Damn crappy connection, causing a double-post! Sorry.
Lord Zombitten 2016-08-24T12:19:41-04:00
I use stewing meat. Ground beef gives it a weird texture, I find
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-24T12:33:37-04:00
@LZ, people mostly make it with ground beef up here anyways, but stewing meat makes sense, basically its just chopped up pot roast anyways... ;) I much prefer that kind of texture myself. Maybe I could talk you into making some chilli for us when you come up? You tell me what you need, I'll make it happen! ;)
Lord Zombitten 2016-08-24T12:35:44-04:00
Sounds good. It's tradition in my family to eat chili on Halloween, anyway
Lord Zombitten 2016-08-24T12:37:14-04:00
And most people down here also use ground beef. The meat is partly why I've won chili cook-offs before
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-24T12:40:33-04:00
While it would go with the theme of Halloween, no ghost peppers in the chili. Please! My exit door wouldn't be able to take the stress.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-24T12:40:44-04:00
@LZ, I've placed pretty high in a few 2nd and 3rd places typically. My main problem is not toning down the spiciness enough for the Canadian pallet. I always make it mild to my taste, but apperently its still too spicy... I think most people around here find oatmeal too spicy... ;)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-24T12:44:58-04:00
@Geist, amen to that! My wife would just die, and I would be one of the crabbiest bastards anyone's ever seen! Must avoid the ghost pepper! ;) My wife can handle jalapeno hot, begrudgingly, but nothing past that point.
Lord Zombitten 2016-08-24T13:10:37-04:00
Yeah, I tend to avoid using such things when cooking for other people. At the last chili cook-off I was in, I cut up one habañero into the six-quart pot and then I had a one-quart pot into which I cut up one or two habañeros. I labeled the big pot "mild" and the small pot "hot." Most people couldn't stand the mild (which to me, really was mild). They didn't believe that anyone could eat the hot, but I did. That was the last time I pulled a stunt like that. Many people said mine had the best flavor, but they didn't vote for it because of the heat.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-24T13:21:39-04:00
@LZ: you just have an iron tongue, is all.
Lord Zombitten 2016-08-24T13:35:09-04:00
It's because of the years of abuse I've subjected it to. I think I've destroyed some of the capsaicin receptors. Either that, or my brain just says, "Oh, this again? Yeah, yeah...that's nothing important."
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-24T13:41:50-04:00
Oh, this again? Yeah, yeah...that's nothing important
My liver feels the same way.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-24T14:16:15-04:00
I suspect that I'm in big trouble between the two of you! ;)
I'll be in trouble too...I do have Oct 27-31 off. >.>
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-24T14:41:58-04:00
Speaking of which, LZ, which dates were you planning on again? If I'm able to and you're okay with me carpooling up to the great white north, I'll need the dates you're planning on, plus probably an extra of my own. But now I have my syllabi, so now whatever the schedule, I can see if it's possible.
Today sucks. It's the last day(and she already left) for the VP of HR who made work fun, we got word from the girl who's going on maternity leave that her doctor said no more(she was going to be working until Sept 15) and to start now. There are only 2-3 of us who actually socialize, and try to bring life to this place. It's so depressing around here.
@Zem: Don't forget to have your passport before you come.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-24T15:01:32-04:00
@BaKhan: I'm just thinking of the poor pipes in your house. Extra guest all pooping lava can't possibly be good for them.
Lord Zombitten 2016-08-24T15:01:50-04:00
Zem, I have October 27- November 4 off. We might be leaving after I get off work on the 26th, or setting out early on the 27th. We're coming home tonight on the 2nd. I took a couple extra days off afterward.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-24T15:09:45-04:00
@LZ: I was thinking of taking an extra day off as well. I'm still undecided about that.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-24T15:15:46-04:00
@Geist, our house proudly features three and a half baths, so no worries, lots of lava handling capabilities... ;) lol! GM, can back me up on the fact that my house is not small... ;)
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-24T15:19:20-04:00
GM, we've always had passports just in case. I may check (again), but pretty sure my mom has it somewhere in the office at home.
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So likely 26-3. Got it, thanks! First chance I get, I'll look into my schedules, but if I remember right, it should work; I glanced over them but had no idea what days specifically. A week sounds a little much of classes to miss... Why couldn't Fall Break have been then, like Halloween or something, which makes sense, rather than the 17th and 18th?!
@Geist: BaKhan's house is definitely big. Lots of room.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-24T16:01:00-04:00
@Zem, it can't be more than six months to renewal or they may not let you cross, fyi. Also, yay! That would be great if you could make it! Between you and GM, I'm gonna feel tiny though... ;) Sounds like I'll have to make some extra maple bacon brittle... ;)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-24T16:01:47-04:00
This is getting pretty exciting guys! I can't wait!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-24T16:22:42-04:00
I can't weight to eat my weight in maple bacon brittle and butter tarts
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-24T16:28:28-04:00
I'm even more excited about going than you guys are about me coming, assuming it all miraculously works out!
My passport expires when I'm 26, apparently, so I think I'm good for a few months here...
