[Vengeance]

HoosierDaddy, on 16 November 2024 - 06:04 PM, said:

Weird that they are in the Big 10, huh? That can't be real life lol.

It's really weird but now I can see them regularly.

[Slow Ben]

Vengeance, on 16 November 2024 - 03:20 PM, said:

Going to the Oregon / Wisconsin college football game. Very excited. Haven't been to an Oregon game in ages.

Damn son, that was almost a bad day.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Day five of my fast, and I'm feeling fantastic.

Hunger not an issue at all. I've had to force myself to eat my chocolate. In fact yesterday instead of my allotted 8 tablespoons I just had 6---but my bowels have had a bit of time to adjust to the decreased fiber intake so it ought to be ok.

Got the food I'll eat when I break my fast out of the freezer to thaw and didn't feel any desire to eat it at all. It feels like I'm full to overflowing with spiritual energy (of course I'm basically an atheist, though technically agnostic---in the sense that I acknowledge I could be completely insane and not realize it, and so rationally must be agnostic about that as well).

Haven't had to reduce myself to the absolute depravity of playing video games. (Kidding, video games can be great, I just find them too addictive... and generally not as rewarding overall, for me, as other activities. But not kidding about not playing.)

But I think I'll treat myself to watching a tv show for the first time in a long time---to binge on the last season of Vox Machina. Maybe that critically acclaimed new Batman cartoon too if there's time.

Really, instead of stuffing themselves on Thanksgiving, most Americans would be better off fasting for five days... if not five months, given how obese most of us are. Moses and Jesus both supposedly fasted for 40 days---and it was only after 40 days that Jesus was hungry? Hmm. Why don't all those Christian fascists try that---and "if they die, they die" (going to Heaven in their dying minds...).

But I'll be ready for Thanksgiving with my family---a bit early to avoid the crowds on public transport---and our tradition of eating Indian food for Thanksgiving. Or maybe the local Nepalese-Indian place this year... I love their palek paneer.

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 17 November 2024 - 11:40 AM

[Tiste Simeon]

Orfantal, on 16 November 2024 - 10:24 AM, said:

Not too bad Tisty boy, and you? This place still going then.

Indeed it keeps rumbling on. Just passed 20 years of being on this forum, meaning I've now been a member over half my life!

[Cougar]

Tiste Simeon, on 17 November 2024 - 06:05 PM, said:

Orfantal, on 16 November 2024 - 10:24 AM, said:

Not too bad Tisty boy, and you? This place still going then.

Indeed it keeps rumbling on. Just passed 20 years of being on this forum, meaning I've now been a member over half my life!

This place… 18 years for me

[Vengeance]

Slow Ben, on 17 November 2024 - 04:14 AM, said:

Vengeance, on 16 November 2024 - 03:20 PM, said:

Going to the Oregon / Wisconsin college football game. Very excited. Haven't been to an Oregon game in ages.

Damn son, that was almost a bad day.

Your telling me! Thank God for Jump around. I think it pumped up our players more than WI.

[Macros]

Cougar, on 17 November 2024 - 11:07 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 17 November 2024 - 06:05 PM, said:

Orfantal, on 16 November 2024 - 10:24 AM, said:

Not too bad Tisty boy, and you? This place still going then.

Indeed it keeps rumbling on. Just passed 20 years of being on this forum, meaning I've now been a member over half my life!

This place… 18 years for me

Suddenly, a wild cougar appears!

[Tiste Simeon]

Macros, on 18 November 2024 - 05:41 AM, said:

Cougar, on 17 November 2024 - 11:07 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 17 November 2024 - 06:05 PM, said:

Orfantal, on 16 November 2024 - 10:24 AM, said:

Not too bad Tisty boy, and you? This place still going then.

Indeed it keeps rumbling on. Just passed 20 years of being on this forum, meaning I've now been a member over half my life!

This place… 18 years for me

Suddenly, a wild cougar appears!

