Conquest of the Planet of the Bride of the Son of the Return of the Open Bar

[Juana]

Also, PD, should I see how much of the SGF's conspiracy theory shit I can save? Like, he was hard core into the Illuminati/chem trails/etc. nonsense and the potential for lulz is pretty high.

I'd be inclined to say yes, at least for a time until you can peel through some of it. Mainly because that kind of stuff facsinates me, even if it's only in a "hahahahaha they really believe that!?!" sort of way.

I will see what I can save, lol.

Just need to provide a sample piece of writing for my Uni application now.

Am considering potential topics.  I want to write something exciting and controversial, but that would be lengthy or stupid, or possibly both, so I'm now grubbing around in the textbooks for something to prove I'm not a complete a moron to write about.

Good luck, dude.

[Cain]

Thanks.  Think I have a basic thesis - can easily knock 2000 words out over the weekend.  Also quoting the (as of five years ago) rising star of the department cannot hurt any.

I'm really overplaying the "I used to study with you guys!" aspect of my application.  Though worst comes to worst, I'll bust out the "I have the money right now" line.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

NEW STOVE, BITCHES.

Holy FUCK.

It must be like having a Rolls Royce.

Only it's in the kitchen and it COOKS STUFF. 

[East Coast Hustle]

Viking makes a very nice stove. I'm curious about the oblong burner in the center. I assume it's for an oval dutch oven or other braising/stewpot-type dish but the placement seems strange.

[LMNO]

Ostensibly, it's for a griddle.  It will probably be the least-used burner on the stove.

[Freeky]

That is one sexy stove.  :drool: 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I wish I could get Facebook at work.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

BRILLIANT!

Step 1:  Try to access a known blocked board.  Record reason for block.
Step 2:  Install that catagory in windows 8 firewall blocker thingie in home comp.
Step 3:  Try going to a few dozen boards, email self with boards that work.
Step 4:  Try those boards at work.  Find one or two with traffic that aren't blocked.
Step 5:  Have someone to talk to.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Note:  This isn't a flounce, I'm still going to do my writing here on account of two things...A) It's convenient, and I can just cut & paste it to Scrubgenius later, and B) Most of my writing is currently in LOBB, which is being written for Nigel & her daughter, and Nigel has this habit of, you know, actually being arsed to respond to me.  I'm also writing it with LMNO and Stella and Cain in mind, of course.

Nor is this some rage-induced tantrum.  Not angry, I've just faced facts.  The odds of having an actual conversation here now approach zero.  PD is now basically a text version of television, to be read, not interacted with, with the exception of about 5 people, all of whom are now too busy to talk.  It's not the people here, it's the nature of the beast. 

So it's time to find somewhere new, for general shooting the bull-type activity.

[Don Coyote]

I think I am going to take an extended break from PD until after the next quarter.
See you guys in June.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I think I am going to take an extended break from PD until after the next quarter.
See you guys in June.

Um, okay.  Later.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

BRILLIANT!

Step 1:  Try to access a known blocked board.  Record reason for block.
Step 2:  Install that catagory in windows 8 firewall blocker thingie in home comp.
Step 3:  Try going to a few dozen boards, email self with boards that work.
Step 4:  Try those boards at work.  Find one or two with traffic that aren't blocked.
Step 5:  Have someone to talk to.

[Freeky]

I think I am going to take an extended break from PD until after the next quarter.
See you guys in June.

Have a good quarter.  Don't let your brain asplode.

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I've been "soft evicted" from my house. We were on a month to month lease and they just decided not to renew the lease for no given reason. They've never contacted us about any grievance and we're on good terms with all of our neighbors.

Since I'm not on the lease, there's not a lot I can do and the guy who is on the lease won't contest the 30 days even though he's lived her for 5 years and they legally have to give him 60 days. Meanwhile, I was only told about the lease situation a week after they got the notice.

Now, I doubt it was malicious, more like people are way too busy with school and work to keep tabs on this, but still, I'm pretty pissed off. But I'm not going to do anything to them. I'm going to let their own fucked up decisions and lack of concern for people that used to be their friends catch up with them whenever it catches up with them. Because I know it will, and it will have gained more inertia by the time it does.

I don't conceive of this in terms of neo-pagan karma, but more in the sense that when people keep fucking up and get no consequences for it, they tend to keep doing what they're doing until the other shoe drops.

But that's just what I can talk about. There's a lot that I can't explain right now out of respect for other people's privacy and legal issues. Sometimes I wish I'd get a rapidly progressing cancer that kills me in a week, or killed in a freak accident, or just keel over dead from a brain hemorrhage rather than deal with the nightmare my life has become.

Hell, I'd settle for painful descent into terminal illness or even being tortured to death by the CIA, but I'll have no such luck. I'm pretty sure I have The Curse of the Roger.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Ostensibly, it's for a griddle.  It will probably be the least-used burner on the stove.

The griddle in the middle has turned out to be the single most-used feature of our stove other than the left rear burner we keep the kettle on for tea. srs.