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-24T16:30:27-04:00
I'm an usher at Husker football home games here, for UNL, so I got scared I might miss a game, but there's only an away game that saturday, the 29th. Though it's Wisconsin, so I may have to tune out and watch that game, it's gonna be rough! That's always an exciting game.
@BaKhan: I can try, and if all else fails, I know my mom makes some mean butter tarts.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-24T16:42:11-04:00
German: Yes! Exam 2 days before that. Though you can't miss too many days in that class...
Calc: F*********** exam Nov. 1! I may be able to reschedule that if I'm lucky, but that'd be tough as it is!
History of Rock: Uuuummmm... the only thing in that class is the exams, but I can't find any schedule anywhere for them!
P-chem: I'm good! Though it's definitely not advised to miss any days of that, much less a week.
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Yeah, in a bit of a pickle, but I fully expected that. I've hoped to God all the time I could make it, but figured it'd be next to impossible on a college schedule. We can still see, it's not impossible, just very difficult.
Still have no clue when those Rock exams will be though, but we have a full week period to be able to schedule a time at the testing center to go in and take it, so that's not a worry.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-24T16:43:35-04:00
@GM, ok, you're in charge of butter tarts! (or your mom...) ;)
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-24T16:47:14-04:00
If you talk to the professor/organizer early, there's always another date to take the math exams because inevitably a few people will have an issue. I could see into that, but in total a week is alot... Thankfully it's not the week before I'm going or anything, but it's still not going to be an easy trick to pull off.
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Be sure of this, though: Being able to go and see all of you and go to Canada and the party and everything would be, by far, the best thing ever! It would totally be worth it if I could manage it, even the having to figure out how not to take a hit in german class!
(since we meet literally every day in that class, we have 5 freebies to skip class, but after that, 10 unexcused absences that result in a one point deduction from our grade in that class. Current plans mean losing 3 points and wasting my freebies)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-24T16:49:28-04:00
@Zem, well, if it helps, my wife has an office space at the far end of the house, so it is quieter than other spaces, and you could use that to study if you would like. Just putting that out there. Honestly though, whatever fun times we wind up having will not outweigh your future, do not jeaprodize your education!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-24T16:56:49-04:00
@BaKhan: No no my friend. Anything you decide to serve is alright with me. Besides, you guys have bakeries in Canada. I'm sure some of them serve butter tarts that I could buy.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-24T17:02:44-04:00
I love how that after this long, the regular with the fewest comments is 3,335 (now that Trinkets is back, otherwise it was BaKhan with 3825!). We've been around so long the lowest person has thousands of comments! Even many of the irregulars!
Also, Creeper... the waiting game is almost over! I'm just under 500 from you! Though now LZ may be starting to make a few scratches back...
Thus endeth my regular monthly looking at the "scoreboard".
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-24T17:05:57-04:00
BaKhan, I'm not too picky, but if I can manage, I'll definitely need to study. Especially for that exam I'd shift hopefully to the friday after I get back. And Physical Chemistry; quantum mechanics and chemistry are not things to be taken lightly... And of course German since you can't stop practicing a language you're learning. And history of rock too, just because why not, I'm missing a bit already. Yeah, all the classes for all the reasons.
Also, it shouldn't weigh down on my future, but that's what I'm hoping scheduling can fix in the first place. Not the first time I've had to skip a few days, even a week, but it is the most I've done at one time in college yet. Still gonna be fun if I can manage.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-24T17:06:40-04:00
I hope we're not deluging LZ too much to catch up; his input would be pretty weighty seeing as I have to meet up with him.
Lord Zombitten 2016-08-24T17:22:29-04:00
Ultimately, you'll have to be the judge on what you can get away with here, dude. It'd be great to have you, but it'd suck for you to mess up your education for a few days of fun.
That being said, I can possibly help a little with the German thing. I only speak a little of it, but I'm fluent in Dutch, which is pretty similar.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-24T17:35:53-04:00
@Zem, I'm almost at my fourth lol? Thats awesome!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-24T17:39:08-04:00
LZ, my older brother actually moved to Germany to learn German for a job he got in Switzerland (well, he just finished the class and will move very soon), so I'm going to practice with him on skype every week. Though any help practicing is really... helpful. Darn lack of creativity with adjectives!
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BaKhan, yup! Just 175 comments to go as of the last time it updated! ( as of 2016-08-24 17:07:18.571238 UTC)
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-25T07:20:15-04:00
*yawn*
Morning kittens
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2016-08-25T07:29:54-04:00
Good morning Geist.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-25T08:15:16-04:00
Howdy Trinkets!
