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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 396 days Last activity: 205 days |
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Living in SoCal, no.
If you wanna talk air-conditioning, though? I've got that shit on right now, 8:30 at night in late October. What's the last thing you made with your hands? |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 396 days Last activity: 205 days |
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Outside of my foray in realizing my own mental bullshit, I've really had it with people saying they want to hang out (hell, in a couple cases it's people who've claimed that they're depressed we don't hang as much any more) and then when I start to plan something they then flake. | |||
Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 396 days Last activity: 205 days |
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I actually do, and I have been watching. I've been a lifelong Dodgers fan AND one of my favorite guys on the team went to Mayfair at the same time I did, then attended CSUF. He's the one who looks like Tormund.
Actually there's at least one former Titan on the Astros too, but I still bleed Dodger blue. Seriously, baseball is the only sport I've ever cared about. I was much deeper into it in the '90s, but I still root for them. There's a lot of sentimental reason. You had an extraordinarily bad day at work. What's your call for action on getting home? |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 396 days Last activity: 205 days |
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I've lately been buying these Paddywax Library Ex Libris candles -- that come at a stupid high mark-up -- inspired by different authors. The first one I ever bought was "Mark Twain," which was scented "Tobacco flower and vanilla." I've also got "Jane Austen" (gardenia, tuberose, and jasmine), and I recently got "John Steinbeck" (smoked birch and amber.) My favorite to burn was "Leo Tolstoy" (black plum, persimmon, and oakmoss.)
I buy really random candles. The only two I ever got from Bath and Body Works were these large three-wick ones scented after cities. The London one, which I burned all the way down was lemon and tea. The Rome one is called "Espresso Cafe" and smells like coffee. I seem to buy a lot of coffee ones. I don't want to buy dessert-scented because it'll just make me hungry, but the coffee and tea-scented ones just give off a sense of comfort. What is your dream vacation destination? |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 396 days Last activity: 205 days |
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So how did everyone eventually spend Halloween?
Brandon and I took Lee to a few things on Sunday. We did the Halloween stores in Burbank and then did three yard mazes (Spooky Hollows, Rotten Apple, and finally Backwoods.) Monday we did this new yard maze in Covina that was also quite impressive. On Tuesday, I threw on my Rockford Peach costume and went to work. I attempted 1940s hair, but it fell apart one hour into working. We had a Halloween party for the clients, which we had to call a "Harvest Celebration" for legal reasons. Some staff dressed up, most didn't. Meh. At night, we went to see our friend in Paramount who does an amazing yard display every year. We brought him a six-pack as we traditionally do and we hung out and talked. Some pissed off cholo parent came through, wrecking parts of the display saying he was pissed his kid got scared. He kept yelling, "That bitch doesn't have to go all crazy on them," regarding the COMPLETELY SILENT woman holding a bowl of candy for the kids. She was dressed as a zombie bride and barely speaks English (she and her boyfriend, who was acting like a zombie doctor and acting for the kids around the yard, were visiting from Taiwan.) It's too late, this asshole's already multiplied. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 396 days Last activity: 205 days |
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Out of those, copper.
Outside of those, gun metal and pewter. I just don't go for overly shiny. I like a good patina. What would you consider to be the greatest physical object that you have ever seen with your own eyes (i.e. not online, in a book, etc)? |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 396 days Last activity: 205 days |
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"Vice Principals" is... pretty shitty. Bran and I liked Danny McBride and Walton Goggins, and we figured putting the two of them on their own show with Bill Murray (who ended up only being in the first episode) was going to be gold. It, in fact, was not.
The show's on HBO and NO ONE'S talking about it at all. What does that tell you? Bran and I have been watching "Community" since I've been subscribed to Hulu. It's freaking hilarious. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 396 days Last activity: 205 days |
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Originally posted by Xeoman Agreed. It also helps that Dan Harmon was behind it, who's now behind "Rick and Morty." |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 396 days Last activity: 205 days |
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They're ... cute? Well, it reminds me of playing a key-tar when I was a kid in the late '80s/early '90s.
