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Learned that the pharmacist at my store got yelled at by my boss because he gave me the covid vaccine that made me so sick I had to call out. Oops?
Monday, 08-Mar-21 20:23:19 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Your boss is just plain stupid. Any vaccine can provoke lessened symptoms of the disease, making one feel sick, although the strength of them can vary much.. For example the annual flu vaccine can do that as well. It's not an unusual or unheard side-effect of vaccines. Also, just from the cost-benefit side, he could have a bigger loss of productivity if you caught the real thing later. Also as an employer he has to be aware that anyone can sick at any time. It sucks but that's the job of an employer or manager to deal with sudden sick days.
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@adiwan I think the issue was more that it was completely unscheduled and out of nowhere so they didn’t have time to replace me when I was suddenly too ill to work the next day. In retrospect it was probably irresponsible of me to have taken it when I knew I had work the next day but like, hey, the vial was gonna go to waste otherwise.
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Hey uh guess who just got a surprise Covid vaccine
Saturday, 06-Mar-21 01:35:40 UTC from web-
@scribus i literally was just walking by the pharmacy in my store and the pharmacist was like "hey Matt... we got one more dose left and i don't have any more appointments... want it?" was pretty much in the exact right place at the exact right time
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@mrmattimation Damn, sweet luck
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@mrmattimation You won the lottery!
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Being killed in a video game right at the final blow of the last boss just before the final end trigger was processed.
Monday, 01-Mar-21 20:14:46 UTC from web-
@adiwan Well ain't that just infuriatin'?
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@scribus I was playing Captain Toad Treasure Tracker (on WiiU) and just as I threw the last huge turnip at the crow and hit I slipped off the platform and died during the hit animation. It was quite frustrating and nerve-wracking as I had only one life left. During the whole gameplay I was not picking much money for lifes and was often time reckless and had not many lives.
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This season of Close Enough felt more like Regular Show with its wackiness than the first season did. It got insanely crazy.
Monday, 01-Mar-21 14:53:14 UTC from web -
And today I realized that the letters I wrote were under Forename Last-Initial, and the envelopes were First-Initial Surname. :-/ #derp
Thursday, 25-Feb-21 17:35:48 UTC from web -
Great, one of my favorite metal acts were dropped from their label and broke up . . . because one of the main members was arrested for the DC riot.
Monday, 22-Feb-21 16:34:30 UTC from web-
@scribus Sort of sad that it happened but it's good that those riot idiots face consequences one way or another.
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@adiwan Yeah, I'm more hoping the four members who left over it re-form or at least go on to more success than I am worrying for the one jackboot, lol. And I'm not super-surprised, because after 9/11 they took a hard Right, anyway. It's more just surreal to see happening. And I can't help thinking of Alice Cooper's take on rock in politics: "Why would you listen to US? We can't even hold down a real job!"
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Well I just learned that I have a scar (somewhere on one of my knuckles) from the location of the first-ever episode of Bar Rescue. Which was closed after a stabbing murder. And then burned down. And is still a pile of fenced-off rubble 3 years later.
Sunday, 21-Feb-21 02:49:19 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Oof.
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@adiwan It's even less than that! It may play out like something something seedy joint, blablabla bar brawl, but I was just too damn drunk to play pool and hit the damn table with my hand :-/ haha
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@mrmattimation Yeah, that's haunted
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Watched "Kill la Kill" and it was awful. Despite positive reviews my experience was not good. It contains huge and obvious plot holes. I can stretch my suspension of disbelief so far. It had some good characters in there but the plot weighted all down like an elephant on a cardboard box.
Wednesday, 17-Feb-21 17:38:15 UTC from web-
@adiwan Yeah, that one's much more about antics and story than plot. And fanservice. Like, to such a core extent one wonders if it's even "service" anymore, lol.
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@scribus The fanservice was the least of my problems with it. The plot is so convoluted it hurts my intelligence. Sentient alien thread accelerates the evolution of humans so they can wear clothes, Then the thread is used to make super-powered magic clothes. Then the bad guys use the thread in normal clothing to enslave/transform humanity while the good guys have also thread on their bodies. Then the master plan is to engulf the earth with the magic thread so to make it pop and burst more thread into the universe. And then the whole school thing and trying to conquer other schools is also the dumbest thing in the series. Where is the military? Where are state officials? It's certainly concerning when there are huge military-grade fights all over the country without any consequences. My suspension of disbelief can handle only a limited amount of BS before it turns against the piece of fiction.
