Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-09-09T18:02:09-04:00
Huh? What? What happened? Let's hug it out. So said the ghost kitten.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-09-09T18:02:39-04:00
Honestly CB, I didn't know that you had offended anyone at all. Nope. I don't see it.
Mike Kabala 2016-09-09T18:02:59-04:00
And on another positive note, I put a photo of Cappuccino in the litter box.
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-09T18:18:26-04:00
I wasn't offended, CB.
Also, I think my phone almost blew up from the cuteness overload that is having a photo of Capuccino right next to a photo of Bellatrix! Capuccino is a very cute puppy!
Mike Kabala 2016-09-09T18:20:38-04:00
And Bellatrix is a very cute kitty, but a little sideways.
Mike Kabala 2016-09-09T18:25:53-04:00
Please don't hold me to my promise never to mention another KickStarter. I don't think it's possible to keep that promise.
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-09T18:47:08-04:00
Yeah, I don't know why it did that. The picture is upright in everything else I've uploaded it to.
Mike Kabala 2016-09-09T19:11:50-04:00
That is weird. She loads fine on my phone. She's only sideways on my computer.
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-09T19:21:20-04:00
That is weird. She's sideways on my phone.
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-09T19:24:22-04:00
Ugh! I hate it when I come home from work to find that my wife's loud, opinionated friend is visiting. It wreaks havoc on my social anxiety. It doesn't help that the kids (both hers and mine) don't want to go outside and think that having fun means screaming and beating up on each other. I have a headache...
Mike Kabala 2016-09-09T19:24:26-04:00
Weirder and weirder ...
I have an iPhone 6 Plus with a Safari browser and a MacBook Pro, also with a Safari browser.
Mike Kabala 2016-09-09T19:28:20-04:00
Aren't most opinionated people loud?
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-09T19:32:49-04:00
Indeed, they do tend to be.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-09T19:35:22-04:00
Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh... I thought I was sick before, but right now I'm being mugged by something. Some disease really has it in for me. Pretty sure a fever and feeling like twice the volume of crap for sure. A week and a half, and I just feel worse every day! Great timing, though; weekend, here I come! To bed!
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-09T19:40:32-04:00
And then, I discovered that the package that came from Hellfire Hot Sauce was missing the bottle of Zombie Snot that I ordered! *grumble grumble groan*
Mike Kabala 2016-09-09T19:42:43-04:00
@Zem, I hope it's not pneumonia. That's what Diane had last April.
Mike Kabala 2016-09-09T19:45:33-04:00
@LZ, at least your package came. I have a package that was supposed to arrive today and it still says, "Shipment information sent to FedEx."
So give the actual Package to Fedex already!
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-09T19:49:58-04:00
Yeah, that does suck.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-09T20:21:22-04:00
Yup. Definitely a fever, almost for sure, though I don't have a thermometer. That and if I move I feel like I'm going to get a workout running to the bathroom... Dang it, I think this morphed into a flu. That's no better than the extremely annoying cold I had for a week and a half! If I do throw up, I may even be inclined to say it's worse!
Sorry I've been so Absent. Have been working, baking, started volunteering at ASPCA - where I can finally put my passion for homeless kitties to good use! And working with a photographer friend who is taking super amazing shots of all my work.... I am SO TIRED!
I miss y'all and wish I could spend more time here!
I'm here I'm here! And yay cappuccino!!!! I need to try to login to the litter box to see pics!
And maaaan- you guys there are so many kittens in my backyard. It's been a rough summer... Lost two of them, sweet little angels. But three from one litter are thriving, i nursed one back to his mother- she took him back, and I just found two more little nuggets.
I also had to jump a fence (this is a privacy fence- NOT EASY) to save a newborn kitten who was stuck.
Meanwhile Leo is regal AF... And he had a new puppy roommate! My roommate brought in a dog- Mavis Davis the shorkie. They are about the same size and age, already playing together. :)
Mike Kabala 2016-09-10T04:50:36-04:00
I found my top, the one with the ruby tip. Now I'm up in the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep. Looks like it's going to be a long day.
Mike Kabala 2016-09-10T05:03:15-04:00
Of the three, I definitely like the ruby one best. It's much easier to get a really long spin than the other two. I have a special concave cosmetic mirror to spin it on. The glass surface offers minimal resistance to spin and the concave shape allows the top to self center into one spot. During a spin, the top appears motionless for several minutes before it winds down.
