Tywin et al. Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Snow. It had to snow. And not lightly. I shouldn't have gone into work today. I left early, but there was still 3-4 inches on the ground. Cleaning my car off and then walking home did nothing kind and I had to dry the boot off for a few hours. Feels like I'm back to square one with the swelling. Monday cannot come soon enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 TIL that in the future we will wipe our bums with seashells. Thank you, Demolition Man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A True Kaniggit Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 I have wrapped my first present of the Christmas year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 Received our first Christmas gift of the year on Thursday, Dec. 1. How do I manage to know persons that organized, and why do they deign to send me gifts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A True Kaniggit Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 47 minutes ago, Zorral said: Received our first Christmas gift of the year on Thursday, Dec. 1. How do I manage to know persons that organized, and why do they deign to send me gifts? Use excel. Edit: Shoot. I think that may have been a rhetorical question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 1 hour ago, Zorral said: Received our first Christmas gift of the year on Thursday, Dec. 1. How do I manage to know persons that organized, and why do they deign to send me gifts? Was it anonymous or something? Did you open it [cause how the fuck would they know if you didn't want them to ] [whispers] w h a t i s i t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 25 minutes ago, JGP said: [whispers] w h a t i s i t Them. They were books. Each separately wrapped, but packaged together for the post office. From a friend in the Chesapeake, whom I love dearly. She knows what I like. Even what I need. She's scary organized. She also runs the Dem party in her county. Need it be said this county is blue-blue-blue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 Why am I imagining you with crazy curls and a shawl right now, Z lol I don't know enough to say about the blue blue, but will take your word for it. So you know they're books but haven't unwrapped them then, assuming they'll be excellent because of the giver? What do you read most? History? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 6 minutes ago, JGP said: History? Yes. 6 minutes ago, JGP said: crazy curls and a shawl She's the one with those -- and cats too. three lovely indoors, and a shifting, aloof mix of ferals who live on the street and who everyone feeds and takes care of -- as I too pitched in doing when living there. This county -- including the county seat -- is a matriarchy of white and black women, and they take no prisoners. They are all historians in their various ways too; the county seat's historical society is a treasure of history of the region. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 That's pretty cool to imagine. Was covid hard for the culture? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 They did more than hold the fort, and keep people in line, and reach out in every way, and everybody got vaccinated as soon as possible, every round because they were in charge. With Masks on. They lost few. Because they have been on this trajectory since the early 1960's. They have been activists, teachers, social workers, lawyers, cops, etc. ever since that horrible 'alternate' culture and the ideals of feminism and civil rights raised its head from the waters of the Chester River. I've never been anywhere like this place. It's hard to get to, by the way. There are no trains, no bus routes, no airports. The easiest way, besides driving, is still, like it was back in the founders' day, by water. People had to pass through here to get the ferry to get to the other side of the Bay, to go on to where there was civilization: Philadelphia, and then, finally -- well let's face it -- civilization never arrived there -- to D.C. So Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, etc. were regular visitors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 That's the stuff. Envy might best describe how I feel after reading that. Sounds like the Promised Land after a year and half of covid in Alberta. Even here back in BC, the scenery and climate are much better. The people though, I'm not a hundred sold on where I'm at. Of course, there's always stars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 AI art as a topic and the artists I follow have been all the way up in it for a few days now [more than usual] Just read a thread where the artist was offered 3k by Fortnite, for a promotional Fortnite illustration and all copyright. Meaning that the artist couldn't sell prints or tweak or use for self promotion. And of course, she turned them down. And her thread is full of silly monkeys who think it's outrageous that an artist could make that much for a single piece, with no idea of the time involved, while AI programs are out there lifting and repurposing artists' works willy nilly. Just talking, me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A True Kaniggit Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 On 12/3/2022 at 2:48 PM, A True Kaniggit said: I have wrapped my first present of the Christmas year. I messed up. . I sent my sister a photo of a gift I got her daughter. But I didn’t delete the photo from my phone. Rookie mistake. Of course the niece found it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 Received via mail first Christmas card/letter yesterday. People really want Christmas, I guess. Talking to my brother on fone -- he was wrapping gifts already even as we spoke! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 On 11/30/2022 at 5:57 AM, Tywin et al. said: Snow. It had to snow. And not lightly. I shouldn't have gone into work today. I left early, but there was still 3-4 inches on the ground. Cleaning my car off and then walking home did nothing kind and I had to dry the boot off for a few hours. Feels like I'm back to square one with the swelling. Monday cannot come soon enough. Congratulations! You managed to get the concepts of The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Summer into one post on a fantasy fan board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxom 1974 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 How did I not know the creator of the Garbage Pail Kids cards from the 80s was the same man who wrote Maus... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A True Kaniggit Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 4 minutes ago, Jaxom 1974 said: How did I not know the creator of the Garbage Pail Kids cards from the 80s was the same man who wrote Maus... Maus? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_VIII_Maus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxom 1974 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 56 minutes ago, A True Kaniggit said: Maus? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_VIII_Maus You're pulling my leg, of course right...?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus?wprov=sfla1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 They left out my reason for not drinking. Every time you take an alcoholic drink, you are literally poisoning yourself. I have a few beers twice a year. At Christmas, and when I go on holiday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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