RITA'S XXXVII: Habits Old and New

[Tadhg]

There are only two words that could get me to ever purchase a PS3:
Tekken 6.

Supposed to be this year, I think.

[Stellar]

MSG vs. Splinter Cell.

[Stellar]

Supposed to be this year, I think.

Yes, winter, and I cannot WAIT. Maybe Capcom might even churn out a new Street Fighter.

[Tadhg]

MSG vs. Splinter Cell.

I'd say Splinter Cell, but Double Agent was so buggy that it killed some of my love.

[Ronald Bryan]

Really, Sony needs to kick some game companies into gear, because we need some good games on the PS3. Yeah, I love my Blu-Rays, but I want some games apart from Resistance.

[Stellar]

Sony confirmed they're working on an MGS movie. They want Christian Bale to play Solid Snake, and get this, David Hayter pitched a script treatment, but the executives passed on it.

[Tadhg]

Really, Sony needs to kick some game companies into gear, because we need some good games on the PS3. Yeah, I love my Blu-Rays, but I want some games apart from Resistance.

I want to know what the Team ICO guys are working on. Ueda is brilliant.

[Athena Bast]

Sony confirmed they're working on an MGS movie. They want Christian Bale to play Solid Snake, and get this, David Hayter pitched a script treatment, but the executives passed on it.

HA! That's funny.

[Tages]

I have now hosted a successful BBQ.

I feel as if I have completed a rite of passage.

I am also incredibly drunk.

[Jeff Brady]

X3...despite my yelling at certain posters to stop laughing while I was watching it

Yeah, yeah. Next time, let's not watch a shitty movie.

[Stellar]

I have now hosted a successful BBQ.

I feel as if I have completed a rite of passage.

I am also incredibly drunk.

THIS oughta be good.

[Ronald Bryan]

I've had two beers. I am incredibly sober.

[mattbib]

Yeah, yeah. Next time, let's not watch a shitty movie.Standard movie etiquette, my friend. But...on a second viewing I'd have been right there with you. :D

I've had two beers. I am incredibly sober.I've had half a pint of Captain and now I'm starting on a bottle of Pinot. I am incredibly not drunk enough.

[Ronald Bryan]

Standard movie etiquette, my friend. But...on a second viewing I'd have been right there with you. :D

I've had half a pint of Captain and now I'm starting on a bottle of Pinot. I am incredibly not drunk enough.
But I have to be at work in 8 hours.

[Stellar]

Well folks, it's almost 2 am over her. I'm out.

Keep it real, and keep it gangsta.

[Athena Bast]

Well folks, it's almost 2 am over her. I'm out.

Keep it real, and keep it gangsta.

*hugs* See ya later Stellar!

[Jack Zodiac]

I've had two beers. I am incredibly sober.

I had... a lot more beer than you. And some rum. And Scotch. And I'm... kinda' buzzed.

[Alex]

chocolate rain is the deepest song on earth.

[morna]

You know the whole V is kinda a douchebag and anarchy thing from the comic?
Yknow, two things that are kinda important?
they took that out.

Now, it's not horrible as a movie, but as an adaptation of V for Vendetta, its kinda bad.
I saw the movie first and it started an insane but brief passion for the whole franchise - the book was the only thing that lasted but it did all come from the movie
I have now hosted a successful BBQ.

I feel as if I have completed a rite of passage.

I am also incredibly drunk.

nice!

[morna]

I, too, am slightly dri=unk

[Chris Nowlin]

11:15. Midterms almost half graded.

Wanted to type up solutions to last homework and midterm but running low on time.

Leaving at 6 am tomorrow to catch boat and go camping for weekend on nearby island.

Should probably be packed.

[morna]

woo hoo camping!

[Chris Nowlin]

woo hoo camping!

I plan to kayak and snorkel.

Will likely see dolphins.

Last time my friend went to these islands he saw a whale (I think an orca whale); I don't know if there are any around at the moment

[moebius]

11:15. Midterms almost half graded.

Wanted to type up solutions to last homework and midterm but running low on time.


What are you teaching this Fall? I have Research Design for Majors. I've never taught before (always an RA), but I'm looking forward to it.

[Royal]

Octocamo....*drool*

[jessecuster3]

Yeah I am awake, what are you gonna do about it?

[JeffreyWKramer]

Yesssss!!!!!
My wife and I always say that when the kids are old enough, watching it will be our family Christmas tradition. Really.
Add to it that it features the greatest Christmas song of allptime (Christmas in Hollis) and you have a winner.

Lethal Weapon is another good Christmas movie.


As is KISS KISS BANG BANG.

[Guapo Méndez]

When Dean hits Jamaica, then its trajectory will be decided.

Poor Jamaicans. They *always* get hit.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT04/refresh/AL0407_PROB64_F120+gif/083524.gif

[Forefinger]

That track already looks more North than the previous ones.

[Guapo Méndez]

Yep. Weather services say that Jamaica is the path-turner. Go south, hits CanCun and Cozumel. Go north and it passes between us and Cuba.

[Chris Nowlin]

I seem to have failed to wake up at 5:30 to catch my boat. Luckily they got me on the noon boat instead.

*whew*

[Gingold]

I seem to have failed to wake up at 5:30 to catch my boat. Luckily they got me on the noon boat instead.

*whew*

Somebody's coming along to make sure that you get off the island, right?

[Chris Nowlin]

Somebody's coming along to make sure that you get off the island, right?

If I don't seem to be posting on Monday, you wanna send somebody?

You're the only people who may notice my absence

[Stellar]

We'll think about it. Who are you again?

[Tages]

Aaaah.

I am at peace with the world.

[Paul McEnery]

Aaaah.

I am at peace with the world.

hangover departs
brain hits the restart button
farewell happiness

[Gladiaria_Alata]

Lightweight. -.-

[Ronald Bryan]

Aaaah.

I am at peace with the world.
Because c&c is gone for the weekend?

[jessecuster3]

Y'all are quiet today.

[Ronald Bryan]

Y'all are quiet today.
We're just enjoying the peace and quiet.

[Matt Algren]

We're just enjoying the peace and quiet.
Well, we were.

[Ronald Bryan]

Well, we were.
Then, you had to say something.

[Matt Algren]

Well, since Jesse went and ruined everything, how 'bout some Ralph Wiggum?

Tastes Like Burning (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X1EjgVjqjg)

[Spike-X]

Y'all are quiet today.
Listening to the new Rilo Kiley album.

It's quite good.

[Ronald Bryan]

I was catching up on watching The Riches. Trying to clean out my DVR.

[Gladiaria_Alata]

Listening to the new Rilo Kiley album.

It's quite good.

Lucky. My Dad's guitar playing is reverberating throughout the house. Even with closed doors. Urgh.

[Ronald Bryan]

My brother got an electric guitar for his birthday. They don't let him plug it in.

[Gladiaria_Alata]

My brother got an electric guitar for his birthday. They don't let him plug it in.

Smart people.

[jessecuster3]

Listening to the new Rilo Kiley album.

It's quite good.

Hmm I saw that but I am not familiar. I am really digging the new Stereophonics, however.

[Ronald Bryan]

I should heat up my Tombstone.

[Guapo Méndez]

Today the phone company sent a tech to look up my phone line. He found 4 spots that were either shorting or rusted all to hell. He told me it was a miracle I had an internet connection worth a damn.

