[worry]

I'm all microtundra, babyyy.

[Briar King]

There is a shit thread.

Colace is your friend.

[Tsundoku]

Briar King, on 23 November 2024 - 06:58 AM, said:

There is a shit thread.

Point.

https://forum.malaza...ost-andor-poop/

[Macros]

Black Stone Cherry, great gig!

[Tsundoku]

Macros, on 24 November 2024 - 12:06 AM, said:

Black Stone Cherry, great gig!

Any relation to Eagle Eye and Neneh?

[amphibian]

Big cheers for TheRetiredBridgeburner getting that assessment booked with an expert who's interested in specifically women who have this disability.

Having the documentation is oddly powerful in a workplace context and in a personal one too - there are protections in place (that hopefully aren't going to be unraveled by far right wing governments), there are support groups, and there's a real sensation of not being alone in this.

That's powerful and I'm quite happy it's already useful for dealing with family etc.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Macros, on 24 November 2024 - 12:06 AM, said:

Black Stone Cherry, great gig!

Saw them years ago and they were great - glad you enjoyed it!

amphibian, on 25 November 2024 - 02:42 AM, said:

Big cheers for TheRetiredBridgeburner getting that assessment booked with an expert who's interested in specifically women who have this disability.

Having the documentation is oddly powerful in a workplace context and in a personal one too - there are protections in place (that hopefully aren't going to be unraveled by far right wing governments), there are support groups, and there's a real sensation of not being alone in this.

That's powerful and I'm quite happy it's already useful for dealing with family etc.

Thank you amph!

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Maintenance unclogged the drain overheard without entering my apartment. Probably won't have to worry about that again... for about a month.

Did early Thanksgiving with my elderly relatives. The ultracheap flatscreen TV they got from Amazon (Fire TV, Amazon brand) was stuttering when playing Youtube, and none of the complicated sequences they'd tried from reading support threads on the internet worked. So I did what my grandfather taught me: I unplugged it and plugged it back in. And voila, it worked. So my elderly father was finally able to get back to obsessively watching chess videos. (My mother is rightly wary of Youtube after one of her old friends---who teaches psychiatric nursing but is a devout conservative Catholic---went down some sort of QAnon rabbit warren of racist anti-LGBT reactionary insanity (as in, she thought Black Lives Matter Communists were going to be breaking down her door)... which didn't get any better after she was ordered to take a remedial DEI course or lose her job (they're all in on the conspiracies too?). Though I think the latter was because she told her students that homosexuality is a mental illness.)

My father doesn't eat after 1 PM, so we made lunch our big family meal. We ordered from the local Nepali-Indian restaurant. Father was somehow concerned he wouldn't get enough fiber---even though he's been to many Indian restaurants, and I'm pretty sure his parents (who loved Indian food, and trying different cuisines) took him on their trips to South Asia---and needed my help picking something. He liked the dal (dal bhat is the Nepali national dish). The food was delicious and they loved it.

Korean for dinner. Had kimchi with a bit of raw oyster---mainly for the probiotics, but it was actually delicious, a much tastier sauce than most kimchi I've had. My main course was one of my all time favorites, gejang (raw crab fermented in chilis and soy)---since it's fermented and not heated it should be a probiotic. The fermentation/marinade makes the shells very soft. Traditionally in Korea people don't eat the shells, but I enjoy the crunchy texture and crab chitin is supposed to be good for you (and is a prebiotic, in that it provides insoluble fiber that promotes the growth of gut bacteria), so I devoured the shells as well. They use female crabs so it includes a lot of creamy crab roe. Granted, when I googled whether gejang is probiotic, I got this AI warning:

Quote

No, gejang is not probiotic, and it can be a potential microbiological hazard:

[...] raw crab can contain pathogenic microorganisms that cause foodborne illness.

Crab meat can be contaminated with Vibrio, also known as "flesh-eating bacteria". Symptoms of Vibrio infection include diarrhea, abdominal cramping, nausea, vomiting, fever, and chills.

The nutrients in raw crab, like protein, carbohydrates, and minerals, can be used as energy sources by bacteria.

Silly AI. That means it is pro-biotic. Those bio-entities might not be conducive to human health---particularly when "flesh-eating" also means "human flesh-eating"---but that should still count as probiotic.

Well it's a risk whenever you eat raw shellfish. But it's a critically acclaimed upscale restaurant, so I should be fine. They even delivered it on ice. Just to be safe I froze the leftovers before taking them back on the train---freezing doens't kill bacteria but it does slow their proliferation.