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-10T10:13:13-04:00
When your body thinks sleeping until 8 is sleeping in
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-10T13:04:12-04:00
Ooh, Creeper, you should upload a video of them playing! That'd be so cool!
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LZ, I slept until about 10 today, then again until noon. That felt so good! Finally caught up on sleep, it's beautiful outside (even if I'm too sick to usher at the game today), and for the first time in over a week and a half, I finally don't feel worse than I did yesterday! I was hoping yesterday was the peak sickness, and it seems I was right! Hopefully. It was bad, so I really hope it doesn't get worse.
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-10T14:21:10-04:00
Great news! Hellfire is sending me the missing bottle of Zombie Snot!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-09-10T15:02:36-04:00
Is it wrong to go see a horror movie on Saturday morning?
Nah. Not when the theater is giving me a free large soda & popcorn for my birthday along with a $1.35 movie ticket.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-09-10T15:03:04-04:00
Wait. Zombie snot? Eww
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-10T15:37:54-04:00
It's their version of chile verde. It sounds delish.
Mike Kabala 2016-09-10T17:29:53-04:00
Ooh, chili verde, one of my faves.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-10T17:56:54-04:00
I have some ghost pepper chips if anyone wants to try them. You remember Doritos Roulette? It's like that, but much, much spicier! If I wanted spicy, I'd love them, but when I opened them, I only had 5 over a full movie, and a cup and a half of milk with them! But then I felt too sick and now i don't want anything spicy, which is sad to me because they're actually pretty good.
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-10T18:12:48-04:00
I want those, Zem!
It's free day at the museum of natural history. My social anxiety and auditory hypersensitivity is going crazy.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-10T18:35:49-04:00
You can probably find them at Walmart, LZ. Paqui brand Haunted Ghost Pepper, a black bag. They're actually pretty good tasting, like normal corn tortilla chips, but the spice just lingers there forever and just gets worse with time! I love them, only wish I were more in a state to be in the mood for spicy.
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-10T19:08:51-04:00
See, I get more in the mood for spicy when I have a cold
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-10T19:24:57-04:00
I want more bland for some reason, but if I'm in a good mood, more extreme is all the better. These chips, though, are crazy! They don't hurt at first, no more than normal spicy for Americans, but then after several seconds, everywhere that you could feel the spice before slowly explodes into hatred for all things human! One isn't bad, but after a few you start to regret some major life decisions. ;) You'd almost certainly like these!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-10T19:25:34-04:00
The fun part is that just one makes me start to sweat, even if it's not actually that horrible! Man, we'll have to bring some of these up to Kitten Con for everyone to try them!
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-10T19:39:08-04:00
That's ghost pepper for you. For whatever reason, ghost peppers haveva slow burn
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-10T19:39:33-04:00
And I'm all for bringing tgem to Kitten Con
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-10T19:50:42-04:00
Dif ur fone det grunk?
(sure sounds like your phone got drunk)
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-10T20:25:44-04:00
A little, yeah
Mike Kabala 2016-09-10T20:39:46-04:00
That's the way a good heat works. It starts out hot, then gradually turns up the heat. The euphoria comes after you push through the pain.
Mike Kabala 2016-09-10T22:01:14-04:00
Everyone must be having a way better Saturday night than I am. I'm all alone by myself on KickStarter.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-10T22:08:50-04:00
I'm all by myself, and so far have been doing internet things, but now have to take a shit/shower/shave as well as do as much homework before bed so I can wake up early for an event I forgot about and wish I could miss out on, especially because I have at LEAST one assignment for each class, all of which take at LEAST half an hour, one of which won't even be assigned until mid-tomorrow, and I'll only have tomorrow night to do what's left.
Mike Kabala 2016-09-10T22:55:36-04:00
Ah, good old school days. :-)
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-11T04:27:41-04:00
Yeah... good... I'll wait to call any days after I was maybe 10 the good old days until I retire. Those seem like really good days to me! Dang, I'll be one lazy SOB! ;)
But yeah, they are good. Except the school part. They're just good days.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-09-11T08:38:07-04:00
@CB: after the movie I went grocery shopping & then home. Trying to get my place in order before the new year.
In a couple of hours the Adams Morgan Day festival will start. I'll be hanging out there for a few hours before heading back home to get ready for another work week.