This means no more noise in the line, no more disconnects while playing WoW and CoH, no more phone not ringing.

I love it.

OTOH, Hurricane Dean is pencilled in by tuesday.

[Ronald Bryan]

Today the phone company sent a tech to look up my phone line. He found 4 spots that were either shorting or rusted all to hell. He told me it was a miracle I had an internet connection worth a damn.

This means no more noise in the line, no more disconnects while playing WoW and CoH, no more phone not ringing.

I love it.

OTOH, Hurricane Dean is pencilled in by tuesday.
We had that problem with the cable wire for a while. The rain water kept seeping into the connector box in our back yard, and rusting out the wires, killing the Internet connection.

[Guapo Méndez]

Sixteen disconnections in one hour while playing WoW was like jumping into a washing machine full of thumbtacks.

[Gladiaria_Alata]

Today the phone company sent a tech to look up my phone line. He found 4 spots that were either shorting or rusted all to hell. He told me it was a miracle I had an internet connection worth a damn.

This means no more noise in the line, no more disconnects while playing WoW and CoH, no more phone not ringing.

I love it.


Good, good.


OTOH, Hurricane Dean is pencilled in by tuesday.

Ouch. Well, at least you know.

[Spike-X]

My brother got an electric guitar for his birthday. They don't let him plug it in.
What's the fucking point of that? At least get him a practice amp with a headphone out.

[Gladiaria_Alata]

Sixteen disconnections in one hour while playing WoW was like jumping into a washing machine full of thumbtacks.

Sixteen?! ....

[Guapo Méndez]

Hell yeah.

Sucked big-time.

[Ronald Bryan]

What's the fucking point of that? At least get him a practice amp with a headphone out.
Oh, he can use his headphones. But no playing aloud, unless everyone is out of the house.

[Athena Bast]

Sixteen disconnections in one hour while playing WoW was like jumping into a washing machine full of thumbtacks.

I used to disconnect in 20+ man raids.

Then after that got fixed I disconnected in groups 10 man or less.

Quite annoying.

[Spike-X]

Oh, he can use his headphones. But no playing aloud, unless everyone is out of the house.
Oh. That's fair enough, I guess.

[Ronald Bryan]

This Tombstone is pretty good.

Pizza and beer, my usual Saturday night.

[Gladiaria_Alata]

Hell yeah.

Sucked big-time.

Jeez. I'd be reduced to a twitchy raging sham of person if that happened to me.

[Gingold]

After two and a half years, the landlord finally got around to fixing our doorbell today. This calls for a drink.

[Gladiaria_Alata]

What was wrong with it?

[Gingold]

What was wrong with it?

It didn't ring. Which made it fairly ineffectual as a doorbell.

[Athena Bast]

It didn't ring. Which made it fairly ineffectual as a doorbell.

Mine rang my work phone

[Gingold]

Mine rang my work phone

That's awesome.

[Ronald Bryan]

That's awesome.
How long did it take you to realize it was the doorbell and not a prank caller?

[Gladiaria_Alata]

It didn't ring. Which made it fairly ineffectual as a doorbell.

Damn right it calls for drink, then.

Mine rang my work phone

Wierd, yet cool, that.

[Stellar]

What is this... 'doorbell' you speak of?

[Tages]

hangover departs
brain hits the restart button
farewell happiness

It's weird. Yesterday a friend of mine since high school got rip-roaring drunk (after not having a single drink for two years) and made a complete idiot out of himself, in the process ruining a Kill Bill replica sword my parents had given to me for XMas '05, pouring vodka all over me for no reason, and then collapsing onto my bean bag chair mumbling to himself, randomly yelling out disjointed bits of Japanese and apologizing to my friend Kara for accidentally touching her breast (actual quote: "I'm sorry if I got you pregnant").

Otherwise it was a damn good time. I woke up today serene and content, without a hangover. Now I'm at work, I don't hate being here and my back, for the first time in months, doesn't hurt.

[Ronald Bryan]

What is this... 'doorbell' you speak of?
It's like when someone knocks on "wood", but it makes a ringing sound, like air raid sirens.

[Ronald Bryan]

It's weird. Yesterday a friend of mine since high school got rip-roaring drunk (after not having a single drink for two years) and made a complete idiot out of himself, in the process ruining a Kill Bill replica sword my parents had given to me for XMas '05, pouring vodka all over me for no reason, and then collapsing onto my bean bag chair mumbling to himself, randomly yelling out disjointed bits of Japanese and apologizing to my friend Kara for accidentally touching her breast (actual quote: "I'm sorry if I got you pregnant").

Otherwise it was a damn good time. I woke up today serene and content, without a hangover. Now I'm at work, I don't hate being here and my back, for the first time in months, doesn't hurt.
Sounds like an awesome party.

[Stellar]

Spoonman,
come together with your hands,
save me,
I'm together with your plan.

[Ronald Bryan]

Beerfest!!

[Ronald Bryan]

I think I'm going to punch something.

[Athena Bast]

How long did it take you to realize it was the doorbell and not a prank caller?

No one calls me at work. It's not my job to answer phones either.

[Ronald Bryan]

No one calls me at work. It's not my job to answer phones either.
So, six months?

[Athena Bast]

So, six months?

Actually it was a week to get them to fix it.

Everyone agreed the calls were just.... odd.

[Athena Bast]

I don't want to go to work tomorrow.

[Ronald Bryan]

I don't either, that's why I'm off.

[Rallura]

Happy Saturday.
I just told my husband
he can quit his job.
Whee.

[Athena Bast]

Happy Saturday.
I just told my husband
he can quit his job.
Whee.



I'm waiting for the BF to do the same.

[Athena Bast]

I don't either, that's why I'm off.

I've been off the past week.

I don't do anything at work except keep everything together and I want to do more than that.

I tired of being reliable and dependable to allow the other ones that are not that run around and muck everything up.

[Rallura]

I'm waiting for the BF to do the same.

BB just called his mom
and told her,
and she said wait until
he has another job.

Which would be wonderful
but
it's also wonderful
to not be treated like shit
by your employers.

[StarsAndGarters]

BB just called his mom
and told her,
and she said wait until
he has another job.

Which would be wonderful
but
it's also wonderful
to not be treated like shit
by your employers.


I say that's worth quitting without much of a safety net over. I wish him lots of luck for finding something that's a better environment for him.

And happy Saturday to you too!

[Ronald Bryan]

Happy Saturday.
I just told my husband
he can quit his job.
Whee.

But then who will work at Wal Mart?

[Rallura]

I say that's worth quitting without much of a safety net over. I wish him lots of luck for finding something that's a better environment for him.

And happy Saturday to you too!

We're brainstorming
where else he can apply.
He's already applied
at the hospital.


But then who will work at Wal Mart?

People
who don't care
about being treated like shit?

I am going to miss the discount though,
for like five seconds.

[Ronald Bryan]

We're brainstorming
where else he can apply.
He's already applied
at the hospital.




People
who don't care
about being treated like shit?

I am going to miss the discount though,
for like five seconds.

He needs to apply at the comic store.

[Matt Algren]

Happy Saturday.
I just told my husband
he can quit his job.
Whee.

I quit without a safety net seven years ago. I've never regretted it. I honestly believe that if I hadn't quit, I wouldn't be alive right now. HOWEVER. I lost my job three years ago and spent almost a year looking for another one. That sucked mightily.