Almost the weekend. I am so looking forward to it. Been getting less sleep as I try to finish two projects at work. I just might veg out this weekend.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-25T09:08:00-04:00
Good morning kittens!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-25T09:08:40-04:00
@Geist, vegging out is a great way to recouperate! 10/10 I would veg again! ;)
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-25T09:44:17-04:00
Actually BaKhan, I have a ton of organizing to do at home. I usually start doing it then get distracted or I have something to do and then my place gets messy again.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-25T09:59:19-04:00
@Geist, oh I know all about that! My intention is always to put something away as soon as I'm done with it. The piles of stuff to be sorted out and put away are crazy sometimes. One of the hard things for me is that my wife has the same tendancies, with out the intention of doing it right away, and we end up spending hours and hours, if not days and days, cleaning. Decoration clutter aside, when you guys come up, the way you see the house will not be the way it normally is... ;)
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-25T10:07:09-04:00
@BaKhan: I tend to collect books and paper. Articles, post-its with information on them. I've got nearly a half a dozen of the Xerox boxes that I've collected from work that I've been using to pack up my books and other stuff (I still plan on moving out of the apartment and into a house within the next 2 years). My goal was to have all of this done before my birthday so that the maintenance guys can come in a make a few repairs but it looks like that isn't going to happen so I'll have to shoot before the end of the year.
Morning kittens.
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Looks like I'm likely the only one on this side of the office today. My manager is working from home, the US benefits coordinator is taking a day off, the safety girl left on mat leave yesterday, and not sure where the HR lady is.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-25T10:21:06-04:00
@GM, good morning sir! Sorry to hear that you're alone in the office today. For fun, you should page yourself over the intercom! ;)
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-25T10:23:24-04:00
@GM: You should play some music since you are the only one there.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-25T10:26:06-04:00
@Geist, all of my books are on bookselves (we have a nice little area on the second floor) but as my mother in law put them away for me, none of them are in order at all. I had them all packed up in alphabetical order, with the letters written on the boxes, so it would be easy to put away. Sadly, she just opened boxes willy nilly and put them on the shelf in any order. Even if she had just put each box on the shelf the authors should have been grouped, but no. It will take days to sort it all out again. :( Its already been like that for two years...
@BaKhan: We don't have an intercom. And there are other people...just they are on the other side of the building, and all are part of accounting where they have their faces buried in their computer screen.
@Geist: I always have music going. That's one of the perks of having my own office(though I will probably end up sharing if we ever grow as a company again since there is another desk in my room)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-25T10:30:14-04:00
@GM, no intercom! Oh well, there goes that idea... ;)
@BaKhan: If everyone is in who works on the other side(that isn't on vacation right now) there should be about 8 other people in today. On a day where EVERYONE is in the office, excluding the girl who went on mat leave now, there would be 15 people. There are enough desks in our part of this floor for 37 people.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-25T10:52:40-04:00
@GM, I think thats pretty typical for the oil industry right now. We're feeling the pinch too, we were just told that we will not be getting raises this year, and we have five more empty desks than we did at the start of the year. That being said, we're still meeting our sales targets, just each person is busier than we should be, mistakes are being made. >.>
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-25T10:58:27-04:00
@BaKhan: How many books do you have? I currently have 538...and counting.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-25T11:02:51-04:00
@Geist, I've never actually done a piece count so I don't know exactly. I can fill four regular sized book shelves and then some, so I'd guess a few hundred anyways... ;)
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2016-08-25T11:04:39-04:00
Vegging out sounds like a great idea. I have a short day tomorrow, so I will be vegging out on a boat catching some fish. And then it's game night. Saturday I will try and finish the South Park Stick of Truth game. I would organize my man cave, but I never get to far. I usually throw on a movie while trying to organize. End up watching the movie instead.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-25T11:06:26-04:00
I usually throw on a movie while trying to organize. End up watching the movie instead.
I do the same thing when I'm cleaning. Another reason why I never get stuff done.
Lord Zombitten 2016-08-25T11:25:57-04:00
When we moved into our house, the books were thrown on the shelves in a mostly disorganized fashion. I said I'd sort it out later. Later hasn't quite come yet. It's been nearly six years...
@BaKhan: I talked to my mom last night, and she said she will gladly help me make butter tarts when it gets closer to Halloween. Only question, how many should I look at making?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-25T11:37:51-04:00
No intercom? Dang, no announcing a WWE match tagteam with you and Hulk Hogan over the speakers. ;)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-25T11:44:49-04:00
@GM, My movies (because I put them away) are alphabetically organized. I have ocpd (not as bad as ocd, but still I can annoy the hell out of people and I don't mean to) so I don't really have an option that way. The only reason I haven't fixed the books is the sheer volume of work to fix it. Honestly I normally keep the lights off by them so I can't see them, then they don't bother me as much. ;)
As per the butter tarts, your mom is a rock star! I would gladly accept as many as she was willing to make (I'm not sure how many I'll share...), but seriously I would think that two dozen would be lots! And again, would be muchly appreciated!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-25T11:45:50-04:00
@Geist, we can make that happen! There are lots of used book stores around. Fair's Fair is probably one of the best ones, but there are many to choose from.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-25T11:47:18-04:00
@Trinkets, sounds good! I wish I could get away and just spend some time in nature... my wife is a city girl through and through, even though she's from a small rural town, go figure... ;)
@BaKhan: I started using Libib to keep track of what books I have. I need to go through and update it since I know a LOT are missing. I have it organized by author, but might redo it so it's organized by series instead.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-25T12:26:00-04:00
@GM, when / if, I ever get around to reorganizing the books, I'll use something like that for sure. I'm sure it will help flesh out many of the series that I've started and never finished over the years... ;)
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-25T12:36:06-04:00
@GM & BaKhan: That is the app that I use to keep track of books. Been a life saver. Now I don't end up buying doubles of books that I end up giving away. It's also the reason why I know how many I have.
