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[Eris]

Yay jimmy! Congratulations!

[Barmymoo]

Woo job!

Did I tell you guys that I'm now back home? Can't remember. Anyway, I'm now back home and not really doing a whole lot. I think today I might get dressed and raid my mum's fabric store and make some bunting, because that super-cute picture of Lunchy's room reminded me that I was going to do that for the Pantomime and if I can do it for the Pantomime I can do it for my room!

Which doesn't really feel like my room yet Even though I lived there for two years, it still doesn't look like home with all my stuff in boxes and all my pictures and stuff not there.

[Jimor]

I know you're sad about missing the rest of the year of school, but I wanted to just say how damned impressed I've been by the way you had seized university life with both arms, both legs, and even teeth to get as much out of the experience as possible. Whether that contributed to why you had to leave, who knows, but nobody can say you wasted a moment of the time you were there, and I'm sure once you get back, you'll do just fine in whatever you decide to pursue. 

[David_Dovey]

Fuck yes Jimmy!

I can only go to band practice once a fortnight

It's lucky you're the singer then and not something important 

[Allybee]

I don't drive and no one I know does, I love snow.

where I live you have to shovel your sidewalks! so it doesn't matter if you have a car or not. opportunity to make ca$h money though

[Papersatan]

I don't drive and no one I know does, I love snow.

I walked everywhere for years, now I have a car.  I would rather drive in the snow than walk in it.  If it is just an inch or two I guess it doesn't matter, but once it starts to pile up walking is a pain.  People don't shovel, and even though we have sidewalk plows they don't do a great job, and only come out for big storms.  This means for 5 months of the year the sidewalk is uneven and slippery.  If it warms up at all then your feet get wet trudging through the slush, if it freezes after a warm up it is slick ice.  Most people give up and walk in the street.  This is dangerous though because the roads are narrower in the winter and if the driving conditions are bad you have a real risk of being hit.  Also drivers who have never been walkers will honk at you and give you the finger because they don't understand that the sidewalks are unusable.  They will also do this is areas of the suburbs where there are no sidewalks, like they expect you to wade through knee deep snow to get where you are going. 

[JD]

Someone straight up brought a sled to school. Fun times.

[Lines]

Kat, it's the same here. Last year there was a pretty big snow storm and I had to take the bus home. I got to my neighborhood and the sidewalks that had been shoveled had been covered with all the nasty street snow/ice that had been plowed off the street. I ended up walking in the street, but luckily not many people were around, so I only had to jump onto the snow/ice mound a few times to get out of the way. Walking in that shit when it's up to your knees just doesn't work. Luckily now, though, I live within walking distance of my job and they usually take pretty good care of this area because of the university.

[sean]

i have a stuffy nose

this is bullshit

[Wasteroo]

got my SAT scores back! I did approximately 100000x better than I thought I would do!

[StaedlerMars]

So either I have the beginnings of an air infection or I have Tinnitus. I'm really hoping it's number 1, but I'm really afraid it's actually number 2. I am going to the doctors on Thursday to find out.

[Patrick]

My right ear has been blocked for a couple weeks now. I need to get it unplugged. I have tried this solvent stuff that you put in and then wash out, but the wax seems to be impervious. Has anyone tried ear candling, or will I have to go to the doctor and get them to flush it out with their big syringe?

Just go to the doctor and get the big syringe treatment. I get this sorta stuff fairly regularly and it's not worth the trouble of trying all the weakshit options.

Do what I do and put warm water in a squirt gun

Same fuckin' shit

Dear y'all,

Oh my fucking god why do I have to work the fucking cleanup shift on Black Friday, and that's on top of the fact that my stupid fucking company has been advertising a 4-day sale that began yesterday. Why the fuck do they hate us.

Love,
Me

[valley_parade]

Ahahahahahaha Target on black Friday.

I wanted to diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie last year.

[Jimmy the Squid]

Fuck yes Jimmy!

I can only go to band practice once a fortnight

It's lucky you're the singer then and not something important 

I spoke to the other guys about it. This was the conclusion we came to. Sigh.

[celticgeek]

Good Going, Jimmy!

"We'll tie you to a barstool
if you're too drunk to stand
We'll take the ropes away
if you're the singer in the band"

Slainte, Dulahan

Dulahan

[Patrick]

Oh man Tommy why do you have to remind me of that thread, god I feel like a twat for posting anything past the first page

[scarred]

Power's out! snowpocalypse is getting pretty boring, but that's mostly because I'm no longer in the city where we can drink and be merry. now we're sort of huddled at home waiting. zzzzzz

[bainidhe_dub]

So either I have awesome neighbors or the key fairy is real, because Saturday evening I managed to drop my husband's car key somewhere between his parking spot and the front door (all of which is currently covered in fallen leaves) and we could not find it ANYWHERE. It was by itself, separated from the clicky-door-opener, so we could still lock and unlock the car, but it's also the only copy of the key with the chip in it. He was reeeeeeealllly pissed, as you might imagine. Monday evening when we got home from work, it was sitting in the middle of the front step. Yaaaay not paying $1000 to get a new ignition installed.