Every situation's different, but I'm not shocked that he's having that kind of problem at the Wal.

Best to both of you.

[StarsAndGarters]

We're brainstorming
where else he can apply.
He's already applied
at the hospital.

I'm enjoying working at a drug store lunch counter. It works for my school schedule, but it's not enough hours for full time.

Do they even have lunch counters out west? I'd never seen one until I moved here.

He needs to apply at the comic store.

Hell. Yes.

[Ronald Bryan]

I'd quit my job out of not liking it, but the around $40,000 a year tells me not to.

[Rallura]

He needs to apply at the comic store.

We're not even sure
there is one in town anymore.


I quit without a safety net seven years ago. I've never regretted it. I honestly believe that if I hadn't quit, I wouldn't be alive right now. HOWEVER. I lost my job three years ago and spent almost a year looking for another one. That sucked mightily.

Every situation's different, but I'm not shocked that he's having that kind of problem at the Wal.

Best to both of you.

Thank you.
And yeah, the stress
just isn't worth it.


I'm enjoying working at a drug store lunch counter. It works for my school schedule, but it's not enough hours for full time.

Do they even have lunch counters out west? I'd never seen one until I moved here.

Hell. Yes.

I don't think there is one here.
So far as I know,
all the drug stores are chains,
and there's no Woolworth.

[Ronald Bryan]

BB could become a full time actor.

[Rallura]

BB could become a full time actor.

That would be great.

[StarsAndGarters]

I'd quit my job out of not liking it, but the around $40,000 a year tells me not to.

That's something I've been thinking about lately. I've been working jobs at at minimum wage or a few bucks higher than that for a few years, which is normal since I'm still in college. I've just been wondering how to make that leap to a different range of earning power and I've realized I don't know the first thing about it. I figure a degree will help but I know that's not really all of it.

We're not even sure
there is one in town anymore.


Ach! How do you get yours?

[K'Nort]

When I am done rerereading HP,
I am going to reread
The Dark is Rising series.

On the day of the dead
When the year too dies
Must the youngest open the oldest hills
Through the door of the birds
Where the breeze breaks
And fire shall fly from the raven boy
And the silver eyes that see the wind
And the light shall have the harp of gold


I read The Grey King in sixth grade and really liked the poem in the beginning and memorized it. For some reason, although I haven't seen it since, it still popped back into my head. Or at least that's what I remember of it. From 1983.

Never got to the rest of the series. You recommend it?

[Deathstroke]

Somebody's coming along to make sure that you get off the island, right?

Either that or Jeff Probst will tell him he's been voted off.

I think I'm going to punch something.

Something or someone?

I don't want to go to work tomorrow.

Neither do I. But since it's Sunday, it's not an issue. I'm off anyway. Of course I do have a fantasy football draft so my brain still has to be turned on.

Happy Saturday.
I just told my husband
he can quit his job.
Whee.


Where does he work? Why are you okay with his quitting?

BB could become a full time actor.

Or apply for membership in The Legion Of Superheroes. He's got the codename already.

[Matt Algren]

That's something I've been thinking about lately. I've been working jobs at at minimum wage or a few bucks higher than that for a few years, which is normal since I'm still in college. I've just been wondering how to make that leap to a different range of earning power and I've realized I don't know the first thing about it. I figure a degree will help but I know that's not really all of it.What kind of job? If it's an office-type thing, the magic word is "internship."

[Rallura]

That's something I've been thinking about lately. I've been working jobs at at minimum wage or a few bucks higher than that for a few years, which is normal since I'm still in college. I've just been wondering how to make that leap to a different range of earning power and I've realized I don't know the first thing about it. I figure a degree will help but I know that's not really all of it.



Ach! How do you get yours?

Degrees help
but I think knowing what you really want
is even better.
That's always been my problem.
I don't really have a direction.

And we order ours
from midtown comics.


On the day of the dead
When the year too dies
Must the youngest open the oldest hills
Through the door of the birds
Where the breeze breaks
And fire shall fly from the raven boy
And the silver eyes that see the wind
And the light shall have the harp of gold


I read The Grey King in sixth grade and really liked the poem in the beginning and memorized it. For some reason, although I haven't seen it since, it still popped back into my head. Or at least that's what I remember of it. From 1983.

Never got to the rest of the series. You recommend it?

Yes, I recommend it.


When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back;
Three from the circle, three from the track;
Wood, bronze, iron, water, fire, stone;
Five will return, and one go alone.

Iron for the birthday, bronze carried long;
Wood from the burning, stone out of song;
Fire in the candle-ring, water from the thaw;
Six Signs the circle, and the grail gone before.

Fire on the mountain shall find the harp of gold;
Played to wake the Sleepers, oldest of the old;
Power from the green witch, lost beneath the sea;
All shall find the light at last, silver on the tree.

[Ronald Bryan]

That's something I've been thinking about lately. I've been working jobs at at minimum wage or a few bucks higher than that for a few years, which is normal since I'm still in college. I've just been wondering how to make that leap to a different range of earning power and I've realized I don't know the first thing about it. I figure a degree will help but I know that's not really all of it.



Ach! How do you get yours?
Degrees don't help.


Well, they sometimes do, but my friend is making hsi by starting working temp for the state medical center. I got to my position by being promoted from starting as cashier back in 1996. There's no single way.

[Rallura]

Where does he work? Why are you okay with his quitting?



Or apply for membership in The Legion Of Superheroes. He's got the codename already.

He works at Wal-Mart.
And I am ok because
the job is crap
and he gets treated like crap
and it's not worth the paycheck
at this point.
It would be very hard,
but we'd live.

And he already knows
how to read Interlac.

[K'Nort]

Eating at Hooters for the food is the culinary equivalent of reading Playboy for the articles.

We carry the braille version of Playboy.

We'll be out drinking with the head of that department later this week and I'm going to try to remember to get up the nerve to ask her whether it's only articles.

[Ronald Bryan]

What kind of job? If it's an office-type thing, the magic word is "internship."
There's the best way to get a good job. I was an idiot to not apply for internships. Don't be like me!

[StarsAndGarters]

What kind of job? If it's an office-type thing, the magic word is "internship."

Ooh, I want one of those. Need anything stapled?

Degrees help
but I think knowing what you really want
is even better.
That's always been my problem.
I don't really have a direction.

And we order ours
from midtown comics.


Gah, that's a big problem for me. I know my major but I'm really not very fixated on what I'm going to do specifically.

[i_mmmchocolate]

It also depends on the degree itself- major/area of study.

re internships: When I was an undergraduate, I did two of those. The first one paid $15 /hr. That was awesome.

[Gingold]

What is your major, Gus?

[Rallura]

Gah, that's a big problem for me. I know my major but I'm really not very fixated on what I'm going to do specifically.

I have a degree I don't use.
I just do whatever there is to do.
Although I do like where I am working now.

[i_mmmchocolate]

NB: It was a gorgeous day over here.

[Ronald Bryan]

I have a degree in English. Which is why I work in retail.


So people can drive me crazy by abusing our language to the nth degree.

[StarsAndGarters]

It also depends on the degree itself- major/area of study.

re internships: When I was an undergraduate, I did two of those. The first one paid $15 /hr. That was awesome.

So jealous!

What is your major, Gus?

Communications. I used to be a Film student specifically, but I worked that out of my system. Not full of of myself enough for it.