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Crushed two linear bearings until the balls popped out. I should have used less force and made the hole a teeny tiny bit bigger.
Saturday, 13-Feb-21 18:10:10 UTC from web-
@adiwan that sounds dirty and painful outside of contact
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@ndogmario I just printed a holder for a Dremel rotary tool for my CNC machine. It needs some linear bearings (with steel balls to glide on) and there are holes that fit them. Due to inaccuracies the hole is too small for a pressure fit. I used a drill to carve it a little bit bigger, however I missed some spots. While forcing the bearings with a vise the bearing was compressed within the hole. The tolerances within the bearing are soo tight that this little bit of difference in the radius made a ball pop out.
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@adiwan Sounds a different kind of painful in context
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I'm afraid that "Coming 2 America" will suck. The first film is my all-time classic feel good movie. The trailers don't bode well.
Thursday, 11-Feb-21 10:10:37 UTC from web -
The first computer I used was a Commodore Plus/4 and the first I owned was a 286 Compaq Portable III.
Monday, 08-Feb-21 19:29:19 UTC from web -
Great! My car was stolen. A serious medical emergency and I get a BINGO on my Bingo card.
Friday, 05-Feb-21 16:21:03 UTC from web-
@scribus And I bought all the parts for repairing my rear window wipers. The car has a completely full tank. Luckily there aren`t any expensive or personal objects in there. I have contacted my insurance and I was at the police. I hope I get a good cash out for the car to buy a new used one.
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@adiwan oh, I totally misread that, too. I had somehow construed it to mean that both were, collectively, a single square on the card... haha
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@scribus I guess it's an eldrich and cursed Bingo card that slowly merges all squares into one.
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Man I sure would love to go bowling again sometime before my entire right side gives out :-/ lol
Friday, 05-Feb-21 05:08:34 UTC from web-
@scribus You can try Irish Road Bowling or also known in other regions as Klootshießen, Klootsheeten, (Straßen-)Boßeln, or Boccetta su Strada. Make the world your bowling alley!
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sword nerd lol https://youtu.be/vI6gbaWO7lY
Monday, 01-Feb-21 02:13:11 UTC from web-
@scribus Reported for abuse against liquid containers.
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On the night from Thursday to Friday I had to call the police because a drunk person with an empty vodka bottle slept and snored on the staircase about next to my apartment. Probably one of my hate neighbours acquaintances. Then the next two days were extremely noisy and I had to call the police 3 times. In the span of the 3 days I was awake for 44 hours straight.
Sunday, 31-Jan-21 16:44:48 UTC from web -
And it turns out that there ARE places where I could get some, and the weather today isn't nearly as bad as it was forecast to be, but I'm in sweatpants and cozy at home
Friday, 29-Jan-21 17:53:21 UTC from web-
@scribus Locally here I'd try visiting some artistic craft stores but I guess it'd be of limited success. But they are closed anyway.
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Gee for some reason it's not easy to find sealing wax in the store, almost as if wax seals are some kind of anachronism or some junk
Thursday, 28-Jan-21 23:06:53 UTC from web -
Maybe I try participating in the lottery. Only 6 numbers out of 49. Only a chance of 1 in 140000000 for winning the jackpot. It's more likely I get killed by a rogue falling coconut or a shark or a lightning bolt.
Tuesday, 26-Jan-21 20:14:06 UTC from web-
@adiwan Maybe we can make you out to be a vague European prince and work something with them...
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@scribus Yeah. A lot of US citizens are very bad about geography (I've heard) so it'll make it quite easy.
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@adiwan I myself tend to peter out around "...Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, Guyana and still..." before "Ecuador, Chile, Brazil!" and kind of losing the thread again.
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Well I just got to see falling snow for the first time in my life, and in my own back yard at that! It did not stick around, nor was it even enough to show up on my phone camera. But it sure was cold and wet!
Monday, 25-Jan-21 23:51:41 UTC from web-
@scribus Coincidentally it snowed here too but the snow remained and left a 1cm thick layer on my car. And today I had to use the car. Luckily it was already starting to melt so removing it was quick. I'd like to see how you react when 3mm diameter hail falls down from the sky.
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@adiwan We get little hail a couple times every few years or so. It tends to stop offices and empty classrooms as everyone stops to gawk and frolic, lol.
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@scribus Haha. It's not often that it hails at my place. But every time my father tells me to drive the car under a bridge because he fears of hail damage. And I tell him that when it starts to hail heavily it's already too late.
