Useless Conversation

[RhyssaFireheart]

I'm flying to Kiev next Friday. I got my contract and start date all finalised and I'll be a senior designer on a new project at Wargaming.

Congrats!

[Engels]

I'm starting to hear more people say that they are having trouble sleeping in the last month. Granted, its because I too am averaging 5 hours of sleep a night for the last month, and hence it comes up in conversation, but its just odd. Its like finding out you're part of some secret pandemic.

[Merusk]

Funny, now that you mention it I've been restless myself. (Though 5 hours has always  been normal for me, I'm tossing and turning and waking-up a lot.)

Maybe it's herd pheromones. Like we're all subconsciously aware of some impending disaster that our rational modern-human minds say is impossible and prevent it from being realized.  Like an upcoming earthquake or other geological event.

[Engels]

Well, I hope the tsunami gets a wiggle on, I'm trying to sleep over here!

[NowhereMan]

I'm on the opposite end, been sleeping way too much. Like going to bed at 10pm and still not wanting to get up at 7am. Of course I'm just getting through a chest infection so that could be a major part of the sleeping thing. Either that or I've been hit by an attack of sloth.

[Ard]

I hate moving.  At least it'll be mostly done today finally, and i shouldn't have to do it for a good long while now.  I'm ready for a nap so I can go back to complaining to Engels about not getting enough sleep like normal, instead of the abnormal amounts of no sleep that I'm currently getting.

[Samwise]

That won't help much, will it?

On the one hand, I've heard from many people that those things don't work at all and sometimes all you accomplish is confusing your cat into pooping in the bathtub.  On the other hand, the cat I had growing up figured out how to use the toilet all on his own (never learned to flush though).  So I think it depends on the cat.

[Merusk]

Hooman. Why are you yelling. I pooped in the white thing like you wanted. Where is my treat, Hooman.

[Lantyssa]

I think it's time for a new job.  Or a lottery win.

I agree, but the damn lottery won't cooperate with this plan.

[Signe]

As everyone tells me, Lanty and IW, you have to play to win.  Rules.   

[rattran]

I bought a lottery ticket once, it didn't win and I almost, but not quite talked them into a refund. Never again.

I taught my cat Oscar to use the toilet, but 2 of the others just repeatedly fell in. In the end, litter boxes were just easier all around.

[Trippy]

I dunno what the fuck the deal is but I've been getting like 3 hours of sleep a night for a week and a half because I got some sort of weird eye irritation going on with my one good eye. Feels fine all day, but when I sleep or close my eye it's kinda itchy/irritated in spots, and when I wake up my vision is blurry as fuck to the point I can't see for 30-45 minutes. Eyedrops seem to help a little, and after it clears up it's literally good all day- weirdly so, like it seems like after it clears up my vision is better on average than it ever has been.

Maybe you have Ebola

[Signe]

Someone bought me one of those scratchy cards for xmas a few years ago.  It was a bitch to scratch the stuff off and all I got from it was dirty fingernails. 

[Miasma]

One of my family members used to buy 'crossword' scratch cards for everyone's birthday/Christmas/whatever.  You would scratch off the letters and then scratch off all the corresponding matches in the words (already spelled out for you) on the card.  It took forever and would only appeal to people who like that sort of thing and watching golf/grass grow.  Then I found out you could just scratch off the unmarked area that told the lotto vendor whether or not you won and be done with it.  IIRC there would be two spades in the code for a winning card.

[Lantyssa]

Scratch cards are about revealing the surprise rather than winning.  They don't do much for me, but they sure appeal to some.

I do play, on occasion, when I feel like burning a buck.  Still hasn't helped.

[Signe]

I am totally addicted to Arizona Green Tea with Ginseng and Honey.  I make really good iced tea but no more.  Every time I drink any other iced tea I crave Arizona Tea with Ginseng and Honey. 

Also - part of a room in this house has a bunch of carpenter ants living in it.  They haven't built a thing.  They should be re-named lazy ass ants.  They will be genocided next week. 

[Chimpy]

I am totally addicted to Arizona Green Tea with Ginseng and Honey.  I make really good iced tea but no more.  Every time I drink any other iced tea I crave Arizona Tea with Ginseng and Honey. 

I think they spike that stuff with cocaine, I went through a phase after I stopped drinking soda where I would drink five or six a day, minimum.

