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[pwhodges]

My diagnosis was (and still is) incomplete.  When I got into my wife's room, after she woke up, to unplug the remaining items, the fault went away; but when I plugged just those things back in, it did not recur.  One of them (a time switch) turned out to be faulty - but that was a mechanical breakage which could not have produced the problem.  At present I am still considering that there could be damage, but that it has been disturbed again, removing the short; in support of that, I have found an exposed live conductor on a cable which is part of a different circuit in the same area.

[The Seldom Killer]

Damn! I think a rat has just bitten through part of the ring main for the upper part of the house... also, we've been after this rat for eight years

Lifespan of a rat is typically between 3 and 7 years.

#notarat
#trynorthamericanhousehippo

[Jace]

Strange how a North American House Hippo would end up in the UK in Paul's home though.

[pwhodges]

Oh no!  The rat has bred and passed on its wire-chewing genes down the generations!
#generationsofrats

Of course, you know that I was speaking loosely.

I found an (empty) nest the rats have made in the rockwool insulation; lots of poison and traps are now in place.  But I still can't figure out where they are getting in to the house at all.

[Lines]

It's Scabbers!

[Patrick]

A buddy of mine from ages ago who moved to Missouri 2 years ago is in town to visit! Went along with a mutual close friend to pick him up last night, hung out most of today, and we've got an overnight camping trip planned for Tuesday night. So stoked!

During hangouts today, we went to a pickup soccer game at the park. For a guy who hasn't played soccer since playing in the streets with a bunch of 11yo Albanian kids (who whooped my ass; I'm not a fan of hard abrasive surfaces when I fall), I did pretty well, made 5 goals over the course of a few "race to 3 points" matches. Super pleased about that. Matt came by and we played a few games against each other and a few as teammates, which was a ton of fun. We make for a pretty rad team.

Awesome day today with a show tomorrow! Hell yessss

[pwhodges]

The torrential rain and thunderstorm outside my window, that is delaying my dog walking for the day, has just turned to hail.  Oh joy!

[nekowafer]

Yay! I'm glad you're feeling better- in all senses Enjoy your time out tonight!

Thank you I ended up spending the whole weekend with him. I'm so glad we've gotten close, we both really needed it. He took me out to dinner at the Melting Pot which was so fancy. And then I went into maid mode and cleaned basically his whole apartment. Great weekend.

[lepetitfromage]

Yay! I'm glad you're feeling better- in all senses Enjoy your time out tonight!

Thank you I ended up spending the whole weekend with him. I'm so glad we've gotten close, we both really needed it. He took me out to dinner at the Melting Pot which was so fancy. And then I went into maid mode and cleaned basically his whole apartment. Great weekend.

cleaning* and melty cheese- possibly the best weekend ever. And well deserved!


(*i am kind of sad and kind of happy that i consider cleaning to be a fun thing to do lol)

[Lines]

I am officially starting to keep a food diary. I found an app that has a lot of restaurant menus stored and also has a barcode scanner which makes it too easy to NOT do. I've so far stayed below my calorie intake, which is good. It calculates it for you based on gender, age, height, and weight and also whether or not you want to gain, lose, or maintain weight, so it may not be 100% accurate, but it's better than what I could do on my own. So I'm going to start tracking what I eat and see what I need to eat more/less of and start trying to eat better!

Also since I obviously did not keep up with the Couch to 5K, I'd like to start easing myself back into a fitness routine of some sort and then eventually try that again.

[ummmkay]

what app are you using? i think i'm interested in doing something like that too.

[Lines]

It's called Calorie Counter, but apparently there's more than one called that, but it's for Androids, free, and has a green scale for an icon.

[bainidhe_dub]

The one I use sounds just like that except it's called Lose It! and has an orange scale for the icon. I like it.

[Patrick]

Pre-show Troubador practice went well, but the vibe was super off, and everybody was super bummed out until the minute we started playing at the show itself. From the first note onward, we were on point the whole night, and it felt great.

Official album release date is gonna be September 11. CONSPIRACY?????

Edit: I also made a hat trick out of getting caught checking girls out today. That's what I get for being 23, I guess.

[lepetitfromage]

The one I use sounds just like that except it's called Lose It! and has an orange scale for the icon. I like it.

I use the Lose It! website- I enjoy it when I manage to stick with it.

[Welu]

I'm dog-sitting for a couple days. So I'm staying in my parents house this week and I'm already weirded out just hanging out in the living room in the laptop with the TV on in the background. Doesn't help the boyfriend is working early tomorrow so he wasn't able to stay over.

[Zingoleb]

Official album release date is gonna be September 11. CONSPIRACY?????

Fighting for album sales with Dylan now?

[Patrick]

Well, it's hard to forget the date...

[Barmymoo]

So Edith and I are going to see Bob Dylan.

[Papersatan]

Today I met up with a boy that maybe I was going to do kinky things with.  Turns out he would be cheating on his girlfriend.  Disappointing. We did have a nice talk though where I gave him some tips for finding partners safely and encouraged him to have an honest talk with his girlfriend about opening their relationship if he thinks he can't live without his kink needs being met.