@Geist: I use it for the same purpose, making sure I don't buy doubles of something. Though, since I've neglected to keep it up to date, and I plan on hitting the book store today, I can't look for more in certain series because I can't remember if I have them all in there or not.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-25T13:01:54-04:00
@GM: I have my books sorted by type. Craft books, Hardback fiction, Hardback cookbook, etc.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-25T13:04:06-04:00
I only have maybe 20 books at home, so I have a full shelf that I loosely organized by genre. More specifically by topic. It was sort of a gradient going from, if I can remember, interesting things to urban myths and misconceptions (and the truths behind them) to general factoids to historical facts to books about history to historical fiction to fantasy, including such beauties as several Mental Floss books, histories of England, the entirety of Sherlock Holmes, and the entire (important) works of Tolkien (Silmarillion, Hobbit, LotR). Then I have a few books that didn't fit on the shelf, for instance The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which I'm reading now.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-25T13:07:07-04:00
I love the saying that you can never trust a person whose TV is bigger than their bookshelf, but I only have maybe 1 1/2 shelves worth of books, but i just bought a gigantic like 50 inch TV for my dorm, so... I may need to hit up a bookstore.
OH! That's not even to mention comic books! I love newspaper comic strips, so between stuff my parents, my little brother, and I bought, we have a full small bookshelf of just those, including all of Calvin&Hobbes, Dilbert, The Far Side, Bloom County, Foxtrot... tons of all the good ones! Do those count as books?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-25T13:07:54-04:00
By the way, I've read all of those books AT LEAST once, but all of the comic books at least 3 times I'm certain, many of them much, much, much, much more. I used to read those almost exclusively.
Lord Zombitten 2016-08-25T13:42:14-04:00
How does that saying work with projectors?
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-25T13:49:14-04:00
If you go home with someone and they don't have any books, don't f**k him. - John Waters
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-25T13:51:20-04:00
If that saying is true, you can trust the hell out of me, my two tvs are 46" and 52" (this one is curved and 3D), my book cases are much bigger than them both! ;)
My shelves are lined with movies, my book case(which is about 1/2 the normal sized book cases) is double lined shelves(some of it I am getting rid of...grew out of the manga reading phase), and I still have other books sitting on top of those ones, and in other spots around my room.
My movie shelves are nicely organized, but I do have a stack that can't fit on there, and I need to organize it better.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-25T14:02:34-04:00
If I ever marry, that guy better love reading. Or at least like it. I'm not really going to get along with a pure couch potato. Or someone who plays video games all day and night, every weekend.
@Geist: I'm trying to find someone who will encourage me to go out more(not someone who is out partying EVERY night - I don't do the whole club/bar scene), but also enjoys playing video games, reading, and doesn't require constant attention(definitely need someone who is independent and has their own hobbies). Unfortunately, 99% of the time when I find someone like that, they are already taken, or I end up realizing they were hitting on me WAY after we parted ways.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-25T14:19:37-04:00
@GM: Why do you need encouragement at all. Motivate yourself to go out more. Having a mate isn't really going to accomplish that if you aren't willing to do that on your own.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-25T14:30:19-04:00
@Geist, I'm pretty sure what he means, is that if he is with someone who is more motivated to go out and do fun things, then he will naturally be as well. We do tend to pick up habits from those we partner with. ;)
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-25T14:55:17-04:00
I know BaKhan. But at the moment, his life is going by. Why not explore the world now? He might bump into his soul mate that way.
@Geist, I didn't start dating my wife till I was 35, so I don't think there's anything abnormal about GM. It can be hard to put yourself out there, its a scary world, rejection sucks, etc. There are a ton of reasons why not to explore the world. With me, I had totally given up on finding a decent woman, when my wife called me up out of the blue and asked me on a date. We've been together ever since. ;)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-25T15:10:11-04:00
I think ultimately, its about being in the right place, at the right time, with the right head space, thats a lot of variables! ;) Not to wax too philisophical but, it will happen, in the way its supposed to happen, when its supposed to happen. For me, as soon as I had given up totally, it happened. I think that in giving up, I had also accepted who I was, which made me more confident in myself, and therefore more willing to take a risk.
@BaKhan: That's another thing that makes it hard to find the right woman...almost all of the ones I know don't talk in plain English. They talk in that "maybe I mean this, but it could be this, or that, but quite possibly those hundred other possibilities"....we're adults...SPEAK LIKE A REGULAR HUMAN(not directed at anyone here...just tired of that stuff).