I'll take that back about not being interested in anything. I've been volunteering at Kristen's workplace in the disability services department. Reading the news on the radio. It's been pretty fun and I could get into that.

[K'Nort]

Yes, I recommend it.


When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back;
Three from the circle, three from the track;
Wood, bronze, iron, water, fire, stone;
Five will return, and one go alone.

Iron for the birthday, bronze carried long;
Wood from the burning, stone out of song;
Fire in the candle-ring, water from the thaw;
Six Signs the circle, and the grail gone before.

Fire on the mountain shall find the harp of gold;
Played to wake the Sleepers, oldest of the old;
Power from the green witch, lost beneath the sea;
All shall find the light at last, silver on the tree.


Did she write one for each volume? How many were there?

I do have that New Sun trilogy to start as soon as I finish Woman In White. Which I'm having trouble returning too now that I've gotten to a point where I know how the rest will turn out more or less but there's still about 150 pages.

How was my memory?

[i_mmmchocolate]

Radio is a lot of fun! You should definitely consider an internship or some sort of work in the field to see if it's for you.

[K'Nort]

Communications. I used to be a Film student specifically, but I worked that out of my system. Not full of of myself enough for it.

I've known (other) perfectly bearable film studies majors. And was it really the other students that made you drop the major? Because that would be a silly reason.


I'll take that back about not being interested in anything. I've been volunteering at Kristen's workplace in the disability services department. Reading the news on the radio. It's been pretty fun and I could get into that.

Remember my father was a dj for a long time. Give you something to talk about at Thanksgiving. He loves to give advice.

[Ronald Bryan]

It was drunken filming that I think made him drop it.

[jessecuster3]

All of my friends are going out, and my girlfriend is otherwise occupied tonight and I just don't feel like going out. What is wrong with me?



In other news I got this:
http://www.millionaireplayboy.com/images/transformers/hybrid/optimus_06.jpg


and this:

http://www.tfsource.com/Reissues/Encore-Soundwave/encore_03_l.jpg


Today.

[K'Nort]

Jesse -- We saw Transformers on Thursday. I'll let Gus take it from there.

We also saw that trailer. That Blair Witch meets War of the Worlds thing. I'm assuming folks have talked about it already and I just haven't noticed. It was interesting. In a general 'something halfway original' way.

[Rallura]

Did she write one for each volume? How many were there?

I do have that New Sun trilogy to start as soon as I finish Woman In White. Which I'm having trouble returning too now that I've gotten to a point where I know how the rest will turn out more or less but there's still about 150 pages.

How was my memory?




There are five books,
and I can't remember if there's a verse
in each.
I just happened to still have
Greenwitch out
I read it last night.
Your verse looks right,
though I don't know where
my copy of Grey King is at the moment.

The five are
Over Sea, Under Stone,
The Dark is Rising,
Greenwitch
The Grey King,
and
Silver on the Tree.

The two she did on the Boggart
are also good.

[StarsAndGarters]

Remember my father was a dj for a long time. Give you something to talk about at Thanksgiving. He loves to give advice.

Perfect! I will do that.

It was drunken filming that I think made him drop it.

That would be an awesome story.

Naw, the real reason was I was doing poorly academically. It took me a while to get the hang of college.

Strangely enough, I spent some of that time goofing off helping some friends with a radio show.

[Ronald Bryan]

Time for Black Snake Moan.

[jessecuster3]

Jesse -- We saw Transformers on Thursday. I'll let Gus take it from there.

We also saw that trailer. That Blair Witch meets War of the Worlds thing. I'm assuming folks have talked about it already and I just haven't noticed. It was interesting. In a general 'something halfway original' way.

If you hated it, that's alright.

Yeah that trailer is really interesting, what's cool is that noone even knows the name of the movie yet and its supposed to be coming out in less than 6 months.

[Gingold]

You obviously want to stay home and play with your new toys, Jesse.

[jessecuster3]

You obviously want to stay home and play with your new toys, Jesse.

Naah, they are robots and sitting on my shelf already.


I just have this ennui, I guess.

[Tadhg]

I got a Superman Push Puppet. Filled with CANDY TREATS!

[jessecuster3]

Ok folks, lets keep Sgt Peppers alive, please?

[Deathstroke]

He works at Wal-Mart.
And I am ok because
the job is crap
and he gets treated like crap
and it's not worth the paycheck
at this point.
It would be very hard,
but we'd live.

And he already knows
how to read Interlac.



Yeah Wal-Mart is pretty shit for a job. And with his Interlac skills he could be an Interlac to Earth Standard if he doesn't pass his Legion audition.

[Ronald Bryan]

You could play video games.

[StarsAndGarters]

Jesse -- We saw Transformers on Thursday. I'll let Gus take it from there.

Kristen was kind of ambivalent but I loved it! Just a wild ride. I haven't seen more than a few of the cartoon episodes but I'm wanting to now.

[jessecuster3]

Kristen was kind of ambivalent but I loved it! Just a wild ride. I haven't seen more than a few of the cartoon episodes but I'm wanting to now.

Gus I knew I liked you for some reason.

[Tadhg]

Kristen was kind of ambivalent but I loved it! Just a wild ride. I haven't seen more than a few of the cartoon episodes but I'm wanting to now.

I'd suggest not. Except for the 80's movie and the first season of Beast Wars. Everything else is unwatchable in my estimation.

[jessecuster3]

I'd suggest not. Except for the 80's movie and the first season of Beast Wars. Everything else is unwatchable in my estimation.

That's a pretty good estimation. I am not even sure how well the 80's movie has stood the test of time.

[Rallura]

There's no duck sauce!
TRAGIC!

[Tadhg]

That's a pretty good estimation. I am not even sure how well the 80's movie has stood the test of time.

I've seen it recently, well in the last 5 years. I got it when it was originally released on DVD(Full-Frame Blech!). But it's pretty watchable. Dumber than all imagining, but watchable. I also bought the first season of the original cartoon because I had more money than sense. It's incredibly bad.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

All of my friends are going out, and my girlfriend is otherwise occupied tonight and I just don't feel like going out. What is wrong with me?



In other news I got this:
http://www.millionaireplayboy.com/images/transformers/hybrid/optimus_06.jpg


and this:

http://www.tfsource.com/Reissues/Encore-Soundwave/encore_03_l.jpg


Today.


Mmmm nice. Thats one toy of Transformers I never could find. Optimus Prime...I searched all over. I had all the other toys like Cup, Skids, Hot Rod , Ultra Magnus ect ect. But never Prime.

You should watch my Rude Awakening of Optimus Prime clip at the Youtube thread. I posted it last week....you'll get a laugh...

"Ok , Autobots transform and roll out. Were gonna go stick my boot up Galvatron's ass !"

[StarsAndGarters]

I'd suggest not. Except for the 80's movie and the first season of Beast Wars. Everything else is unwatchable in my estimation.

Ack, no. We already watched the 80s movie and it was absolutely unbearable. Tell me about this Beast Wars thing though?

[K'Nort]

The 80s movie sucked. We saw it for the first time just a couple weeks ago. It was too.... 80s.

I faithfully watched the show from about 1985-1987 and haven't seen it since. In any form. Except for recently watching the 80s film. So that's how I was coming at the new movie.

I think if I'd never seen the show, the movie would have done zilch for me. All my enjoyment was nostalgia-based. The humans didn't irritate me. And I appreciated that. I had very low expectations there. Bay seems to have given up on doing character building moments and sentiment and thank God for that. I didn't want another animal cracker moment.