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Also the general inevitability of
is pretty off-putting. Less terrifying on a bus than a train, easier to stop, able to swerve... like that time I almost ran over a doofus on a skateboard in all black with the hoodie up at night - WHEN THERE WAS A BIKE LANE they coulda been in!! ugh, people sometimes....Sunday, 24-Jan-21 17:49:54 UTC from web-
@scribus It's also not fun being almost a victim of being run over. I can count about a dozen of events when I or the driver weren't paying attention. 3 were last year from suffering neighbour-induced insomnia.
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@adiwan The roads systems have become a frightful failure on just about every front. I used to enjoy driving, heh
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16 hours until my on call duty ends and thus my week long paranoia. Literally I couldn't poop without having the fear someone calls. At least the paranoia gives me a modest extra more to my bank account.
Sunday, 24-Jan-21 16:53:33 UTC from web-
@adiwan I hate the very idea of being on-call O_O
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@scribus Due to the lack of projects that I want to make, and a lack of projects in general that involves my interests and expertise, I had to take this to keep me billable to clients. I shudder to the thought as well but it pays even when I get no call.
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Now I need a table saw and a scroll saw and a belt sander and a lathe and a drill press and a mill and a .... I'm becoming a man one power tool at a time.
Friday, 22-Jan-21 19:17:57 UTC from web-
@adiwan More! Power!! https://youtu.be/kBNPAJLhKZ4
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@scribus *grunt* *grunt* *snort*
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Seems a nearby city council has declared *all* businesses as "essential"
Thursday, 21-Jan-21 16:50:59 UTC from web -
I'm too much of a pacifist to rampage. But oh boy I do feel I'm about to rampage.
Wednesday, 20-Jan-21 07:01:36 UTC from web -
Burning your tongue on hot tea.
Thursday, 14-Jan-21 17:46:59 UTC from web-
@scribus Just happened to me. I poured steaming hot tea into my mug and didn't put a thought into waiting for it to cool down for a short while. But other to the actual case of that happening it's a great idea for using it as a metaphor for various things. Your interpretation fits it well. It can also applied to saying things that are potentially false or need more time to be sure they are not.
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@adiwan It's always pizza and the roof of my mouth for me, but coffee does run a close second.
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@scribus Pizza was also a problem for me. Thankfully I haven't burnt myself with pizza (and its cheese) for a long time. Those burns last for days. Whenever I make or buy pizza I am paying attention to the amount of fat and cheese it has, which are always the culprit. So in the case of making pizza myself I cover the pizza lightly with cheese that that there is not a thick layer that can keep the molten lava hot long after it's out of the oven. I like thin and crispy pizzas anyway. The more cheese and fat the soggier they are and the harder the slices are to handle and eat. I bake my pizzas such that the bread is stiff enough the pizza (slice) can hold up itself.
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Watched this documentary on "deep time" and human history last night. It was all like, "Columbus set sail because 5 billion years ago a planetoid hit proto-Earth, causing the axial tilt which resulted in the weather patterns which led to spices growing in India. Meanwhile, the Portuguese got rich off of a dying star 7 billion years ago, which resulted in a silver deposit in modern-day Mexico..."
Wednesday, 13-Jan-21 20:41:07 UTC from web -
I have banned Donald Trump from the Rainbow Dash Network
Saturday, 09-Jan-21 09:46:35 UTC from web- Scribus and ric drasin like this.
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@thelastgherkin Who else can teach the yellow tan monster friendship?
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@adiwan Iiiiii think he's just gonna have to be imprisoned in the statue garden for a couplefew thousand years...
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I haven't eaten an "Amerikaner" for a long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_and_white_cookie Here it's mostly sold with only white glazing.
Friday, 08-Jan-21 19:54:35 UTC from web-
@scribus I'm not a pumpkin guy but I imagine a simple chunky butter wheat cookie covered with a sugar glazing and small caramelized pumpkin chunks.
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@adiwan I'm actually using a basic sugar cookie, plus some gourd puree and relevant spices, a little maple syrup. So far, so good. Last time I was out of cinnamon so they were a bit more like ginger snaps than pie, like I'd hoped, but the texture was great and they worked even without the cinnamon. May cut down the cloves, though...
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@adiwan But now I have two ideas...
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I was sooo optimstic that everything would be over sooner. I was thinking it'd be like SARS and MERS when it comes to the global impact. Serious but much more contained. How foolish I was.
Friday, 08-Jan-21 16:36:52 UTC from web -
2020 Part 2 Electric Boogaloo
Thursday, 07-Jan-21 07:10:22 UTC from web