A good week.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 5:49 am

Things seem to be settling down in my life finally.

My disability hit and then the same day my wife got a job and then my other insurance hit. Oh, disability hitting also means that I netted a cool 10k+ in back allowances. Now just relaxing in my insomniac state letting this week crash into me and take away some of my past stresses.

here's to this in the future as well.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 7:21 am

A_Cynic wrote:Things seem to be settling down in my life finally.

My disability hit and then the same day my wife got a job and then my other insurance hit. Oh, disability hitting also means that I netted a cool 10k+ in back allowances. Now just relaxing in my insomniac state letting this week crash into me and take away some of my past stresses.

here's to this in the future as well.

That's good to hear, man.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:09 am

Glad it caught up to you, so you'd get to catch that breath.

I spent a couple days driving around the county we've targeted to move to, and camping out of my car alone.

It's a little stressful, and I hope it works out. I'd rather live in Santa Cruz, but I'll trade living in a tiny apartment and little chance to get back to Santa Cruz for a place of our own.

So it's been a good week for us, too!

-Crissa

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 6:19 pm

Crissa: good to hear. I hope you get a place of your own. We're probably going to move into a place of our own in a few months. The wife's job requires a dismal 2 hr commute each way. As we get a little more settled and after paying off a few debts, we'll probably move closer to New york city while staying within Jersey (cheaper cost of living.) Hopefully we can cut her commute by at least an hour or so.

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 6:23 pm

As long as we're trading stories about how sweet life can be sometimes, I got accepted into the University of Texas at Austin's school of engineering department a couple of days ago. I'm going to major in electrical engineering. Also, I just sent out my application for the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill VA benefits and holy shit that's a lot of moolah.

Moreover, my brother got accepted as a grad student there so I'll finally get to spend some time with him after being away for more than seven years.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 6:49 pm

Lago PARANOIA wrote:As long as we're trading stories about how sweet life can be sometimes, I got accepted into the University of Texas at Austin's school of engineering department a couple of days ago. I'm going to major in electrical engineering. Also, I just sent out my application for the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill VA benefits and holy shit that's a lot of moolah.

Moreover, my brother got accepted as a grad student there so I'll finally get to spend some time with him after being away for more than seven years.

Lago: I can say definitely UT is definitely one of the best schools you can be in. And after having lived in Texas and loving Austin, I think youwould find it an awesome place. Good deal, man.

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 7:21 pm

Lago PARANOIA wrote:As long as we're trading stories about how sweet life can be sometimes, I got accepted into the University of Texas at Austin's school of engineering department a couple of days ago. I'm going to major in electrical engineering. Also, I just sent out my application for the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill VA benefits and holy shit that's a lot of moolah.

Moreover, my brother got accepted as a grad student there so I'll finally get to spend some time with him after being away for more than seven years.

Congrats! I'm pretty sure I'll apply as a transfer there next year.

shau · Post by **shau** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:48 pm

I just got the news that I passed the bar exam. It's been really stressing me out since I had to take it in July and they just posted the pass list on Friday. Now if only I can get a job.

BTW, Lago you should probably know that the only electrical engineer I have ever known described it as basically majoring in masochism. I think that means you should prepare for a rough road ahead. Or wear nipple clamps and a gimp mask for the first day of school. Possibly both just to make sure.

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:58 pm

shau wrote: BTW, Lago you should probably know that the only electrical engineer I have ever known described it as basically majoring in masochism. I think that means you should prepare for a rough road ahead. Or wear nipple clamps and a gimp mask for the first day of school. Possibly both just to make sure.

I just need to peel the naval insignia off of my old leather bondage suit and sterilize my favorite Stars and Stripes ring gag and I'll be good to go.

What I'm worried about though is knowing how the hell I get scholarships. I want some of that!

TarkisFlux · Post by **TarkisFlux** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 6:29 pm

Bug the financial aid department at your new school Lago, they should have lots and lots and lots of available scholarships you can apply for.

Count Arioch the 28th · Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:01 pm

This week is good too. I got internet at my house again, I paid off my credit card debt a year ahead of schedule, I told off some people that I've been putting up with crap for a while. Things are good.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:47 pm

Count: that's great. I know you've had to cut back on the utilities. But internet is goods. :-D

Lago: fastweb.com is a good source for scholarship search as well. Also look for Navy based scholarships for ex-navy or ex-military guys.

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 1:40 am

Count: You had me at Internet.

I think I may have an addiction.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 2:05 am

I got in a good old fashion bar brawl. The owner of an Irish Pub objected to my use of statistics, so he barred the door and punched me in the face. It took two people to pull me off his twitching body and I walked out of his establishment - never to return.

-Username17

IGTN · Post by **IGTN** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 3:06 am

FrankTrollman wrote:I got in a good old fashion bar brawl. The owner of an Irish Pub objected to my use of statistics, so he barred the door and punched me in the face. It took two people to pull me off his twitching body and I walked out of his establishment - never to return.

-Username17

Statistics about what?

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 3:31 am

Seconded about what statistic could start a bar fight. Sounds almost like that bit in Small Gods where philosophers are getting into bar fights over logic.

Actually, hey, it IS a good week for me. Yesterday was a paid holiday.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:12 am

...please tell me this was a D&D discussion. That'd be seriously awesome.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:31 am

Actually, history. Started with some standard World War II vs. sustained medieval lack of development crap. But the last straw was seriously weird. Dumbass thought that there were more people alive today than had ever died. Got so upset upon being shown to be wrong that he decided to elevate it to fisticuffs. Apparently forgot to notice that I had forty kilos on him and my glasses are mostly for convenience.

-Username17

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:40 am

FrankTrollman wrote:Actually, history. Started with some standard World War II vs. sustained medieval lack of development crap. But the last straw was seriously weird. Dumbass thought that there were more people alive today than had ever died. Got so upset upon being shown to be wrong that he decided to elevate it to fisticuffs. Apparently forgot to notice that I had forty kilos on him and my glasses are mostly for convenience.

-Username17

more people alive than ever dead...

Well it is an irish bar and we all know that the high minded Eire sciences went boom when they discovered whiskey and beer!

ckafrica · Post by **ckafrica** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:25 am

Owners of Irish Pubs generally deserve to be punched out of principle.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:29 pm

Well, for n number of 'human' generations (say, 5000 for just under 10,000 years; generations used to be min 10 max 20), and an average population under 100 million, when we hit 5 billion people on the planet, you might have been able to say that.

However, that was more than twenty years ago, and alot more people lived and died than were involved in procreation.

-Crissa

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 6:00 pm

It's not even particularly close. Like seriously, Not Even Debatable.

-Username17

Count Arioch the 28th · Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:12 pm

To add to this week, I finally got rid of someone who was playing mind games with me. Outstanding.

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:39 pm

Wow, that many? I wasn't even close. I was going to suggest about 50 billion, but I guess I kind of handwaved stuff in BC.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 5:38 am

This week, I recovered from an illness that had been plaguing me for ~a week (more or less since the very moment I turned 25). And my internet connection went back to normal speed instead of Slowpoke levels.

Also, over the past fortnight I played 4 Apocalypse games and won them all. One was by forfeit: my opponent threw a hissy fit and left. The best bit is he's part German and called my ally a Nazi (a rules Nazi). And I am not above equating all Germans with Nazis for a laugh.

He was an annoying prick and never does anything other than complain, and brag about the Forge World stuff he bought. So watching him throw a tantrum was seriously awesome. The other victories were the normal "We had more objectives/killed more foes" kind. One Canoness even managed to seriously destroy three Le Mann Russ tanks in one game. It was good.

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