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Minvaren
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VOIP issues at work the last 24 hours. Firewall logs showed all packets being passed. No other connectivity issues noted. Provider receiving random packets, VOIP server receiving random packets. Rebooted firewall, everything started working again, minus the fact that it randomly reset parts of the configuration to 6+ months and several revisions ago. Several generations of making the same changes over and over, and it decided to accept the changes.
Ordered new firewall plus a spare. Well, "new" meaning "used and discontinued but compatible and cheap off of eBay." My kingdom for a real IT budget.
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"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to remain ignorant." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Lantyssa
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I'm cynical, I guess, but that story just sounded made up from whole cloth.
The nearly dead idealist in me wants to believe it. So I'm going to say thanks for posting it. "Thanks." |
Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Yegolev
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He was a friend of the family's
I see.. Agree, I try to avoid those family friends. The worst guy in the chain I posted was the initial one. I had to fire his parents as my lawn people. About my dad, turns out he is up for a triple bypass, or "cabbage" they say, plus removal of an aneurism and a part of his heart that's been dead since 1995. |
Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Lantyssa
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 Hope all goes well, Yeg. I'll think good thoughts for y'all. |
Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Never do business with anyone you want to keep as a friend. My grandfather always used to tell me that and it has remained sage advice. He also said don't discuss politics or religion with anyone you want to remain friends with, something that has remained very true in todays heated political climate.
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Morat20
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Agree, I try to avoid those family friends. The worst guy in the chain I posted was the initial one. I had to fire his parents as my lawn people.
About my dad, turns out he is up for a triple bypass, or "cabbage" they say, plus removal of an aneurism and a part of his heart that's been dead since 1995.
I'll echo Lantyssa's good thoughts. I got to spend a good year hanging around hospitals as my Dad had repeated minor heart attacks and a couple of stents. It's rather stressful. |
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Ard
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Just don't plug your dad into your house and everything will be fine Yeg.
Seriously though, best of luck for him. Surgery can suck even when everything goes right.
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Just don't plug your dad into your house and everything will be fine Yeg.
Seriously though, best of luck for him. Surgery can suck even when everything goes right.
Actually, under certain circumstances you would want to plug him in to the house.  |
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Nebu
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I got to spend a good year hanging around hospitals as my Dad had repeated minor heart attacks and a couple of stents. It's rather stressful.
You should try working in one.  |
"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
- Mark Twain
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Ozzy Osbourne wonders why he's still alive This is fucking hysterical. At least the guy knows what's up. “I was curious,” he wrote in a column this week for London’s The Sunday Times. "Given the swimming pools of booze I've guzzled over the years—not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol … you name it - there's really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why."
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Musashi
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If they don't knight Ozzy, they're doin' it wrong.
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AKA Gyoza
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FatuousTwat
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So, anyone dressing up for halloween? I'm going as MineCraftDude (Light blue shirt (couldn't find turquoise), jeans, black shoes, box head).
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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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Yegolev
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Doctor said he bypassed four arteries. Dad is doing well. Will be out of the woods after about 24 hours.
My son is dressing as Harry Potter. I think I am off the hook this year.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Soln
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the opportunity for evil is just delicious
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glad to hear he's doing well.
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Rasix
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I am the harbinger of your doom!
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So, anyone dressing up for halloween? I'm going as MineCraftDude (Light blue shirt (couldn't find turquoise), jeans, black shoes, box head).
Don't have to, so I'm not. My son will likely yell "OFF" the second his costume is placed on him.  |
-Rasix
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The older boy is going as a monkey and the 2 week old is going to be a banana. I may get stuck being the "man with the yellow hat".
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Samwise
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So, anyone dressing up for halloween? I'm going as MineCraftDude (Light blue shirt (couldn't find turquoise), jeans, black shoes, box head).
Haven't gotten a picture of myself in it yet, but here's what I'm wearing around the office today:  |
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Fraeg
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Mad skills with the rod.
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uhh what is the thing on your head supposed to be? predator? face hugger? russian warm hat with fake dreads?
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"There is dignity and deep satisfaction in facing life and death without the comfort of heaven or the fear of hell and in sailing toward the great abyss with a smile."