Did I miss a new Malazan book release or something? That usually brings a few of the longer standing members out of the woodwork.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Broke my fast by eating Satan (ok it's actually spelled セイタン---aka seitan). With frozen edamame, snow peas, mushrooms, garlic, rosemary, olive oil, soy sauce, hot mustard, and assorted vegetables. (Did have a little bit of hot mustard hop up into one eye, but it wasn't too bad.) Then after I gave that some time to digest I had assorted mushrooms with pesto and a bit of cheese (frozen leftovers from an excellent upscale Italian restaurant).

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 18 November 2024 - 02:23 PM

[Cougar]

Tiste Simeon, on 18 November 2024 - 10:27 AM, said:

Macros, on 18 November 2024 - 05:41 AM, said:

Cougar, on 17 November 2024 - 11:07 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 17 November 2024 - 06:05 PM, said:

Orfantal, on 16 November 2024 - 10:24 AM, said:

Not too bad Tisty boy, and you? This place still going then.

Indeed it keeps rumbling on. Just passed 20 years of being on this forum, meaning I've now been a member over half my life!

This place… 18 years for me

Suddenly, a wild cougar appears!

Did I miss a new Malazan book release or something? That usually brings a few of the longer standing members out of the woodwork.

Just checking in on you guys.

[Orfantal]

Tiste Simeon, on 17 November 2024 - 06:05 PM, said:

Orfantal, on 16 November 2024 - 10:24 AM, said:

Not too bad Tisty boy, and you? This place still going then.

Indeed it keeps rumbling on. Just passed 20 years of being on this forum, meaning I've now been a member over half my life!

Wow time really does just fly past. Feels like my heyday here was a lifetime ago!

[Orfantal]

Tiste Simeon, on 18 November 2024 - 10:27 AM, said:

Macros, on 18 November 2024 - 05:41 AM, said:

Cougar, on 17 November 2024 - 11:07 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 17 November 2024 - 06:05 PM, said:

Orfantal, on 16 November 2024 - 10:24 AM, said:

Not too bad Tisty boy, and you? This place still going then.

Indeed it keeps rumbling on. Just passed 20 years of being on this forum, meaning I've now been a member over half my life!

This place… 18 years for me

Suddenly, a wild cougar appears!

Did I miss a new Malazan book release or something? That usually brings a few of the longer standing members out of the woodwork.

Well I may have been wondering when the next witness was due out

Can't believe it's 22 years since I first joined here

[Abyss]

Cougar, on 17 November 2024 - 11:07 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 17 November 2024 - 06:05 PM, said:

Orfantal, on 16 November 2024 - 10:24 AM, said:

Not too bad Tisty boy, and you? This place still going then.

Indeed it keeps rumbling on. Just passed 20 years of being on this forum, meaning I've now been a member over half my life!

This place… 18 years for me

Cougar and Quicktidal and Orfantal are mindwiped and reinducted with minimal wedgies and shrieking reappear, same day.
Same day!

Scuze me i'm gonna go buy a lotto ticket and do something stupid that may/not give me superpowers.

[QuickTidal]

Let's see, what is making me happy?

We bought a house. Finally after years of searching. It's outside the city (but not too far, about 40min), and is a fully detached house (which feels like a goddamn unicorn at this point in this market; most of the places we'd been looking at were townhomes or semi's) on a quiet street that backs onto a conservation area. When I walked down the street when we went to see it the first time, it felt like the kind of street I grew up on as a kid and I had a moment of "yeah, this is where we can raise our kids".

Funny process too. Guy wanted a price, we went in low...but we went in at the price another house up the street that as comparable sold for. Guy comes down a bit and we go up a bit....then he stopped and refused to budge. So we walked. Two weeks later he came back (I assume because our latest offer was still the best he'd gotten on a street where comparables were going for like 75k under what he wanted) and his agent asked if we would come up a bit more and he would come down and meet us....so we did and that was it.

