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« Reply #280 on: October 08, 2007, 07:25:31 PM » |
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Nothing at all.  And, to be technical, it belongs to my husband (as do all the legal documents). But since we're married, it's mine, too. Mwahahaha. |
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« Reply #281 on: October 09, 2007, 07:11:25 AM » |
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Schil, from where did you acquire your new icon?
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« Reply #282 on: October 09, 2007, 07:48:52 AM » |
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I miss the short-lived Kitteh + frog hat already.
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« Reply #283 on: October 09, 2007, 12:42:24 PM » |
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I snagged it from a BSG icon livejournal. I love Pres. Roslin. and I love red hair. =) I love kittyfroggies too but it gets frustrating to me when I can't actually pick them up and cuddle them. |
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« Reply #284 on: October 15, 2007, 08:37:38 PM » |
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Burt's Bees Citrus Spice soap. strangely addicting. I'm not sure if I will even use it, just keep it around to smell.
and a t-shirt with the Peanuts gang dressed for Halloween. Charlie Brown wearing a pirate hat amuses me just right.
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« Reply #285 on: October 20, 2007, 09:57:52 PM » |
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Yay! Pirate hats are fun. I tried to con my sister into buying me one but she wasn't having any of that  I have acquired a strong dislike for 30 plus degree weather. I think 30 Celcius equated to something like 97.77777 degrees Fahrenheit. Though there may be a seven more or less. Here I am just under the tropical belt which is rather unpleasant for some one who used to live south of Christchurch, NZ. Christchurch is not the international gateway to Antarctica for no reason. I miss the cold  |
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« Reply #286 on: October 20, 2007, 11:11:17 PM » |
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Eh, your math is a bit off. 30 C is 86 F (and it's spelled Celsius, with an s).
To get Fahrenheit from Celsius, multiply by 1.8 and add 32. I find it's easier to multiply by .8 and add it to the original number (30 * .8 = 24, 30 + 24 + 32 = 86).
However, I do agree that 30 is too hot. It was in the 30s around here a couple weeks ago, but thankfully it's cooled off a bit--the high was 26 today.
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« Reply #287 on: October 21, 2007, 01:03:08 AM » |
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I like to be annoying and spell and pronounce it Celkius. there's another word that I've seen misspelled with a c so I pronounce it with a k but I forgot what it was. responkable.  I acquired a new hoodie. it was on sale. but it was still expensive. it is lined in supercushy fleece. I am leaving it wrapped up in tissue and in its fancy shopping bag with the receipt in a separate little envelope in case the price goes down some more. then I will return it and buy it again for less money. bah, that is annoying. it makes me an annoying customer. maybe I won't do that. there has to be a limit to how annoying I let myself be. hasn't there? |
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« Reply #288 on: October 22, 2007, 11:29:59 AM » |
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Early birthday presents:
coupe of dress shirts and ties for work, a new Georgia hat (had good mojo for the Vandy game!), a 19-inch LCD monitor for the home computer and some nice bookends for our bookcase.
More to come later this week....
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« Reply #289 on: October 23, 2007, 06:42:59 PM » |
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Eh, your math is a bit off. 30 C is 86 F (and it's spelled Celsius, with an s).
To get Fahrenheit from Celsius, multiply by 1.8 and add 32. I find it's easier to multiply by .8 and add it to the original number (30 * .8 = 24, 30 + 24 + 32 = 86).
However, I do agree that 30 is too hot. It was in the 30s around here a couple weeks ago, but thankfully it's cooled off a bit--the high was 26 today.
Meh. Tell that to my little converter thingy. Teach it how to spell to. Or spel. Whichever suits you. |
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« Reply #290 on: October 23, 2007, 07:16:58 PM » |
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I'll settle for teaching you when to use 'to' and when to use 'too' (hint: you used it wrong above).
So you mean you plugged 30 C into some electronic device and it gave you not only the wrong answer but the wrong spelling? Man, talk about incredible amounts of failure.
