The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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There were several polls like that done by Steinman, I'm sure there were also some on this iteration. Of course, what with our admins occasionally destroying databases and reverting to three month old backups in Ye Olden Tymes, who knows.
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Counting Neptune years instead of Earth years is kinda cheating, though.
I have an interview this morning for a new position within my company. Please wish me luck, say a prayer, rub a good luck charm, sacrifice a goat. Whatever it takes that you think will give me the most luck to get this.
Try rubbing your wife for luck!
Blast it lad! I'm already awake!
Welp, I think the interview went well. I'll hear in a few weeks if I get it.
It started out on a very high note, as I learned at the same time that I'm going to the Chairman's Choice Awards again this year. I'm winning an award for the work within my department for the past year. Which means a paid day off, a free stay at The Muir hotel, and a dinner at the Smoke & Ash restaurant. Those are super swanky places in downtown Halifax.
Heck of a way to start an interview by saying you're getting another award two years in a row. If that's not an indication of a good employee, I don't know what is.
My siblings and I just went home to visit my Dad this weekend for his 60th. My parents had me really young though.
What was that sonny? We’ve gotten so d our hearing is starting to really go. It only uses to be we couldn’t “hear” our wives, now we can’t hear the announcers of whatever sport I’m napping to.I find it really weird that we've been a group so long that I'm now actually probably older or at least very near the age @Dave was when we first met. I'll never admit to that, though, because I'm young and spry still while he was born old and decrepit.
We've been around for close to 20 years right? I was in undergrad during image forums. When did halfpixel go live? Sadly Yahoo purged my email which had my registration emails from back then.
I remember the great thanksgiving shutdown.
GasBandit
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This seems like a good place too to remind people that there's a Halforums Wiki, for anybody who is curious about a snapshot in Halforums History circa 2009.
I don't. I was away for Thanksgiving, and when I got home and tried to browse Halfpixel, it just wasn't there any more. If it weren't for a random comment in the comics.com forums (I think?) I likely never would have found this place. Curse that unnamed forum member at your discretion
Hold on, there was Halforum before there was halforums.
Pixel - image - Halfpixel - Halforum - halforums I think?
GasBandit
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The Joe Keatinge era was a dark chapter, indeed.
This book goes hard. I've lost my soul to hell, been blown up into a million pieces, eaten by wolves, become an indentured servant to a psychopath and having my heart broken was the best ending so far! Is this really a kids book?
I didn't know there was a novelization of Edge of Tomorrow*.
(*specifically this, not All You Need Is Kill.)
I remember Edrondol. I even made that knuckle head a Tylenol bottle avatar.
Whatever happened to that asshole?
Good riddance I say
GasBandit
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Dave
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Couple of weeks ago - yes that's "weeks" with a capital EEK! - I got covid. I got it from my wife who got it from her work. People are just unclean, man.
Anyway, since that time I've had a lot of trouble sleeping. Every time I lay down my throat closes up and I'm hacking and coughing and I just can't get over the feeling that there's something in my throat and I just can't get rid of it. NyQuil. DayQuil. OTC cough suppressor. Musinex. They all did their thing for a short time but soon after it was back to raspy, coughy, gross, loud...
Today I got paid so I splurged and got Indian food. One order of chicken vindaloo later, my throat and sinuses are clear as a fucking bell.
Anyway, since that time I've had a lot of trouble sleeping. Every time I lay down my throat closes up and I'm hacking and coughing and I just can't get over the feeling that there's something in my throat and I just can't get rid of it. NyQuil. DayQuil. OTC cough suppressor. Musinex. They all did their thing for a short time but soon after it was back to raspy, coughy, gross, loud...
Today I got paid so I splurged and got Indian food. One order of chicken vindaloo later, my throat and sinuses are clear as a fucking bell.
I'm watching this documentary on Mickey Spillane, one of my favorite writers. I didn't read his work until after finishing my first novel, only to realize I'd been somehow tapping into his style the whole time.
But what just blew my mind is he took a 9-year hiatus from writing...and became a Jehova's Witness during that time. And that he was very conservative and religious.
Now, my brain is struggling to come to terms with that, given the controversial content of his work.
But what just blew my mind is he took a 9-year hiatus from writing...and became a Jehova's Witness during that time. And that he was very conservative and religious.
Now, my brain is struggling to come to terms with that, given the controversial content of his work.