So we take possession on Dec 5th, and the move date is the 9th.

Oh and it has a Narnia lantern. A black wrought iron old time lantern on the front walkway. AND IF YOU THINK I'M NOT GOING TO FIND A STATUE OF A FAUN TO PLACE BESIDE IT IN WINTER, THEN YOU ARE CRAZY! no go on naming the house "The Castle at The Lantern Waste"...but you take your wins when you get them.

Going to be weird to leave our condo in the city, I've been there for 15 years, and my wife for more than 20...but the city keeps pointing out reasons to leave (traffic is unmanageable and stressful, I saw not one but two fentanylheads pulling up their pants on my way to get groceries yesterday and another with a needle stuck out of his arm on a bench, everything is more expensive, the guy below us is a heavy smoker and it makes our condo stink if the windows are open, and there has been construction around us for about a decade or more)....so it should be good.

We are in packing mode and papers need signing mode, and lawyers and whatnot mode...so I'm not excited yet, it's like when you're going on vacation and you still have the early morning, the flight, and the bus ride and checking in to deal with, and you think "I'll be excited when I get there and I'm sat in the lounger by the pool", so I expect it's like that.

[champ]

Abyss, on 18 November 2024 - 04:14 PM, said:

... and do something stupid that may/not give me superpowers.

That got me strange looks on the train when I LOL'ed!

[Slow Ben]

QuickTidal, on 18 November 2024 - 05:30 PM, said:

Let's see, what is making me happy?

We bought a house. Finally after years of searching. It's outside the city (but not too far, about 40min), and is a fully detached house (which feels like a goddamn unicorn at this point in this market; most of the places we'd been looking at were townhomes or semi's) on a quiet street that backs onto a conservation area. When I walked down the street when we went to see it the first time, it felt like the kind of street I grew up on as a kid and I had a moment of "yeah, this is where we can raise our kids".

Funny process too. Guy wanted a price, we went in low...but we went in at the price another house up the street that as comparable sold for. Guy comes down a bit and we go up a bit....then he stopped and refused to budge. So we walked. Two weeks later he came back (I assume because our latest offer was still the best he'd gotten on a street where comparables were going for like 75k under what he wanted) and his agent asked if we would come up a bit more and he would come down and meet us....so we did and that was it.

So we take possession on Dec 5th, and the move date is the 9th.

Oh and it has a Narnia lantern. A black wrought iron old time lantern on the front walkway. AND IF YOU THINK I'M NOT GOING TO FIND A STATUE OF A FAUN TO PLACE BESIDE IT IN WINTER, THEN YOU ARE CRAZY! no go on naming the house "The Castle at The Lantern Waste"...but you take your wins when you get them.

Going to be weird to leave our condo in the city, I've been there for 15 years, and my wife for more than 20...but the city keeps pointing out reasons to leave (traffic is unmanageable and stressful, I saw not one but two fentanylheads pulling up their pants on my way to get groceries yesterday and another with a needle stuck out of his arm on a bench, everything is more expensive, the guy below us is a heavy smoker and it makes our condo stink if the windows are open, and there has been construction around us for about a decade or more)....so it should be good.

We are in packing mode and papers need signing mode, and lawyers and whatnot mode...so I'm not excited yet, it's like when you're going on vacation and you still have the early morning, the flight, and the bus ride and checking in to deal with, and you think "I'll be excited when I get there and I'm sat in the lounger by the pool", so I expect it's like that.

Hell yeah. That’s awesome.

[Tsundoku]

QuickTidal, on 18 November 2024 - 05:30 PM, said:

Let's see, what is making me happy?

We bought a house. Finally after years of searching. It's outside the city (but not too far, about 40min), and is a fully detached house (which feels like a goddamn unicorn at this point in this market; most of the places we'd been looking at were townhomes or semi's) on a quiet street that backs onto a conservation area. When I walked down the street when we went to see it the first time, it felt like the kind of street I grew up on as a kid and I had a moment of "yeah, this is where we can raise our kids".

