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Lucky basturd.... it snowed here last night and it's still on the ground this morning... had to brush off the car to get to work. >:(
Supposed to be 14C here by Sat. afternoon.... fall in the Great White North. :idiot2:
I'm hoping we get snow this year. I can't remember the last time we had a white Christmas.
Modify field survey points for consumption by another entity.
Yes, it is as dull as it sounds.
lol
In pictures ;D
I continued to dash the educational hopes and dreams of a variety of utterly hapless quasi-interested undergrads.
Looks like this (not really), but with less pants-vest thing.
Quote from: JudgeDredd on October 28, 2016, 07:51:05 AM
I'm hoping we get snow this year. I can't remember the last time we had a white Christmas.
You can have mine... I'm going the Caribbean for 3 weeks. :D
Quote from: JudgeDredd on October 28, 2016, 07:25:39 AM
...had lunch in Castle Park in Colchester
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Can't wait to visit Scotland again.
Me, I've had to handle pet problems (Cat got really sick and needed to set the vet today, twice). And cleaned the house a bit.
EDIT: Wait.. that's in England :crazy2:
Didn't know England was more than London and Oxford >:D
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...had lunch in Castle Park in Colchester
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Did you yell at squirrels?
^Hell, I can do that at home.
I shouted at incompetent staff
Who hired them?
I spent the day Dog-Sitting for my brother while he was on a motorcycle run for charity with his wife. I got free brownies and rum and all the Kibbles and Bits I could snatch from the dog. O0
I had a shotgun lesson on Monday. This afternoon I shot a round of sporting clays and hit 71 out of 100. This was the best I've done in at least 5 years.
A wonderful day.
Got home from work this morning. Ate dinner. Took a nap. Got up and had dinner again. Went with a few friends to the bar for the costume contest. Am now drunk-posting.
I've changed my mind. Am gonna go play drunk Stellaris. The galaxy ain't ready for this... >:D
I graded exams, was a sideboy at a retirement ceremony for a colleague, and took my son to his homecoming football game.
Not a really fun day, but it is what it is. The surfboard, sadly, sat in the car unused. Just couldn't get the motivation to paddle out on such a gray, windy, small day. Plus, I didn't really have time.
Quote from: undercovergeek on October 28, 2016, 04:36:38 PM
I shouted at incompetent staff
I shouted at incompetent students
well, I shouted at the assignments they turned in. fortunately, the students weren't present
Ran 4 miles with my daughters and a buddy of theirs, cleaned the kitchen, actually got the leaf blower started and ran it for a half hour before it died 😡, cleaned the dishes, prepped a fire in the fireplace for tomorrow and figured out a costume for tonight's party. Have to actually go out and buy a wig now.
Today I graded four exams, did 45 minutes on the elliptical, and did chores around the house. I'm going to take a shower shortly, and then kick back and play a video game. I don't know what yet, but something.
Made a 350 mile roundtrip so wife and I could spend 6 hours with the young grandkids.
I went to the nerd store and nerded it up by playing Mansions of Madness and stuffing my gelatinous gob with pizza and garlic toast.
Man, ever since I started getting back into board gaming the diet and exercize regimen's gone to shit and it wasn't any great shakes beforehand. Probably stuffed 2500 calories down my throat and my fitbit's telling me I've got a whopping 2,945 steps in today.
Started handfeeding the baby conures. Also looking up a post grad course, probably a masters of teaching online.
Need pics. Of the babies of course-- not the course. ;D
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Had my first driving lesson today, considering ive NEVER been behind the wheel and I got taken out onto a FRIGGIN HIGHWAY that was terrifying
Driving IS terrifying! Next time, ask someone to take you to a vacant lot so you can get a feel for stopping and starting. Good luck!
Quote from: MetalDog on November 03, 2016, 10:50:16 PM
Driving IS terrifying! Next time, ask someone to take you to a vacant lot so you can get a feel for stopping and starting. Good luck!