The big downside for me was the CGI. It was too fast and too needlessly detailed. Couldn't tell what the heck was happening. Literally couldn't focus. And what I could see was counter-intuitive. That stupid little silver gremlin should have been cutting folks to ribbons, for example. Deliberately or otherwise.

Oh and I'm having a heck of a time describing Scatman Crothers to Gus. Someone please help.

[StarsAndGarters]

I've seen it recently, well in the last 5 years. I got it when it was originally released on DVD(Full-Frame Blech!). But it's pretty watchable. Dumber than all imagining, but watchable. I also bought the first season of the original cartoon because I had more money than sense. It's incredibly bad.

See, the first two seasons are the ones I'm interested in. With the classic lineups and without the CGI. I love crappy 80s animation for some reason. And the sound effects!

[Tadhg]

Ack, no. We already watched the 80s movie and it was absolutely unbearable. Tell me about this Beast Wars thing though?

If you think the movie was unwatchable, the cartoon was much, much, much worse. Crappier plotting and cheaper animation.

Beast Wars was a mid-nineties CGI cartoon with the robots transforming into animals instead of vehicles. The animation holds up pretty well(Much better than the CGI from Sci-fi shows at the same time). It's definitely designed to be children's fare with fairly simplistic stories and broad archetypes, but it's pretty well crafted. For 30 minute toy-commercials it beats any of the 80s stuff.

[Athena Bast]

BB just called his mom
and told her,
and she said wait until
he has another job.

Which would be wonderful
but
it's also wonderful
to not be treated like shit
by your employers.



My problem is I'm not treated like shit (that is I have been treated worse) but I want to be able to respect the people I work with and I'm finding that very hard to do everyday.

I'm bored out of my freaking mind having to holding things together while others run around drilling as many holes in it as possible.

[Tadhg]

The 80s movie sucked. We saw it for the first time just a couple weeks ago. It was too.... 80s.


I love things that are just too 80's. Like the first Grendel mini. The 80's idea of the future is my favorite.

[Athena Bast]

If you think the movie was unwatchable, the cartoon was much, much, much worse. Crappier plotting and cheaper animation.

Beast Wars was a mid-nineties CGI cartoon with the robots transforming into animals instead of vehicles. The animation holds up pretty well(Much better than the CGI from Sci-fi shows at the same time). It's definitely designed to be children's fare with fairly simplistic stories and broad archetypes, but it's pretty well crafted. For 30 minute toy-commercials it beats any of the 80s stuff.

Animation was done by Mainframe (the ReBoot people)

[K'Nort]

I love things that are just too 80's. Like the first Grendel mini. The 80's idea of the future is my favorite.

And I'm loving rereading Grimjack in trades so we're not far apart there.

It was the music that got to me the most.


I had a Starscream figure back in the day. Was a very complicated process to obtain. Well before the internet, or even widespread 800 numbers. No toy stores in Alaska to speak of. I eventually found a mailing address for Toys-R-Us (public library) and got one that way.

[Rallura]

My problem is I'm not treated like shit (that is I have been treated worse) but I want to be able to respect the people I work with and I'm finding that very hard to do everyday.

I'm bored out of my freaking mind having to holding things together while others run around drilling as many holes in it as possible.

It's never good
when you feel you're holding
the frakking building up.

[K'Nort]

We saw Out of the Past (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_the_past)last night. Robert Mitchum. It's the one that got the essay in the first issue of Criminal.

I'm glad I never saw Against All Odds. That Jeff Bridges thing that didn't look any good at the time. It's a remake, and I didn't know that last night, so it would have gotten disorienting.

[Ronald Bryan]

What, you don't like "The Touch"?

[Ronald Bryan]

You've got the touch!
You've got the power!
Yeah-yeah!

[jessecuster3]

I had a Starscream figure back in the day. Was a very complicated process to obtain. Well before the internet, or even widespread 800 numbers. No toy stores in Alaska to speak of. I eventually found a mailing address for Toys-R-Us (public library) and got one that way.

This one?


http://www.tfw2005.com/gallery/data/691/starscream2.jpg


http://www.tfw2005.com/gallery/data/691/starscream3.jpg

[StarsAndGarters]

We saw Out of the Past (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_the_past)last night. Robert Mitchum. It's the one that got the essay in the first issue of Criminal.

"Frankly, you don't make sense." Awesome.

You've got the touch!
You've got the power!
Yeah-yeah!

No I don't!

[K'Nort]

Ugly is not a term I would use. Boring is more appropriate. Which is why I like Gerry Butler and Clive Owen.

I thought of you this afternoon. I was talking to a friend back in Portland and apparently his aunt is a huge Butler fan. She paints portraits of him. And flew to Scotland recently for some big annual fan club thing. Also flew to Vancouver in the last year or so for the premier of a movie he was in that wasn't apparently ever going to be released in the U.S. And ran into him quite unexpectedly and hyperventilated all over the place. Her husband is totally mellow about it. He's a woodworker by trade and made her a Phantom mask to go with the portrait she did of him from that.

[K'Nort]

This one?


http://www.tfw2005.com/gallery/data/691/starscream2.jpg


http://www.tfw2005.com/gallery/data/691/starscream3.jpg

Very possibly. I know I bought airplane model paint and redid the colours because they weren't quite right and that face certainly isn't.

I didn't like the faces in the movies. They looked like insects. Sacrificed personality for realism. Realism really had no place there anyway.

[Rallura]

BB's fortune cookie:
"You will win success in whatever calling you adopt."

Bwah!

[K'Nort]

Oh and Gus and I both now think that Apodaca resembles a young Mitchum in some indefinable way. Physically.

[Ronald Bryan]

"Frankly, you don't make sense." Awesome.



No I don't!
OK, you asked for it:

You got the touch
You got the power

After all is said and done
You've never walked, you've never run,
You're a winner

You got the moves, you know the streets
Break the rules, take the heat
You're nobody's fool

You're at your best when when the goin' gets rough
You've been put to the test, but it's never enough

You got the touch
You got the power

When all hell's breakin' loose
You'll be riding the eye of the storm

You got the heart
You got the motion

You know that when things get too tough
You got the touch

You never bend, you never break
You seem to know just what it takes
You're a fighter

It's in the blood, it's in the will
It's in the mighty hands of steel
When you're standin' your ground

And you never get hit when your back's to the wall
Gonna fight to the end and you're takin' it all

You got the touch
You got the power

When all hell's breakin' loose
You'll be riding the eye of the storm

You got the heart
You got the motion

You know that when things get too tough
You got the touch

You're fightin' fire with fire
You know you got the touch

You're at your best when when the road gets rough
You've been put to the test, but it's never enough

You got the touch
You got the power

You got the touch
You got the power

[Tadhg]

OK, you asked for it:


He released a new version of the song this summer.

[StarsAndGarters]

Very possibly. I know I bought airplane model paint and redid the colours because they weren't quite right and that face certainly isn't.

I didn't like the faces in the movies. They looked like insects. Sacrificed personality for realism. Realism really had no place there anyway.

It thought they did got a bit overboard on the pistons and rods look, but I thought they were recognizable. I probably embarrassed myself when Starscream showed up.

Which is another mark against the 80s movie. You can't get rid of Starscream!