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Musashi
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AKA Gyoza
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MuffinMan
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uhh what is the thing on your head supposed to be? predator? face hugger? russian warm hat with fake dreads?
I have the sudden urge to beat you around the head and neck with a crowbar. |
I'm very mysterious when I'm inside you.
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Samwise
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So, Fraeg is a pod person? It's always the one you least suspect.
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« Last Edit: October 29, 2010, 02:49:56 PM by Samwise »
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Strazos
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Last year I was a sort of buccaneer/corsair-type pirate. I was going to go for a 2-phase (before and after arrest) Somali pirate this year, but as I don't really plan to go to a costume party, so I deferred.
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Fear the Backstab!
"Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion
"Hell is other people." -Sartre
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Murgos
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My girlfriend is going as Little Red Riding Hood and I am going as the big bad wolf, I even have a pink nighty with a tail and a night cap with ears on it that she made for me.
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"You have all recieved youre last warning. I am in the process of currently tracking all of youre ips and pinging your home adressess. you should not have commencemed a war with me" - Aaron Rayburn
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Cheddar
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I have a pink nighty and a night cap. [sic]
Cool bro. |
No Nerf, but I put a link to this very thread and I said that you all can guarantee for my purity. I even mentioned your case, and see if they can take a look at your lawn from a Michigan perspective.
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MuffinMan
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Watch out for trick or treaters tonight. Don't forget to turn off all your lights and disconnect the doorbell!
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I'm very mysterious when I'm inside you.
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Watch out for trick or treaters tonight. Don't forget to turn off all your lights and disconnect the doorbell!
I'm already set up in the bushes with the waterhose |
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Arthur_Parker
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I can't decide which is more odd, that I have a cousin in the last 6 of the Australian x-factor, or that my the family keeps track of someone who's family relationship to me gave me a headache just trying to work it out. I guess 2nd cousin once removed. A grandchild of my dad's first cousin.
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FatuousTwat
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Screw decorating for trick or treaters anymore, half of them show up with a shitty mask and street clothes. Decorating for a party is much more satisfying.
I'll post pics of my costume tomorrow hopefully, I'm too fucking hung over right now.
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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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Samwise
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Had three groups of trick-or-treaters -- one elderly Asian couple towing a token child behind them (none of them costumed, nor did anyone know to say "Trick or Treat", although they did thank me profusely for all the free candy I showered them with), one pair of teenage girls in fairy costumes (  ), and one group of small children in karate outfits. This is up from zero last year, so I consider my front yard decoration initiative a moderate success. |
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Really quiet last night, probably due to the cold. The people next door go crazy and we all have good candy, so it's surprising to see only a couple dozen kids.
One moment was me chuckling behind the door as I listened to a group of kids argue over who gets to push the doorbell. Then try to figure out where the doorbell is, until one little genius finally decides to knock (I don't have a doorbell).
The other was me making fun of a milf who put her 4 yr old in a Minnie Mouse costume...it was a really nice costume except for the giant padded gloves. I let kids pick their favorites out of the bowl and this kid had paddles for hands. We had a good laugh.
Only about half the kids said 'trick or treat' although most of them thanked me for the candy.
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murdoc
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We got just over 150 kids in about a 1.5 hours before I turned off the lights and we went and watched tv in the basement.
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Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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JWIV
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Had about 300 kids, ran out of candy, turned off the lights, and still had a few groups knock on the door.
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Paelos
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I was travelling back from Jacksonville. Halloween was never referenced except by the football broadcasts.
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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Had about 300 kids, ran out of candy, turned off the lights, and still had a few groups knock on the door.
Holy SHIT! Do you live in a giant apartment complex or something? I thought our 45 was a lot. |
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Furiously
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Had about 300 kids, ran out of candy, turned off the lights, and still had a few groups knock on the door.
Holy SHIT! Do you live in a giant apartment complex or something? I thought our 45 was a lot. All you need to do is live in a flat area with lots of street parking, and you get screwed. I used to go through like 12 bags of candy in my old house. Be non-stop from 6 to 10. One year we had to go buy more bags. My new house, 2 miles away, on a hill, down a deadend, with a 150ft driveway... 0 kids. |
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