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« Reply #291 on: December 08, 2007, 11:59:20 AM » |
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I bought a Nerf Maverick for some office warfare. Of course, the first thing I did is mod it so that the darts shoot harder/further and so that the chamber ejects further out and spins like a real revolver (necessary for looking like a badass, or at least as much of a badass as you can look like when you're wielding a nerf gun...). We take our nerf warfare seriously. One of my co-workers even has a usb-powered nerf missile launcher. And of course we hack our nerf weapons so they have enough power to shoot all the way across the building. |
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« Reply #292 on: December 13, 2007, 02:31:15 PM » |
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I just ordered a marker board for my office. Now I can write ridiculous comments on it to see if the people that work for me have a good sense of humor.
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« Reply #293 on: December 13, 2007, 09:39:13 PM » |
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I just ordered a printer and a wireless keyboard for my mac.
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« Reply #294 on: December 18, 2007, 01:11:29 AM » |
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A new pair of jeans. And some Christmas presents from back home. Which we opened even though it actually isnt Christmas.
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« Reply #295 on: December 18, 2007, 07:36:47 PM » |
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A couch.
Yes, I did buy it from someone who listed it on Craigslist, but it was a good deal and turned out OK. Except that there are probably people right now telling their families about a crazy guy in a van with twenty inches of couch sticking out of his tailgate barreling down I-40 XD
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« Reply #296 on: January 08, 2008, 08:57:13 PM » |
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I acquired my first Wii game: Fire Emblem: Goddess ofRadiant Dawn[1]. This is, of course, before I have actually acquired a Wii[2], but since the game was free then I figured I would just save it for later when I have the console (and a TV, which I also lack). [1] Was the title "Goddess of Dawn" deemed too offensive for a religiously conservative America? [2] No crude jokes, please. |
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« Reply #297 on: January 08, 2008, 09:26:35 PM » |
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say, whatever happened to your vehicle? did you get it fixed or did you acquire a new one?
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« Reply #298 on: January 08, 2008, 10:33:14 PM » |
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say, whatever happened to your vehicle? did you get it fixed or did you acquire a new one?
Heh, a funny story, that. I don't remember how much of the original story got told, but short recap, I was going to take a friend to the Nissan place to pick up his vehicle when the battery died in my van (also a Nissan). Since we were there anyway, I got them to look at it. They called me several hours later and gave me a laundry list of stuff that was broken, the crown jewel of which was a gas leak that would take around a thousand bucks to fix. I took it up to AAMCO to get a second quote on what it would take to fix it. They looked at it for all that afternoon and the next morning, and the guy said that they couldn't find a gas leak anywhere. I think he didn't believe me at first that there even was one, but I showed him the Nissan paperwork where the mechanic had written "unsafe to drive; might explode" so he took another look up on the lift but still found nothing. I thanked him and drove off. Since then, the van has made several long trips and has gained about two thousand miles, at least, and hasn't exploded. Also, the AAMCO guys didn't charge me anything for their diagnostic work, so I'll put in a plug for them. I doubt the Nissan people would blatantly lie to me about something like that, but they did tell my friend that the problem with his Altima was an after-market air filter he had installed on it and charged him an arm and a leg to replace it, when clearly the problem was really with the engine, but since they lose money off of warranty claims and the engine was covered under warranty, they had to charge him somehow. Anyway, I know where to go (and where not to go) when the inevitable death of the van does arrive. A bit of an anti-climax, which is why I didn't mention anything. |
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« Reply #299 on: January 09, 2008, 02:02:48 AM » |
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huh. wow. that is so weird, going from "might explode" to "nothing wrong". but anticlimactic is good because not asploding is good. I hadn't heard of AAMCO before. *makes mental note*
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« Reply #300 on: January 09, 2008, 02:38:21 PM » |
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Guitar Hero III
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« Reply #301 on: January 14, 2008, 08:44:45 PM » |
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« Reply #302 on: January 14, 2008, 09:01:03 PM » |