When's the last time you bought a DVD and what was it? |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 396 days Last activity: 205 days |
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Originally posted by Rogue I know I didn't post this that long ago, but it's going double again. Seriously, it's a friend/co-worker's birthday. Another friend/co-worker is all, "We've gotta do something!" and starts trying to plan a day trip to Solvang or some other far off place. Turns out she's stuck working Sunday and tells me we'll do stuff Saturday instead. I then spend all of Saturday texting her, going, "So when are we meeting?" and trying to get in touch with her and the birthday boy. We ended up not meeting up until just before 10 p.m. and I had to take over the planning. We went to a karaoke bar in Little Tokyo and I got stuck with the $120 bill. Wooo! |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 396 days Last activity: 205 days |
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Fact: I haven't fully paid down my credit card in months. | |||
Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 396 days Last activity: 205 days |
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Originally posted by legacyme3 You're definitely not alone on this board. Sometimes I think I fear success or when things are too good. Fact: I have never drunk a Yoohoo. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 396 days Last activity: 205 days |
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This one sort of breaks my heart because I didn't realize I'd just beaten story mode on "Assassin's Creed IV" until the credits were rolling and I'm internally screaming, "This is IT?! WHAT!?!?!"
Literally just beat it 20 minutes ago, and I'm still raw about it. I thought there was more story after this. What does your "cool" outfit look like? |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 396 days Last activity: 205 days |
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My boss is dating one of my co-workers. Both of them are married. Everyone's been pretending it's not happening.
Some of my co-workers are shitty people who want to exploit this. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 396 days Last activity: 205 days |
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Well, they're coming up. Any plans? I'm heading up to Sacramento on Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving with my cousin's family. No Christmas plans as of yet. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 396 days Last activity: 205 days |
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Brandon and I primarily use his desktop computer that's in our room. It's got his flat screen monitor and our flat screen TV, hanging on the wall, linked so you can drag the cursor and windows over to it. We'll use that to watch Netflix, HBO Now, Hulu, Amazon Prime, YouTube, etc.
Otherwise if someone's using it, the other will just sit in the same room on their phone. We recently bought an Apple off a friend, which Bran put in a spare bedroom to record and engineer music, but it's not nearly as used by us. How well do you remember when things happened? For example, can you remember each day of last week and what you did, where you went, who you talked to on each day individually? (Last edited by Rogue on 11-29-17 09:23 AM) |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 396 days Last activity: 205 days |
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Haha, weird about the beer.
Grandmas. I miss having one. I'm currently up in Sacramento, at my cousin's. Thanksgiving went over pretty well with my cousin, her family (some flying in from college), my aunt and step-uncle, another cousin, and my parents. Their internet was down all yesterday and none of her family were all that interested in calling the company to complain. Jesus, were this my house... Still, everyone just looked at their phones. It all has gone better than if we went to Arizona like we usually would, this year. Seeing my cousin and her family was a great excuse to not spend the holiday with Brandon's aunt and her spoiled brat. Still no Christmas plans, though it's sounding like my cousin really wants us to come up again. I don't think I can take the time off. So far the only tentative Christmas-y plans I've got are going to see Christmas lights with people from work at some point. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 396 days Last activity: 205 days |
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That's a shame. And while I'd say, "No, man, don't give up! There's still great people out there to connect with!" and so on, I wouldn't be practicing what I preach. I mean, I've pretty much become a homebody if Brandon's not available to go somewhere, depending on the situation.
