Imponderables: The Giving Season by nvghostrider

Firsties?

Edit: woot! Got it!

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Thursday, December 4, 2008 1:08 PM

Secondzies!

I agree with Zeek, I think the backlash will be pretty fierce. I'm starting to wonder if they can really expect anything to happen before the holiday break, and then we're into January and the inauguration and the new Congress, which could definitely change the situation.

Lol, sometimes I really really miss The West Wing...

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

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Thursday, December 4, 2008 1:11 PM

LEOPARDFLAN

fourthsies?

I was grounded. Still am, in fact, I'm just sneaking... >_>

hides in a corner

Aiko Kitahoshi, passenger aboard the LoS, frequently awol due to the phenomina that is rl.

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Thursday, December 4, 2008 1:13 PM

Grounded for what? :-(

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Thursday, December 4, 2008 1:23 PM

ooh, new thread ^_^

RF!! *glomp* why are you grounded O_O

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Friday, December 5, 2008 4:17 AM

LF you're here... oooh grounded and sneaking... HUGS

morning all

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Friday, December 5, 2008 8:43 AM

Well it's Friday...that's a good start. How's everybody's day going?

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Friday, December 5, 2008 8:48 AM

last day of relaxation before the weekend ><

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Friday, December 5, 2008 11:02 AM

I'm beh. As usual.

FLT, why is the weekend less restful than weekdays?

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

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Friday, December 5, 2008 11:08 AM

Because we cram all the stuff we need or want to accomplish and were too tired to do during the week into the two day weekend...

HUGS CK

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Friday, December 5, 2008 11:42 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
Because we cram all the stuff we need or want to accomplish and were too tired to do during the week into the two day weekend...

HUGS CK

Which is why when I'm president I will implement a mandatory 3 day (72 hour) weekend at all businesses!

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Friday, December 5, 2008 12:03 PM

ooh ooh I want Zeek to be president right now!!

Also I want a way to completely fix a damaged rotator cuff...sigh ( mine's bugging me)

So bored right now...

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Friday, December 5, 2008 12:41 PM

LEOPARDFLAN

sneaking again... and I got grounded for grades. Got a C in spanish and Bs in the other stuff mostly so I have to work my way back up to As before I get ungrounded.... bleah

Aiko Kitahoshi, passenger aboard the LoS, frequently awol due to the phenomina that is rl.

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Saturday, December 6, 2008 4:40 AM

NVG here.

Busy day yesterday,

http://abstrusegoose.com/24

Funny for y'all

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Saturday, December 6, 2008 3:13 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by CaliforniaKaylee: FLT, why is the weekend less restful than weekdays?

because I have drill this weekend, which means a 7:30-4:30 workday

Quote:
Originally posted by LeopardFlan: sneaking again... and I got grounded for grades. Got a C in spanish and Bs in the other stuff mostly so I have to work my way back up to As before I get ungrounded.... bleah

Ok, the C i can understand them bein a little upset about, but B's? come on, B's are perfectly fine. that's ghey of them to do @_@ grounded for getting B's *scoffs and walks away*

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Saturday, December 6, 2008 4:01 PM

Ok grounded for not passing or not doing your work sure.. for just not achieving the top 10% of the class...bit harsh

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Saturday, December 6, 2008 4:46 PM

ya think? >< sry RF

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Saturday, December 6, 2008 6:24 PM

NAVYSEILS

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
Also I want a way to completely fix a damaged rotator cuff...sigh ( mine's bugging me)

I got steroids and big pink painkiller pills when I injured mine once. Made for the best school photo ever. I couldnt straighten myself out cause the muscle was all tight and I was totally out my face on drugs. It was great.

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Sunday, December 7, 2008 5:33 AM

NVG here:

Drugged out Navy face made me spit my Diet Dews out.

Off to cut Christmas trees. One for Mom, one for work.

I'd bitch about the manual labor but everyone knows how much of a sucker I am for being outside.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Sunday, December 7, 2008 11:10 AM

here's to figuring out what to get the impossible "sister in law" (she's the gf of the brother, but 'sis in law's' easier to say than 'my brother's gf') and the even more impossible brother for christmas :P

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Sunday, December 7, 2008 4:17 PM

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's an imponderable:

This is where generics get stupid.