Also, today we got paid to go fishing with our boss instead of going to the office. Didn't catch anything but it was a fun time. Of like eight people invited, we were the only ones who actually went. One guy actually chose to stay home and do nothing and not get paid, rather than drive an hour and hang out on a boat all day and get a day's pay, but he's a little bitch about everything.

[squawk]

I am back home for Thanksgiving. Apparently I have a new bed. Which is okay I guess, but my parents moved all my stuff around and now I don't know where anything is. I wanted the comfort of all my shit strewn about, and my shitty bed which probably has given me back problems. Instead, I get a comfortable bed and an unfamiliar room with a lack of shit. Bitch bitch bitchhhhh

In addition to that, the rest of my house is in disarray and chaos, so, what else is new. Apparently my family's been having ant problems again.

But these aren't really bad things and I get to eat wonderful, wonderful food and also there are candy cane oreos WHAT ARE THOSE aaaand I get to see people I love tomorrow so that will be fun. Then I get to see the one I love after Thanksgiving. I hope things work out. I don't want to go back to school.

[Lunchbox]

I just spent lots of money at the vet to find out that my cat has a stress problem that is making her wee on things she is not supposed to wee on.
She got some sedatives and I just gave her the first dose, she walks around all slow and funny and bumps into things. Then she eats a lot.
It's pretty funny even though it shouldn't be.

[jhocking]

Record a video of sedated cat and post it on youtube. That is the done thing.

[Runs_With_Scissors]

Yesterday my bunny tried to jump into a fire place. I'm starting to wonder if she actually likes me.

[Ladybug]

Blog thread,

It is cold.



I will not schedule my Christmas shopping on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.

[Elizzybeth]

Yesterday my bunny tried to jump into a fire place. I'm starting to wonder if she actually likes me.

When I had bunnies, the fireplace was their favorite place to hang out.  It's a perfect bunny place--dark, walled on three sides (so they don't worry about an intruder from behind), kind of earthy-smelling...

(If there was a fire in the fireplace at the time, well... uh.  Sorry.)

[scarred]

If so, it sounds like she belongs with friends.

[Barmymoo]

Blog thread,

It is cold.



I will not schedule my Christmas shopping on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.

I am rethinking my Christmas plans. Any Aussies have a spare bed?

[Lunchbox]

Yeah for sure. My nan makes really good a really good icecream christmas pudding, too.

[Metope]

Damn you Lunchy, stop stealing our Brit!

May it's not really that cold in Oslo, that's the forecast for Trondheim which is always a lot colder! And we'll go ice skating on a lake, can't do that in Aussieland now, can you?

[Ladybug]

(I was going to find the forecast for Oslo because I was sure it would look better, but next week didn't look very comforting, although it is not quite Trondheim-cold.)

It's not completely horrible as long as you dress well, keep moving and don't have to stand at the bus stop for 20 minutes waiting for a bus that you get more and more convinced will never show up. But yeah, I'd bring wool. Or fleece (but wool is best). Unless things change by Christmas, which is always a possibility. We've had plenty of wet Christmases (which I hate).

The weirdest thing is when you can really feel how cold the air is when you breathe in, for longer than usual. But tomorrow I'll remember to wear wool underwear, because today my shoulders, of all body parts, were freezing and I also noticed that my hands got so cold that my iPhone wouldn't react upon the first touch. But I'd rather take this over wet and slushy winters, and I should honestly be quite pleased (as I was with last year's ridiculously cold winter). I was just a little bit freezing when I finally got home earlier tonight.

[Lunchbox]

Well no Kris, but we can go to the beach and get sunburnt on Boxing Day.

[Metope]

No, but... mumble grumble I wanna live in Aussieland.

[Ladybug]

I can't see myself ever feeling like it was really Christmas if it was super sunny and summery. If I'd grown up with it, then probably yeah, but not now.

I kind of need it to be snow on Christmas Eve, but haven't gotten that wish fulfilled lots of times the past few years. We did get proper snow last year, and this year is looking good so far

[pwhodges]

No, but... mumble grumble I wanna live in Aussieland.

It may be hot in the winter, but then it's colder in summer!

[Metope]

Still not as cold as Northern European winters!

But yeah, considering how my skin reacts to the sun I'm probably better off not living in Australia, I'd get a third degree burn just by walking out the door, even with 60 spf sun cream all over!

[Eris]

Pff, the last few christmases have actually been kinda cold. It doesn't look like that is going to be the case this yeah, but that just means lots of fruit and salads and cold meats. Also a lot of sitting inside and trying not to move.

I don't know whether I would prefer a hot or a cold christmas. I think having lots of salads and cold things would make it less work for the person hosting the shindig, rather than having to cook everything and keep things hot to serve at the same time and all that jazz.