Mike Kabala 2016-09-11T09:30:50-04:00
Morning @Geist. Hello kittens. I'm being lazy and staying home today.
Mike Kabala 2016-09-11T09:40:42-04:00
New Year, Adams Morgan Day? I thought you lived in Florida. :-\
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-11T13:33:51-04:00
CB, just as I thought I was getting better, I got much worse last night, so though I'm supposed to go to a family event today, I'm staying home as well. Which is all the better because I wanted to start on that work last night as I said, but couldn't because I was sick.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-09-11T13:41:23-04:00
@CB: Florida?! I visited Florida this year but I don't live there. I live near D.C.
The weather right now is wonderful. 85 degrees with a slight breeze.
Mike Kabala 2016-09-11T17:36:58-04:00
@Geist, I guess I didn't understand what you meant when you said, "This is the position that will make it possible for me to hang out with BaKhan and his wife when they visit Florida next year." I thought they were visiting you in Florida.
Mike Kabala 2016-09-11T20:28:24-04:00
Man, I had a troll go after me for HOURS on a project I'm backing trying to shame me into working faster to fulfill rewards on my own campaign! It got so bad about half of the other commenters reported them to KickStarter along with me.
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-11T20:37:46-04:00
CB, I saw some of that. It was way worse than Poz ever got on this project.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-11T20:58:06-04:00
Really? Well, I hope Kickstarter notices a trend about that guy real quick. Couldn't just ask once and be done with it?
Mike Kabala 2016-09-11T21:37:20-04:00
I would have loved to discuss it with him on my own project, but he insisted on annoying the backers of the other project, so I tried hard not to engage him.
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-11T21:55:14-04:00
It appeared that everyone tried hard, but he made it impossible. He seemed to think that he was entitled to be an insufferable prick because he's a superbacker.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-11T22:27:34-04:00
He was pulling the superbacker card on... another superbacker? Yeah, total seniority there.
Mike Kabala 2016-09-11T22:31:14-04:00
Yeah, BaKhan was right. With Superbackers like Otaku, it IS a badge of shame.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-09-11T22:43:17-04:00
Sorry you have to deal with a troll CB. Hopefully KS will get that guy banned.
Mike Kabala 2016-09-11T22:56:27-04:00
After battling that situation all afternoon, this project feels like a safe haven.
Mike Kabala 2016-09-11T23:01:01-04:00
He's backing 13 current projects. I'll bet most of them are dollar pledges. Thank goodness he didn't back EK!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-11T23:23:39-04:00
So just today, I did 3 online homeworks for math, online homework for P-chem that took a good hour or so, a German assignment online that took a good half hour, then started on the concept questions for class tomorrow for P-chem.
I'm kind of tired, feeling much better, thankfully, but not much more energy, and after all of that (didn't do it yesterday because I was much beyond feeling good enough to do homework), I sort of faded out while reading the P-chem book. One of the times, as my eyes drifted off, I noticed the small bag of mini-donuts I bought yesterday and figured I was done with 1-dimensional boxes and would much rather move on to toroidal chocolate cakes with milk and watching something.
So yeah, I gave up on my tired, stuffed-up brain today because of donettes.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-12T09:09:56-04:00
Good morning kittens!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-12T09:14:20-04:00
@CB, we're cool, I'm sorry if it felt like we/I were doing something to let you down, certainly not what I ever set out to do! I was a little baffled to be honest, but sometimes things can seem differently in a text format. Honestly, I've got a ton of respect for you bro!
Sorry about your troll! Hopefully KS can do something about him for you. If there is one thing about ks that I've noticed over the last few years, is that the entitled backers do seem to be getting worse. The general negative vibe has gotten worse. Thank god for the KC! The last bastion of good community minded folk!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-12T09:31:56-04:00
@Zem, those chips sound intreging, but painful, but awesome, but scary, but I gotta try em! ;)
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-09-12T09:54:52-04:00
Morning kittens
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-09-12T09:55:34-04:00
@BaKhan: Count me out on the chips. I love my intestine too much to subject them to that kind of punishment.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-12T10:02:13-04:00
@Geist, sometimes love can hurt! ;) I don't want to kill myself with the hotness, but I guess I do want to try the burn... as long as they're tasty! I can handle the heat if it comes with flavour, but I don't do heat for heats sake, I'm not LZ crazy... ;)
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-12T10:13:29-04:00
We can't all be as crazy as me.
