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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2016 19:47:53 GMT -5
Wrapped up a tutorial assignment for some friends I'm helping out and I'm officially on annual vacation so.....
...I'm off to Barbados for a week tomorrow.
Be good.
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Post by brutalis on Nov 29, 2016 10:13:15 GMT -5
Wishing i were home sick in bed being boring. Instead spending my time with Senior Leadership trying to explain how a newhire who started yesterday and is working today cannot be working because the employee is not set up in the system with an ID number so therefore: CANNOT WORK. Essentially person doesn't exist until HR sets up system ID for access/etc. Managers are the evil villains of my work life  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 30, 2016 11:28:07 GMT -5
Waiting on my mechanic to change a few filters and inspect my car. I can't wait to go home and take a nap. I'm wiped out from working in the rain yesterday.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 15:37:02 GMT -5
I have already made a list of things to do while in my absence from this forum and it's looks like it will take me two months to complete it and I have sorted out a little over a thousand comic books to be sold and I'm keeping 112 of them for personal reasons.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Dec 1, 2016 17:16:17 GMT -5
Listening to Yes' "Tales From Topographic Oceans" (don't tell Dan  ) while I do laundry. There's a bit of business in the opening track where Rick Wakeman makes a noise on the Moog that's just "squeak-squeak" every five seconds or so. It sounds just like one of my little Shih-tzu's toys. She walks over to the speaker and cocks her head left and right (his-master's-voice-style), then investigates all around the speaker for the "toy." It's adorable, though I'm sure Dan would contend she's just looking for the OFF switch.  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 17:32:01 GMT -5
Really?! Are you a soccer fan? I'm not, but I live about a 20 minute drive from Watford. I am, but as a recent convert rather than a lifelong fan. For years, I railed against soccer as being boring and unexciting with all those "nil-nil" draws and players flopping like fish out of water on the ground every time a stiff breeze blew by, but two things changed my mind. Both of my daughters played in our local youth soccer league (the younger one still does), so I started getting exposed to it, and one of the guys who reported to me at my last company had been an All-American soccer player in college and he was a really strong advocate for the sport. He suggested that I needed to pick a team and get to know the players so that I had a connection with the league, so I picked Swansea City, because they were the only team in Wales. Unfortunately, they are having a pretty rough year and look to be in the uphill fight against relegation, which is another concept that I love about the sport: if you don't play well, you go down to a lower league and the folks who played well there get a shot at the Premier League, rewarded for their success and effort. Over time, I've come to appreciate the artistry and skill of the players, so much so that I can easily sit down and watch a match between two squads I have no rooting interest in (I will also watch the German Bundesliga when it's on), but I haven't watched an NFL game in three seasons, even though I live in a rabid American football city. This was pretty much my experience in becoming a soccer fan. Being so far removed and a recent convert led to me bouncing around among different clubs (Tottenham, United, Palace, Liverpool) for various reasons (some better than others), but it finally clicked for me when I realized I didn't have to pick an EPL team just because that's they have the most air time over here. I realized that I enjoy Italian soccer the most, and now I'm all-in on Roma. |
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Post by The Captain on Dec 1, 2016 18:00:36 GMT -5
I am, but as a recent convert rather than a lifelong fan. For years, I railed against soccer as being boring and unexciting with all those "nil-nil" draws and players flopping like fish out of water on the ground every time a stiff breeze blew by, but two things changed my mind. Both of my daughters played in our local youth soccer league (the younger one still does), so I started getting exposed to it, and one of the guys who reported to me at my last company had been an All-American soccer player in college and he was a really strong advocate for the sport. He suggested that I needed to pick a team and get to know the players so that I had a connection with the league, so I picked Swansea City, because they were the only team in Wales. Unfortunately, they are having a pretty rough year and look to be in the uphill fight against relegation, which is another concept that I love about the sport: if you don't play well, you go down to a lower league and the folks who played well there get a shot at the Premier League, rewarded for their success and effort. Over time, I've come to appreciate the artistry and skill of the players, so much so that I can easily sit down and watch a match between two squads I have no rooting interest in (I will also watch the German Bundesliga when it's on), but I haven't watched an NFL game in three seasons, even though I live in a rabid American football city. This was pretty much my experience in becoming a soccer fan. Being so far removed and a recent convert led to me bouncing around among different clubs (Tottenham, United, Palace, Liverpool) for various reasons (some better than others), but it finally clicked for me when I realized I didn't have to pick an EPL team just because that's they have the most air time over here. I realized that I enjoy Italian soccer the most, and now I'm all-in on Roma. That's cool. I don't see a lot of Italian football or Spainish football here, just when those league's teams play in the big European tournaments against the other top teams from the continent. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 18:16:41 GMT -5
My dad has DirecTV with every sports package (except hockey), so it was really cheap to add the soccer stuff. So as long as I'm at my parents' house I get to see a lot. There still isn't much Serie A, La Liga or Ligue 1 (we get every EPL and a good deal of Bundesliga), but beIn Sports is good about showing a few matches from the other leagues live and a few more or replay each week, though. And unlike North American sports, I can easily avoid finding out results so replays are fine.
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Post by The Captain on Dec 2, 2016 20:02:22 GMT -5
I'm at our local recreation organization's annual Daddy-Daughter Christmas Dinner Dance fundraiser with my younger one. The kids are doing the limbo right now, while all of us dads discuss how much pain we would be in tomorrow morning if we tried to do it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2016 20:13:46 GMT -5
I'm eating wings and watching Big Bang Theory.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2016 23:00:26 GMT -5
Getting ready for bed after working 14 hrs between 2 jobs. I am exhausted. Have to be up in 6 hours. Luckily I only have to work 1 job tomorrow. Yay.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2016 9:54:16 GMT -5
I'm hoping I'll get to watch El Clasico, but this weather is trying it's hardest to knock out the DirecTV signal. I
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 3, 2016 11:02:07 GMT -5
Just finished doing a big load of laundry this morning so whatever else the day brings, I'll feel like I got something accomplished
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Post by The Captain on Dec 3, 2016 11:12:10 GMT -5
Enjoying that fact that with Magic The Gathering Online, I can compete in a tournament from the comfort of my own home at 11:00 AM on a Saturday morning, as I sip on a cup of delicious dark roast coffee that my wife made for me. It's a way for me to enjoy an activity I like without having to go to a local gaming shop on a specific day at a specific time, which then takes me away from my family for hours at a clip. With the online set-up, I can enter a tournament and play my matches on my schedule, so if I have time to fit just one match into a break from other things, I can play it and then go do something else, and then return at a later time to play again.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2016 18:54:54 GMT -5
I just finished sorting out 1,138 comics books that I will be selling in December and January and from now on it's DC Archives, Marvel Masterworks, and some assorted Graphic Novels as well. And, using the two months I'm gone is to get rid of them and clean up my Condo as well and sort things out.
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) while I do laundry. There's a bit of business in the opening track where Rick Wakeman makes a noise on the Moog that's just "squeak-squeak" every five seconds or so. It sounds just like one of my little Shih-tzu's toys. She walks over to the speaker and cocks her head left and right (his-master's-voice-style), then investigates all around the speaker for the "toy." It's adorable, though I'm sure Dan would contend she's just looking for the OFF switch. 
