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Yeah this woman also told me that she's on hormones to prepare for freezing her eggs so maybe that's part of it. It came up in the topic about how things were looking for us, because she's wanting to make sure we're on the same page re: kids, futures, etc. Heavy shit for a third date at a climbing gym. Also in a separate piece of drama, I got home from work today and found a summons for jury duty waiting for me.

I went on a date with a lovely lady yesterday. It was only the third time we've been out and the previous times were literally a month ago because our schedules just haven't lined up (she was traveling, I was traveling, work, yadda yadda). At the end she asked me where we stood because she couldn't get a read on whether I was interested or only wanted to be friends. Surprised, I asked why and she said "well you didn't even try to kiss me!". Uhh, granted I'm a bit shy in person, but... Is two dates when you're supposed to try to kiss them? Damn guys, it's a minefield out there.

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I bidet the day away!

Sorry you were teabagged by a ghost.

How old is Inuk, @Commissar SFLUFAN? I was thinking he was only four or five but the ramp does kind of incline one to think he's older (see_what_I_did_there.jpg)...

2020 and 2021 have really had some amazing plot twists. I never imagined I'd be rooting for a virus.

Yeah to be clear, I don't find it any less enjoyable or count it as a point against the show. I realize that it's a legit plot device of the time. It just makes me laugh to see the change; now I guess people would just say "my battery was dead!".

I actually do enjoy the work, generally, it just doesn't pay well enough for me to want to stick around too much longer. I'm working as basically a contractor for IT support at Intel. It has been very interesting to learn more about the hardware side than I picked up in my CS studies, and they've got me in the team lead position so I'm getting some good leadership experience. My coworkers are also good, and even management is tolerable. Plus, as a long-time computer geek, it has been really cool to be involved in a company that's such a key part of the industry, and getting to play around with hardware before it's publicly available (CPUs, GPUs, servers, etc.) has been really fun. However, it's not really the field I originally thought I would go into, given my CS degrees, and I don't think I'm being compensated fairly (near-daily decisions I make can cost Intel hundreds of thousands of dollars if I make a mistake). I'm only getting paid $48k/year. Which isn't terrible in itself, but with the cost of living around here, wanting to retire someday, the amount of responsibility, and my degrees hopefully offering better alternatives, I don't think I'll be sticking around here too much longer. As a contractor, they always just claim their hands are tied when it comes to raises so I don't see the situation improving.

It's not an original thought of mine, I realize, but: People are so sick of having their lives disrupted that they're pretending the pandemic is over, but it's this very indifference to the consequences of our actions that is prolonging our suffering.

I've really been enjoying going through Seinfeld. I never really saw the whole series. My parents would watch it when I was growing up and I remember catching occasional episodes, but watching it in order has been a treat. Most of it holds up pretty well, though there are a few things that are definitely dated. For example, it always makes me chuckle when the plot device is "couldn't reach you because you were out". Cell phones killed that trope.

It's so ridiculous that it would be hilarious, if not for the real suffering in North Korea.

The daaaay....the interbuuuutts dieeeeeed

Ha ok I'll see what I can do. My ex girlfriend was in his cohort in grad school at UNC Chapel Hill and he and I are Facebook friends at least, so we're basically BFFs.

Let me know if you want a signed copy and I can probably get you one.

If anyone is looking to read a book by a historian on the Lost Cause narrative that well illustrates precisely how the Confederacy was about slavery and how/why the myth is perpetuated, I can recommend a book I read last year called The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory by Prof. Adam Domby.

What about Vancouver, WA?

I'm 36 hours out from my Pfizer booster and I've had zero side effects.

Got to the pharmacy for my booster and there was a long ass line of around 15 people. Asked a guy if I should get in line if I have an appt. for a booster and he said yes, so I did. Just a couple minutes later someone else said "anyone here for a vaccine? Please come to this other window" and of the 15 people in line, I was the only one to do so. I'm going to hope that every other person already had theirs. This is in a red county about an hour from Portland, so probably not. Edit - boosted!

I'm getting my 5G booster today (probably Pfizer) in about two hours. By lucky coincidence, it's happening on the same day that my new Pixel 6 phone arrived (upgrading from Pixel 3 XL) so I really am getting a 5G booster.

After living there for so long, hearing Germans speak English is still a favorite because of the memories. I also like Finnish English.

Oh noes, it's teh gay agenda bearing fruit!

This reminds me of a favorite quote: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson