What’s on your mind?

[Scepticalscribe]

Woot woot.

No sleep till Brooklyn....2026.

Congratulations!

No.

No sleep till 2036.

Those teenaged years when your sleep takes the permanent form of one ear cocked for the sound of a key in the latch....

 

[JTBing]

No.

No sleep till 2036.

Those teenaged years when your sleep takes the permanent form of one ear cocked for the sound of a key in the latch....

I always wondered why my dad never just put WD-40 on our squeaky front door...

 

[yaxomoxay]

How long does cooked bacon lasts in the refrigerator before it loses flavor or it becomes actually inedible?

 

[Scepticalscribe]

How long does cooked bacon lasts in the refrigerator before it loses flavor or it becomes actually inedible?

Depends on the bacon.

And - perhaps - how long it has been in the fridge.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Many, many more happy birthdays. Enjoy your day.

Thinking about a few things, but first going to the Microsoft store this morning to have them set up my Surface Laptop 2 and start training me on Windows.

Second is, getting my taxes done tonight. I am seeing a larger than usual refund.

Third but not really third, hoping my mom has a good day and older sis’ first wave of oral surgery goes well.

Fourth, I need to get ready and do something healthy things before I head into the city.

Fifth, I hope I have another productive and positive day at the afternoon job.

And that everyone here has a great day too.

I am a little nervous and excited about committing to Windows, but my Apple experiences have sadly been declining to the point where I need to try something else.

Traitor! Putting you on my ignore list!

Hope the surgery goes well.

My day wasn’t very productive. None of the office was today. Not sure why. A few bugs in the new business system didn’t help.

 

[trillionaire]

Is the world headed toward another world war?

America withdrawing large number of troops from Syria and Afghanistan - will they be needed at home?
Feuds between East and West increasing - trade war, executives detained

Or is that already being waged? If we're there or heading there then what's the end game?

P.S. can't wait for Avengers End Game!

 

[yaxomoxay]

Is the world headed toward another world war?

America withdrawing large number of troops from Syria and Afghanistan - will they be needed at home?
Feuds between East and West increasing - trade war, executives detained

Or is that already being waged? If we're there or heading there then what's the end game?

P.S. can't wait for Avengers End Game!

Just wait until you have enough messages for PRSI, then you'll have all the answers.

 

[kazmac]

Seeing a much bigger tax refund than I’ve received as of late. Will know tonight how much.
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Traitor! Putting you on my ignore list!

Hope the surgery goes well.

My day wasn’t very productive. None of the office was today. Not sure why. A few bugs in the new business system didn’t help.

Oh nos.

Actually, you were right about Macs. After this morning, I decided I will continue using Macs and learn Windows too. Too much software that is not cross platform, amongst other things.

If I receive the amount of money I hope for my tax return, I’ll pay off the laptop & hospital bills and put the rest into the 2017 iMac.

Sorry you weren’t productive at work today. It’s Friday though - so yay!

 

[Apple fanboy]

Seeing a much bigger tax refund than I’ve received as of late. Will know tonight how much.
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Oh nos.

Actually, you were right about Macs. After this morning, I decided I will continue using Macs and learn Windows too. Too much software that is not cross platform, amongst other things.

If I receive the amount of money I hope for my tax return, I’ll pay off the laptop & hospital bills and put the rest into the 2017 iMac.

Sorry you weren’t productive at work today. It’s Friday though - so yay!

This is true! But I have a long list of things to do at work, so will no doubt pay for my lack of productivity by sacrificing more of my weekend than normal.

Good luck with the tax return. Tax can be so taxing!

 

[kazmac]

This is true! But I have a long list of things to do at work, so will no doubt pay for my lack of productivity by sacrificing more of my weekend than normal.

Good luck with the tax return. Tax can be so taxing!

Sorry you have kill some of your weekend with work.

Taxes, indeed. Thankfully, I just sit there and look cute while my accountant does all the taxing. ​

 

[Apple fanboy]

Sorry you have kill some of your weekend with work.

Taxes, indeed. Thankfully, I just sit there and look cute while my accountant does all the taxing. ​

As I’m not self employed or anything my taxes just come out of my monthly paycheque. No refunds or bills.

 

[AngerDanger]

How the way an item is marketed can affect its price. For all-nighters, I bought energy pills at the dollar store. They're basically gelatin capsules containing the foulest, most acrid form of caffeine. The pack came with 25 and worked a treat, but a few months later I found the exact brand being sold as "diet" pills. A dollar got you four.

EDIT: On a related note, I hate coffee and the aforementioned pills are nauseating, so I've been trying to find tea I like. Green is good but not terribly strong; Earl Grey is probably my favorite smelling thing in the world (when it's still in the bag), but I don't really like the taste. I got raspberry black tea today, let it steep for a while, and then added ice. I added a little lemonade water flavoring, and it's my new go-to method of caffeine ingestion. It's so good that I'd enjoy it even if there was no caffeine.

The lemonade's sweet and tart flavor rounds out the strong but sort of neutral taste of the tea, and the lemon/raspberry combo is unsurprisingly good.

 

[Mefisto]

Is this post about your friend who passed away, or your longing for his record collection?

Fair question, possibly both. As wrong as it feels.

And was the friendship of such a nature - were you always there for him - that you may have merited the belated bestowal of such a gift?

Thing is, we both had better friends than what we were to each other. It's for that reason that my mind was in the only place it could have been for me to write a post such as the one you quoted. It's still all pretty confusing for everyone involved. What do I know, he didn't leave a detailed note so I'm just winging it here.

That's all there is to it. My parents have for many years talked about how they don't want us "kids" to fight over the inheritance when the time comes, so I guess I kind of see where they're coming from. Not that we would, but still.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Fair question, possibly both. As wrong as it feels.