There isnt any vacant areas near me unfortunately. Its really hard to learn when i cant make the errors i need to make in order to adjust :/
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Had my first driving lesson today, considering ive NEVER been behind the wheel and I got taken out onto a FRIGGIN HIGHWAY that was terrifying
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That's a real nice brood Hof. But a lot of work I bet. Some Cretan here is bound to make a remark about them going good with stuffing and cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving. Just ignore such 'common humor'. :-"
Good luck with the driving lessons, Hofstadter (and stay safe)!
I just had my second lesson and I cant stop spazzing. I did really well. Everything felt so much much natural and in tune. I still had trouble figuring out the correct pressure to put on the brake, some more complicated lanes and tight corning. But it was great.
The first half was going through the country side, I did that with no assistance, second half was suburban, went through thr backstreets, needed a little bit of assistance with his hand on the wheel. The suburban part was a bit complicated because of all the lanes and traffic. But i still did decently.
I didnt think i could do that considering im the king of autism.
Speaking as the parent of two boys on the spectrum, if you put your mind to it you can do almost anything. O0
Keep after it, Hofstadter. As with anything, it gets easier with practice.
I basically had to learn to drive at 39 years old. I learned at 18, and did a little driving, but then ended up in Philadelphia where I lived for just about the next 19 years. I could count on 2 hands the number of times I drove during my Philly years. Mass transit took me everywhere I couldn't walk to.
Then I moved up here to live with my wife and had to buy a car to get around. I do well enough. I've never been at fault for an accident in the last 9 years. I've been rear ended twice by distracted drivers, fortunately at very low speeds. One was a girl that I'm pretty sure was texting and the other was a woman yelling at a back seat kid.
I learned to drive at 13, so I've been driving 25+ years. And I still get terrified every single day. If you're not terrified at least once during every drive of 10 minutes or more, you're not paying attention. Go get'em, Hofstadter!
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Excuse me, but you appear to have a box of baby dinosaurs there...
Quote from: Gusington on November 05, 2016, 01:39:44 PM
I learned to drive at 13, so I've been driving 25+ years. And I still get terrified every single day. If you're not terrified at least once during every drive of 10 minutes or more, you're not paying attention. Go get'em, Hofstadter!
Same here, been driving 25+ years. I recently bought a new car that is loaded with driving aids, like blind spot detection, automatic collision avoidance, lane departure detections, and particularly adaptive cruise control.
I knew the world was full of bad drivers. What I didn't realize was just how terrible they really are. With all of the driving aids I really am aware of it now! NO ONE maintains anything close to safe following distance, for one. I am very glad I sprung for all of the driver assistance stuff in this car. At 52, I know my reaction time isn't what it used to be. The robot seems to be much better at keeping me out of trouble.
So yeah, keep a sense of paranoia about you Hof. It'll save you.
Woke up, check mail on my phone and figured out that our largest client had servers and network down. Determined that I couldn't access anything remotely, which is both unusual and a bad sign. The engineer that usually works with them is in a car, headed to Green Bay. The new engineer that started a week ago is not answering his phone, which is understandable since we don't usually have to deal with Saturday morning issues and if we do, we can usually do it remotely.
Put on clothes, jumped in car, and drove across town to the client. As soon as I got close to the building, I could see roofers busy on top of it, and had a good idea of what was up. Sure enough, went in the server room and one entire rack of equipment was without power. Eventually got power restored and everything back online, but it took about three hours all told. Looks like the roofers turned off a circuit breaker without telling anyone, and the UPS batteries ran flat.
Came home, grabbed a bite to eat, and went to get a haircut and shave. Now sitting around trying to drum up the energy to play some PBEM turns and maybe something more substantial. Either that or take a nap.
I got my license two months before my 21st birthday. I always thought cars were hurtling death traps and wanted no part in their operation. Then, I moved out of a place where I knew enough people to get a ride or take the bus. So I had to learn. Been driving 25+ years as well. In fact, do around 75 to 100 miles a day. Have for years.
I got my license right after turning 16 so I could drive to school instead of taking the 40 minute bus ride. Only problem with my plan was that I could no longer do my homework while riding in- now I actually had to do it the night before!
Got my motorcycle license in my mid-20's and after that I rode as much as drove. Until kids.
