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[New Years] Because 2017 was too good for us.

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  • monikermoniker Registered User regular
    Drez wrote: »
    I hit my milestone before the year ended!

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    You monster!

  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    I drink way too fast.

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  • JazzJazz Registered User regular
    Drez wrote: »
    I drink way too fast.

    You can still spell. Obviously not drinking fast enough.

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    edited January 2018
    I can kinda get letting the emails get higher, but you have so many apps that need updates! Those are usually good things!

    Librarian's ghost on
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  • RedTideRedTide Registered User regular
    The goal is clearly get drunk enough to avoid going to Hoboken entirely

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    Jazz wrote: »
    Drez wrote: »
    I drink way too fast.

    You can still spell. Obviously not drinking fast enough.

    I’ve had 2 shots and 6 beers in the last 1.75 hours. Not a terribly fast rate I suppose but I reach my budget limit before I reach my tolerance every damn time.

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    RedTide wrote: »
    The goal is clearly get drunk enough to avoid going to Hoboken entirely

    Actually I’m almost probably definitely maybe going to Hoboken.

    I met a new bartender at bar 1. She’s cool and we hit it off but I closed out and went to bar 2. Bar 1 and 2 are sister bars (same owners) and literally around the corner from each other in NYC.

    Both are pretty much dead. The bartender I met at bar 1 is cool but I promised to visit bar 2 so I closed out and left. I told the bar 1 tender I may come back but I dunno. I know the bartenders at this dive in Hoboken and that’s usually a good random time and they just posted a photo over there and well that looks more fun than here. It’s also much closer to where I live in Jersey City.

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  • RedTideRedTide Registered User regular
    Drez wrote: »
    RedTide wrote: »
    The goal is clearly get drunk enough to avoid going to Hoboken entirely

    Actually I’m almost probably definitely maybe going to Hoboken.

    I met a new bartender at bar 1. She’s cool and we hit it off but I closed out and went to bar 2. Bar 1 and 2 are sister bars (same owners) and literally around the corner from each other in NYC.

    Both are pretty much dead. The bartender I met at bar 1 is cool but I promised to visit bar 2 so I closed out and left. I told the bar 1 tender I may come back but I dunno. I know the bartenders at this dive in Hoboken and that’s usually a good random time and they just posted a photo over there and well that looks more fun than here. It’s also much closer to where I live in Jersey City.

    Ah didn't realize you were a journal square dweller.

    Are the bartender socializings for chatting or hook ups? Because I had a terrible running percentage on one of those two back in the day and I'm curious if it actually works for anyone.

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    I live in Newport actually, right near the mall but by the water (i.e. not the heights).

    And...it’s a little weird re: hookups because I briefly dated someone at the aforementioned bar 2. Bar 1 girl I just met, might actually work with her since she designs clothes and I do photography.

    To directly address your question: I’ve dated 2 or 3 bartenders depending on what constitutes dating.

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  • ViskodViskod Registered User regular
    Drez wrote: »
    I hit my milestone before the year ended!

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    I tried to make this happen once but my boyfriend picked up my phone when it was at one thousand and something and had an ocd fit and deleted them all.

  • RedTideRedTide Registered User regular
    Drez wrote: »
    To directly address your question: I’ve dated 2 or 3 bartenders depending on what constitutes dating.

    Any interaction where neither of you is on the clock and there is interest outside of them getting free drinks.

    I've seen a lot of people waste time and effort chasing that dragon where there was 0 interest going the other way.

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    Well, socially I’ve hung out with plenty of bartenders that I met at the bar they work at. Dozens. But only 2-3 romantically.

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  • RedTideRedTide Registered User regular
    Drez wrote: »
    Well, socially I’ve hung out with plenty of bartenders that I met at the bar they work at. Dozens. But only 2-3 romantically.

    Well that's 2-3 up on a lot of people's lifetime counts

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    Viskod wrote: »
    Drez wrote: »
    I hit my milestone before the year ended!

    4_A3_D3_EAE-6_DA0-4_BCF-_B70_F-28_D1_B5_D21_E38.png

    I tried to make this happen once but my boyfriend picked up my phone when it was at one thousand and something and had an ocd fit and deleted them all.

    You should thank him. He's the hero we need.

  • wanderingwandering Russia state-affiliated media Registered User regular
    Drez wrote: »
    I hit my milestone before the year ended!

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    whoa hold on


    napster still exists??

