Useless Conversation

[ghost]

In Colorado they got 18 inches, and nobody bats an eyelash. In Georgia we got 2, it froze, and we started eating each other.

It's all about expectations gap.

It's also quite a bit easier to drive in snow, even significant amounts of it, than on a sheet of ice.

[Paelos]

Yeah once that 2 inches gets slippery it's a total disaster.





 

[HaemishM]

THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!!!! 

[Yegolev]

I was going to say that I'd like to not relive Snow Jam 2014, but Haemish made it all better.

[Sky]

Yeah, I'm not talking about the South. You slow time weaklings get a pass on winter driving :)

Co-worker asks me how the roads were after lunch. I said "Great, just snow. No problem driving on them." I then told her I'm not the right person to ask. She asks the next co-worker to enter the room, "Oh, they're horrible, so much snow!" I ask her if she had trouble driving or sliding around. No, but she drove 20mph

[schild]

They're doing The Illmore at SXSW again this year. Brofellos and I might just actually die there.

[Hawkbit]

Apple fritters:  Five minutes of awe and wonder followed by five hours of misery and guilt.

[ghost]

Why misery?

[Yegolev]

Do not seek details of other people's intestinal issues.

[Hawkbit]

Because for whatever reason, apple fritters cannot be created in a normal human consumption size.  Of course, once I take one I feel obligated to not waste it, right?  So of course I have to eat the whole thing. 

Apple fritters the size of donut holes should be a thing.

[Ironwood]

They are in other countries.

[WayAbvPar]

Dammit. I have been battling a very sensitive stomach for a couple of days...food is just starting to sound good, and now all I can think about is apple fritters. Which I am almost certain will destroy whatever tenuous equilibrium I have achieved in my poor guts.

[ezrast]

I just got back from seeing The Pixies. Frank Black looks like the world's stodgiest slightly-overweight middle-aged dude but he still sounds almost exactly like he did 25 years ago. Rocked out for two hours non-stop. It was a great show.

[ghost]

I just got back from seeing The Pixies. Frank Black looks like the world's stodgiest slightly-overweight middle-aged dude but he still sounds almost exactly like he did 25 years ago. Rocked out for two hours non-stop. It was a great show.

His vocal range isn't nearly as good.  Well, it's either that or he chooses not to exercise the highs as much.

[Yegolev]

Dammit. I have been battling a very sensitive stomach for a couple of days...food is just starting to sound good, and now all I can think about is apple fritters. Which I am almost certain will destroy whatever tenuous equilibrium I have achieved in my poor guts.

Try some kefir, it works wonders.

[Sky]

Or weed.

[Samwise]

Dammit. I have been battling a very sensitive stomach for a couple of days...food is just starting to sound good, and now all I can think about is apple fritters. Which I am almost certain will destroy whatever tenuous equilibrium I have achieved in my poor guts.

Apples are good for you.  Trust your body IMO.  Unless yours happens to be a lying douchebag.  I've had such a good track record with food cravings following stomach illness that I don't even question what my stomach tells me any more.  You think oatmeal and lasagna are the two things in the world you can handle right now, big guy?  Sure, let's make a meal out of that.  Always seems to work out.

[Khaldun]

This is turning into one of the worst weeks I've ever had at work. I just came out of a meeting that was...about the most fucked-up thing I've ever seen in twenty years of working at this place. Out of control person going way off the reservation with apparently no fear that their supervisor will rein them in.

And now I'm steeling myself to have to speak over an angry crowd next week and become one of the targets of their anger.

[Ironwood]

Go on.....

[Paelos]

Details, Jerry, details.

[Khaldun]

Well, I'll wait until after I've been tarred and feathered to fill in more. It's not going to be a happy time.

[Ironwood]

Look at it as an opportunity.  I always do.

And I'm doing so well.

Er.

[Selby]

Out of control person going way off the reservation with apparently no fear that their supervisor will rein them in.

I had that happen in early January after returning from the winter break.  Apparently a coworker who has never liked me generated a memo about why system uptime and reliability is down specifically because I choose not to do my job and sent it to our new boss.  New boss pulled me in his office and wanted to know what I had to say for myself and why I was letting people down.  Let's just say it made the decision to look elsewhere not that difficult...