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 27 November 2024 - 12:00 PM

[Maark Abbott]

Wife is going for my old job.

Should be interesting if she gets it. She said the other day that she's feeling a bit lost in that she doesn't have a career plan (she DID at one point but then she realised it'd be too much) so maybe the legal sector would work for her?

[Orfantal]

An evening spent babysitting my youngest granddaughter

[Slow Ben]

The wife’s family is over for a few days around Thanksgiving. I’m extremely lucky that I get along so well with my in laws.

Pecan pie for breakfast!!

[amphibian]

Orfantal, on 28 November 2024 - 10:11 PM, said:

An evening spent babysitting my youngest granddaughter

What a nice thing to do and read.

[amphibian]

Slow Ben, on 29 November 2024 - 03:15 PM, said:

The wife’s family is over for a few days around Thanksgiving. I’m extremely lucky that I get along so well with my in laws.

Pecan pie for breakfast!!

Sweet dreams are made of these.

I'm about to go on a surprise mini vacation with the lady I'm seeing. She booked us a cabin and a fancy dinner as a birthday gift/us time thing. This lady really has been terrific to be around. We find it easy to put time and energy into the things we do together and the conversation remains top tier several months after meeting.

[Tsundoku]

amphibian, on 30 November 2024 - 12:54 PM, said:

Slow Ben, on 29 November 2024 - 03:15 PM, said:

The wife’s family is over for a few days around Thanksgiving. I’m extremely lucky that I get along so well with my in laws.

Pecan pie for breakfast!!

Sweet dreams are made of these.

Who am I to disagree?

[Nicodimas]

Landman...tv show..

Made my night,

His green energy is merely alernative energy. A whole generation of people believe its green! Without doing the mental math on its...costs.

It never (in current form) will offsets its costs to the enviroment. Fools.

Awesome to see a show land on this logic.

This post has been edited by Nicodimas: 02 December 2024 - 04:39 AM

[Mentalist]

Second goal this season. WTF, lol

Tried to tap it gracefully into a basically open net, after out striker did a beautiful thruball from the corner across the goal line, past the keeper and the defenders.
But the momentum meant I ended up smashing full-tilt into the post and tipping the net backwards. My teammates were joking it's a wonder I didn't dent it.


So now, 2 days later, I got some bruising around the right elbow.

Still, I gotta say I am feeling in much better shape. On Wed I was late getting to the pool, so had to skip the warm-up. Did 2.25 klicks of continuous front crawl in just under an hour, and felt surprisingly okay after that.

Think I might be finally shedding the lockdown weight a bit. Haven't felt this light and agile in a pretty long time.

[Tiste Simeon]

Mentalist, on 02 December 2024 - 07:05 AM, said:

Second goal this season. WTF, lol

Tried to tap it gracefully into a basically open net, after out striker did a beautiful thruball from the corner across the goal line, past the keeper and the defenders.
But the momentum meant I ended up smashing full-tilt into the post and tipping the net backwards. My teammates were joking it's a wonder I didn't dent it.


So now, 2 days later, I got some bruising around the right elbow.

Top quality classic Ment content here I love it!

[Mezla PigDog]

Oh yeah, we've got central heating. And an upgrade to the 21st century in the form of instant hot water. What a day!

[QuickTidal]

We take possession of the House today! Huzzah! It's been a long road, but we are almost there. Painter is coming in tomorrow for 4 days to get rid of the popcorn/stucco ceiling on the main floor (it doesn't bother me, but my wife hates it and wants it gone before we move in), and then they will spend 2.5 more days painting the whole house (colours we picked out). Our movers move the majority of our stuff there Monday, and we will live out of suitcases at my Father-in-Laws hose downtown Toronto so my kids can finish the term at school, and then we will move properly into the house around the 20th.


Also, while it was a no-go on naming the House "The Castle at the Lantern Waste" from Narnia, I have met much less resistance from the wife on naming it "Year-Dancing House" as my wife finds that poetic...and no I don't have to tell her its the name of the Sithi clan from Tad Williams Osten Ard books....that might spoil the whole thing. You gotta ease your spouses into nerdy stuff or you'll frighten them off.

Anyways, exciting days. Sad to leave the condo after 15 years (25 for may wife), but I'm ready to move to the quiet and the suburbs.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 05 December 2024 - 01:58 PM

[worry]

Congrats on your possessed house!