[Selby]

I am totally addicted to Arizona Green Tea with Ginseng and Honey.  I make really good iced tea but no more.  Every time I drink any other iced tea I crave Arizona Tea with Ginseng and Honey.

They used to make an awesome mandarin orange variety that I used to drink like it was crack.  They stopped making it almost 12-13 years ago and I still miss it.

[Samwise]

Baked these today.



 

[Signe]

Yum.  I bet those would go great with an Arizona Green Tea with Ginseng and Honey!

[Merusk]

And a nice slice of Honeycrisp.

[Ironwood]

While reading Black Company.

[NowhereMan]

I'm worried we're hitting peak F13

BE THERE!

[Teleku]

Hmm, nobody at all in Moscow seems to speak English.  Going to be a fun 2 years!   

On the bright side, they do in fact serve glasses of beer (no paper cup shit) at the McDonalds. 

[IainC]

Hmm, nobody at all in Moscow seems to speak English.  Going to be a fun 2 years!   

On the bright side, they do in fact serve glasses of beer (no paper cup shit) at the McDonalds. 

hi5 Russian-having-to-learn buddy!

[Teleku]

At least it's really cheap where you are.  My friend who just moved to Kiev has been raving about how insanely cheap everything is (and he just came from Thailand).  Moscow is a bit pricey.

[Strazos]

Meh, arguable whether it's better to slog through a language and then...not even need it on a daily basis.

[Teleku]

Do a lot of people in Montery speak English?  Or just the ones you deal with for work reasons?

[Fabricated]

As it turns out, I have apparently been pretty sick for like 2 weeks and didn't think much of it.

I felt pretty run down, was having trouble sleeping due to the vision issues and eye irritation, and work was stressful. I didn't wait to see my GP, so I went to an immediate care clinic and the doctor there said I was having pretty bad allergy issues (which I guess I apparently didn't think were really bad since it wasn't causing me to have trouble breathing or anything really dangerous), and I had a fever of a bit over 101 degrees which I've likely had for a while. Got put on antibiotics and a mess of steroids and feel a lot better. Go fig. I just thought I was having dry eye/sinus issues and work stress.

[Strazos]

Do a lot of people in Montery speak English?  Or just the ones you deal with for work reasons?

My staff all speaks English, and I don't routinely interview anymore.

I have to use it for really simple things, like ordering food, but otherwise I don't have to use it much. Regardless of the general lack of English speakers.

[Signe]

As it turns out, I have apparently been pretty sick for like 2 weeks and didn't think much of it.

I felt pretty run down, was having trouble sleeping due to the vision issues and eye irritation, and work was stressful. I didn't wait to see my GP, so I went to an immediate care clinic and the doctor there said I was having pretty bad allergy issues (which I guess I apparently didn't think were really bad since it wasn't causing me to have trouble breathing or anything really dangerous), and I had a fever of a bit over 101 degrees which I've likely had for a while. Got put on antibiotics and a mess of steroids and feel a lot better. Go fig. I just thought I was having dry eye/sinus issues and work stress.

My brother in law has been having pretty bad sinus/allergy issues recently.  He does have allergies anyway but nothing like this.  It's crazy outside.  Don't go out there.  Close all your windows.  There is tree sex covering everything.  I can't go out on the deck without getting tree sex in my hair.  It's disgusting.  Anyway, what was I on about?  Oh.  My sister has been keeping an eye on pollen counts.  It goes from 1 to 12.  Today it's 10.  Tomorrow will be 11.5.  My nose never stops itching.  Everyone should move to the top of a really high mountain.  Like in Colorado where pot is legal.

[Paelos]

There is tree sex covering everything.  I can't go out on the deck without getting tree sex in my hair.  It's disgusting.

It's true. Plus Georgia is the tree porn capital of the world it seems.

[Yegolev]

It's definitely worse than south Alabama.  Also the spiders are worse, or they were before that deep freeze last year... or was it 2013?

[HaemishM]

I don't think we've really hit pollen nose fucking season yet in Mississppi. But goddamn if I can't stop the fucking ants from working their way into little pockets of my house. I spray that bug barrier type stuff to kill the ones I see and try to cover the areas where I think they come in, and suddenly there's another spot they've found. Fuck ants.

[Merusk]

Spray around the entire foundation outside, you're only finding where they come out.

They're in the walls, man.
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