[Samwise]

On one or two occasions people have attempted to do that to me and always come out of it looking very foolish.   

[Selby]

I already gave some pointers to our safety people who take working without proper training or safety gear VERY seriously as this person has continued to flaunt the safety rules that are in place.  An investigation has started above management...

[Trippy]

On one or two occasions people have attempted to do that to me and always come out of it looking very foolish.   

That's the beauty of being the maintainer of a system nobody else understands -- you have built in job security.

[Lantyssa]

It's still not with the hassle much of the time.

[Ingmar]

On one or two occasions people have attempted to do that to me and always come out of it looking very foolish.   

That's the beauty of being the maintainer of a system nobody else understands -- you have built in job security.

"What the hell is this? Just put it in the cloud."

[Father mike]

do you still have the script that replaces "cloud" with "butt" running?

[Signe]

Oh, what a little snow storm and some big trees can undo.  We've been out of power from 6AM Tuesday until this evening.  Not such a big deal... we had hot water and a gas cooker.  We also have our rescued pets including a parrot and an iguana.  The iguana we had to find another space for because they tend to turn black and go to forever sleep when they get too cold.  The parrot got two heated bricks under his cage every few hours or so and he's good... just very grumpy.  More strategically places heated bricks around the house to keep the kitties and pup warm.  Of course, the small generator wouldn't start but we found someone down the road who could fix it yesterday.  That allowed us to keep a 1500 watt space heater in living room going to keep us and all the critters warm.  The first two and a half days my kitties learned to sleep under the covers and cuddle.  It was cute and annoying, too.

Frozen food went in the cooler which didn't even need ice as it was well below freezing, mostly in the single digits. Refrigerated food and produce we put in the abandoned animal room (for feathered and scaly critters), or in the basement, where it was actually colder than the fridge anyway.  Since there was no power in over eighty percent of the county, plus two other surrounding counties, there wasn't much take away to choose from, and I'm not a big fan of pizza, so we coped with making stove top meals which was kind of nice.  My sister can do wonders with beans and lentils, so we had plenty of comfort food.  We ran out and picked up several loafs of rustic bread and had grilled cheese on the skillet and bread toasted on hot bricks.  I re-introduced myself to reading books that are front lit rather than back lit, using Colemans and a little book lamp I picked up.  Lots of blankets and comforters piled on... it was rather soothing.  A few people in the area died because they decided to bring generators and/or bbq grills and other silly outdoor contraptions inside.  Darwin.

Anyway, it was not my first nearly apocalyptic brush with Mother Fucking Nature and I, yet again, survived.  HAH!  Bring on the zombies!

[RhyssaFireheart]

Glad you've survived no power so far, Signe.  Is it back on yet?

This never-ending winter is just so tiresome.  It wouldn't be so bad if the pattern wasn't snow, sub-arctic, snow, really-fucking-cold, snow, sub-arctic, more snow, rinse repeat.  Ready to move to Maui anytime now.

[Strazos]

Hur hur, I guess Global Warming is a lie - need more fluorohydrocarbons! 

[Der Helm]

I don't speak German, but today I really wish I did.  I want to create a single word that means, "to coerce into a better state by the painful removal of counter-productive social convention".  The analogy here would be removing lubrication from a grinding stone.  The stone can't do it's work while the lubrication is in place, but the surface to be ground probably isn't looking forward to the grinding.

There is a person at work that, completely diplomatically, puts people into situations where they have to stop dancing around issues.  Gears grind.  People get snippy.  Shit gets sorted out.  In the end most folks are happier except those benefiting from the fucked-uppedness, but it's painful while it's happening.  I laugh throughout the process.

I want a special name for that, in honor of his super-power. 

German-speaking folks, is making up words like Fahrvergnügen difficult?  If not, can anyone help me out?

I'd go with Zwangseinigung.
Zwang = Force/Coercion
Einigung = Agreement, Understanding,Settlement

[Ironwood]

I approve of this endeavor.

[Signe]

Yes, thank you.  Lights came back Sat. night.

Zwangseinigung is a bausome word, although shouldn't KY or jelly be in there somewhere?