I fudged the barcode on the left side which is why it looks weird [to the keen eye ;)] i thought it was hilarious XD
I *had* drawn in a red circle around the 'generic for simvastatin' in Paint, it transferred to the photobucket site but didnt transfer here from photobucket @_@ so i went in and redrew it :P

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Monday, December 8, 2008 6:38 AM

Wow, that's a big substitution there.

At work, don't wanna be.

True story.

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The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
-Loretta Lynn

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Monday, December 8, 2008 6:42 AM

no tree either as stupid forest service suddenyl refused permits selling by outside agencies ( discovered this after loading the kids in van and looooon drive to Middle Gate Station)

Ok I'm in training...

FLT... hmmm I got nothing

Navy- so adorable:)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Monday, December 8, 2008 6:44 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by nvghostrider:
True story.

OK Barney. You know you've watched too much HIMYM when... :-P

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Monday, December 8, 2008 6:58 AM

BLM

Pisses me off. They aren't selling permits outside of Carson City.

Until the middle of this week that is. They put a small article in the paper that I just happened to see last night.

You could be my wingman anytime Zeek.

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The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
-Loretta Lynn

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Monday, December 8, 2008 7:29 AM

My DVR did sorta cannibalize itself so I had to go online to watch last week's HIMYM. It was a pretty funny one. Somehow I don't really believe the naked man would work 2 out of 3 times though. More like 1 out of 5 or something.

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Monday, December 8, 2008 8:20 AM

O_O your DVR's a cannibal? ... *hides all electronic devices*

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Monday, December 8, 2008 8:55 AM

It's actually a computer that does DVR stuff. I don't know what it was hung up on but it was running something that left it going extremly slowly. So after a while of trying to reboot and getting no real response I did a hard restart. Well that left the database on there all screwed up. So, I reverted back to an old backup. That didn't have the latest recordings though. I'm sure they exist somewhere on there but if the database doesn't know about them then it won't play em. :-(

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Monday, December 8, 2008 9:01 AM

ick >< sry to hear that

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Monday, December 8, 2008 9:26 AM

I feel so 1990. We taped a new show on USA last night before lumbering off to bed and might watch it after work.

Yes I said TAPED.

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The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
-Loretta Lynn

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Monday, December 8, 2008 9:42 AM

lllloooolllllllllllllllllllllllllll XD thats awesome NV

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Monday, December 8, 2008 9:58 AM

we taped it 'cause our stupid local cable company STILL doesn't have DVR....not happy

Ok training break...boredom is epic

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Monday, December 8, 2008 10:00 AM

Just trying to make it through the day.

And I still have three plus hours worth of work at home.

I love the holidays.

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The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
-Loretta Lynn

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Monday, December 8, 2008 10:16 AM

Well having DVR can be a problem too. The reason I have the computer doing my DVRing is so I don't have to pay a stupid monthly fee for one. The thing is my satellite company has their channels bundled all weird. To get a certain set of programming you have to also get their DVR service. I'm like no I don't want to pay for that I just want channels. grrrrr

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Monday, December 8, 2008 10:23 AM

>< sry bout ur boredom MsA, and NV. mondays suck.

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Monday, December 8, 2008 11:01 AM

What's your DVR computer set up like Zeek? I've been thinking about building one from scratch for a few years now (especially as drive space continues to get cheaper and cheaper), and maybe ditching cable all together and going with just over-the-air HD, and whatever we can watch online. A pretty beefy Netflix account would be less per month than we're paying for a bunch of cable channels we don't watch, though I would be sad to lose the History and Discovery channels.

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

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Monday, December 8, 2008 11:05 AM

FUTUREMRSFILLION

Quote:
Originally posted by nvghostrider:
Just trying to make it through the day.

And I still have three plus hours worth of work at home.

I love the holidays.

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The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
-Loretta Lynn

You want to talk about bored - I work at a resort. We have only 2 guests in the fucking place and they work for us. No phone calls no nothing - been sitting here for a week with nothing to do. I am about to start counting the cracks in the ceiling!

I am on The List. We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"

FORSAKEN original

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“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Mahatma Gandhi

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Monday, December 8, 2008 11:18 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by CaliforniaKaylee:
What's your DVR computer set up like Zeek? I've been thinking about building one from scratch for a few years now (especially as drive space continues to get cheaper and cheaper), and maybe ditching cable all together and going with just over-the-air HD, and whatever we can watch online. A pretty beefy Netflix account would be less per month than we're paying for a bunch of cable channels we don't watch, though I would be sad to lose the History and Discovery channels.