Thing is, we both had better friends than what we were to each other. It's for that reason that my mind was in the only place it could have been for me to write a post such as the one you quoted. It's still all pretty confusing for everyone involved. What do I know, he didn't leave a detailed note so I'm just winging it here.

That's all there is to it. My parents have for many years talked about how they don't want us "kids" to fight over the inheritance when the time comes, so I guess I kind of see where they're coming from. Not that we would, but still.

Well, then another question: Is this about you or about him?

I ask because my mind is full of the cosmic significance of such matters, as my own mother has just passed away a matter of weeks ago.

 

[Mefisto]

Well, then another question: Is this about you or about him?

I ask because my mind is full of the cosmic significance of such matters, as my own mother has just passed away a matter of weeks ago.

Oh it's most definitely as much about me as it is about anything (/anyone) else, him included. It's really not (really, it's not) my nature to spread these things around and in the process "bother" people who actually have nothing to do with said things, but at the same time it's in a way helpful to write the words and in the process reflect upon them. So I guess that's what this is all about.

The fact that much of that contradicts my own conduct here has not escaped me. Maybe I also misunderstood what you were asking, that happens on occasion. I prefer to blame it on the language barrier.

Lastly, my most sincere condolences on the passing of your mother. I remember reading about her a little bit on here, and there was always a nice vibe in the way you described her. That's the way we live on, is in the words of others.

 

[0388631]

I can't comment on your personal matter, but I will state Scandinavians such as yourself have a better grasp of the English language than native speakers most of the time.

 

[Gutwrench]

That's the way we live on, is in the words of others.

Pure velvet! Silk.
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Oh it's most definitely as much about me as it is about anything (/anyone) else, him included. It's really not (really, it's not) my nature to spread these things around and in the process "bother" people who actually have nothing to do with said things, but at the same time it's in a way helpful to write the words and in the process reflect upon them. So I guess that's what this is all about.

The fact that much of that contradicts my own conduct here has not escaped me. Maybe I also misunderstood what you were asking, that happens on occasion. I prefer to blame it on the language barrier.

Lastly, my most sincere condolences on the passing of your mother. I remember reading about her a little bit on here, and there was always a nice vibe in the way you described her. That's the way we live on, is in the words of others.

I encourage you to write more.

 

[0388631]

Year older. Great.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Year older. Great.

Getting a year older is better than the alternative.

Mind you I have acknowledged a Birthday in years. It’s just another day.

 

[0388631]

Getting a year older is better than the alternative.

Mind you I have acknowledged a Birthday in years. It’s just another day.

Well, you say that but you're younger than me. That said, someone once told me on another site ages and ages ago, probably 15 years at this point, once you hit your mid 30s, keep counting back each year after. At some point in life, I shall be a newborn again, sans the Benjamin Button stuff.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Well, you say that but you're younger than me. That said, someone once told me on another site ages and ages ago, probably 15 years at this point, once you hit your mid 30s, keep counting back each year after. At some point in life, I shall be a newborn again, sans the Benjamin Button stuff.

How do you know I’m younger than you?
Age doesn’t really matter to me. People only worry about age if they feel they haven’t achieved what they expected at a certain age.
Like marriage, kids, house ownership, certain job etc.
I don’t really care about that sort of stuff.

 

[Diazepam]

Family issues.
Long chat with my mother who’s not getting along my sister.
I didn’t really feel like I could do much other than listen!

(I don't blame you ... and I speak from abundant personal experience with the same)

To quote two wise men,

"In the vastness of the cosmos, our solar system is a tiny speck. Within that tiny speck, our Earth is a micro-speck. Within that micro-speck, we as individuals are super-micro-specks." And within that tiny context of our individual lives, our drama wants to be larger than life itself.

So much seriousness, so much drama, ... and yet, it all gets reduced to the "2 inch dash between the date of birth and date of death on (one's) gravestone."

One quick look at the sky on a clear night is all it takes ... to get a better perspective, and see where all the drama fits in

 

[chown33]

I'm in a boat on a river. The trees and sky have an unusual orange-like shade and texture, almost jam-like. I hear a voice, but I don't respond right away. It's a girl with strange eyes, attractive and engaging, but with a rotationally symmetric crystalline aspect. She says I should call her Lucy, and she's obviously wearing a disguise.

There are tall green and yellow flowers with an almost plastic sheen, so tall they're over my head. The girl wanders off, and I follow her to a bridge near a fountain. The playground has rocking-horses, and smiling people are eating marshmallow pies.

A very flimsy, almost paperlike, taxi takes me to a train station, where the railroad porters have mirrored neckties. The girl with the strange eyes, who I'd lost track of earlier, suddenly appears at the turnstile. And we're gone.

 

[Apple fanboy]

I'm in a boat on a river. The trees and sky have an unusual orange-like shade and texture, almost jam-like. I hear a voice, but I don't respond right away. It's a girl with strange eyes, attractive and engaging, but with a rotationally symmetric crystalline aspect. She says I should call her Lucy, and she's obviously wearing a disguise.

There are tall green and yellow flowers with an almost plastic sheen, so tall they're over my head. The girl wanders off, and I follow her to a bridge near a fountain. The playground has rocking-horses, and smiling people are eating marshmallow pies.

A very flimsy, almost paperlike, taxi takes me to a train station, where the railroad porters have mirrored neckties. The girl with the strange eyes, who I'd lost track of earlier, suddenly appears at the turnstile. And we're gone.

Did you take something?

 

[chown33]

Did you take something?

It's just pictures and words rolling in the waves lapping on the beach of my mind. Something prompted them, but I'm not sure what. Maybe a half-heard tune somewhere, or the faint echoes from a fragment of spoken word.