[Lunchbox]

This is why I never go outside. I even get sunburnt sitting in a car. My doctor says I have a Vitamin D deficiency and I need to get 10 minutes of sunshine at lunchtime every day with no sunscreen, it is a bit worrying but so far I have only done it a few times and tanned my arms. :/

[Scandanavian War Machine]

.....aaand there it is

the most norwegian thing anyone could possibly say

[Scandanavian War Machine]

weird thing just happened to me:

I decided to do some research on e-readers since they're probably gonna be going for pretty cheap on Friday (and they are pretty pricey, the fuckers) and when I typed www.amazon.com into my browser, it redirected me straight to the Kindle homepage without any additional input from me whatsoever.

Either I subconciously navigated myself there, computers can now read minds, or Amazon has stepped up their game and created some sort of "probable interest" algorithm that figures out what I want for me.

None of those things are not terrifying.

[jhocking]

None of those things are not terrifying.

[Lines]

I can't see myself ever feeling like it was really Christmas if it was super sunny and summery. If I'd grown up with it, then probably yeah, but not now.

I kind of need it to be snow on Christmas Eve, but haven't gotten that wish fulfilled lots of times the past few years. We did get proper snow last year, and this year is looking good so far

I hate it when it doesn't snow on or right before Christmas. Mostly because snow free winters are ugly and snow that's been around too long is also ugly. It just needs to be all sparkly and pretty! It makes Christmas lights look so much better!

[Patrick]

Guys I am afraid of the television (I do not watch it, ever, for any reason) but the Beatles and their recording process are apparently being shown on the History Channel right now and FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[Radical AC]

My throat hurt so bad today (and was visibly swollen to the point I was worried it would close off in my sleep or something) that I dragged my uninsured ass down to a health clinic and I tested positive for strep.  $140 for the visit and another $40 for the medicine.  Would have felt bad if I'd gone down and it just turned out to be a sore throat... ah health insurance.  Hope I'm good enough to eat my mothers thanksgiving dinner tomorrow.  But, I'm really worried that I gave it to my girlfriend with whom I spent the last three days with almost exclusively.  Of course then I remember, hey, she has insurance.   

[Eris]

I went to the doctor today, too! I got antibiotics for my cough and gammy elbow (that cut I got nearly two months ago? still around and now infected), and a referral to a lady to try talking to about my arms. Hurray that stuff!

Then I went to work and my day went shit. I found out I got mystery shopped yesterday by one of the owner/managery people and didn't do too well, so I had about 6 people today telling me I need to talk to the customers more. Not all at the same time, mind, but one after another, some people telling me on multiple occasions. Then I got told that I have to do some "sales training" (ie learn how to talk to customers) tomorrow and the whole roster had to be rearranged to make this happen, so I feel bad. Then I brought up that I was going to go home for christmas and I basically got old "No, that's not going to happen". I may have cried in front of a coworker (but not the boss, thankfully). She said not to worry about it and that we can try and work something out, but even if we don't I can understand that; it just all piled on to me at once and I couldn't hold it. It kinda made me realise that I was looking forward to christmas, even a little?

Plus I have a splitting headache that has been building up my whole shift. Crap day, but it is over for now.

[snalin]

Still not as cold as Northern European winters!

But yeah, considering how my skin reacts to the sun I'm probably better off not living in Australia, I'd get a third degree burn just by walking out the door, even with 60 spf sun cream all over!

I got a moon burn once.

I feel your pain.


You know that thing that happens when your toes gets hot after having been very cold for a long time? That kind of weird, burning pain?

That happened to my face today. And it's only like -5 here.

[David_Dovey]

Isn't that the first sign of frostbite?

Also, are all the temperatures being talked about here Farenheit? Because otherwise that is Not Cold.

Dear Blog Thread I have worked outside the past two days in a row where it was -35ºC and -25ºC respectively.

[Barmymoo]

Oh man Jens, moon burn made me laugh out loud for like quarter of a minute. Fever, on the other hand, is not great. Starve a fever, feed a cold, and other things - and probably keep warm. Very warm. Sweat that bugger out.

I am definitely going to have to pack lots of pairs of tights to go under jeans and lots of jumpers etc. It's been slightly under freezing here for the last few days and I have felt like I would die without gloves and thick socks. I am not used to dressing for the weather, dammit, I just go round in jeans and a hoodie or a short dress with thin tights and pretend not to feel the temperature!

[Patrick]

Man I fucking hate holidays why the fuck is shit closed Thanksgiving is stupid and it doesn't at all take into account the fact that we raped and murdered every one of those Natives after the feast

Or before it I can't really remember which

[David_Dovey]

It warmed up nicely today, it was 2ºC outside just now, I went to the shops in a hockey jersey+t-shirt and no jacket. Fuckin' brilliant. The sun was out and everything.

[scarred]

From a week that started at like 12ºF, we're up to 40ºF. Woo! Maybe my flight tomorrow morning won't be a huge pain in the ass.

[Rizzo]

Made it to Wellington safely. I'm here to attend Kiwicon, New Zealands hacking and computer security conference.

I don't know shit about hacking but I have a bunch of friends who are hackers and it really interests me so why not come! Also, I did a lock picking course this afternoon which was super awesome. I can now pick standard tumbler locks without too much difficulty and I can escape standard handcuffs in less than 30 seconds. AWESOME.