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-25T15:17:18-04:00
@GM, one of the ways that you'll know you've got a potential candidate is that, you will understand what they mean when they say those things, and, it won't annoy you! My wife has many habits that would drive me mental, if, I didn't love her. One of the things that clued me into how special she was, and how much she meant to me, was that I could handle the annoying things, and they didn't annoy me. Trust me, I put up with stuff from her, gladly, that I would ditch people (for life) over otherwise... ;)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-25T15:18:51-04:00
@GM, also consider that to them, you don't speak in "plain" english either... There's a learning curve on both sides. Part of it is understanding their meaning, the other is helping them understand you! ;)
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-25T15:21:36-04:00
@BaKhan: I didn't call GM "abnormal". I simply think he would stand a better chance if he took a chance and explored more. Yes, rejection is hard but it's a part of life. One simply must have the confidence and a thicker skin to shrug your shoulders and move on.
And what if your wife had never called you? You two would never have met. If the world simply sat by and waited for their mates to come call them, there would be a whole lot less people in the world.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-25T15:25:48-04:00
there would be a whole lot less people in the world.
@BaKhan: I more meant in the hinting at things, but never actually saying it in straight "Hey, I like you, want to go out?" terms. It's usually something like "You have good fashion sense", or "That book must be good to keep your attention while I was trying to get your attention"(this one actually happened last October, I got on the train - headphones in listening to music - and apparently she waved at me a few times "trying" to get my attention...)
Damn crappy connection, causing a double-post! Sorry.
I use stewing meat. Ground beef gives it a weird texture, I find
@LZ, people mostly make it with ground beef up here anyways, but stewing meat makes sense, basically its just chopped up pot roast anyways... ;) I much prefer that kind of texture myself. Maybe I could talk you into making some chilli for us when you come up? You tell me what you need, I'll make it happen! ;)
Sounds good. It's tradition in my family to eat chili on Halloween, anyway
And most people down here also use ground beef. The meat is partly why I've won chili cook-offs before
While it would go with the theme of Halloween, no ghost peppers in the chili. Please! My exit door wouldn't be able to take the stress.
@LZ, I've placed pretty high in a few 2nd and 3rd places typically. My main problem is not toning down the spiciness enough for the Canadian pallet. I always make it mild to my taste, but apperently its still too spicy... I think most people around here find oatmeal too spicy... ;)
@Geist, amen to that! My wife would just die, and I would be one of the crabbiest bastards anyone's ever seen! Must avoid the ghost pepper! ;) My wife can handle jalapeno hot, begrudgingly, but nothing past that point.
Yeah, I tend to avoid using such things when cooking for other people. At the last chili cook-off I was in, I cut up one habañero into the six-quart pot and then I had a one-quart pot into which I cut up one or two habañeros. I labeled the big pot "mild" and the small pot "hot." Most people couldn't stand the mild (which to me, really was mild). They didn't believe that anyone could eat the hot, but I did. That was the last time I pulled a stunt like that. Many people said mine had the best flavor, but they didn't vote for it because of the heat.
@LZ: you just have an iron tongue, is all.
It's because of the years of abuse I've subjected it to. I think I've destroyed some of the capsaicin receptors. Either that, or my brain just says, "Oh, this again? Yeah, yeah...that's nothing important."
Oh, this again? Yeah, yeah...that's nothing important
My liver feels the same way.
I suspect that I'm in big trouble between the two of you! ;)
I'll be in trouble too...I do have Oct 27-31 off. >.>
Speaking of which, LZ, which dates were you planning on again? If I'm able to and you're okay with me carpooling up to the great white north, I'll need the dates you're planning on, plus probably an extra of my own. But now I have my syllabi, so now whatever the schedule, I can see if it's possible.
Today sucks. It's the last day(and she already left) for the VP of HR who made work fun, we got word from the girl who's going on maternity leave that her doctor said no more(she was going to be working until Sept 15) and to start now. There are only 2-3 of us who actually socialize, and try to bring life to this place. It's so depressing around here.
@Zem: Don't forget to have your passport before you come.
@BaKhan: I'm just thinking of the poor pipes in your house. Extra guest all pooping lava can't possibly be good for them.
Zem, I have October 27- November 4 off. We might be leaving after I get off work on the 26th, or setting out early on the 27th. We're coming home tonight on the 2nd. I took a couple extra days off afterward.
@LZ: I was thinking of taking an extra day off as well. I'm still undecided about that.
@Geist, our house proudly features three and a half baths, so no worries, lots of lava handling capabilities... ;) lol! GM, can back me up on the fact that my house is not small... ;)
GM, we've always had passports just in case. I may check (again), but pretty sure my mom has it somewhere in the office at home.
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So likely 26-3. Got it, thanks! First chance I get, I'll look into my schedules, but if I remember right, it should work; I glanced over them but had no idea what days specifically. A week sounds a little much of classes to miss... Why couldn't Fall Break have been then, like Halloween or something, which makes sense, rather than the 17th and 18th?!
@Zem: Best to have that checked right away, and make sure it's not going to expire anytime soon.
@Geist: BaKhan's house is definitely big. Lots of room.
@Zem, it can't be more than six months to renewal or they may not let you cross, fyi. Also, yay! That would be great if you could make it! Between you and GM, I'm gonna feel tiny though... ;) Sounds like I'll have to make some extra maple bacon brittle... ;)
This is getting pretty exciting guys! I can't wait!