This morning was fun. I slept through my alarm. Fortunately, Bellatrix happened to wake me up twenty minutes before I was supposed to be to work.
So, how does one become a superbacker? CB's troll got it with only backing 13 projects. I've backed 17. Not all of them got funded, but I've backed them.
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-12T10:14:42-04:00
Where did you get the chips, again, Zem? I need to make a note of it so I can try to find them.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-12T10:19:56-04:00
@LZ, CB's troll has 13 active ks's, he has well over 350 total. It really doesn't matter anyways, I never asked to be "superbacker", I didn't even get a cape! ;)
Also...I looked at his previous comments, one of them was regarding CBs project...I looked, and the guy doesn't have it in his 356 projects...
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-12T10:44:41-04:00
That was part of CB's confusion. This guy was railing against him for not having fulfilled all the backer rewards when he didn't even have stake in the project.
I was also floored by a comment he made to another backer in the fidget cube comments. He told this person that their comments don't matter because they've only backed five projects and are, therefore, not even considered a serious backer yet.
I love when people half read an email, send a reply, and completely miss the entire question of the email.
Mike Kabala 2016-09-12T13:26:19-04:00
@BaKhan, Yeah I overreacted. Compared to yesterday's troll, my frustration with you on Friday was a non-issue. My emotions that day went from low to high to even lower. I'm glad you're cool with it, because I discovered yesterday just how much I need you all. Today is better. All I have to worry about is Google Fiber digging up the neighborhood and disconnecting my utilities one by one as they bury fiber in the ground. Piece of cake!
Mike Kabala 2016-09-12T13:32:07-04:00
@LZ, that "serious backer comment really rubbed me the wrong way. It was elitist in the extreme. Who's to say that just because you bear the badge, you have the right to belittle someone who's trying something out for the first time? 40,862 of the backers for the Fidget Cube are first time backers. Most of us who have backed a lot of projects have been welcoming to them and open to their opinions. There's really no place for elitism in crowdfunding.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-12T14:22:25-04:00
@CB, yeah, I wouldn't be doing nearly as well if not for the KC. You all have helped me through some pretty tough stuff. If friends (even internet friends) can't be understanding and supportive of each other, whats the point, right? Good luck with the service upgrades!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-12T14:28:52-04:00
Those chips we found in Walmart, LZ. Paqui's, a black bag, ghost pepper chips.
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And like I said, in the short time I can taste anything, they actually taste pretty good, just like normal corn chips, almost like unflavored doritos because of the spice. I still have half the bag, too, since you can only hate yourself so much.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-12T14:33:19-04:00
I finally decided it was worth looking, and hey, I found the troll too! (heh, troll 2?! heehee...)
You guys will like this if you haven't seen it already:
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Otaku Kani Superbacker about 19 hours ago
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Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-12T14:34:41-04:00
You're getting Google Fiber?! I'd let them disconnect all of my utilities to have that!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-12T14:46:32-04:00
Wow, looks like they nuked all but two of his comments! Thank goodness!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-12T14:51:18-04:00
Hooray, the powers of righteousness and kittens have won out again!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-12T15:13:01-04:00
@GM, well, as sad as it is, it is normal. I usually put the most important / time sensitive information at the beginning, then like an essay, I'll go back over those points in more detail below, and then touch back on them at the end. Repetition helps! Getting those important action items first also helps!
Huh? What? What happened? Let's hug it out. So said the ghost kitten.
Honestly CB, I didn't know that you had offended anyone at all. Nope. I don't see it.
And on another positive note, I put a photo of Cappuccino in the litter box.
I wasn't offended, CB.
Also, I think my phone almost blew up from the cuteness overload that is having a photo of Capuccino right next to a photo of Bellatrix! Capuccino is a very cute puppy!
And Bellatrix is a very cute kitty, but a little sideways.
Please don't hold me to my promise never to mention another KickStarter. I don't think it's possible to keep that promise.
Yeah, I don't know why it did that. The picture is upright in everything else I've uploaded it to.
That is weird. She loads fine on my phone. She's only sideways on my computer.
That is weird. She's sideways on my phone.
Ugh! I hate it when I come home from work to find that my wife's loud, opinionated friend is visiting. It wreaks havoc on my social anxiety. It doesn't help that the kids (both hers and mine) don't want to go outside and think that having fun means screaming and beating up on each other. I have a headache...
Weirder and weirder ...