[Tadhg]

Which is another mark against the 80s movie. You can't get rid of Starscream!

He should have gotten rid of Starscream long before that. Megatron was always such a wuss.

[K'Nort]

It thought they did got a bit overboard on the pistons and rods look, but I thought they were recognizable. I probably embarrassed myself when Starscream showed up.

Nah. My yelp definitely drowned out yours.

Of course, there were only two other people in the theatre.

[Gingold]

I must have missed the part of that album survivor game when the good Beatles albums were on it. The White Album? Seriously?
Edit: I missed that Revolver was still on there. I feel a little better.

[StarsAndGarters]

Oh and Gus and I both now think that Apodaca resembles a young Mitchum in some indefinable way. Physically.

Very much so. It's in the jawline. And the eyes.

OK, you asked for it:

No I didn't!

[Tadhg]

We saw Stardust today. I was pleasantly surprised.

[StarsAndGarters]

He should have gotten rid of Starscream long before that. Megatron was always such a wuss.

But that's the beauty of it, the disfunctionality and the bickering of the Decepticons cracks me up.

Nah. My yelp definitely drowned out yours.

Of course, there were only two other people in the theatre.

That must have been one of their last shows. I've never been in a theater that empty.

I must have missed the part of that album survivor game when the good Beatles albums were on it. The White Album? Seriously?

I'd say seriously, though I'm not playing the game. The White Album's great, if eclectic, although I could do without Revolution 9. Not your thing?

[Gingold]

Oh and Gus and I both now think that Apodaca resembles a young Mitchum in some indefinable way. Physically.

I've only seen pictures of Dan, but I concur. Good observation.

[K'Nort]

Oh. No wonder Optimus sounded right.

[Gingold]

I'd say seriously, though I'm not playing the game. The White Album's great, if eclectic, although I could do without Revolution 9. Not your thing?

It's a like a double album made of filler. It would be an interesting outtakes album, I guess. I think it's my least favorite album of theirs. I like Rocky Raccoon and Sexy Sadie, though. Rubber Soul is my favorite, and I like Help! and Revolver a lot.

[StarsAndGarters]

Oh. No wonder Optimus sounded right.

You hadn't heard?

It's a like a double album made of filler. It would be an interesting outtakes album, I guess. I think it's my least favorite album of theirs. I like Rocky Raccoon and Sexy Sadie, though. Rubber Soul is my favorite, and I like Help! and Revolver a lot.

I can agree on the outtake idea. It's bursting with ideas, but depending on how you like the songs, they aren't necessarily all good ones. I like the weird ones though. Martha My Dear and Why Don't We Do It In The Road? make me smile.

[Athena Bast]

It's never good
when you feel you're holding
the frakking building up.



They know my frustrations but a lot of the time I get the standard blowing smoke up my ass treatment. I just nod for their sakes really.

My sense of duty and honor get taken advantage of all the freaking time. The GM thinks he's Leonidas and I'm like "Dude, you are so much more of Xerxes than anyone else."

I don't want to have it that I have to go on smoke breaks with him, or go drinking with them all in order for my voice to be heard and to be paid attention to. Your work life should not be dependant on your social life.

[Athena Bast]

I thought of you this afternoon. I was talking to a friend back in Portland and apparently his aunt is a huge Butler fan. She paints portraits of him. And flew to Scotland recently for some big annual fan club thing. Also flew to Vancouver in the last year or so for the premier of a movie he was in that wasn't apparently ever going to be released in the U.S. And ran into him quite unexpectedly and hyperventilated all over the place. Her husband is totally mellow about it. He's a woodworker by trade and made her a Phantom mask to go with the portrait she did of him from that.

LOL

I'd probably hyperventilate a little I think. Bah, who am I kidding? I get flubbered talking to Steve McNiven.

[Spike-X]

Ryan Adams tomorrow night WOOHOO!!!

[Ronald Bryan]

Sam Jackson singing the blues.

[Guapo Méndez]

What, you don't like "The Touch"?

Optimus and Megatron's showdown was totally marred by that tune.

You shouldn't lead a fight to the death with peppy pop songs.

[Matt Algren]

In other news I got this:
http://www.millionaireplayboy.com/images/transformers/hybrid/optimus_06.jpg

and this:

http://www.tfsource.com/Reissues/Encore-Soundwave/encore_03_l.jpg

Today.WANT!

I'd suggest not. Except for the 80's movie and the first season of Beast Wars. Everything else is unwatchable in my estimation.That's a pretty good estimation. I am not even sure how well the 80's movie has stood the test of time.
I also agree. The personalities you remember came mostly from the side of the box, and the good animation was all in your head.

The 80s movie continues to be great, though I freely admit that it's dated (see: Eric Idle).

The Beast Wars series was awesome. Beast Machines, decidedly less so.

[jessecuster3]

I must have missed the part of that album survivor game when the good Beatles albums were on it. The White Album? Seriously?
Edit: I missed that Revolver was still on there. I feel a little better.

Sgt Peppers needs your votes.

[Spike-X]

Damn, I hate breaking a string and not having a spare.

[K'Nort]

Damn, I hate breaking a string and not having a spare.

Guitar?

Like the one my downstairs neighbor has apparently decided is appropriate to play at 11:30pm? With amp? So I can feel it with my feet as well as hear it?

Not that I'm bitter.

[Athena Bast]

My building has been two nights marijuana free.

Just watch Howy be back tomorrow in total irony.

[Forefinger]

I had a fun night at work tonight. We gassed an inmate. Breathing in chemical agents after they have been applied to them while escorting them to see a nurse is always fun. I think that I need to find another job where I spend 90% of the day surfing on the internet and posting on CBR.

[Athena Bast]

I've had enough at being the weight I am... the shape I am... the general lethargy of my life so I've started a fitness blog thingie at Wordpress.

The link is in my new edited sig "The Fitness Blarg" tho the blog itself is "Now where did I put that?". First entry is up and it's... long but it's like the first movie in a series.. a little exposition is needed sometimes.

[ragnarok_2012]

Guapo,

That's the most awesome avatar picture.

[Jeff Brady]

I feel better today. It's not saying much, but I'll take it.

Well, since Jesse went and ruined everything, how 'bout some Ralph Wiggum?

Tastes Like Burning (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X1EjgVjqjg)

I love you.

Today the phone company sent a tech to look up my phone line. He found 4 spots that were either shorting or rusted all to hell. He told me it was a miracle I had an internet connection worth a damn.

This means no more noise in the line, no more disconnects while playing WoW and CoH, no more phone not ringing.

I love it.

OTOH, Hurricane Dean is pencilled in by tuesday.

Well shit, they might as well wait until AFTER the hurricane. Good luck, Guapo.

NB: It was a gorgeous day over here.

It really is nice out.

[kmeyers]

BB's fortune cookie:
"You will win success in whatever calling you adopt."

Bwah!


Why do all my fortune cookies tell me about my untimely death at the hands of angry police officers?

I don't know, but judging from the visions...my lucky numbers are the amount of times I get beaten with the night stick per officer.

I hate all of those numbers. Why do they all have to be over 20?

[Guapo Méndez]

Guapo,

That's the most awesome avatar picture.

Why, thank you. My good friend Julian threw it together on friday.

Today we dismanteled the kids' trampoline and we found out it the joints were corroded. Damn thing broke apart when we were disassembling it.

