I haven't taken a vacation since 2009. I definitely want to go somewhere this year, either after my contract ends or I'm kept on and get some vacation time. I just need a destination and someone to go with me.
OK. I've only ever taken 1 vacation in the many decades of my adult employment.
Pretend I referenced the thread that wasn't funny in a playful but witty way.
I got a fantastic tattoo today from a new artist! She's amazing.
This post is severely lacking in pics. Assuming it's in a place you can take a picture of. If it isn't, just zoom in real close.
Hope this works from my phone. 
[DOUBLEPOST=1367378994][/DOUBLEPOST]the picture is sideways. I'm not sure why.
[DOUBLEPOST=1367378994][/DOUBLEPOST]the picture is sideways. I'm not sure why.That is pretty nice!
Sooo jealous right now.
Because phones store the rotation/position information in the image file, but lots of things that show images don't respect this unusually important metadatum.
--Patrick
thank you
It's kind of brown now but will be black and grey once it heals and my skin isn't so red. She also did a small paw print on the inside of my foot that I had wanted for a while but I had to wait until my foot healed enough after surgery.[DOUBLEPOST=1367424755][/DOUBLEPOST]
Thanks - I never knew that. I do, however, get a lot of complaints that all the pictures I send from my phone are sideways. Silly iPhones.
To frame this story, I was a college student and my 3 brothers have already graduated from school and married. My brother called me to say...
"Congradulations!"
"For what?"
"Something you did."
"What did I do?"
"You're going to be an uncle!"
Then I asked the wrong question.
"Who is the father?" -meaning are you or one of the other brothers expecting...
"I AM DAMMIT!!"
Usher is following me on Instagram!!!!
USHER!!
USHER!!
It's been pointed out to me that it's most likely an automatic response to me following him...but I don't care!
Did he show you to your seat?
THE Usher not an Usher...
Awesome! Tell him there should be an American Gods game, and perhaps Martin Wallace should design it since he's already putting out his short story A Study in Emerald as a game
I am jealous.
Goddammit. I couldn't justify to myself going to that even though I want it so badly, and now a genuine Halforumite is going? That may be the tipping point.
Also - forget the game. I'm pissed at myself because I want to cut cable, but I know I'm just going to add HBO when the American Gods show starts.
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I mentioned this in passing a week or so ago, but I don't think it had really sunk in for me then.
My kidney disease is in remission. I've been fighting IGA Nephropathy for a little over two years now, but apparently had been dealing with it without knowing it for God knows how long. The biopsy that caused a panic attack. (You see a needle that looks like it belongs on heavy industrial equipment coming for you and see how you react. Plus, I felt it punch my right kidney. The numbness didn't quite spread far enough.) The loooong year on heavy doses of steroids that commonly caused nightmares so vivid and intense I woke up swinging fists. I beat down and wrecked a mattress due to thrashing in my sleep and heavy sweating. The infusions of prednisone that caused days of hiccups and near constant indigestion. The half-week stay in the hospital at Christmas just down the hall from the dialysis unit, very nearly turning into a transplant patient there and then. Weaning off the steroids. The immense dietary changes to keep the blood pressure under control. The nervous wait to see if everything my family and I went through did anything.
After nearly a year of good, consistent numbers, I've come out in front of this thing. Remission is literally the best I could hope for, since there is no cure for this. I've lost 25% of my actual kidneys to atrophy, and most of what's left is pretty scarred, but it's finally, FINALLY under control. It's a cautious declaration by my doctor, but damn, I'm happy to take it.
My kidney disease is in remission. I've been fighting IGA Nephropathy for a little over two years now, but apparently had been dealing with it without knowing it for God knows how long. The biopsy that caused a panic attack. (You see a needle that looks like it belongs on heavy industrial equipment coming for you and see how you react. Plus, I felt it punch my right kidney. The numbness didn't quite spread far enough.) The loooong year on heavy doses of steroids that commonly caused nightmares so vivid and intense I woke up swinging fists. I beat down and wrecked a mattress due to thrashing in my sleep and heavy sweating. The infusions of prednisone that caused days of hiccups and near constant indigestion. The half-week stay in the hospital at Christmas just down the hall from the dialysis unit, very nearly turning into a transplant patient there and then. Weaning off the steroids. The immense dietary changes to keep the blood pressure under control. The nervous wait to see if everything my family and I went through did anything.
After nearly a year of good, consistent numbers, I've come out in front of this thing. Remission is literally the best I could hope for, since there is no cure for this. I've lost 25% of my actual kidneys to atrophy, and most of what's left is pretty scarred, but it's finally, FINALLY under control. It's a cautious declaration by my doctor, but damn, I'm happy to take it.
Fun Size and Stienman, not sure how much of a difference this makes (or if you already knew), but the tickets they have available are $30 flat if you go to Nicola's bookstore ($39.50 off Ticketmaster, fuck those guys). Granted, they're for the upper balcony, but each also includes a copy of The Ocean at the End of the Lane that you can get at Nicola's the day it comes out.
If you do end up coming, let me know! It would be nice to meet up before the show. My fiancé and I will be in seats M2 and M4!
If you do end up coming, let me know! It would be nice to meet up before the show. My fiancé and I will be in seats M2 and M4!
Also, one more since I've been busy and haven't been on for a while...
My fiancé and I celebrated our fourth anniversary on April 8th. We had a quiet night in, I cooked dinner (country-style pork ribs with mesquite dry rub) while she studied for a couple finals she had the next few days, and we watched a movie. After finishing dinner and the movie, we heard a high-pitched mewing. We thought it was our small cat (we have an 8 lb cat and a 20 lb cat, both full-grown), but then we heard it again and realized it was coming from our porch. We opened the back door, aaaaand...there's a big, fluffy orange cat sitting there. He was starving, no tags or collar, no microchip (we checked later), and we took care of him for a week or so before getting him checked out.
To make a long story short...this is Helios, the newest member of our family.
My fiancé and I celebrated our fourth anniversary on April 8th. We had a quiet night in, I cooked dinner (country-style pork ribs with mesquite dry rub) while she studied for a couple finals she had the next few days, and we watched a movie. After finishing dinner and the movie, we heard a high-pitched mewing. We thought it was our small cat (we have an 8 lb cat and a 20 lb cat, both full-grown), but then we heard it again and realized it was coming from our porch. We opened the back door, aaaaand...there's a big, fluffy orange cat sitting there. He was starving, no tags or collar, no microchip (we checked later), and we took care of him for a week or so before getting him checked out.
To make a long story short...this is Helios, the newest member of our family.
Yeah...I haven't had dreadlocks in over three years now. I figured it was time to update my avatar...
EDIT: Wait, we Skype'd after I cut my hair...I guess my forum-image is more ingrained than I thought, haha.
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THANKS OBAMA.
THANKS OBAMA might be my favourite meme.
Would have been funnier with -Thanks Obama-
Pssst, the original: http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/i_1daecd_352177.jpg
Just sayin