Say there's an event in L.A. on Saturday to which I want to go. If Brandon's got work, I'm more likely to just not go because I've already mentally checked off people going, "Well, I could call this person, but they're more likely to say they'll go and then I'll be messaging them all day asking if they're ready and then end up feeling like I waited by the phone all day and then have nothing come of it." While in a few cases they're checked off because they have kids and therefore will far less likely be available, there's still the childless and unmarrieds who just flake on me on the regular. Then when Brandon and I post pictures of the shit we do, people occasionally remark on them (either in comments or in person, months later) asking why I didn't tell them about the event and/or invite them. I don't tell them it's because I already figured they'd blow me off (hell, one guy openly jokes that he does that on purpose. He'll answer my calls and messages with that he's getting ready, but he's not and will eventually tell me at the end of the day that he's not up to leaving the house any more.) Most things in L.A., and many other SoCal places, are just too much of a hassle to attend if you're just going alone. Why bother most of the time? I'm sort of passed those days when I would just jump of the train or drive myself and fight traffic, crowds, and all that just to look at something alone and have no one to talk to or act as a buffer. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 396 days Last activity: 205 days |
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It's a cross between the two, Xeo. We know it's happening, but we don't acknowledge it to each other, especially when they're around. It does get discussed, though.
Apparently the girl went to a new co-worker of ours to inform him of the whole situation, in that she's worried that our boss is just using her for sex and that he's not interested in more. She's been hanging on to this new co-worker, laughing just a bit too loudly when she's around him, pretty obviously trying to elicit a response from our boss. New co-worker has acknowledged that he feels like he's just a tool. Doesn't stop him from going along with it and giving her attention when she brushes passed him or play fights him all the time. Seriously though, both she and our boss are married and have children. She's 23 or 24, I think, and admitted her son was a prom night conception. Our boss is 29 and has two kids, their pictures in frames in his office. My mom's known our boss from when he first started at the company, before he was married. I'd considered my boss a friend at some point, but I've been trying to distance myself from him, particularly because the girl's been acting a bit jealous. I gave him a bottle of Game of Thrones beer since I know he likes it and he wanted to keep it with his figures, and a couple days later she got him a Christmas-themed flask, which she displayed in the same place where I put the bottle on his desk. At the end of the day, I'd sometimes come and hang out in his office and talk, but now the girl's ALWAYS there. The previously mentioned new male co-worker remarked to me that he feels like he's cock-blocking when he's in there to hang out. He says he made this comment out loud once and the girl went, "Yeah, you kinda are." I think in all of this, I just feel disappointment toward my boss. I thought he'd be better than this. Add to this that our case manager is ALSO dating a co-worker, one I'd previously considered a friend. At least in their case, neither one is cheating on someone else. The complaint regarding this pairing is that she's definitely changed since starting to date him. It was our co-worker, Jean's, birthday and she wanted us all to go out for it. The case manager's girlfriend, who WAS best friends with Jean, kept saying that where Jean wanted to go for her birthday was too far away and convinced other co-workers to back out of going. The location was switched to a place around the corner from our center. The two couples showed up LATE to the dinner, sat on one end of the table, and barely socialized with anybody else, even though part of the celebration was actually for the boss' girlfriend. The guys, who normally hang out and talk, were seated further away with the girlfriends between them and the rest of us. After dinner when we walked outside and started talking, the girlfriends had already began walking to the car, demanding, "Let's gooooo already!" to our boss and case manager. It was awkward. In the end, what's concerning are backstabbing co-workers who'd want to take advantage of the situation and complain to HR or someone higher up to try to screw with our boss. He's REALLY lenient with a lot of the bullshit that goes down at our center among staff, and this gets interpreted as weakness. I like our boss. I don't want to see this center go down because of this series of obviously poor life choices. (Last edited by Rogue on 11-26-17 09:33 AM) |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 396 days Last activity: 205 days |
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Did a tasting with our caterer and we're pretty sure we know what we want. We're going to have a sit down with her soon for coordinating stuff.
I thought I was really pushing it when it came to the wedding plans, but there's a woman who wants her to do her February 11th wedding and has to fly in to talk with her about it. I hear you on affected sleep patterns. Jesus... I'm up at 4 most mornings. I don't want to be up at 4. This is also usually after I've awoken at 2 and 3 and just give up. |
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