Them were the days... :-\
Got my license a couple of days after on 16th birthday... could not wait to start driving. Been a car guy my whole life. 35 years of driving, 26 of that with my Miata!
I love to just go for drives. Just tooling around with no particular place to go. Top down, music cranked. Heaven. :smitten:
I've found the way to survive and keep out of trouble is to assume EVERYONE else on the road is a complete idiot and not paying attention. And mostly they don't disappoint... :pullhair: I try to pay attention for them as well as myself. 4 small rear enders all from distracted drivers in all those years.
Scariest place for me to drive is northern end of Florida. Everyone doing 70 mph and 2" between cars! :hide: No wonder they have 100 car pileups....
Use to rally drive as well. Never left the road.. but I did hit a tree stump, once, that was in the middle of the back wood track we were on. Didn't crack the oil pan but there was wood jammed between there and the cross brace for the rest of that car's life. O0
What did you drive in the rallies?
Today I cut my finger so deep I could see important looking white stuff inside, the bonus was I was cutting a lemon - double the pain
Then forgot about it and dipped it in vinegar
And about four hours after the screaming stopped poured chilli sauce into it
Quote from: undercovergeek on November 05, 2016, 07:51:42 PM
Today I cut my finger so deep I could see important looking white stuff inside, the bonus was I was cutting a lemon - double the pain
Then forgot about it and dipped it in vinegar
And about four hours after the screaming stopped poured chilli sauce into it
See if you can whack it good against something now. I mean, at this point, you need to go for the perfect day, right? :wow:
Do we need to send Bawb down to have the 'stache put stitches in it?
Quote from: Gusington on November 05, 2016, 05:16:44 PM
What did you drive in the rallies?
Chevy Chevette, and a Honda CRX. Navigation rallies. Chevy was my Dads. Piece of carp car but tough as nails. CRX was a great little rice rocket.
My girlfriend got us lost in one rally and we spent the night in the car in the bush. Woke up a one point because a bear was dragging his nose across a window trying to figure out what smelled so yummy.....
I worked for 7 1/2 years at a place that was a 42 mile drive each way. Down a tiny, two-lane highway through the woods. I dodged dump trucks in the day time and hogs and deer at night. Once I saw a guy stopped beside the road next to his truck, this was about mid-night. So I slow down and pull into the lane opposite him and just as I got close, standing about 3 feet off my side of the road was the biggest Brahma Bull I've ever seen in my life. I swung back over to the original side of the road to miss the bull and scare the shit out of the guy next to the truck. I felt bad for him but I'd rather have him on the hood of my car than the bull. Had to put my BVD's right into the old washing machine when I got home.
A bunch of dogs were put in the hallway (my family runs a dog rescue), they got in my room and chewed up my prosthetic fingers.
The birds dont even like it when I shave....
That's me in the tunnel at field level with the game going on behind us before we came out during a commercial break in the second quarter. After a pretty good game for most of 4 quarters, State (predictably) coughed it up at the end and lost another close one.
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Do you have your hand on a wolf's ass?
i think he does
Does this mean hes hitting on Zabivaka, the russian soccer mascot?
Quote from: Hofstadter on November 06, 2016, 04:47:26 PM
Does this mean hes hitting on Zabivaka, the russian soccer mascot?
Wrong kind of football
I watched my Sunday morning usuals of Fox News Sunday and Meet the Press. Spent the rest of the majority of the day learning how to play Cliffs of Dover in between loads of laundry. Did 45 minutes on the elliptical, and then typed this.
I wish I could say I did something worthy, but it was pretty much a wasted day. If I've found one good thing about living in Rhode Island, it's that I feel no regrets about not spending the day "outside" when the weather is like it is right now.
And, I also am wondering why Brant is petting that dog's butt. :-\
Quote from: Toonces on November 06, 2016, 05:40:49 PM
And, I also am wondering why Brant is petting that dog's butt. :-\
At least he's not sniffing it.
Who said he wasn't?
You make a good point.