~CK

I don't know if you've heard of mythtv or not, but that's what I use. It's an open source project that runs on linux. My tuner card just records regular definition TV. Haven't gone high def yet, but I just got a HD TV so I might look at getting a QAM tuner card. The card I have right now is sorta cool cause it has an IR blaster and an IR receiver with a remote. So, I can program the blaster to send input to my cable box to change the channels. I can use the remote to control mythtv. So, it's pretty nifty IMO. It takes some work to get it all up and running of course. This was also my first introduction to linux so it took me a while to figure out how it all works. That was sorta fun though. It gives me a real sense of accomplishment getting stuff working.

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Monday, December 8, 2008 11:38 AM

Ah yeah, I have heard of MythTV, heard good things about it. I might still go with a WinXP Media Center set up, since my linux skills suck (outside of flashing new firmware onto my wireless router). I've been holding out for better HD tuner cards. When I last looked into it earlier this year, there were still issues with being able to record and decode true HD, even with OTA HD, but people were talking about something new on the horizon that might fix that. And I think the change over to pure digital OTA next February might change things too. Right now my whole TV set up is digital (HDMI, fiber optic sound, etc -- but component cables for the DVD player, since that's the native form

), and I love all the TV shows we record in HD on our cable DVR right now. I would hate to lose the better picture, just so we could ditch the cable. :P

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

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Monday, December 8, 2008 12:21 PM

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Originally posted by CaliforniaKaylee:
Ah yeah, I have heard of MythTV, heard good things about it. I might still go with a WinXP Media Center set up, since my linux skills suck (outside of flashing new firmware onto my wireless router).

But you can learn! google can answer pretty much every problem you run into. You just have to learn what to look for. I don't know why but I find that stuff sorta fun. Having a problem but knowing there's a solution I just have to find the info. HD ticks me off though. If I ever upgrade my satellite plan to HD then I can't connect that to mythtv cause of encryption. So annoying. I'm paying for the thing. I'm using the converter box. Let me use the signal how I want.

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Monday, December 8, 2008 12:29 PM

LEOPARDFLAN

-pop-

-hides from all the tech-talk-

Yes I am sneaking again, and sneaking is also going to get lots more frequent (at least, until the holidays, when i either might or might not get ungrounded. latest date for ungrounding, though, is january- new semester starts y grades are automatically As)

Aiko Kitahoshi, passenger aboard the LoS, frequently awol due to the phenomina that is rl.

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Monday, December 8, 2008 1:07 PM

Please stop speaking gibberish.. it's been a long day full of buzzwords:)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Monday, December 8, 2008 1:10 PM

So the other day I was trying to get the proprietary nvidia drivers working but my X11 server wouldn't come up. I eventually googled up a utility that does some bug reporting. Found out that it couldn't map some registries because the malloc was failing. I had to track down where grub does it's linux invocation and add vmalloc=256MB to give it some extra space and everything worked fine.

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Monday, December 8, 2008 2:27 PM

Way to kill the thread Zeek. ;)

(For the record, I understood about 90% of that, so I'm pretty sure you weren't just making up words.)

Ok, to bring the thread back to life, here's a question: What one thing are you most looking forward to during the holiday season?

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

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Monday, December 8, 2008 2:43 PM

I get some of the gibberish and might be able to keep up with some research, but I'm still in the age of DVD and Dolby 5.1.

One thing I'm looking forward to during the holiday season: four day weekends.

We got the word today that we get the Friday after Christmas and New Years off.

My response;

BITCHIN'!

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The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
-Loretta Lynn

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Monday, December 8, 2008 4:20 PM

may response YIPEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!

NV

HUGS CK.. ok good even you have limits

Zeek- scary but cool

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Monday, December 8, 2008 5:12 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by CaliforniaKaylee:
Way to kill the thread Zeek. ;)

(For the record, I understood about 90% of that, so I'm pretty sure you weren't just making up words.)

Ok, to bring the thread back to life, here's a question: What one thing are you most looking forward to during the holiday season?

~CK

MsA made me do it. I had too.

And yup real situation.

Most looking forward to....um....presents.

*is still a kid*

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Monday, December 8, 2008 7:38 PM

Most looking forward to our first Christmas...decorating the tree, making cookies and fudge, hanging stockings, and exchanging gifts

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Tuesday, December 9, 2008 5:58 AM