[dr. nervioso]

New avvy. I quite like it.

[Patrick]

I had an exceptional open mic last night. A fairly popular girl I know had a birthday last night and brought all her friends to the bar, and since I know them all I knew exactly what music would be best to play to keep them around. The last full-on jam session ended about 30m before close, so I played a couple songs by myself. It was pretty neat seeing people I knew singing along, it's been a while since something like that has happened. Slow last couple months -___- But last night rocked yeeeeee

Tonight's open mic was cool, introduced some old lady to Elliott Smith's music, spreading the crippling depression to the older generation and all dat

[Carl-E]

Oh, come on - we knew crippling depression when you were still in diapers!   

[bainidhe_dub]

So today was our 4th (wedding) anniversary so we went down to dinner in Bethesda, which was lovely, and then on the way home we were tangentially involved in a 6-car hit-and-run accident and ended up on the side of Wisconsin Avenue for close to an hour. We were the first car at a red light, and we heard tires screech and then that pop/bang of bumpers hitting, so Robert let off the brakes and went forward a little bit, but the car right behind us still tapped our bumper. It turned out that a girl in a Dodge Stratus had run into a Civic and then veered into the other lane and took off. The Civic hit a Volvo and is totaled, the Volvo hit a Camry, the Camry needs a new trunk, the Camry hit a Magnum, and then there was us. There were a lot of people in surrounding cars and on the sidewalk who saw it, and one lady was taken to the hospital but probably for shock more than anything because she was driving the Magnum, and she managed to take the car keys with her, but everybody else was okay. My husband pulled over to the side and ran back right away with a couple of road flares, and it was all terribly exciting.

[Patrick]

Tonight I drove the single most dangerous stretch of road in California. Fuck I do not like Highway 17 one fucking bit

[Lummer]

Dear Blog Thread.

Life is good these days, and so is the new Baroness record.

[Patrick]

Speaking of records, I am shamelessly post-whoring this in my 3 most-frequented threads on these here forums: Troubador's kickstarter is live and you should give us all your money

By that I mean you should give all 3 of us all your money

[Lupercal]

We were the first car at a red light

Reminds me of when I got rear-ended right outside my house by a jackass I knew in high school. People not noticing stationary traffic (or in these cases, noticing too late) always completely confuses me. I was simply indicating to get into my driveway - AND I was in a courtesy car at the time (my 'main' car had been smashed into whilst I was parked outside a relatives house). Obviously the most likely drivers to get hit are the ones not even moving!

[Sorflakne]

I hate when people put lots of parenthesis in their sentences, especially when it changes the meaning (I do not really hate when people do this (addendum, I do hate when they put parenthesis inside of other ones without going to brackets (No, I don't hate that either, but I do prefer using bracketed systems)))

Heh, I do that every now and then 

[Lines]

Blog thread, I am sad. I have been watching a kitten for a classmate of mine for the past two months and today I had to give her back. At first I was like, oh I get to play with a kitten for two months and then give her back, that'll be fun, but really she became my buddy and I ended up wanting to keep her, which I can't do. She ended up being the best kitten ever, not fair.    We're going to wait and see how the boy's cat reacts. If he's fine, we'll do without, but if he starts acting mopey or looks lonely (he played with the kitten quite a bit), we might consider actually getting a kitten. Hopefully one as awesome as the one I just gave back. Sigh.

[Omega Entity]

Linds, weren't you in MI? Or am I thinking of someone else? My neighbor that adopted the kitten from me decided that she's too high-energy for her, and is looking for a home for her.

[Lines]

No, I live in OH. There's a few people up there, though.

There's almost always people looking for homes for cats around here, though. Last time I went, the pet store had two kittens up for adoption. (They team up with local shelters and organizations and almost always have 1-2 cats in store.) Their names were Pepper Pots and Natasha and it was very hard not to take them both. Also I think there may be another adopt-a-thon thing at the local shelter soon...

[Nikolai]

My wife is always signing up to foster kittens, and while I was leery about it at first (mainly due to allergies and not being overly fond of cats), I must say that I've grown fond of looking after little balls of adorableness for a couple months.

[Lines]

When I was younger, my mom and I would catch the cats wondering around our old apartment complex and foster them until we got homes for them. We only fostered a kitten once and it was a tiny, but very, VERY smelly ball of cute. (I don't know why he stank, we but thankfully we only had him for a week and supposedly the smell eventually went away.) This one was different because she was really, really young when we got her (4-5 weeks old, tiny!) and she bonded with me and became my little magnet kitten. Also she was just so freaking cute.

[dr. nervioso]

Ello bwog.

I am at college. Roommate arrives tomorrow.

On a somewhat different note, I went to the gym and worked out for like a half hour. I know it's not long, but it was my first time and I was tired of looking at Dr. Oz's face on the television there. I wanted to try weights. But I have no idea how the contraptions there work. I will have to find people who know what they are doing and convince/manipulate them to assist me.