I can't weight to eat my weight in maple bacon brittle and butter tarts
I'm even more excited about going than you guys are about me coming, assuming it all miraculously works out!
My passport expires when I'm 26, apparently, so I think I'm good for a few months here...
I'm an usher at Husker football home games here, for UNL, so I got scared I might miss a game, but there's only an away game that saturday, the 29th. Though it's Wisconsin, so I may have to tune out and watch that game, it's gonna be rough! That's always an exciting game.
@Zem: I believe the party is on the 2th.
Yup, expires 25 Feb, 2024, so I'm good there. I'll check my schedule right now. Please no unmissable exams!!!
29th*
@GM, you any good at making butter tarts? I've never tried and it sounds like they are expected... ;)
Yep, party on the 29th! All day baking / cooking craziness on the 28th! ;)
@BaKhan: I can try, and if all else fails, I know my mom makes some mean butter tarts.
German: Yes! Exam 2 days before that. Though you can't miss too many days in that class...
Calc: F*********** exam Nov. 1! I may be able to reschedule that if I'm lucky, but that'd be tough as it is!
History of Rock: Uuuummmm... the only thing in that class is the exams, but I can't find any schedule anywhere for them!
P-chem: I'm good! Though it's definitely not advised to miss any days of that, much less a week.
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Yeah, in a bit of a pickle, but I fully expected that. I've hoped to God all the time I could make it, but figured it'd be next to impossible on a college schedule. We can still see, it's not impossible, just very difficult.
Still have no clue when those Rock exams will be though, but we have a full week period to be able to schedule a time at the testing center to go in and take it, so that's not a worry.
@GM, ok, you're in charge of butter tarts! (or your mom...) ;)
If you talk to the professor/organizer early, there's always another date to take the math exams because inevitably a few people will have an issue. I could see into that, but in total a week is alot... Thankfully it's not the week before I'm going or anything, but it's still not going to be an easy trick to pull off.
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Be sure of this, though: Being able to go and see all of you and go to Canada and the party and everything would be, by far, the best thing ever! It would totally be worth it if I could manage it, even the having to figure out how not to take a hit in german class!
(since we meet literally every day in that class, we have 5 freebies to skip class, but after that, 10 unexcused absences that result in a one point deduction from our grade in that class. Current plans mean losing 3 points and wasting my freebies)
@Zem, well, if it helps, my wife has an office space at the far end of the house, so it is quieter than other spaces, and you could use that to study if you would like. Just putting that out there. Honestly though, whatever fun times we wind up having will not outweigh your future, do not jeaprodize your education!
@BaKhan: No no my friend. Anything you decide to serve is alright with me. Besides, you guys have bakeries in Canada. I'm sure some of them serve butter tarts that I could buy.
I love how that after this long, the regular with the fewest comments is 3,335 (now that Trinkets is back, otherwise it was BaKhan with 3825!). We've been around so long the lowest person has thousands of comments! Even many of the irregulars!
Also, Creeper... the waiting game is almost over! I'm just under 500 from you! Though now LZ may be starting to make a few scratches back...
Thus endeth my regular monthly looking at the "scoreboard".
BaKhan, I'm not too picky, but if I can manage, I'll definitely need to study. Especially for that exam I'd shift hopefully to the friday after I get back. And Physical Chemistry; quantum mechanics and chemistry are not things to be taken lightly... And of course German since you can't stop practicing a language you're learning. And history of rock too, just because why not, I'm missing a bit already. Yeah, all the classes for all the reasons.
Also, it shouldn't weigh down on my future, but that's what I'm hoping scheduling can fix in the first place. Not the first time I've had to skip a few days, even a week, but it is the most I've done at one time in college yet. Still gonna be fun if I can manage.
I hope we're not deluging LZ too much to catch up; his input would be pretty weighty seeing as I have to meet up with him.
Ultimately, you'll have to be the judge on what you can get away with here, dude. It'd be great to have you, but it'd suck for you to mess up your education for a few days of fun.
That being said, I can possibly help a little with the German thing. I only speak a little of it, but I'm fluent in Dutch, which is pretty similar.
@Zem, I'm almost at my fourth lol? Thats awesome!
LZ, my older brother actually moved to Germany to learn German for a job he got in Switzerland (well, he just finished the class and will move very soon), so I'm going to practice with him on skype every week. Though any help practicing is really... helpful. Darn lack of creativity with adjectives!
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BaKhan, yup! Just 175 comments to go as of the last time it updated! ( as of 2016-08-24 17:07:18.571238 UTC)
*yawn*
Morning kittens
Good morning Geist.
Howdy Trinkets!
Almost the weekend. I am so looking forward to it. Been getting less sleep as I try to finish two projects at work. I just might veg out this weekend.
Good morning kittens!
@Geist, vegging out is a great way to recouperate! 10/10 I would veg again! ;)
Actually BaKhan, I have a ton of organizing to do at home. I usually start doing it then get distracted or I have something to do and then my place gets messy again.
