What happened today that you liked?
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I don't think anything short of a single-location c-store deli can touch Wawa. When I had just Sheetz available I was OK with that but when I had both a Sheetz and a Wawa it was the latter all the way. When I moved I'm so glad that it was Sheetz that got left behind and Wawa is still available to me.
I definitely remember the pain of working split days off in the restaurant. Super annoying when it's Tuesday and Thursday and I worked 4-close Fri/Sat and a double from 10:30-close on Sun. Monday was pretty chill at 4-close but it would have been nice to get Mon/Tue off instead of Tue/Thur. Happy to hear that they're recognizing that days off are necessary for recuperation and giving you what you need and deserve.Walked out of work at Noon today, not due back in until 0400 Monday. For the second week in a row. A few weeks ago, I mentioned that my two-days-in-a-row scheduled off was the first time that had happened since I started with the company. Somebody heard me, and this was the result. Yes, it's reactive and not proactive, but the right person listened and it's another datapoint (especially after receiving a personal apology for the oversight) on the road to finally feeling like I'm appreciated. It's so alien I'm kinda unsure what to think about that.
Except I like it.
Yeah, when I played youth baseball the mercy rule automatically kicked in at 5+ run difference in the 4th inning or higher.
On the one hand: can we really call a long john a dough nut? It's more of a dough bar.
Related: I miss Dunkin Donut's maple bars from when we lived out west. The round things with maple frosting just ain't the same.
I started trying to get out and walking at least 3x/week about 3 weeks ago. Since finding a 1.75mi loop that I'm comfortable with my mile's pace has steadily improved from 18:15 to 17:15. I'm still slow but getting there and, aside from the hill leading back to my apartment kicking my ass, getting easier as I go.
I feel like I don't often have things to post in this thread. Well, today I do.
A few weeks ago (bordering on a couple of months now) I started taking an intro to improv class as an attempt to learn how to break out of my head and shell. How to live a bit more in the moment rather than always analyzing and over analyzing things. It's been a part of my ongoing process to learn how the things that I've taken for granted about my personality, lack of confidence and general reclusiveness aren't inherent but learned.
Well, today was the best night of improv yet. This is the first night that when I didn't have any idea what to do or say to continue a scene that it didn't result in a complete and total freeze. The first time it happened I was able to get to something and the second time I actually incorporated the freeze into the scene. I even stayed afterward and had a really good conversation with a few of the other players when normally I'd have just quietly slipped out. All in all it was a really good night.
A few weeks ago (bordering on a couple of months now) I started taking an intro to improv class as an attempt to learn how to break out of my head and shell. How to live a bit more in the moment rather than always analyzing and over analyzing things. It's been a part of my ongoing process to learn how the things that I've taken for granted about my personality, lack of confidence and general reclusiveness aren't inherent but learned.
Well, today was the best night of improv yet. This is the first night that when I didn't have any idea what to do or say to continue a scene that it didn't result in a complete and total freeze. The first time it happened I was able to get to something and the second time I actually incorporated the freeze into the scene. I even stayed afterward and had a really good conversation with a few of the other players when normally I'd have just quietly slipped out. All in all it was a really good night.
Thanks. It's definitely been a process that took months to just get to the point that I was willing to do something. I started out knowing that I needed some form of structure to guide the interaction process (otherwise the corner would be my best friend) so a class of some form was my first thought. As I thought about it more I realized that most classes would be so uninteractive that I wouldn't be meeting anyone new I'd just be going, sitting, maybe doing something alone and leaving. I don't know if it was Smosh or Critical Role that really opened me up to wanting to be able to do the kind of improv that I was seeing that made me keep coming back to the idea of taking an improv course enough that I finally signed up.
This intro course is wrapping up next week and I'm a bit sad but the organizer's already said that anyone who's interested in doing the summer "camp" stuff should just go ahead and show up so there's something new to look forward to doing.
This intro course is wrapping up next week and I'm a bit sad but the organizer's already said that anyone who's interested in doing the summer "camp" stuff should just go ahead and show up so there's something new to look forward to doing.
I can honestly say that it's the best decision that I've made in a long time. I won't deny that my self-criticism has led to a couple of pretty awful nights after I decided that I had fucked up and done terribly but that's par for the course for me. I've since had some great conversations with other members of the class who have told me they think that I'm doing great at it which helps a ton. It's something that I never thought I'd see myself doing and now I can see myself sticking with it. I'm looking forward to the summer "camp" they've got going on in lieu of classes (come if you can, skip if you can't) and then it's the next step up from there.
I hate home improvement stores because I never manage to get the SDs when I need assisstance it's always the person who you can just hear looking at you with the biggest sigh imaginable when you ask for help. It's honestly enough to keep me out of the damn places unless I absolutely need to go to one. So it's great to hear that when one of the handful of actually good employees gets recognized and rewarded. Congrats SD.
After that we'll look for when Valve decides to buy ya'll up and the countdown to how long before they get bored of you. Company's got the next 15 years of corporate overlords covered.Well they gave us all Xboxes for Christmas 2020, so I think they'll allow it.
Seems like setting up a corporate acquisition is a real complex way to bypass the scalpers to get a PS5.
Also totally understandable.
I love that ya'll are making that joke too and it's not just the internet.
Did you bite your thumbs at each other too?Constant, rolling revenge amongst the six of us. Nothing angry or truly mean-spirited, but there was enough revenge/counter-revenge because we all plowed through Dune as freshmen in high school, and thought the "art of kanly" sounded fun. The Landsraad could not hold a candle to our group of chums.Both sound incredibly stupid. Were you able to get revenge later?Yes, one of my friends shot a bottle rocket when I was sneaking up on the bull. To this day, he claims that he was aiming for me, and missed and hit the bull.
