morning Geist.
Ugh. I can't stand when the boss is making me do something that is a waste of time and money, even when I tell him it will be. And he agrees with me that what he wants me to do might not work. So why the heck am I doing it?!? Aaarrggghhhh!!!
Good Morning Kittens!
BaKhan! Where the heck were you! You had me worried sick! No maple syrup or poutine for you!
No poutine! No poutine!
@Geist, sorry to worry anyone! I had thursday and friday off last week, and spent the whole time working on painting and assembling the minis from my AvP KS that I recieved a partial shipment from. I have been waiting on this one for over two years! Yesterday was a write off for me as I was having problems with my breathing machine (bi-pap and oxygen multilplier), and it basically inflated me. I have never been more uncomfortable! So yesterday I was dealing with that and my extremely sore ankle. Sorry!
I'm fasting right now anyways, so poutine is definitely off the list!
Good to know you are still alive. Looks like my Canadian KC members are chilling. (Pun intended) Now I just need a Vegas update from GM.
@Geist, well, so far so good. I go in for that procedure on Thursday, so I'll have a better idea of how my heart is really doing shortly thereafter. If they call me on Friday, I'll probably freak out, as the faster they get back to you, the more serious it is. So I'll just have to see.
I hope GM is having a good time, that guy has seriously needed this vacation!
Here's hoping it takes two weeks for them to get back to you, then! ;-)
@LZ, thats what I'm hoping! I am trying to stay positive. Its tough though.
Sending lots of KC love toward you BaKhan!
Happy B-Day to Cha! if she pops on.
BaKhan, here's hoping they lose the paperwork, forget about it, and you're never notified!
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Good... afternoon, corps! I would have semi-stuck to my schedule, but the thing about the controller below kept me up to 4 am, 2 hours longer than I'd hoped, and then I watched some Sherlock with my roommate until 5 because of one of the funniest parts in the series. Now I just have to get back on schedule for tomorrow.
Birthday? I love birthdays! Drinks for everyone!
I'm drinking lemonade. Does that count? Sorry, I don't have anything to make it hard lemonade.
Seriously, this week so far in here has been like a weekend. Is work actually exciting for once? I mean, for GM, it makes sense to only have one or two comments at all, but we have a quota, people! Pick up the pace!
@Zem, my work is not exciting, but as I've missed three days of work (didn't really miss them though), I've got a lot of catching up to do, with some very needy people. Effen people!
Some people suck. (No pun intended)
Geist de la Muerte Gatito about 3 hours
Drinks for everyone!
Effin A-right!!!!!