Probably won't be on here for a while. Classes start soon. So I guess I will see all you blogopeople in a few weeks.

[Redball]

This one was different because she was really, really young when we got her (4-5 weeks old, tiny!) and she bonded with me and became my little magnet kitten. Also she was just so freaking cute.

Oh, she was a cutie! I'm a sucker for tuxedo cats with asymmetrical markings on their face. It draws an awwwww response because they're no beauties, but they're adorable. At a time when my wife and I had three aging cats, our neighbor brought us a ball of fluff; the vet next day said she was 10 days old. She was a tuxedo, but the white on her face was a little lopsided. Wild dogs caught her in the nearby woods after about five years. In a few days, we got another tuxedo from the humane society. She's more symmetrical, prettier. I don't let her outside. My other cat's a talkative Siamese.

[Lines]

Talkative cats are fun! You can have conversations with them. My boyfriend's bengal cat is vocal and they'll just talk to each other.

[Lupercal]

Ello bwog.

I am at college. Roommate arrives tomorrow.

On a somewhat different note, I went to the gym and worked out for like a half hour. I know it's not long, but it was my first time and I was tired of looking at Dr. Oz's face on the television there. I wanted to try weights. But I have no idea how the contraptions there work. I will have to find people who know what they are doing and convince/manipulate them to assist me.

Probably won't be on here for a while. Classes start soon. So I guess I will see all you blogopeople in a few weeks.

Ask for an induction so that you can be shown how to use all the equipment safely, nothing wrong with wanting to know how to become He-Man that won't involve pulled muscles and shin-splints.

[lepetitfromage]

I agree with Lupercal- at my school, we could sign up for free "personal training" sessions- not exactly what it sounds like, but if you were clueless about how to operate the machinery and didn't want to look like an idiot for spending half your time in the gym reading the signs (like me), it was really helpful. I'm sure they have to staff people to supervise- they (usually) know what they're doing!

Of course, this is all assuming that you're using the gym on campus. Private gyms will typically give you a small introduction for free, but you'd probably have to pay for anything that they call personal training.

[Welu]

Finally entertained in the new house! We had burgers and sausages. They were only here two hours but was good fun seeing everyone again.

[Zingoleb]

Talkative cats are fun! You can have conversations with them. My boyfriend's bengal cat is vocal and they'll just talk to each other.

That's because bengal kitties are the loudest cats in the fucking world. I love their voices but I'm pretty sure I would go crazy hearing one for too long.

[Patrick]

I am pretty sure the last week has been the busiest and somehow still the longest week of my life

Tomorrow is the first day in 17 days where I've had literally nothing planned and I intend to sleep until I damn well feel like waking up, then shower, then laundry, and then back to fucking sleep

straight DGAFin

[Patrick]

Oh yeah the kickstarter made our goal and I got my driver's license on tuesday

can't even focus well enough right now to click the edit buttom

[Jace]

straight DGAFin

My hobby, changing the words in the acronym to mean something dirty.
Dog-Goat Anal Fuckin
Dastardly Gorilla Acrobatically Fuckin

[Papersatan]

In NY visiting friends and family.  Here is the cake I made for my best friend's birthday:



And inside:



Originally it was going to be purple ombre with candied flowers, but then we found the candy eyes and I designed this cake to make use of them. 

[Redball]

Love the color, and the gradient.

[Lines]

Talkative cats are fun! You can have conversations with them. My boyfriend's bengal cat is vocal and they'll just talk to each other.

That's because bengal kitties are the loudest cats in the fucking world. I love their voices but I'm pretty sure I would go crazy hearing one for too long.

Oh he's most certainly loud, he can be heard from anywhere in the house, regardless of who is on what floor. He also has the knack of meowing incessantly to himself, especially at inconvenient times such as right when we're about to fall asleep.

This weekend I got to spend some time with the internet at GenCon! Edith (pinkgrrlygeek), May (barmymoo), and I shared a room together with my bf and two of our friends and we all got to hang out and game with Eric (Cardinal_Fang) and some of his friends! All in all, it was a lot of fun, I probably spent too much money, and I left with a lot of good memories and fun games.

[Welu]

Friend sent me a text asking if I'd be interested in a "hash brownie night." That's new.

[Redball]

Edith (pinkgrrlygeek), May (barmymoo), and I shared a room together with my bf and two of our friends and we all got to hang out and game with Eric (Cardinal_Fang) and some of his friends! All in all, it was a lot of fun, I probably spent too much money, and I left with a lot of good memories and fun games.

Glad you folks got to meet up! I didn't realize you were going to Indy when I offered May a ride to Cincinnati. Looks like Jeph plans to be there next year. Who knows, I might go down for a day. It's about 2 1/2 hours.

[Lines]

It was fun. We spent most of Saturday all gaming together in the hotel lobby, part of which was during the time when free food and drinks were provided.