I have an iPhone 6 Plus with a Safari browser and a MacBook Pro, also with a Safari browser.
Aren't most opinionated people loud?
Indeed, they do tend to be.
Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh... I thought I was sick before, but right now I'm being mugged by something. Some disease really has it in for me. Pretty sure a fever and feeling like twice the volume of crap for sure. A week and a half, and I just feel worse every day! Great timing, though; weekend, here I come! To bed!
And then, I discovered that the package that came from Hellfire Hot Sauce was missing the bottle of Zombie Snot that I ordered! *grumble grumble groan*
@Zem, I hope it's not pneumonia. That's what Diane had last April.
@LZ, at least your package came. I have a package that was supposed to arrive today and it still says, "Shipment information sent to FedEx."
So give the actual Package to Fedex already!
Yeah, that does suck.
Yup. Definitely a fever, almost for sure, though I don't have a thermometer. That and if I move I feel like I'm going to get a workout running to the bathroom... Dang it, I think this morphed into a flu. That's no better than the extremely annoying cold I had for a week and a half! If I do throw up, I may even be inclined to say it's worse!
Hiiiiiii my loves
Sorry I've been so Absent. Have been working, baking, started volunteering at ASPCA - where I can finally put my passion for homeless kitties to good use! And working with a photographer friend who is taking super amazing shots of all my work.... I am SO TIRED!
I miss y'all and wish I could spend more time here!
Also- if you can believe it- Leonidas turns one on the 23rd! (At least that's when I'm saying it's his birthday since that's the day he found me).
I am having a birthday party for him. Hehehehe.
We haven't registered... But he loves feather wand toys and catnip. Does not care for jingly balls.
Hi, @Creeper. Missed you.
I got a puppy. Name is Cappuccino.
He's 13 weeks today.
Creeper! No time long see! Or something like that. Leo is one?! Aaw, you need to put up a picture of him!
And ... she"s gone again. :-(
Gaah! I missed Creeper again! She's so elusive
The elusive Creeper creeps back to her creep, soon to creep on us creeps once again.
I'm here I'm here! And yay cappuccino!!!! I need to try to login to the litter box to see pics!
And maaaan- you guys there are so many kittens in my backyard. It's been a rough summer... Lost two of them, sweet little angels. But three from one litter are thriving, i nursed one back to his mother- she took him back, and I just found two more little nuggets.
I also had to jump a fence (this is a privacy fence- NOT EASY) to save a newborn kitten who was stuck.
It is most definitely the summer of kittens!
Meanwhile Leo is regal AF... And he had a new puppy roommate! My roommate brought in a dog- Mavis Davis the shorkie. They are about the same size and age, already playing together. :)
I found my top, the one with the ruby tip. Now I'm up in the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep. Looks like it's going to be a long day.
Of the three, I definitely like the ruby one best. It's much easier to get a really long spin than the other two. I have a special concave cosmetic mirror to spin it on. The glass surface offers minimal resistance to spin and the concave shape allows the top to self center into one spot. During a spin, the top appears motionless for several minutes before it winds down.
When your body thinks sleeping until 8 is sleeping in
Ooh, Creeper, you should upload a video of them playing! That'd be so cool!
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LZ, I slept until about 10 today, then again until noon. That felt so good! Finally caught up on sleep, it's beautiful outside (even if I'm too sick to usher at the game today), and for the first time in over a week and a half, I finally don't feel worse than I did yesterday! I was hoping yesterday was the peak sickness, and it seems I was right! Hopefully. It was bad, so I really hope it doesn't get worse.
Great news! Hellfire is sending me the missing bottle of Zombie Snot!
Is it wrong to go see a horror movie on Saturday morning?
Nah. Not when the theater is giving me a free large soda & popcorn for my birthday along with a $1.35 movie ticket.
Wait. Zombie snot? Eww
It's their version of chile verde. It sounds delish.
Ooh, chili verde, one of my faves.
I have some ghost pepper chips if anyone wants to try them. You remember Doritos Roulette? It's like that, but much, much spicier! If I wanted spicy, I'd love them, but when I opened them, I only had 5 over a full movie, and a cup and a half of milk with them! But then I felt too sick and now i don't want anything spicy, which is sad to me because they're actually pretty good.
I want those, Zem!
It's free day at the museum of natural history. My social anxiety and auditory hypersensitivity is going crazy.
