Whats making you happy right now

#12972 Obdigore

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Posted 27 January 2016 - 09:27 PM

Not a huge fan of people remaking music videos, but this one is right in my bailiwick

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#12973 Lost Marine

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Posted 27 January 2016 - 09:32 PM

Interviewed for two different positions with the same organization. They called to tell me I was their top candidate for both and are going to fly me out to meet everyone and decide which position I want. That's pretty cool and doesn't ever happen in my field.

Also, my boss called out of the blue to tell me he'd put me in for a raise. I guess the other folks called for a reference check.

It feels nice to be courted after slaving away here for years with no real recognition beyond "Hey you do good work, here's some more to do. Also Jim left, you need to do his work too. Oh and no raises this year again either."

#12974 Gorefest

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Posted 28 January 2016 - 01:02 AM

Did you tell your boss to stuff it?

OT: after winning the second division title last year with record-breaking points and goal tally, my football team is currently sitting fourth in the top league table. How's that for a bleeding success story! Go us! Shame that we still are in financial dire straits and will probably have to sell off half our team before the transfer window closes this weekend.

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Yesterday, upon the stair, I saw a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. Oh, how I wish he'd go away.

#12975 Slow Ben

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Posted 28 January 2016 - 02:53 PM

Checked my order tracker and Blade of Tyshalle is "Out For Delivery"!!!

Fuckin A!

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#12976 Lost Marine

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Posted 28 January 2016 - 05:39 PM

Gorefest, on 28 January 2016 - 01:02 AM, said:

I didn't, I actually really like my boss and the place I work now. It's government work though so raises are tied to the legislature. This is just a better opportunity for my family.

#12977 Gnaw

Recovering eating disordered addict of HHM

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Posted 28 January 2016 - 11:49 PM

I went to the store for smokes. Spent an hour geeking out over a 1962 International Harvester Scout that had just finished a full body-off restoration. The only question I didn't ask the guy was why the fuck anyone would do a body-off restoration of an IH Scout. I've got an invitation to see his collection this weekend: two 50's F-150s and a 1951 Studebaker truck!

Redneck heaven indeed.

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#12978 Nicodimas

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Posted 29 January 2016 - 01:20 AM

I have been in just a really really good mood lately, I think last year making the change to go toward all hard skills and learning about Machining/Blacksmithing has been one of the most positive changes in my life. I am taking blacksmithing class and a project welding classes for the next year consistently...I found a local open forge and go their on Sunday's. My shop is starting to look like a real shop..

So I made the commitment and joined ABANA and signed up for their conference for 2016 to gain more insight today:

http://www.abana.org...s/en-us/d1.html

This guy out of Oakland trains how to make Viking Axes!
The Arts these guys forge is just breathtaking...

One day I hope to be good enough to start dropping pictures, but definitely am doing this reallllly on the side, it's a slow process and I wish I could quit my job to just focus on learning it...but then I would be homeless...so..one step at a time.

-If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone

#12979 Maark Abbott

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Posted 29 January 2016 - 11:56 AM

One of the guys in the gym told me he'd not recognised me earlier because my body conditioning was so improved over the last time he'd seen me. Talk about a compliment - he's one of those ripped to fuck guys. Nice to know my Path to AZ is working.

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#12980 TheRetiredBridgeburner

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Posted 29 January 2016 - 01:06 PM

Going to our village pub for dinner (doesn't sound exciting, but people drive for miles for their food!) and they recently acquired a fifteen week old black Labrador puppy. Puppy is certainly not an ulterior motive.... nope....

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- Wyrd bið ful aræd -

#12981 Maark Abbott

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Posted 29 January 2016 - 01:14 PM

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 29 January 2016 - 01:06 PM, said:

You gotta get pics if it's an Ultimate Pupper.

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#12982 Gorefest

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Posted 29 January 2016 - 04:51 PM

Might start getting a bit tough at 15 weeks. Although I'm not an expert in dog meat.

Yesterday, upon the stair, I saw a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. Oh, how I wish he'd go away.

#12983 Gredfallan Ale

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Posted 29 January 2016 - 05:53 PM

Gorefest, on 29 January 2016 - 04:51 PM, said:

Might start getting a bit tough at 15 weeks. Although I'm not an expert in dog meat.

Good meat has to age a bit.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all.'

#12984 Tsundoku

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Posted 30 January 2016 - 09:34 AM

Made me laugh for a minute at least, so that's winning for today:

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#12985 Gust Hubb

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Posted 31 January 2016 - 03:34 AM

I am finally out of the house my wife is in. Filed, almost have my own apartment, and soon should have the week/weekend child swap schedule up and running. Such a relief. Now I just need that mediation to start so I can get back my friend she drove away...

"You don't clean u other peoples messes.... You roll in them like a dog on leftover smoked whitefish torn out f the trash by raccoons after Sunday brunch on a hot day."
~Abyss

#12986 Solidsnape

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Posted 31 January 2016 - 04:59 PM

This story from my local rag.
The lad was from my town too.

http://www.chronicle...er-boy-10804753

Very touching.

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gather into one hand the sands of Raraku"
The Holy Desert
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#12987 Gredfallan Ale

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Posted 31 January 2016 - 07:03 PM

Gust Hubb, on 31 January 2016 - 03:34 AM, said:

Great news Gust! Great to hear things are finally moving forward.

#12988 Gothos

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Posted 01 February 2016 - 08:46 AM

Blasted through my first exam session at ramming speed on new course. Good start!

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

#12989 Loki

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Posted 01 February 2016 - 09:18 AM

I won tickets to an advance screening of Deadpool. Posted Image

Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

~TQB~

#12990 Maark Abbott

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Posted 01 February 2016 - 08:30 PM

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Flying into the writing of Book 2. By the time I can get #1 out there, #2 will be probably about 1/4 to 1/3 done in first draft form.</div><div><br></div><div>Edit: Five pages in a day. Really happy with it so far too.
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#12991 Puck

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Posted 01 February 2016 - 11:08 PM

I did find not just one.. not just two.. but FIVE bras that fit me today. That's like Christmas all over again. Should last the year, I doubt I'm going to get that lucky again any time soon.

Puck was not birthed, she was cleaved from a lava flow and shaped by a fierce god's hands. - [worry]
Ninja Puck, Ninja Puck, really doesn't give a fuck..? - [King Lear]