Octopus Overlords

silverjon wrote:

LordMortis wrote:Don't forget

This is the weekend you get an extra hour CivVi. That hour will not be collected on until March 12th.

I replaced my clock radio after something like 20 years of service (it finally got unreliable), and the replacement has some kind of internal regulator that basically says "fuck you I know what time it is", even though it is slightly out of kilter with the time on everything else in the house, and everything else in the house is effectively in agreement with the bus schedule.

Attempting to adjust the time changes the date on the clock, although the date doesn't visibly display anywhere when you're not making adjustments. And apparently, I managed to send my clock into the future a few days while trying to adjust it to bus time before locating the instruction booklet and determining that the clock wasn't going to tolerate this kind of insubordination. I failed to change it back.

So yesterday, my clock started on Daylight Saving time.

Honestly, I think I need to replace the new clock with one that actually allows microadjustments. When I'm waking up, I'm not lucid enough to mentally adjust that I have fewer minutes to get to the bus stop than what the clock says.

ImLawBoy wrote:We have a "no phones in the bedroom" policy.

ImLawBoy wrote:We've got an auto-setting clock with two alarm settings, so we use that. We have a "no phones in the bedroom" policy.

hentzau wrote:

ImLawBoy wrote:We've got an auto-setting clock with two alarm settings, so we use that. We have a "no phones in the bedroom" policy.

I have to have my phone in my bedroom for those occasional 2AM support calls.

I've got no one to call in the middle of the night anymore
I'm just alone with my thoughts.

LordMortis wrote:Credit Card bill is going to blow right past the four digit mark this month. Ouch.

Isgrimnur wrote:Must be nice to have home equity.

Isgrimnur wrote:Must be nice to have home equity.

Isgrimnur wrote:Must be nice to have home equity.

Daehawk wrote:Its funny how stuff just pops into your head suddenly. I was thinking of my Lionel train set as a kid and suddenly I remembered our mall used to have a toy train store in it. Must have been 1993 - 1996 or so and I had forgotten it completely. I remember it as a pretty big store. It was the first time Id seen Z scale trains. I was amazed by them and wanted one so bad. But my God they were a bit pricey. Never got one. I wish I could recall the name of that store now.

Things like this make me wish Id taken pics of the things in the mall back in the day....but that would have been as stupid then as if Id done it now days.

Kraken wrote:

Isgrimnur wrote:Must be nice to have home equity.

Ermahgerd, doesn't everybody?

dbt1949 wrote:

Daehawk wrote:Its funny how stuff just pops into your head suddenly. I was thinking of my Lionel train set as a kid and suddenly I remembered our mall used to have a toy train store in it. Must have been 1993 - 1996 or so and I had forgotten it completely. I remember it as a pretty big store. It was the first time Id seen Z scale trains. I was amazed by them and wanted one so bad. But my God they were a bit pricey. Never got one. I wish I could recall the name of that store now.

Things like this make me wish Id taken pics of the things in the mall back in the day....but that would have been as stupid then as if Id done it now days.

When I sold my Lionel collection I had over 200 engines. About 40 LGB engines. I probably would have got Z gauge but there were no accessories to go with it. Still isn't much. Most of the years have been delegated to N gauge. Still have a little but no ambition to build another layout.

Daehawk wrote: Things like this make me wish Id taken pics of the things in the mall back in the day....but that would have been as stupid then as if Id done it now days.

Isgrimnur, Oct 08, 2015 wrote:Punkin Chunkin cancelled

For the second year in a row, gourds will not be flying through First State skies this fall. The 2015 World Championship Punkin Chunkin event set for Nov. 7-8 has been canceled.

Delaware's world famous Punkin Chunkin, back after a 2-year hiatus prompted by an accident and lawsuit, turned dangerous Sunday afternoon when an air cannon firing a pumpkin broke apart, injuring a man and a woman, according to Delaware State Police.

The 39-year-old woman, who state police initially reported had died, is listed in critical condition at Christiana Hospital in Stanton.