  • RedTideRedTide Registered User regular
    wandering wrote: »
    Drez wrote: »
    I hit my milestone before the year ended!

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    whoa hold on


    napster still exists??

    Drez is drunk posting from New Year's 2010.

    Guys we have a chance to change things!

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    Napster bought Rhapsody I think last year.

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  • RedTideRedTide Registered User regular
    Do they also own the rights to Go Bots and Zune?

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  • DonnictonDonnicton Registered User regular
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  • VishNubVishNub Registered User regular
    Hny east coasters.

  • Dark Raven XDark Raven X Laugh hard, run fast, be kindRegistered User regular
    Happy New Year!

    ...I gotta get a jerb and learn to drive and maybe go to school and also not relapse into sadness. Probably super easy. :tell_me_more:

    Oh brilliant
  • SleepSleep Registered User regular
    edited January 2018
    I just left the olddest old people's new years eve celebration. That ball dropped and everyone was lookin around like... "let's fuckin sleep". We're all old and boring and fuckin sick. It was great.

    Sleep on
  • furlionfurlion Riskbreaker Lea MondeRegistered User regular
    I watched my wife, her sister, and her sister's boyfriend get pretty drunk. My sister in law especially got hammered. Never understood the appeal personally. Not a terrible way to ring in the new year all told.

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  • Giggles_FunsworthGiggles_Funsworth Blight on Discourse Bay Area SprawlRegistered User regular
    Seeing Star Wars again, but this
    I think I've gotten to the point where new years seems like a farce, and everything is one big continual cyclical slog.

    But I mean, the idea of New Years is a hopeful one, so maybe I should focus on that? Humans are defined by ideas, after all... and a little positivity couldn't hurt after the last 12 months of horror.

    I mean, it's totally symbolic, but like you say, that's how human brains work. Having a big culturally accepted checkpoint that's all about resetting and renewal can be handy, if you want that. Alternatively, it's an opportunity to get drunk and give the past year the big middle finger.

    Getting in the mindset that time is a grinding, cyclical slog may feel more cynically true, but it can also make you feel more trapped than is healthy.

    I suppose this is as right as it gets.

    "Being Woke" is sometimes is a hopeless exercise in cynicism and can cause people to get petty and hopeless because they convince themselves of the futility of their existence on a larger scale.

    I do have things I'm looking forward to next year. I think I'll focus my energy on improving there instead nihilism.

    I think the most important part about being socially conscious and focused on activism is constantly looking forward, so I honestly really enjoy New Year's. Realistically, things are pretty shitty. They will be pretty shitty for foreseeable future and they have always been shitty. But the world is also much better than it used to be! Regression is a constant threat but we just gotta keep trying to do better one day at a time, one week at a time, one year at a time, and hopefully someday our grandchildren will look back on how fucked up we all are, and they'll have their own gigantic problems to tackle, but we'll have done well enough they get a chance to.

  • ahavaahava Call me Ahava ~~She/Her~~ Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    it's been 2018 for about 21 hours now.

    It's been a good day.

    This bodes well.

  • MartyMarty Registered User regular
    Henroid wrote: »
    Getting recognized (on the internet) for music is the thing I have resolved to do. Not super-duper famous, just like... I dunno. Validation I'm doing the right thing for myself.

    Cool! I didn't know you were into making music. Got any links? One of the hardest things about doing music is getting other people to listen to it.

    Me, after playing live music for over twenty years, I've recently started making music on the computer and I'm looking forward to learning a lot more about it. I think I posted something like this in the holiday forums, but my plans for 2018 are

    1-get better at music production! Enter some mixing and mastering competitions.

    2-get better at neural networks! Enter some kaggle competitions.

    3-start learning a game engine like unreal or unity, or even something like pygame or panda 3d, and make a shitty little game for practice.

    I'll probably be able to do two of these three things, but I haven't decided which two yet.

  • Man in the MistsMan in the Mists Registered User regular
    Goodbye 2017, you weren't quite as horrible as 2016 but you still sucked.

  • Dizzy DDizzy D NetherlandsRegistered User regular
    Wraith260 wrote: »
    Remember when we said 2016 was he worst guys ?

    2016: the year all your favs died

    2017: the year all your favs turned out to be sex pests and you just wished they'd died.

    I'm not holding that against 2017. 2017: the year your favs stopped getting away with being sex pests. Basically 2017 was the year where a lot of things that were going on beneath the surface for years were finally getting dragged to the surface.