At least it's a female wolf Brant's ass-patting. And we can't really see where she has her nose at all. Anyway, what a man and his artificial mascot do in privacy of an 85,000 seat stadium is none of my business. Great sweater by the way Brant. O0
Third driving lesson. Twatwaffle pulled out of a parking space in front of me and nearly caused an accident.
Got my new prosthetic finger in as well.
Congratulations on both. Defensive driving is key, as has been noted above. Assume everyone else is a terrible driver and act accordingly.
Fourth lesson. We went into heavier suburban traffic. And it rained so hard I couldnt even see the bloody lines.
In that I completely missed a keep clear zone and parked right in the middle of it. The instructor was pissin himself laughing. (Not maliciously)
Still trying to get the hang of timing my brakes, im way too light on the damn pedal.
Mum also got a new urn for grandmas ashes (never met her)
Mum got a new urn for her, its all black with a glass viewing port. "So she can look out at the world". Its horrifying
I went to get my dinner. Mum placed the urn above the stove where I would see it.
She drew a bloody smiley face on the glass port and pissed herself laughing when I shouted
We gotta get your Mother here on the Grogs. <:-)
Thanks to Hofstadter, twatwaffle is my new favorite word.
This morning, my wife and I had to take our #1 cat to the vet to be euthanized (cancer). Rupert was awesome and is already very sorely missed :'(. My wife needed to hear some good news so I spilled the beans on what I'm getting her for Christmas.
I'm taking her on a night flight over center city Philadelphia. My license isn't current since I haven't flown since 2002(?), so I'll have a CFI (flight instructor) doing the flying. I may do the takeoff, but other than that I'll just be a sight seer. My best friend, Tom, took me for night flights over the city twice back in the 90's before he got his CFI and taught me to fly. It was a stunning experience and it will be great to do it again and share it with my life partner. She's as excited as I am!
Glad you were able to help both of you take your minds off of Rupert. Sounds like a great life experience.
Sorry for your loss Ubercat. Rupert will undoubtedly be in Heaven waiting for you both. Just don't be in a hurry to get there.
RIP Rupert.
Sorry to hear about Rupert. We've lost some lovely cats over the years. I feel your loss. :'(
Second to last driving lesson was terrible. Did todays, did really well in the rain and surrounded by trucks. His words were "I noticed that you were upset about your performance last week, so I brought you out into someone you know you do well on to show you that you CAN do this"
I love this dude. Going to get six more lessons from him, then I can get behind the wheel of moms car
Put up shelves above and to the side of my desk. Got a real nice set up goin.
Also put up my baby parrots for sale
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Your driving instructor sounds like a decent guy. Here's hoping the rest of your lessons go well. O0
So far stared naked at Derby city centre from the 20th floor of hotel, I like to think there's an old lady with binoculars telling her husband there's a naked man in the hotel staring at her
LOL. So just how drunk are you right now?
EDIT: Never mind, saw your post in the Friday thread. :2funny:
Ordered a kindle paperwhite. Got two for the price of one. I do love incompetence sometimes.
Got to drive mums massive outlander. Is it bad my testicles felt absolutely MASSIVE in it.
hello everyone
i'm new your community.today i walking in morning and then go to office and work.
regards
jony walker
Hello jonywalker. Love your scotch. :clap:
Hey Jony- welcome to GH. Know any spammers who can help me with an online assignment?
Quote from: jonywalker on December 22, 2016, 06:26:35 AM
hello everyone
i'm new your community.today i walking in morning and then go to office and work.
regards
jony walker
Hi spammer - bye spammer...
IP in Gurugram India, but claim "londan" as your location
And your sig? A homework "helper" in the UK? seriously?
Nobody said that you had to be smart to leave your village and get a job in Mumbai...
You mean he's not, "walking in morning and then go to office and work"? I am shocked--- dishonest people on the internet? :o :o :o
hello everyone
i'm new your community.today i walking in morning and then go to office and work.
That's great! Say, do you know Jony Walker by any chance?
Hello Lalitmodi2001. Walking anytime is good is good for you. Swimming is even better, unless you end-up swimming when you're expecting to walk only. Which is what happens if you know Johnnie Walker too well. #:-)
Next time I need something important like shoulder surgery, I'll know just where to go!