Judges had already seen about 10 air cannons fire pumpkins more than 3,000 feet using compressed air when the trap door of the air cannon named Punkin Reaper flew off when it fired shortly before 2:40 p.m. Sunday. As people were running away from the cannon, which sent large pieces of material into the air in all directions, a person was struck in the head and face at the event's site, Wheatley Farms in Bridgeville.
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A 56-year-old man was also injured in the explosion. He received treatment for non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to an area hospital, Hale said.
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A lawsuit filed in 2013 by a former Punkin Chunkin volunteer effectively grounded the event the past two years. The lawsuit was filed by Daniel Fair, a former Punkin Chunkin "spotter," or volunteer who rode around the grounds helping determine the distance pumpkins traveled from their machines.

Fair's complaint alleged Wheatley Farms Inc., the owner of the property, and Punkin Chunkin Association were liable for a spinal injury he suffered when the ATV he was riding flipped.

The lawsuit was dismissed in June 2015.

"The parties mutually agreed to resolve the matter," Stephen A. Hampton, the attorney representing Fair, told The News Journal in 2015.

hepcat wrote:Just spent the last half hour crying from laughter over Jim'll Paint It.

Pyperkub wrote:

LordMortis wrote:Credit Card bill is going to blow right past the four digit mark this month. Ouch.

We just started a remodeling project. CC was paid off for the September period. In the past few weeks (contractors, materials, fixtures, etc), I think I've put my annual take home pay for the year on the credit card since them. Realized we might be over our (pretty high) limit midway through the cycle, checked and we were about 1k over. Paid it off via the home equity line and then promptly put a few k of tile on it.

Ack!

Smoove_B wrote:I feel like hundreds of years from now, historians are going to think our current lives revolve around recharging electronic devices. I am astounded at the number of cables, power bricks and other assorted recharging related crap is all over my house.

LordMortis wrote:Credit Card bill is going to blow right past the four digit mark this month. Ouch.

coopasonic wrote:

LordMortis wrote:Credit Card bill is going to blow right past the four digit mark this month. Ouch.

Hmmm... *checking* credit card is just over the line to 5 digits and there's still a week to go this cycle. That's almost high enough for me to take a closer look at what happened this cycle... almost.

LordMortis wrote:

coopasonic wrote:

LordMortis wrote:Credit Card bill is going to blow right past the four digit mark this month. Ouch.

Hmmm... *checking* credit card is just over the line to 5 digits and there's still a week to go this cycle. That's almost high enough for me to take a closer look at what happened this cycle... almost.

Something big happening in the coop household. If I ever get enough saved, I'd ask for an extended line of credit and put my next car on plastic and then pay it off. If I take the plunge and get a $40,000 car (which I am not likely to do, but holy hell has the price of new cars gone up) that's like $800 right back in my pocket.

LordMortis wrote:boggles... not at your expenses but at how incomes are so out of alignment with the "needs" of the modern middle class.

For frame of reference, five digits is 3 months salary for me and make twice the median household income.

wikipedia wrote:$51,939
The U.S. Census Bureau reported in September 2014 that: U.S. real (inflation adjusted) median household income was $51,939 in 2013 versus $51,759 in 2012, statistically unchanged. In 2013, real median household income was 8.0 percent lower than in 2007, the year before the latest recession.

Smoove_B wrote:Despite what you may have heard, Thanksgiving is not a 5 day holiday you spend at a rented home deep in the Poconos. Remember kids, when you marry someone you're really marrying their entire family.

coopasonic wrote:10k = 3 mos salary = 40k annually. Hmm I guess if by salary you meant take home pay.

LordMortis wrote:2) Yes take home. That's all the matters to me.

stessier wrote:

LordMortis wrote:2) Yes take home. That's all the matters to me.

Then the question is what is already deducted before you see the check. If it is just taxes and healthcare, ok. But if you're saving 25% in a 401k, then that's not exactly fair.

Smoove_B wrote:Despite what you may have heard, Thanksgiving is not a 5 day holiday you spend at a rented home deep in the Poconos. Remember kids, when you marry someone you're really marrying their entire family.

Smoove_B wrote:What never ceases to amaze me is how older family members suggest doing things now that when they were our age (with children) would never have even been considered. My wife is one of five children and I'm so very tempted to ask my MIL if taking a 5 day vacation during Thanksgiving at a resort in 1986 was something they discussed and just never got around to doing. Can't wait to be a semi-retired empty nester with suitcases of money and an abundance of time. It's going to be great.