You can probably find them at Walmart, LZ. Paqui brand Haunted Ghost Pepper, a black bag. They're actually pretty good tasting, like normal corn tortilla chips, but the spice just lingers there forever and just gets worse with time! I love them, only wish I were more in a state to be in the mood for spicy.
See, I get more in the mood for spicy when I have a cold
I want more bland for some reason, but if I'm in a good mood, more extreme is all the better. These chips, though, are crazy! They don't hurt at first, no more than normal spicy for Americans, but then after several seconds, everywhere that you could feel the spice before slowly explodes into hatred for all things human! One isn't bad, but after a few you start to regret some major life decisions. ;) You'd almost certainly like these!
The fun part is that just one makes me start to sweat, even if it's not actually that horrible! Man, we'll have to bring some of these up to Kitten Con for everyone to try them!
That's ghost pepper for you. For whatever reason, ghost peppers haveva slow burn
And I'm all for bringing tgem to Kitten Con
Dif ur fone det grunk?
(sure sounds like your phone got drunk)
A little, yeah
That's the way a good heat works. It starts out hot, then gradually turns up the heat. The euphoria comes after you push through the pain.
Everyone must be having a way better Saturday night than I am. I'm all alone by myself on KickStarter.
I'm all by myself, and so far have been doing internet things, but now have to take a shit/shower/shave as well as do as much homework before bed so I can wake up early for an event I forgot about and wish I could miss out on, especially because I have at LEAST one assignment for each class, all of which take at LEAST half an hour, one of which won't even be assigned until mid-tomorrow, and I'll only have tomorrow night to do what's left.
Ah, good old school days. :-)
Yeah... good... I'll wait to call any days after I was maybe 10 the good old days until I retire. Those seem like really good days to me! Dang, I'll be one lazy SOB! ;)
But yeah, they are good. Except the school part. They're just good days.
@CB: after the movie I went grocery shopping & then home. Trying to get my place in order before the new year.
In a couple of hours the Adams Morgan Day festival will start. I'll be hanging out there for a few hours before heading back home to get ready for another work week.
Morning @Geist. Hello kittens. I'm being lazy and staying home today.
New Year, Adams Morgan Day? I thought you lived in Florida. :-\
CB, just as I thought I was getting better, I got much worse last night, so though I'm supposed to go to a family event today, I'm staying home as well. Which is all the better because I wanted to start on that work last night as I said, but couldn't because I was sick.
@CB: Florida?! I visited Florida this year but I don't live there. I live near D.C.
The weather right now is wonderful. 85 degrees with a slight breeze.
@Geist, I guess I didn't understand what you meant when you said, "This is the position that will make it possible for me to hang out with BaKhan and his wife when they visit Florida next year." I thought they were visiting you in Florida.
Man, I had a troll go after me for HOURS on a project I'm backing trying to shame me into working faster to fulfill rewards on my own campaign! It got so bad about half of the other commenters reported them to KickStarter along with me.
CB, I saw some of that. It was way worse than Poz ever got on this project.
Really? Well, I hope Kickstarter notices a trend about that guy real quick. Couldn't just ask once and be done with it?
I would have loved to discuss it with him on my own project, but he insisted on annoying the backers of the other project, so I tried hard not to engage him.
It appeared that everyone tried hard, but he made it impossible. He seemed to think that he was entitled to be an insufferable prick because he's a superbacker.
He was pulling the superbacker card on... another superbacker? Yeah, total seniority there.
Yeah, BaKhan was right. With Superbackers like Otaku, it IS a badge of shame.
Sorry you have to deal with a troll CB. Hopefully KS will get that guy banned.
After battling that situation all afternoon, this project feels like a safe haven.
He's backing 13 current projects. I'll bet most of them are dollar pledges. Thank goodness he didn't back EK!
So just today, I did 3 online homeworks for math, online homework for P-chem that took a good hour or so, a German assignment online that took a good half hour, then started on the concept questions for class tomorrow for P-chem.
I'm kind of tired, feeling much better, thankfully, but not much more energy, and after all of that (didn't do it yesterday because I was much beyond feeling good enough to do homework), I sort of faded out while reading the P-chem book. One of the times, as my eyes drifted off, I noticed the small bag of mini-donuts I bought yesterday and figured I was done with 1-dimensional boxes and would much rather move on to toroidal chocolate cakes with milk and watching something.
So yeah, I gave up on my tired, stuffed-up brain today because of donettes.
