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#7640 amphibian

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Posted 08 June 2011 - 05:39 PM

MWKarsa, on 07 June 2011 - 11:22 PM, said:

Man- office politics at my job just went super-nova today. My main boss who had been angling to fire/get rid of my direct supervisor finally got her wish and he put in his 2 weeks notice today. The guy was a great supervisor and one I counted on as a friend as we got along very well and he was the one person in RL who knew more about MMA than I did and we could talk about fights endlessly. Now comes the part where everyone is going to start angling for his job and start that kind of strife in the office. He said it would probably be me and though I'd love the extra money I've seen my main boss fire the supervisor before him and now get this one to quit all in less than 2 years.

I'll be pissed if I don't get the job and someone who doesn't deserve it over me gets it but slightly relieved my head won't be on the chopping block. If I do get it I'll be happy with the money until my head starts looking juicy to lop off. This is gonna be a super-wierd/tough/hopefully not too nasty time at the workplace.

Send him over to InStrength.com. Combat sports, strength training and general bullshitting is what we do over there and generally at a high level too.

As for the job, good luck.

Tiste Simeon, on 08 June 2011 - 04:37 PM, said:

The fact that I have to invite members of my family to my wedding who have had little or nothing to do with my life so far yet as they are family they are worth spending all the money. This means that people who I really want to be there can't be. My parents sympathise with me, but apparently it is the done thing and as they are paying for a vast majority of it I want to appease them... It's just a bit annoying that people who could have come to the whole thing, who have had a bigger impact on my life than a couple of my uncles & aunts (I had to ask my dad what one of his brothers wives was called!), won't be there!

*sigh*

This is what post-wedding BBQs are for. Cheap, lovely way of reconnecting with those people and sharing the newlywed vibe with them.

This post has been edited by amphibian: 08 June 2011 - 05:42 PM

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#7641 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 08 June 2011 - 05:40 PM

Yeah you were right at the top of the reserve list...

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Posted 08 June 2011 - 08:22 PM

Silencer, on 08 June 2011 - 08:22 AM, said:

Ain, on 08 June 2011 - 06:54 AM, said:

Silencer, on 07 June 2011 - 10:16 PM, said:

Ain, on 07 June 2011 - 08:56 AM, said:

I would love nothing better than to soak up every glorious inch of E3...but I have a Literature SAC tommorow. >

You're not missing much, unfortunately.

Damnit....anything new/good?

Battlefield 3...EA are kicking the living crap out of Activision in this round.

Far Cry 3...though I'm not sold on the idea of another FC game, after #2. Especially with the BS hype around 'characters' being important and engaging. Yeah right.

The Wii U has a horrid controller. Probably going to be another Wii (i.e. gimmicky, suited for casual gamers, with poor third-party game support, and not powerful enough for the next generation to keep it alive beyond the next year) except it will be crazy overpriced.

Uhm...Skyrim is performing well, but looking more and more like an action game and less like an RPG. MW3 is pretty much definitely going to be a carbon copy of MW2 with few improvements. Kinect and Move and 3D tech are getting a lot of pushing.

Most games you already know about - not much in the way of new material. Ghost Recon: Future Warrior has been completely restarted, though people are still complaining about it.

There really isn't much. I'm sure I'm missing something, but it's obviously nothing spectacular.

Also HALO 4....gods aren't we DONE with Halo yet? Blerg.

The only thing I saw anything for that even looked remotely fun is the new Sonic Generations.

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Posted 08 June 2011 - 08:40 PM

Tiste Simeon, on 08 June 2011 - 05:40 PM, said:

Yeah you were right at the top of the reserve list...

As in you had reservations about inviting me?

meh. Link was dead :(

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Posted 09 June 2011 - 01:04 AM

Silencer, on 08 June 2011 - 08:22 AM, said:

The Wii U has a horrid controller. Probably going to be another Wii (i.e. gimmicky, suited for casual gamers, with poor third-party game support, and not powerful enough for the next generation to keep it alive beyond the next year) except it will be crazy overpriced.

Nintendo - what is wrong with you?!!??!!

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.

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Posted 09 June 2011 - 01:17 AM

Tiste Simeon, on 08 June 2011 - 04:37 PM, said:

Understandable, which is why the fiancé and I are eloping later this summer much cheaper that way. I'm already in enough debt I dint need another 5K+ added to the top of it.