It's junk now. My wife bought it about a year before we got married at an amazingly low price (150 bucks). It has paid for itself ten times over. So, as soon as the hoopla dies down, we'll buy another one.

[Guapo Méndez]

Well shit, they might as well wait until AFTER the hurricane. Good luck, Guapo.


What do you think I'll be doing before they cut out the power (but after I've hurricane-proof the house)?

I'm gonna raid Auberdine like nobody's business.

[Athena Bast]

Why, thank you. My good friend Julian threw it together on friday.

Today we dismanteled the kids' trampoline and we found out it the joints were corroded. Damn thing broke apart when we were disassembling it.

It's junk now. My wife bought it about a year before we got married at an amazingly low price (150 bucks). It has paid for itself ten times over. So, as soon as the hoopla dies down, we'll buy another one.

Next time ya might want to get a tarp or something to cover it and keep the rain off so it won't rust out too fast.

Good thing it fell apart while you were taking it apart and not while someone was jumping on it.

[kmeyers]

And now I feel really bad for making a police brutality joke, because I know certain CBRians are true.

I wish brutality on everyone else, I swear!

[Guapo Méndez]

Next time ya might want to get a tarp or something to cover it and keep the rain off so it won't rust out too fast.

Good thing it fell apart while you were taking it apart and not while someone was jumping on it.

That's what I told my wife. It lasted 10 years and a huge number of parties with no one hurt (sure, a bump here and there, but not a bone broken nor a bloody nose or lip).

Man, today I could play WoW without a hitch.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b197/guapo_mendez/WoWScrnShot_081107_022540.jpg

[Spike-X]

Kids love them trampolines!

Santa brought one for my kids a couple years ago. Damn thing took Santa three hours to assemble in the dark (no back yard light - had to use car headlights).

Of course, if Santa hadn't been drinking at the time, it might only have taken an hour and a half...

[kmeyers]

Kids love them trampolines!

Santa brought one for my kids a couple years ago. Damn thing took Santa three hours to assemble in the dark (no back yard light - had to use car headlights).

Of course, if Santa hadn't been drinking at the time, it might only have taken an hour and a half...

And everyone might have survived, if Santa wasn't so wasted.

[Dan Apodaca]

And now I feel really bad for making a police brutality joke, because I know certain CBRians are true.

It keeps 'em working to convince us otherwise.

[Sanagi]

Damn, I hate breaking a string and not having a spare.
Guitar?
Bikini.


.

[K'Nort]

Kids love them trampolines!

Santa brought one for my kids a couple years ago. Damn thing took Santa three hours to assemble in the dark (no back yard light - had to use car headlights).

Of course, if Santa hadn't been drinking at the time, it might only have taken an hour and a half...

I've noticed that the childhood presents I remember most fondly are the ones I now know took the most effort.

I had a play kitchen that was already fully assembled in the playroom on Christmas morning. The kind that's about four feet high and has a fridge and a stove and a sink and such. It took my father and my mother's two brothers pretty much the entire night. And yeah, the amount of booze (and possibly other things; we're talking circa 1976) involved was a great hindrance.

[jessecuster3]

Aloha. I am on my way to Aurora, which you may know from Wayne's World, for my first football draft of the season. I am somewhat ill-prepared which I am not happy about.

[Gingold]

Aloha. I am on my way to Aurora, which you may know from Wayne's World, for my first football draft of the season. I am somewhat ill-prepared which I am not happy about.

My draft is next weekend, and I haven't even thought about it yet. The years that I am the least prepared for the draft are usually the years I do the best. I think fantasy football punishes the overthinker. Good luck.

[Ben Morgan]

Mornin' everyone

[Michael P]

Santa took the view that me assembling my own toys would build character.

[Athena Bast]

Santa took the view that me assembling my own toys would build character.

I never got assembly required toys.. but once I was of age I was to assemble everyone else's presents.

[Paul McEnery]

I never got assembly required toys.. but once I was of age I was to assemble everyone else's presents.

"I know you want to play with your legos; and I know you want to ready your comic books; and I know you want to eat your candy; but I have assembled them all into a giant transformer, and you can't have them, so there."

[Guapo Méndez]

Santa provided toys were assembled by the entire family. Dad is good with tools and instructions, so we rarely had mishaps.

[Nikita]

Afternoon.




Note: Having a bad cold in summer is not fun.

[Sanagi]

Santa took the view that me assembling my own toys would build character.
If he gave you Legos, he was right.

[Matt Algren]

Dear Wordpress.com:

The themes you allow me to use SUCK. It's like you tweaked them all so they wouldn't quite do what I need them to do. The ones that are functionally close require a good header picture, and I don't have one.

BRAVO!

Signed,
Me.

[Ronald Bryan]

I've slept and napped the day away. And it's the one day I get off a week.

[Guapo Méndez]

We've been bumped to Orange Alert. That means everybody stays at home from today until they sound the all clear.

We're going tomorrow to our school to tie everything down and hope for the best.

[Ronald Bryan]

We've been bumped to Orange Alert. That means everybody stays at home from today until they sound the all clear.

We're going tomorrow to our school to tie everything down and hope for the best.
Hopefully, nothing will happen.

[Athena Bast]

Dear Wordpress.com:

The themes you allow me to use SUCK. It's like you tweaked them all so they wouldn't quite do what I need them to do. The ones that are functionally close require a good header picture, and I don't have one.

BRAVO!

Signed,
Me.

There's another associated website that has more to choose from. Typo would know.

EDIT- Did you try Wordpress.org for themes?

[Athena Bast]

We've been bumped to Orange Alert. That means everybody stays at home from today until they sound the all clear.

We're going tomorrow to our school to tie everything down and hope for the best.

GM - You're in an area fairly familiar to hurricane nastiness correct? I have to ask, when people are told to stay the hell home... do they?

[Matt Algren]

There's another associated website that has more to choose from. Typo would know.

EDIT- Did you try Wordpress.org for themes?
We can't use .org themes. They have 60 for the .com side, but like I said, most of them are not the best. Some of them have bugs that I can't do anything to fix.

I'd love to go with the .org side, but that requires that I get other hosting, and I'm not spending any money on it. This is a compromise that I'm usually okay with, but I just spent two hours going through them trying to come up with the right combination.

Blarg.

[Ronald Bryan]

Baking is so much better than microwaving or deep frying.

[Tages]

So, Wells Fargo is experiencing a massive network failure right now, absolutely nothing works, and we have about five hundred people calling every minute we have to tell we can't do anything for them.

(I've been called "incompetent" four times already)

FUN.

[ragnarok_2012]

So, Wells Fargo is experiencing a massive network failure right now, absolutely nothing works, and we have about five hundred people calling every minute we have to tell we can't do anything for them.

(I've been called "incompetent" four times already)

FUN.

Well, if it makes any difference, I consider you quite competent. :)

[Tages]

Well, if it makes any difference, I consider you quite competent. :)

That's what I'm going to hang over my desk:

"Quite competent!"

[Ronald Bryan]

So, Wells Fargo is experiencing a massive network failure right now, absolutely nothing works, and we have about five hundred people calling every minute we have to tell we can't do anything for them.

(I've been called "incompetent" four times already)

FUN.
Isn't it fun when people act like you know what's wrong when the shit hits the fan?

My favorite? A lady telling us if our debit machine is down we should just close the store. So, at the end of the day I told my cashier after printing out a sales report "And right there's 3800 reasons we didn't close."