Funny process too. Guy wanted a price, we went in low...but we went in at the price another house up the street that as comparable sold for. Guy comes down a bit and we go up a bit....then he stopped and refused to budge. So we walked. Two weeks later he came back (I assume because our latest offer was still the best he'd gotten on a street where comparables were going for like 75k under what he wanted) and his agent asked if we would come up a bit more and he would come down and meet us....so we did and that was it.

So we take possession on Dec 5th, and the move date is the 9th.

Oh and it has a Narnia lantern. A black wrought iron old time lantern on the front walkway. AND IF YOU THINK I'M NOT GOING TO FIND A STATUE OF A FAUN TO PLACE BESIDE IT IN WINTER, THEN YOU ARE CRAZY! no go on naming the house "The Castle at The Lantern Waste"...but you take your wins when you get them.

Going to be weird to leave our condo in the city, I've been there for 15 years, and my wife for more than 20...but the city keeps pointing out reasons to leave (traffic is unmanageable and stressful, I saw not one but two fentanylheads pulling up their pants on my way to get groceries yesterday and another with a needle stuck out of his arm on a bench, everything is more expensive, the guy below us is a heavy smoker and it makes our condo stink if the windows are open, and there has been construction around us for about a decade or more)....so it should be good.

We are in packing mode and papers need signing mode, and lawyers and whatnot mode...so I'm not excited yet, it's like when you're going on vacation and you still have the early morning, the flight, and the bus ride and checking in to deal with, and you think "I'll be excited when I get there and I'm sat in the lounger by the pool", so I expect it's like that.

Achievement unlocked: Toronto crash pad



Well done. Now if only my other half would just up her game and win at least $10 million in the lottery, life would be grand.

[Tiste Simeon]

Good work QT I well remember your complaints about housing in your area!

What's making me happy is something rather silly in some respects as it's such a small thing but it made me smile... I was waiting to cross the street when a bus full of school kids came round the corner (probably 9/10 years old).

They were playing the game we used to do on trips where you wave at random strangers to see if they'll wave back. A whole group of them waved at me so of course I have a massive grin and waved back. The whole bus erupted with cheers and they were fine from sight.

Like I said, is not much but seeing how joyful they were, and remembering how fun it was when I was that age made me happy.

[QuickTidal]

Tiste Simeon, on 19 November 2024 - 11:14 AM, said:

What's making me happy is something rather silly in some respects as it's such a small thing but it made me smile... I was waiting to cross the street when a bus full of school kids came round the corner (probably 9/10 years old).

They were playing the game we used to do on trips where you wave at random strangers to see if they'll wave back. A whole group of them waved at me so of course I have a massive grin and waved back. The whole bus erupted with cheers and they were fine from sight.

Like I said, is not much but seeing how joyful they were, and remembering how fun it was when I was that age made me happy.

This kind of wholesome stuff makes my whole day these days too.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

QuickTidal, on 19 November 2024 - 12:35 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 19 November 2024 - 11:14 AM, said:

What's making me happy is something rather silly in some respects as it's such a small thing but it made me smile... I was waiting to cross the street when a bus full of school kids came round the corner (probably 9/10 years old).

They were playing the game we used to do on trips where you wave at random strangers to see if they'll wave back. A whole group of them waved at me so of course I have a massive grin and waved back. The whole bus erupted with cheers and they were fine from sight.

Like I said, is not much but seeing how joyful they were, and remembering how fun it was when I was that age made me happy.

This kind of wholesome stuff makes my whole day these days too.

Agreed, that's lovely!

Happy today is my friend came down to visit on my lunchbreak with their two kids - it was the youngest's christening at the weekend and we didn't get much chance to speak so she wanted to catch up. Made a tiny snowman with the eldest and just generally had a lovely time walking round our local park. It's the simple things