@Geist, oh I know all about that! My intention is always to put something away as soon as I'm done with it. The piles of stuff to be sorted out and put away are crazy sometimes. One of the hard things for me is that my wife has the same tendancies, with out the intention of doing it right away, and we end up spending hours and hours, if not days and days, cleaning. Decoration clutter aside, when you guys come up, the way you see the house will not be the way it normally is... ;)
@BaKhan: I tend to collect books and paper. Articles, post-its with information on them. I've got nearly a half a dozen of the Xerox boxes that I've collected from work that I've been using to pack up my books and other stuff (I still plan on moving out of the apartment and into a house within the next 2 years). My goal was to have all of this done before my birthday so that the maintenance guys can come in a make a few repairs but it looks like that isn't going to happen so I'll have to shoot before the end of the year.
Morning kittens.
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Looks like I'm likely the only one on this side of the office today. My manager is working from home, the US benefits coordinator is taking a day off, the safety girl left on mat leave yesterday, and not sure where the HR lady is.
@GM, good morning sir! Sorry to hear that you're alone in the office today. For fun, you should page yourself over the intercom! ;)
@GM: You should play some music since you are the only one there.
@Geist, all of my books are on bookselves (we have a nice little area on the second floor) but as my mother in law put them away for me, none of them are in order at all. I had them all packed up in alphabetical order, with the letters written on the boxes, so it would be easy to put away. Sadly, she just opened boxes willy nilly and put them on the shelf in any order. Even if she had just put each box on the shelf the authors should have been grouped, but no. It will take days to sort it all out again. :( Its already been like that for two years...
@BaKhan: We don't have an intercom. And there are other people...just they are on the other side of the building, and all are part of accounting where they have their faces buried in their computer screen.
@Geist: I always have music going. That's one of the perks of having my own office(though I will probably end up sharing if we ever grow as a company again since there is another desk in my room)
@GM, no intercom! Oh well, there goes that idea... ;)
@BaKhan: If everyone is in who works on the other side(that isn't on vacation right now) there should be about 8 other people in today. On a day where EVERYONE is in the office, excluding the girl who went on mat leave now, there would be 15 people. There are enough desks in our part of this floor for 37 people.
@GM, I think thats pretty typical for the oil industry right now. We're feeling the pinch too, we were just told that we will not be getting raises this year, and we have five more empty desks than we did at the start of the year. That being said, we're still meeting our sales targets, just each person is busier than we should be, mistakes are being made. >.>
@BaKhan: How many books do you have? I currently have 538...and counting.
@Geist, I've never actually done a piece count so I don't know exactly. I can fill four regular sized book shelves and then some, so I'd guess a few hundred anyways... ;)
Vegging out sounds like a great idea. I have a short day tomorrow, so I will be vegging out on a boat catching some fish. And then it's game night. Saturday I will try and finish the South Park Stick of Truth game. I would organize my man cave, but I never get to far. I usually throw on a movie while trying to organize. End up watching the movie instead.
I usually throw on a movie while trying to organize. End up watching the movie instead.
I do the same thing when I'm cleaning. Another reason why I never get stuff done.
When we moved into our house, the books were thrown on the shelves in a mostly disorganized fashion. I said I'd sort it out later. Later hasn't quite come yet. It's been nearly six years...
@LZ: I'm the same way with my movies and books...I'll sort it out later(I have ~300 movies, not quite as many books).
Gotta remember to hit up the used bookstores in Canada when I visit
@BaKhan: I talked to my mom last night, and she said she will gladly help me make butter tarts when it gets closer to Halloween. Only question, how many should I look at making?
No intercom? Dang, no announcing a WWE match tagteam with you and Hulk Hogan over the speakers. ;)
@GM, My movies (because I put them away) are alphabetically organized. I have ocpd (not as bad as ocd, but still I can annoy the hell out of people and I don't mean to) so I don't really have an option that way. The only reason I haven't fixed the books is the sheer volume of work to fix it. Honestly I normally keep the lights off by them so I can't see them, then they don't bother me as much. ;)
As per the butter tarts, your mom is a rock star! I would gladly accept as many as she was willing to make (I'm not sure how many I'll share...), but seriously I would think that two dozen would be lots! And again, would be muchly appreciated!
@Geist, we can make that happen! There are lots of used book stores around. Fair's Fair is probably one of the best ones, but there are many to choose from.
@Trinkets, sounds good! I wish I could get away and just spend some time in nature... my wife is a city girl through and through, even though she's from a small rural town, go figure... ;)
@BaKhan: I started using Libib to keep track of what books I have. I need to go through and update it since I know a LOT are missing. I have it organized by author, but might redo it so it's organized by series instead.
@GM, when / if, I ever get around to reorganizing the books, I'll use something like that for sure. I'm sure it will help flesh out many of the series that I've started and never finished over the years... ;)
@GM & BaKhan: That is the app that I use to keep track of books. Been a life saver. Now I don't end up buying doubles of books that I end up giving away. It's also the reason why I know how many I have.
@Geist: I use it for the same purpose, making sure I don't buy doubles of something. Though, since I've neglected to keep it up to date, and I plan on hitting the book store today, I can't look for more in certain series because I can't remember if I have them all in there or not.
@GM: I have my books sorted by type. Craft books, Hardback fiction, Hardback cookbook, etc.