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  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    I get to kick off the new year with a car that doesn't want to start because of -30f temps with a bonus of some blown fuses from trying to jump it!

    YAY NEW YEARS AND ALSO FUCK -30f TEMPS IN THEIR FRIGID UNFORGIVING ASSHOLES

  • discriderdiscrider Registered User regular
    2017 was everything I expected it would be.
    Here's to a 2018 that has some pleasant surprises in it.
    Moving into a new job where I do work will help with that I think.

  • MalReynoldsMalReynolds The Hunter S Thompson of incredibly mild medicines Registered User regular
    Goals: Get at least 3 more stories on the No Sleep podcast.

    Read a book a week.

    Maintain current lifestyle, but maybe add exercise in two weeks once I hit my one month.

    Keep a list of movies I've seen and analyze them deeper than Good or Bad.

    Finish video games.

    "A new take on the epic fantasy genre... Darkly comic, relatable characters... twisted storyline."
    "Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
    My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    Stayed home due to freezing temps last night but doing New Years Day lunch with friends at an Ethiopian place. A good way to start the year.

    Goals:
    -Finish getting some certs
    -Get a promotion, should be on lock but I want the early one in July not the one starting next year. This can be like ~8-10k if it matches my previous promotions
    -I am figuring out a weightlifting schedule. I do about about hour+ of walking a day with the dog but adding 30 minutes 3x a week in a gym wouldn't be bad and I have a gym to use at my condo
    -Get into a relationship, I am just a year out of bad first dates again

    Hopes:
    -Trip to Vietnam with friends in the fall, if I can pull the funds together
    -Finish my 40k painting backlog and of course that is impossible as more as added
    -Have a full painted and based army ready for NoVA in August
    -Read a bit more, I read about 10-15 books last year maybe double that
    -Volunteer in the elections. I am in VA and Tim Kaine is up for reelection and we need him to win.
    -Finish a neat public facing project I started the last few weeks in R for my work as an experiment.

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  • RoeRoe Always to the East Registered User regular
    edited January 2018
    Vanguard wrote: »
    Resolutions:
    -Learn French

    Fun language. I have to recommend this website.

    That's where I learned a lot of French a few years back.

    Roe on
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  • Dark Raven XDark Raven X Laugh hard, run fast, be kindRegistered User regular
    I lost a dropmix card and am currently displaying the symptoms of norovirus. Not a great start, 2018! See me in my office (the turlet)

    Oh brilliant
  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    I lost a dropmix card and am currently displaying the symptoms of norovirus. Not a great start, 2018! See me in my office (the turlet)

    My daughter bent one of my Dropmix cards in half. Booooooooo!

  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    I spent New Year's Day tramping round a sunny countryside throwing balls for dogs and patting horses noses. Would recommend.

  • jimb213jimb213 Registered User regular
    For NYE I met up with some friends early. The brewery we wanted to go to closed at 6, so we went to the bar across the street. They had a food truck out there with really good, but REALLY spicy pork shoulder.

    After a couple hours on the East Side we all went our separate ways because we all had different parties to go to. I rang in the new year with some of my oldest friends (guys I've known since 6th grade and 10th grade, and I just turned 39).

    January 1st started with a kick ass workout at OrangeTheory, a chuck roast in the slow cooker, and black eyed peas on the stove.

    I'm pretty darn hopeful about 2018. It's now my 3rd year working as a freelance filmmaker. I have some great projects on the horizon already, have built some good industry friendships over the last couple of years, and have some fairly solid plans for building up my business this year, and moving from getting by like I have for the last two years, to really thriving this year and into the future.

    I'm working with a democratic congressional candidate in a suuuuuper red district in Texas. I'm going to be producing some videos for her and helping her polish her marketing & message thanks to my extensive experience watching The West Wing.

    I had a not-quite relationship never really get off the ground in 2017. I still have a bit of a thing for her, but I'm moving on. Already met another nice woman and have another couple of dates in the near future with new women as well.

    So all in all, things are looking pretty good.

  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    Marty81 wrote: »
    Henroid wrote: »
    Getting recognized (on the internet) for music is the thing I have resolved to do. Not super-duper famous, just like... I dunno. Validation I'm doing the right thing for myself.

    Cool! I didn't know you were into making music. Got any links? One of the hardest things about doing music is getting other people to listen to it.
    I think that'd go against the forum's rules about site / content whoring.

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