[ragnarok_2012]

That's what I'm going to hang over my desk:

"Quite competent!"

woo!

"See? This guy on the internet says I'm quite effective. Suck on that, customers."

[Guapo Méndez]

GM - You're in an area fairly familiar to hurricane nastiness correct? I have to ask, when people are told to stay the hell home... do they?

Pretty much, yeah. Two major hurricanes have hit us in the past 19 years have taught us that when they get here, you better damn well be ready for them.

Of course, we do have looters.

[Ronald Bryan]

You just have to make sure to have a large gun.

[Dreadstar]

Man, work is dragging. I went over to a friend's house last night and he introduced me to the devil in the form of the mojito.


I'm still not right.

[Quarterwolf]

Afternoon.

Note: Having a bad cold in summer is not fun.
Tell me about it. I got home from ChicagoCon and now I am having the head cold to end all headcolds so far for the year. Sniffles and running everything. UGH. All cause I stayed at the hotel with Air. My sinuses hate air conditioning as much as I love to sleep in it.

I've slept and napped the day away. And it's the one day I get off a week.
I thought that was what days off were for. Sleeping in and relaxing. Hell I wish I would have napped more today. Tomorrow is going to be hell at work.

[Ronald Bryan]

Tell me about it. I got home from ChicagoCon and now I am having the head cold to end all headcolds so far for the year. Sniffles and running everything. UGH. All cause I stayed at the hotel with Air. My sinuses hate air conditioning as much as I love to sleep in it.


I thought that was what days off were for. Sleeping in and relaxing. Hell I wish I would have napped more today. Tomorrow is going to be hell at work.
I'd rather do something fun on my day off. So I'd have some reason to be happy and not kill.

[Tadhg]

Man, work is dragging. I went over to a friend's house last night and he introduced me to the devil in the form of the mojito.


I'm still not right.

You're at work?

[Quarterwolf]

I'd rather do something fun on my day off. So I'd have some reason to be happy and not kill.

But killing can be fun too.

Or so I hear.

[Matt Algren]

This is damn funny. (Probably not safe for work, so turn the volume down.)

FIRST! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wldSyYPRPRw)

[Ronald Bryan]

But killing can be fun too.

Or so I hear.
True. But I would rather not do it in a fit of anger.

[Rallura]

We've been bumped to Orange Alert. That means everybody stays at home from today until they sound the all clear.

We're going tomorrow to our school to tie everything down and hope for the best.

Eek!
I have to ask too though,
does everyone stay home?
And no, Americans aren't smart enough
to stay home when asked.


So, Wells Fargo is experiencing a massive network failure right now, absolutely nothing works, and we have about five hundred people calling every minute we have to tell we can't do anything for them.

(I've been called "incompetent" four times already)

FUN.

So that's why my co-worker
couldn't get money from the ATM
so she could get food.

And I still don't feel bad
about not loaning her five bucks,
as she had a large jar of
sour patch kids,
a large jar of those worm things,
and 3 sodas.

FYI,
Bb just tried to burn the house down.

[Gingold]

Graham starts daycare tomorrow. I feel like such an asshole.

[Rallura]

Graham starts daycare tomorrow. I feel like such an asshole.


How dare you
put that poor child
in some awful place
where they will take care of him!

[Gingold]

How dare you
put that poor child
in some awful place
where they will take care of him!



Well, anything can make sense if you apply logic to it.

I'm sure he'll be just fine. I'm going to be a wreck, though.

[Ronald Bryan]

You should make him stay at the comic shop all day, instead.

[i_mmmchocolate]

I hope it's a good day care.

[Tadhg]

I'm sure he'll be just fine. I'm going to be a wreck, though.



Heh. This makes me realize how terrible I must have been for my parents. Growing up I never liked being moved. If I was home, I hated going to daycare; if I was at daycare, I hated going home. I hated leaving wherever I was and would throw a fit.

[Gingold]

I hope it's a good day care.

We checked out a bunch and we felt very comfortable with this one.

[Gingold]

Heh. This makes me realize how terrible I must have been for my parents. Growing up I never liked being moved. If I was home, I hated going to daycare; if I was at daycare, I hated going home. I hated leaving wherever I was and would throw a fit.

I used to do the same thing.

[Rallura]

Lamp chops are good.

[Gingold]

Lamp chops are good.


Ooo. I love lamb chops. Haven't had them in years, though. Hmmmm.

[i_mmmchocolate]

We checked out a bunch and we felt very comfortable with this one.
That's great that you looked around before settling on one.

I've seen some poorly run day-cares recently- truly sad.

[Rallura]

Ooo. I love lamb chops. Haven't had them in years, though. Hmmmm.

These are glazed with
black cherry preserves
and on the side
sweet pea risotto.

[Gingold]

These are glazed with
black cherry preserves
and on the side
sweet pea risotto.


That sounds tasty.

[Michael P]

Lamp chops are good.

I dunno, the glass always gets stuck in my teeth.

[Ronald Bryan]

We used to watch Lamb Chop's Playhouse in school. It was the 6th grade.

[howyadoin]

Evenin', fuckers.

[Gingold]

Welcome back, fucker. How was the wedding?

[Athena Bast]

So, Wells Fargo is experiencing a massive network failure right now, absolutely nothing works, and we have about five hundred people calling every minute we have to tell we can't do anything for them.

(I've been called "incompetent" four times already)

FUN.

When I worked for Rotten Ronnie's there was a massive power failure for half the city. We were within seconds putting up signs saying we were closed due to the power outage and we had one schmeghead complain we should have had our signs out earlier.

[Forefinger]

Fuck the police.

[Gingold]

Fuck the police.

Preach it, brother.

[Athena Bast]

Pretty much, yeah. Two major hurricanes have hit us in the past 19 years have taught us that when they get here, you better damn well be ready for them.

Of course, we do have looters.

Our first hurricane in like 50 years hit about 4 years ago and despite being told it was a disaster area and stay the hell home while it gets cleaned up people were still going out.

The most annoying was the people going to the gas stations wanting gas for their cars. No matter how many times they were told that you need electricity to get the gas pumps to work they were still frustrated.

[Ronald Bryan]

Evenin', fuckers.
Dammit, how can I catch up to you now, when you're back posting?

[Athena Bast]

Evenin', fuckers.

Oh sweet mudder uv gawd yer back.

And I called it!! The day they stop smoking weed in my apartment building Howy's back.

[howyadoin]

Welcome back, fucker. How was the wedding?Wedding was awesome. Rest of the vacation has been fuckin' great so far, too.

[howyadoin]

Dammit, how can I catch up to you now, when you're back posting?Yeah, the drought is over.

A week without internet access was pretty sweet, though.

Oh sweet mudder uv gawd yer back.

And I called it!! The day they stop smoking weed in my apartment building Howy's back.They should send some of that weed my way. I've been THC-free since the 8th.

Can't wait to get back home on Tuesday.

[Gingold]

Wedding was awesome. Rest of the vacation has been fuckin' great so far, too.

Glad to hear it.

[Forefinger]

Vacations suck because, eventually, you have to come back to real life.

[Ronald Bryan]

Yeah, the drought is over.

A week without internet access was pretty sweet, though.

They should send some of that weed my way. I've been THC-free since the 8th.

Can't wait to get back home on Tuesday.
Isn't it? That's why I took a month off to just do things and read. Also made coming back fun.