[Mentalist]

Since the cottage we rented last weekend was rented for a whole week and the checkout is tomorrow, heading back there tonight for another evening of chilled out drinking and a beach day tomorrow

[Coco with marshmallows]

 PARADISE is here bitches, on 11 August 2018 - 04:46 PM, said:

Hey I lost my virginity on this date in 1996! Is this strange that I remember things like this or does everyone else do to?

Not at all, i remember it fondly.

Glad you were a cuddler after the deed.....

[worry]

I'd be more impressed if you remembered the exact minute it lasted for.

[Mentalist]

 PARADISE is here bitches, on 13 August 2018 - 12:08 AM, said:

Geek update: The Perseid meteor shower is peaking tonight through the 13th! This is usually the best shower of the year so if you fuckers have clear skies unlike me then I highly and jealously reco that y’all take 30 mins or so and treat yourselves watching. No moonlight hindering visibility either!

Damn clouds!

We were supposed to go to the lake yesterday to watch this (we decided to stay an extra night at the beach, so my friend managed to find a last-minute motel room, and we fit 5 people in a 4-person room).

Unfortunately (for the stars), as we were about to set out, we stopped to make friends with some kids (teens to mid-20s) who were having a bonfire in the back. We went to give them our complimentary bucket of firewood, they insisted we should do a shot, and things got kinda derailed from there.

It was a pretty fun alcohol-filled night, but we definitely missed the starfall.

[Tiste Simeon]

Today is my 7th wedding anniversary! It just keeps getting better!

Oh and we found out a while back but I never shared it: we're having a boy!

[Coco with marshmallows]

 Tiste Simeon, on 13 August 2018 - 05:38 PM, said:

Today is my 7th wedding anniversary! It just keeps getting better!

Oh and we found out a while back but I never shared it: we're having a boy!

i recommend slow roasting with apple sauce.

What?

[Maark Abbott]

Seen that Sheffield Comicon is on in May next year. I'm going to debut my sicky cosplay there. Nepu Nepu.

[Gorefest]

It is on this weekend as well.

[Maark Abbott]

 Gorefest, on 14 August 2018 - 07:35 AM, said:

It is on this weekend as well.

Ah, tempting to pop along as Space Centre will be there, but don't think I can justify the funds.

Still, May's one gives me time aplenty to sort out my costume!

[Tsundoku]

 Tiste Simeon, on 13 August 2018 - 05:38 PM, said:

Today is my 7th wedding anniversary! It just keeps getting better!

Oh and we found out a while back but I never shared it: we're having a boy!

"... and I shall call him ... Mini-Simi."

Or should that be semi-Simi?

[Coltaine -]

Summer Breeze Festival is starting tomorrow. And I will be there. Metal and beer for four days

[Centzon Totochtin]

My horribly broken elbow is now mostly healed and I can lift things and use it again mostly! The muscles as still somewhat angry with me and the metal in the arm is not overly comfortable all the time. but I function! And if can really hurt someone if i elbow them in the face Also I have lost 1.1kg in the past week. Always feels good.

Tip for the day: do not break your bones in to pieces. It hurts. Everyone I show the scans to, even after me saying it was quite severe, gets startled at the breaks. It is fun!

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

 - Coltaine -, on 14 August 2018 - 08:07 AM, said:

Summer Breeze Festival is starting tomorrow. And I will be there. Metal and beer for four days

Just back from Bloodstock myself - enjoy!

WMMHT: Well not today, but the weekend just past. I went to Bloodstock and it was wonderful - Nightwish were incredible. But a little more importantly, the festival is where I met my ex and I'd only ever been the once without him before since meeting him, so there was some hefty negative association with going through the gates on the Friday. It took a bit more of an act of will than I expected, but it was so worth it and once inside it felt like coming home and coming back to a family.

I dunno really how to explain it, but it feels like having conquered another tiny little piece of the whole puzzle. It's anothe association effectively looked in the face and told "sod you". Feels like progress!

This post has been edited by TheRetiredBridgeburner: 14 August 2018 - 12:19 PM

[Maark Abbott]

 Tsundoku, on 14 August 2018 - 08:01 AM, said:

 Tiste Simeon, on 13 August 2018 - 05:38 PM, said:

Today is my 7th wedding anniversary! It just keeps getting better!

Oh and we found out a while back but I never shared it: we're having a boy!

"... and I shall call him ... Mini-Simi."

Or should that be semi-Simi?

When Simi becomes a great granddad will the great grandson be Hemi-demi-semi-Simi?

[Malankazooie]

Just the ever so slight cool, crisp snap in the air early this morning. I think this woeful, static, furnace of a summer may be about to break towards the lovely days of cool autumn.

[Coco with marshmallows]

 Centzon Totochtin, on 14 August 2018 - 08:49 AM, said:

My horribly broken elbow is now mostly healed and I can lift things and use it again mostly! The muscles as still somewhat angry with me and the metal in the arm is not overly comfortable all the time. but I function! And if can really hurt someone if i elbow them in the face Also I have lost 1.1kg in the past week. Always feels good.

Tip for the day: do not break your bones in to pieces. It hurts. Everyone I show the scans to, even after me saying it was quite severe, gets startled at the breaks. It is fun!

how did you break it?

[Centzon Totochtin]

 Coco with marshmallows, on 15 August 2018 - 06:55 AM, said:

 Centzon Totochtin, on 14 August 2018 - 08:49 AM, said:

My horribly broken elbow is now mostly healed and I can lift things and use it again mostly! The muscles as still somewhat angry with me and the metal in the arm is not overly comfortable all the time. but I function! And if can really hurt someone if i elbow them in the face Also I have lost 1.1kg in the past week. Always feels good.

Tip for the day: do not break your bones in to pieces. It hurts. Everyone I show the scans to, even after me saying it was quite severe, gets startled at the breaks. It is fun!

how did you break it?

Fell over walking, one step up off the ground and on to concrete, landed on my outstretched arm and watched the elbow go the wrong way... instead of dislocating it broke 2 of the bones in to some pieces. I am talented

[Morgoth]

I just sent a demand for an increase in salary, and a change to a more senior position. I am confident that I will get some of what I'm asking for, but I think I might have gone a little overboard with a 20 % increase. Still, it never hurts to go high.

[Maark Abbott]

 Morgoth, on 15 August 2018 - 12:20 PM, said:

Still, it never hurts to go high.

You have inflated the value of your client's claim for financial betterment. We request full access to your client's medical records and notify you that the claim shall no longer proceed within the MOJ Portal.

This post has been edited by Maark Abbott: 15 August 2018 - 01:00 PM

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Dad's had the all clear from the hospital! He's been signed back into the care of his GP from the heart clinic, and can go back to work as of next week (albeit building up his days slowly). Said it's a textbook recovery, and aside from the fact he'll be on some of the medication for life (I gather that's a given regardless) he's going to be back to normal in time, and in the long run much better than he has been for the past few years as the heart problem was a slowly degenerating genetic thing.

Literally been sat in floods of tears at my desk. So happy and relieved, there aren't words!