I only have maybe 20 books at home, so I have a full shelf that I loosely organized by genre. More specifically by topic. It was sort of a gradient going from, if I can remember, interesting things to urban myths and misconceptions (and the truths behind them) to general factoids to historical facts to books about history to historical fiction to fantasy, including such beauties as several Mental Floss books, histories of England, the entirety of Sherlock Holmes, and the entire (important) works of Tolkien (Silmarillion, Hobbit, LotR). Then I have a few books that didn't fit on the shelf, for instance The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which I'm reading now.
I love the saying that you can never trust a person whose TV is bigger than their bookshelf, but I only have maybe 1 1/2 shelves worth of books, but i just bought a gigantic like 50 inch TV for my dorm, so... I may need to hit up a bookstore.
OH! That's not even to mention comic books! I love newspaper comic strips, so between stuff my parents, my little brother, and I bought, we have a full small bookshelf of just those, including all of Calvin&Hobbes, Dilbert, The Far Side, Bloom County, Foxtrot... tons of all the good ones! Do those count as books?
By the way, I've read all of those books AT LEAST once, but all of the comic books at least 3 times I'm certain, many of them much, much, much, much more. I used to read those almost exclusively.
How does that saying work with projectors?
If you go home with someone and they don't have any books, don't f**k him. - John Waters
If that saying is true, you can trust the hell out of me, my two tvs are 46" and 52" (this one is curved and 3D), my book cases are much bigger than them both! ;)
My shelves are lined with movies, my book case(which is about 1/2 the normal sized book cases) is double lined shelves(some of it I am getting rid of...grew out of the manga reading phase), and I still have other books sitting on top of those ones, and in other spots around my room.
My movie shelves are nicely organized, but I do have a stack that can't fit on there, and I need to organize it better.
If I ever marry, that guy better love reading. Or at least like it. I'm not really going to get along with a pure couch potato. Or someone who plays video games all day and night, every weekend.
@Geist: I'm trying to find someone who will encourage me to go out more(not someone who is out partying EVERY night - I don't do the whole club/bar scene), but also enjoys playing video games, reading, and doesn't require constant attention(definitely need someone who is independent and has their own hobbies). Unfortunately, 99% of the time when I find someone like that, they are already taken, or I end up realizing they were hitting on me WAY after we parted ways.
@GM: Why do you need encouragement at all. Motivate yourself to go out more. Having a mate isn't really going to accomplish that if you aren't willing to do that on your own.
@Geist, I'm pretty sure what he means, is that if he is with someone who is more motivated to go out and do fun things, then he will naturally be as well. We do tend to pick up habits from those we partner with. ;)
I know BaKhan. But at the moment, his life is going by. Why not explore the world now? He might bump into his soul mate that way.
@Geist: What BaKhan said.
@Geist, I didn't start dating my wife till I was 35, so I don't think there's anything abnormal about GM. It can be hard to put yourself out there, its a scary world, rejection sucks, etc. There are a ton of reasons why not to explore the world. With me, I had totally given up on finding a decent woman, when my wife called me up out of the blue and asked me on a date. We've been together ever since. ;)
I think ultimately, its about being in the right place, at the right time, with the right head space, thats a lot of variables! ;) Not to wax too philisophical but, it will happen, in the way its supposed to happen, when its supposed to happen. For me, as soon as I had given up totally, it happened. I think that in giving up, I had also accepted who I was, which made me more confident in myself, and therefore more willing to take a risk.
@BaKhan: That's another thing that makes it hard to find the right woman...almost all of the ones I know don't talk in plain English. They talk in that "maybe I mean this, but it could be this, or that, but quite possibly those hundred other possibilities"....we're adults...SPEAK LIKE A REGULAR HUMAN(not directed at anyone here...just tired of that stuff).
@GM, one of the ways that you'll know you've got a potential candidate is that, you will understand what they mean when they say those things, and, it won't annoy you! My wife has many habits that would drive me mental, if, I didn't love her. One of the things that clued me into how special she was, and how much she meant to me, was that I could handle the annoying things, and they didn't annoy me. Trust me, I put up with stuff from her, gladly, that I would ditch people (for life) over otherwise... ;)
@GM, also consider that to them, you don't speak in "plain" english either... There's a learning curve on both sides. Part of it is understanding their meaning, the other is helping them understand you! ;)
@BaKhan: I didn't call GM "abnormal". I simply think he would stand a better chance if he took a chance and explored more. Yes, rejection is hard but it's a part of life. One simply must have the confidence and a thicker skin to shrug your shoulders and move on.
And what if your wife had never called you? You two would never have met. If the world simply sat by and waited for their mates to come call them, there would be a whole lot less people in the world.
there would be a whole lot less people in the world.
And this would be a bad thing? ;)
@BaKhan: I more meant in the hinting at things, but never actually saying it in straight "Hey, I like you, want to go out?" terms. It's usually something like "You have good fashion sense", or "That book must be good to keep your attention while I was trying to get your attention"(this one actually happened last October, I got on the train - headphones in listening to music - and apparently she waved at me a few times "trying" to get my attention...)