Useless Conversation

[justdave]

Ardberg

It's Ardbeg, ya fuckin' heathen! Still, I feel the kinship with another Laphroaig man. Islay represent!

[Abagadro]

Merry Christmas ya bastids!

[Mosesandstick]

Merry Christmas all! Hope everyone got the whisky they asked for.

[Chimpy]

Happy New Year, jerks!

[RhyssaFireheart]

Good riddance to 2019. 

May your 2020 be better than this year has been. 

[Trippy]

Happy New Year!

[Paelos]

2019 was pretty cool to be hoping 2020 is as well

[HaemishM]

2019 can get fucked with the rest of the 20 teens. ON TO THE LAST YEAR OF THE DECADE!

[Sky]

Look outside, see snow clouds.
Jump on NWS, bullet forecast: heavy snow today.
Drill down to hourly forecast: total accumulation 1".

 

Well, youngins, I remember when we called that a dusting.

[01101010]

Look outside, see snow clouds.
Jump on NWS, bullet forecast: heavy snow today.
Drill down to hourly forecast: total accumulation 1".

 

Well, youngins, I remember when we called that a dusting.

It's a brave new world. 

[Sky]

Hah, turned out to be accurate, had a squall blow through pretty quickly. Not a common one, usually it's bands of lake effect that shift back and forth over the region all day.

[Cyrrex]

Ten years from now, an inch of snow might be considered a heavy accumulation.  Last year, I had no winter to speak of, not one day of driving to work with snow on the ground.  This year....so far it has been consistently several degrees above freezing.  One day so far where I woke up and drove to work with sub zero temps.  In Scandinavia.  It’s is very odd, to say the least.

[Mandella]

Climate change can make it snow more in some areas -- Montana comes to mind. But yeah where I live it's basically become northern Florida, with the occasional polar vortex giving us a day or two of upper teens (Fahrenheit) lows, but the rest of the winter averages well above freezing. Heck it's sunny skies and sixties right now.

[Paelos]

It's 71 in Atlanta next week. The bugs this summer are going to carry me off.

Nice knowing yall.

[Mandella]

Ticks are already out here (a bit west of you). I'm going to have to flea and tick treat all the dogs -- in January.

[Yegolev]

The Corsair HX750 modular PSU that I apparently bought in 2011 (thanks NewEgg) has finally died. Hopefully I can just get a similar one and not have to rebuild Ye Olde Rige.

[Sky]

I believe I've mentioned that I'm on a slew of conservative newsletters due to being an early gmail adopter with a common first initial/last name. Over the weekend I had a weird experience: I learned there was such a thing as expiring emails. Trump has been spamming fundraising emails since Friday and when I went to read them to the fiancee (for the lulz, they're so transparently pandering), I noticed the ones from Firday were missing.

I mentally shrugged, we had our fun. But this morning I got a new one and realized all of the others from Fri-Sun were gone. Not in trash, just gone.

That seems very bizarre for a simple fundraising newsletter, but I guess that's par for the course (no pun intended probably).

[Yegolev]

I'm on a slew of conservative newsletters due to being an early gmail adopter with a common first initial/last name.

WINK

[RhyssaFireheart]

You know, Pandora, if my station name is "JPop and JRock" and all I've liked or faved are JPop or JRock artists, then why the everliving fuck are you constantly giving me Fall Out Boy or some random punk bands that I've never heard of?  I mean, this is mostly anime music artists with a heavy flavoring of Gackt and Hyde because THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO LISTEN TO!!!  It helps me focus when I'm doing prolonged Excel work.  Sometimes the algorithms baffle me.

And don't suggest Spotify or anything like that.  I can't install anything on the work laptop, refuse to stream through my phone (the battery life is bad enough as it is), and don't feel like listening to my iPod at the music I actually own. So browser streaming only it is.

[Sky]

The irony of a massive Spectrum fiber outage two days after our system-level people start pushing us to switch from Northland to Spectrum to save a couple bucks (we cost more because we do no censor our Internet traffic like all the other libraries in our system).

 

The next meeting should be hilarious.

[Khaldun]

Apropros of the Lagulavin/Scotch convo, Lagavulin has put out an 8-year product that is half the price of their standard bottle and it is complete 100% ass. It's awful. Like, paint thinner. It's really unpleasant.

[Trippy]

Are you talking about their 8 year old bicentenary limited edition version? That came out in 2016.

https://www.malts.com/en-us/our-whisky-collection/lagavulin/lagavulin-8-years-old/

[Samwise]

Peat bombs reallllly need that time in the cask to take the edge off.  Lagavulin is pretty aggressive even after 16 years of mellowing.

[Sky]

I tried the Laphroaig 18 and vastly prefer the 10.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Hospital waiting rooms suck ass. 

Just saying.

[01101010]

Hospital waiting rooms suck ass. 

Just saying.

Definitely miss the ashtrays and stained floors. 

I have had to wait for the wife on a couple surgical occasions and the UPMC hospitals had pretty nice waiting areas actually. Big comfy armchairs or rocking chairs, USB charging ports and outlets galore. That said, ER waiting rooms are mostly dogshit.

[Khaldun]

Apropros of the earlier conversation, do NOT buy the 8-year Lagavulin that the company is producing as an anniversary whatever whatever. It is complete and utter ass.

[Samwise]

Apropros of the earlier conversation, do NOT buy the 8-year Lagavulin that the company is producing as an anniversary whatever whatever. It is complete and utter ass.

Does the self-Bloodworth have anything to do with the questionable whisky you're knocking back?   

[Cyrrex]

Well, does reference the earlier conversation, so I take it he was just confirming the original take.  While drunk.

[Hawkbit]

This place is gonna be amazing as we all get dementia.

[Sky]

Apropos of the earlier conversation....

Psycho.

[Chimpy]

This place is gonna be amazing as we all get dementia.

Pretty sure we all do already.

[Khaldun]

Wow, I did self-Bloodworth, shows you how much I fucking hated it. But it shows you how much I love all of you! I wanted to make sure you were safe!

I infused the last 2/3rds with apples, cinnamon and maple syrup and it's not bad.

[Sky]

I infused the last 2/3rds with apples, cinnamon and maple syrup and it's not bad.

[RhyssaFireheart]

My husband watches Moonshiners.  I mostly stick around while he watches so I can make fun of the absolute idiocy of a few of those guys.  At this point, a large majority of what some of the characters do has to be parody or deliberate, because yeah.

Apropos to my earlier conversation - husband has now had successful second open heart surgery on Monday to replace mitral valve which was damaged when he got a blood infection (likely from a cracked tooth and lost portion of filling) over Christmas.  Luckily, none of the infection damaged his artificial aortic valve or the pacemaker leads, so those were left alone.  That was a huge bit of good news.

So in just over two years, he's had - open heart surgery (aortic valve replacement), pericardial effusion (almost 2 liters of fluid removed), pacemaker upgrade/replacement, severe anemia, blood transfusion (3 units worth), left kidney removed (along with it's attendant tumor Bruce), anemia's gone!, blood infection, and open heart surgery (mitral valve replacement).  He better be fucking done for a while now.  OTOH, he's blown through his out-of-pocket deductible for the year already, so yay?