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A few scrapes and bruises after learning how to fall off a motorbike I didn't have to learn how to fall off a motorbike--I was born naturally gifted at falling off of all sorts of things, motorbikes included. |
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« Reply #303 on: February 20, 2008, 08:37:29 PM » |
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^ heh. I actually replyed to that a month or so ago. But Library computers are lame. We went shopping at Big W today and bought 29 pairs of shoes. All exept two pairs had been marked down to $1, the two being $5. Now we gotta figure out how to drive around for another five or so hours with five kids, two adults, A large shopping bag rather full of shoes and one uncompromising weelchair. (My mum started parking in the taxi stands. The cops take one look inside and drop it.) My dad's gonna have a fit when we pick him up. Serves him right for having six daughters |
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« Reply #304 on: February 23, 2008, 05:19:58 PM » |
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 nothing fancy but it's five years newer than my previous car and has 50,000 fewer miles on it. yay, car. it needs a name. previous car's name was Tater Fish. not that I ever called it that, but at least it had a name. |
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« Reply #305 on: April 14, 2008, 05:53:31 PM » |
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Acquired my tax refund already today. I had to worry about taxes not at all, and it cost me not a cent. Having an accountant for a father is a wonderful thing.
Also, my tax refund was more than my paycheck is for. How does the gummint fail so bad at estimating my taxes?
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« Reply #306 on: April 14, 2008, 07:44:12 PM » |
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I got my tax refund back in mid-February.
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« Reply #307 on: April 14, 2008, 11:12:23 PM » |
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A new friend! Yay me  |
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« Reply #308 on: April 16, 2008, 10:19:37 AM » |
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...was that in reference to something, or just a non sequitur? This isn't the Random Bobservation thread, ya know. I think she means she acquired a new friend (this is the off-topic things acquired thread, after all). Yeah, you probably wouldn't, since it's the Sears Tower, not Sears. I was thinking that but wasn't going to say it. Wait, weren't you supposed to be the good angel?  |
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« Reply #309 on: April 16, 2008, 01:11:59 PM » |
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I think she means she acquired a new friend (this is the off-topic things acquired thread, after all).
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« Reply #310 on: April 16, 2008, 04:01:01 PM » |
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...was that in reference to something, or just a non sequitur? This isn't the Random Bobservation thread, ya know. Yeah, you probably wouldn't, since it's the Sears Tower, not Sears. I aquired a new friend lol. I wouldn't have a clue. I simply get 'Oh look. Some tall, famous building. Haha!' |
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« Reply #311 on: April 18, 2008, 02:11:10 PM » |
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« Reply #312 on: April 18, 2008, 06:17:59 PM » |
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« Reply #313 on: April 18, 2008, 06:40:51 PM » |
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courage.
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« Reply #314 on: April 22, 2008, 12:01:22 AM » |
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I got the Mega Man Legends Dig Out Guide and Art Book. <333
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« Reply #315 on: April 22, 2008, 01:44:28 AM » |
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Speaking of which, how's Scarecrow and the Tin Man?
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« Reply #316 on: June 26, 2008, 09:27:45 AM » |
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Latest thing acquired: a house. Yes, I am now a homeowner.
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« Reply #317 on: June 26, 2008, 09:30:52 AM » |
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Mortgages are fun!
We're currently trying to sell our house and buy another. Time will tell.
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« Reply #318 on: June 26, 2008, 10:07:47 AM » |
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Mortgages are fun!
Thankfully I didn't have to go with a mortgage. The parentals surprised me with a no-interest loan. I know, I know, spoiled kid, but it's nice to have parents who save money for things like that :D |
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Thankfully I didn't have to go with a mortgage. The parentals surprised me with a no-interest loan. I know, I know, spoiled kid, but it's nice to have parents who save money for things like that :D Dang! Lucky you! |
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