Good morning kittens!
@CB, we're cool, I'm sorry if it felt like we/I were doing something to let you down, certainly not what I ever set out to do! I was a little baffled to be honest, but sometimes things can seem differently in a text format. Honestly, I've got a ton of respect for you bro!
Sorry about your troll! Hopefully KS can do something about him for you. If there is one thing about ks that I've noticed over the last few years, is that the entitled backers do seem to be getting worse. The general negative vibe has gotten worse. Thank god for the KC! The last bastion of good community minded folk!
@Zem, those chips sound intreging, but painful, but awesome, but scary, but I gotta try em! ;)
Morning kittens
@BaKhan: Count me out on the chips. I love my intestine too much to subject them to that kind of punishment.
@Geist, sometimes love can hurt! ;) I don't want to kill myself with the hotness, but I guess I do want to try the burn... as long as they're tasty! I can handle the heat if it comes with flavour, but I don't do heat for heats sake, I'm not LZ crazy... ;)
We can't all be as crazy as me.
This morning was fun. I slept through my alarm. Fortunately, Bellatrix happened to wake me up twenty minutes before I was supposed to be to work.
So, how does one become a superbacker? CB's troll got it with only backing 13 projects. I've backed 17. Not all of them got funded, but I've backed them.
Where did you get the chips, again, Zem? I need to make a note of it so I can try to find them.
@LZ, CB's troll has 13 active ks's, he has well over 350 total. It really doesn't matter anyways, I never asked to be "superbacker", I didn't even get a cape! ;)
Morning kittens!
I will admit, I looked at the Fidget Cube...only to find the troll. I finally did find him! And yeah, he has 356 projects backed.
Oh, I see. I missed the word "current" in CB's comment.
Also...I looked at his previous comments, one of them was regarding CBs project...I looked, and the guy doesn't have it in his 356 projects...
That was part of CB's confusion. This guy was railing against him for not having fulfilled all the backer rewards when he didn't even have stake in the project.
I was also floored by a comment he made to another backer in the fidget cube comments. He told this person that their comments don't matter because they've only backed five projects and are, therefore, not even considered a serious backer yet.
I'm kind of curious as to his age...
@GM, physical age? Immaterial. Mental age 13, because obviously he knows everything... ;)
If anyone is going to be a superbacker, it would be Explainetten. She has backed over 2000 projects.
@Geist, and she is super! She is so nice and supportive, like a superbacker should be!
I love when people half read an email, send a reply, and completely miss the entire question of the email.
@BaKhan, Yeah I overreacted. Compared to yesterday's troll, my frustration with you on Friday was a non-issue. My emotions that day went from low to high to even lower. I'm glad you're cool with it, because I discovered yesterday just how much I need you all. Today is better. All I have to worry about is Google Fiber digging up the neighborhood and disconnecting my utilities one by one as they bury fiber in the ground. Piece of cake!
@LZ, that "serious backer comment really rubbed me the wrong way. It was elitist in the extreme. Who's to say that just because you bear the badge, you have the right to belittle someone who's trying something out for the first time? 40,862 of the backers for the Fidget Cube are first time backers. Most of us who have backed a lot of projects have been welcoming to them and open to their opinions. There's really no place for elitism in crowdfunding.
@CB, yeah, I wouldn't be doing nearly as well if not for the KC. You all have helped me through some pretty tough stuff. If friends (even internet friends) can't be understanding and supportive of each other, whats the point, right? Good luck with the service upgrades!
Those chips we found in Walmart, LZ. Paqui's, a black bag, ghost pepper chips.
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And like I said, in the short time I can taste anything, they actually taste pretty good, just like normal corn chips, almost like unflavored doritos because of the spice. I still have half the bag, too, since you can only hate yourself so much.
I finally decided it was worth looking, and hey, I found the troll too! (heh, troll 2?! heehee...)
You guys will like this if you haven't seen it already:
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Otaku Kani Superbacker about 19 hours ago
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You're getting Google Fiber?! I'd let them disconnect all of my utilities to have that!
Wow, looks like they nuked all but two of his comments! Thank goodness!
Hooray, the powers of righteousness and kittens have won out again!
@GM, well, as sad as it is, it is normal. I usually put the most important / time sensitive information at the beginning, then like an essay, I'll go back over those points in more detail below, and then touch back on them at the end. Repetition helps! Getting those important action items first also helps!