In terms of corporate law I'd be willing to bet that your industry is probably the most fun to practice it in.
Yep, I've volunteered time as a feline socializer at a local SPCA. Definitely check in with some of your local ones about that sort of thing.
We had our Thanksgiving dinner for lunch today. Was better than most years as I think they went with a slightly more upscale catering company. They used the word "Confit" instead of "Sauce" for the stuff made with cranberries. That's how I know they were a bit fancierAnother department catered lunch so there's a bunch of free food in the kitchen. Mini subs, mac 'n' cheese, a veggie platter and some lemon slices. The people in my department have an unwritten agreement that the person who first sees the food tells others.
But, really, it was pretty decent. Most years it's just dry mush and overcooked meat.
Aren't those for non-credentialed exiting through a secured door?
In that scenario a double breading would be ideal. Doesn't need to be much just a dredge in flour puts a layer that the egg wash can stick to better than the straight chicken. Then the outer layer breading goes on. Unless you're deep frying it it's still going to be a bit fragile going onto and coming off the pan but it should hold better than just dredging in egg and panko.
That said, mayo or sour cream is what HelloFresh and similar recipes use for their "EZ baked" breaded chicken. A bit slathered on one side with the panko pressed on top and after baking you really can't tell that it was mayo or sour that was used.
Hey now! That's roocist!
Nope, nope, nope. I'm a fat dude (trying to not be but, well, that's reversing
) and I'm that way because I like to enjoy food. I can't imagine eating something that huge that would make me hate eating by the time I was done with it. I could never understand the people who insisted on a full 16oz prime rib either.The downvote button's always been 1-part useful and 3-parts "you hurt people's fee-fees" with your comment. Thing is, when it comes to AI art, I can see you getting downvoted to oblivion by either camp. Either you think it's a travesty and taking literal food out of human artists' mouths and the AI defenders downvote you OR you think there might just be something to this AI art thing (eventually) and get downvoted by the defenders of the poor starving artists.
I'm a coder. By the accounts of so many AI people I should be afeared of ChatGPT building LOB websites instead of me. What I know, that they don't know, is that business people are, by and large, absolutely useless outside of their area of expertise. Often, they're absolutely useless outside of the rote tasks they were trained in for their area of expertise. Very few business types are effectively explaining to ChatGPT how to build a site that serves their needs (the ones that can are too good at their real jobs to do so) and the developers that would use it that way are the same codermill types that are already garbage at eliciting requirements. So my job is, at least until the robits finish taking over the world, pretty secure.
I'm a coder. By the accounts of so many AI people I should be afeared of ChatGPT building LOB websites instead of me. What I know, that they don't know, is that business people are, by and large, absolutely useless outside of their area of expertise. Often, they're absolutely useless outside of the rote tasks they were trained in for their area of expertise. Very few business types are effectively explaining to ChatGPT how to build a site that serves their needs (the ones that can are too good at their real jobs to do so) and the developers that would use it that way are the same codermill types that are already garbage at eliciting requirements. So my job is, at least until the robits finish taking over the world, pretty secure.
It doesn't matter how fantastic a website you can create if you're garbage at eliciting requirements (or giving them and it's simply common that business workers are pretty bad at telling you what they need from the LOB site) then you're going to make a garbage site.
I mean, sure. That would be doing what I'm doing now (which is analyzing the business's needs and designing sites to meet their needs and that's 99% of the job and what most business people are really bad at) just with less coding.
Just need a plugin to allow javascript to be used in posts.
I had a smallish growth on my side for many years. A growth I couldn't even begin to be concerned about because if it was going to kill me at least I wouldn't be in crippling debt when it did. I got to the point that it was just a part of me by the time I got insurance so I didn't even think about it for a few years. Then, in 2020, it went through an expansion and then contraction period and, one day, it started leaking. That woke me up and I saw a doctor about it. A few weeks later and it was removed. It was a non-cancerous tumor of some particular type that was uncommon enough that the second opinion doctor at Hopkins asked to keep a sample of it and the imaging for his classes.
Ia, Ia, Cthulhu fhtagn!
Edit: Oh, did they change quotes to just link to the image attachment instead of collapsing the quote around it?
Nah, just that the word goes back several hundred years or so and they couldn't make up their mind what it referred to before we split off.
I am not a dad so it is OK that I didn't get it until now.
I am a lifelong pun lover so it is NOT OK that I didn't get it until now.
Last week we didn't have improv and usually after a week off I end up feeling really rusty and unsure of myself. Not this week. Was one of my best (and the group's overall best) weeks since I've been doing it. It was nearly 3 hours straight of just gut busting hilarity in scenes that Worked.
Be aware, "gift" reporting like that will no longer work as a 1099-K will soon be a part of one's taxes if they receive more than $600 through third-party payment platforms (down from $20k). I believe that starts with the 2023 tax year.
Got blood test results back. Cholesterol's good and A1c is down from 6 to 5.7. So even if I'm not seeing the effects of two+ months of significantly increased exercise, training and attempts to get back into good eating patterns on the weight the other numbers don't lie.
My only real issue with UPS (specifically in the apartment complex where I live) is that text is not a "proof of delivery". Give me a picture showing me where you left it or you haven't delivered it if it's missing (which in this apartment when they put it inside the building door, or at my door, isn't really an issue but it can be if they leave it outside the building).
I think they're generally referred to as fire starters over here. But, yeah, I could see access to those being age-gated given their entire purpose is to make fires easy to start.
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