Messing with my groove... Work

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Posted 09 June 2011 - 09:25 AM

Parents are having their weekly Thursday night fight. I know its nothing serious but I hate it when they do. Can't concentrate on anything else.

Suck it Errant!

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Posted 09 June 2011 - 12:13 PM

Everything!

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Posted 09 June 2011 - 01:15 PM

My parents are now officially divorced...

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Posted 09 June 2011 - 04:42 PM

MTS, on 09 June 2011 - 01:15 PM, said:

My parents are now officially divorced...

Man that really sucks, I'm sorry...

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Posted 09 June 2011 - 08:07 PM

came home all set to take on rock band in expert mode.
fucking TV is broke and won't turn on.

FUCK

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Posted 09 June 2011 - 08:41 PM

Surprise spoilers.

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Posted 09 June 2011 - 10:07 PM

MTS, on 09 June 2011 - 01:15 PM, said:

My parents are now officially divorced...

Ugh, that sucks MTS! My sympathies, for what they're worth.

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Posted 09 June 2011 - 10:13 PM

I now know that the "divide" part of "divide and conquer" is very, VERY important.
Went and sat down with 3 girl strangers at their table at the club yesterday, engaging in conversation with all three at the same time on their territory. Needless to say, I was effortlessly shot down.

Never go alone. Never let them have the numerical advantage.

At the very least, I actually talked to them, which is progress.

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Posted 09 June 2011 - 11:59 PM

I'm in two mind what thread this should be in happy or messed groove since I had a good night but yeah, I feel more melancholy than anything.

One of my work collegues who I have worked with for the last three summers is leaving and I am going to miss him a ridiculous amount. Kees is one of the funniest people I've ever met and awesome crazy, at the end of one summer he wrote on the reccomendations board that the blonde boy who worked in the office was off x-factor and had a ton of people asking him to sing for them, he took his dog to work not long ago and had it in a basket on the shop floor, he closed the door and hid under the desk when people were coming in, when the world cup was on he wore the most awesome bright orange muppets furry hat with googly eyes and hung Dutch scarves from the counter, his greeting to me last year when back at work was to tip me off a stool, when I showed him my samurai umbrella he raced down the street waving it around his head. Once he called me from a phone upstairs at the end of the day and pretended to be an akward customer and asked me all my least favourite queries until I started shouting at him and telling him that he was evil and I hated him to the rest of my workmates collective horror since they thought I was talking to a tourist.

I forget half the things he has done because he made me laugh at least once every single day. We had a dinner out tonight for him and it was great to be there, we had a great night but still feel a little sad.

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Posted 10 June 2011 - 12:28 AM

Went to see the Dean of the college today, and had a really, really, really disappointing chat.

And then I called my friends to get some moral support, but they didn't answer because they were having sex.

Then I called back 2 hours later. Also having sex.

GOD DAMN IT

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Peopleare harrasing me... grrrrrh.

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Posted 10 June 2011 - 11:17 PM

Spare tire freaking blew out majorly... car stuck in an abandoned gas station... all the tire repair/replacement stores closed for the night... I hope the car is still there when I get back with a new tire tomorrow... not the best way to start the weekend...

Sorry to hear about the disappointing chat with the Dean there Stormy...

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Posted 11 June 2011 - 06:39 AM

Gothos, on 09 June 2011 - 10:13 PM, said:

Hm? Numerical advantage? Nah, all it takes is figuring out how to play them against each other, instead of only against you. You don't necessarily need a wingman/wingwoman either.

Sometimes it goes alright. Sometimes it doesn't. It's not a big deal if nothing really happens. Get to know who you're talking to and try to engage on something they're really animated about and can go back and forth on - like enjoying/hating Jersey Shore or whatever the Polish equivalent is.

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Posted 11 June 2011 - 06:43 AM

Messing with groove, messing with groove...

E3. It was terrible.

Exams. They are now a couple of days away, and I have done nearly-zero study. Crap.

Fitness. I need moar of it. But exams + travel are going to kill opportunity for visiting the gym, and it's winter now so running is a bitch. Ugh.

On the bright side, I'm currently quite happy. Though I'm not sure what I have to be happy about. >.<

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Shinrei said:

<Vote Silencer> For not garnering any heat or any love for that matter. And I'm being serious here, it's like a mental block that is there, and you just keep forgetting it.