I put a security deposit down on an apartment in the Magnolia neighborhood of Seattle today. Currently, we live right off downtown in a shit studio with shit water pressure, can't have pets, laundry is $2 each to wash and dry and is five stories down in the basement, appliances are shit, cabinets are shit, neighbors are shit, we're surrounded by hospitals and drug treatment clinics, plus this is a party neighborhood popular with the more aggressive homeless addict population. People are always sneaking into the building. We've had to deal with squatters, meth fiends breaking into the building (laundry room door still isn't repaired and doesn't lock), you name it.
Hopeful new place (just gotta wait for our application to get approved) is in a quiet mostly residential area that hasn't been taken over by gentrification yet. Off the beaten path, so to say. We can get a dog, it has massively better appliances including built in dishwasher and microwave with a glasstop stove, in unit washer/dryer, they don't care if I put my AC unit in, has an actual full bath with a tub (with great pressure!, unlike our dinky shower stall with a toilet right next to it like we have now) and it's only a mile down the road from a huge public park that has woodland trails and a lighthouse.
Fingers crossed, might get to live like a real person again.
Work related, tomorrow starts a nine-day stretch. Blech.
You should get started on choosing a dog immediately.
We both have brain problems, mine being PTSD being a vet, so first we gotta actually have our application approved and then do the move, and after that figure out how to get emotional support animal paperwork so we don't have to pay the pet deposit and monthly pet rental addition. Which wouldn't be cheating the system for us, having a fluffy friend would help us out so much.
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
So...uh... Remember how y'all were funnin around about asking me whether I get to bring home stuff from the farm?
Weeeeeellll turns out that you totally do. It's called "homework." And it's pot. Also, a PAX Era vape pen, which is lovely. The only trouble is that I can't really smoke In my apartment at all, and smoking in public is of course a no go. The vape pen they sent me home with as, basically, a new hire bonus I'm told (also I get like 30 percent discounts at local retailers W H A T ) is fine to use in the apartment so that's cool, but still. How am I gonna get my product knowledge right!?
Huh, we're getting company phones and 30 gig data plans. Choice of iPhone 8 and that's where I stopped listening because the other one wasn't an iPhone.
Last Wednesday:
"hey, should I prepare a job talk for this interview?" Radio silence from HR
Thursday: "not sure if you got my email, should I prep a presentation?" Nothing for a day, then on Friday she says "I dunno, if you want I guess?"
Today, with < 24 hours notice: "the team would like to hear a presentation and have blocked out an hour for it"
Thanks ducks, good to know.
I'm choosing to believe 'ducks' is autocorrect sabotage.
I know everyone hates autocorrect for this, but seeing "duck" instead of "fuck" makes me laugh, so I like it now.
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L Ron HowardThe duckMinnesotaRegistered Userregular
Last Wednesday:
"hey, should I prepare a job talk for this interview?" Radio silence from HR
Thursday: "not sure if you got my email, should I prep a presentation?" Nothing for a day, then on Friday she says "I dunno, if you want I guess?"
Today, with < 24 hours notice: "the team would like to hear a presentation and have blocked out an hour for it"
Thanks ducks, good to know.
I'm choosing to believe 'ducks' is autocorrect sabotage.
I know everyone hates autocorrect for this, but seeing "duck" instead of "fuck" makes me laugh, so I like it now.
Yes, I too hate the auto carrot.
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lonelyahavaCall me Ahava ~~She/Her~~Move to New ZealandRegistered Userregular
I used a quote/video/gif from Clue the Movie today and exactly NONE of my coworkers got it.
I used a quote/video/gif from Clue the Movie today and exactly NONE of my coworkers got it.
This is how I know I'm the old.
How did it feel? Was it like flames? Flames burning on the side of your face?
It was exactly this feeling.
Although none of them knowing the movie explains why nobody gets my funny funny jokes.
Between this and most of them never seeing Princess Bride...... Sigh.
I host trivia in bars two nights a week, and I've been doing it for over two years now. I would have thought that at a certain point I'd stop being surprised or disappointed by how many people have never even heard of things that I thought were widely known, if not cultural touchstones.
But no. No, I get to experience those flames on the side of my face often.
Two of my coworkers were standing near a large bay door that mysteriously opened by itself. They both looked at each other. They both looked at the controls with no one near them.
One of them says "must have been a gho-" when another guy steps out from behind a corner and says "oh I opened it".
That guy's nickname is literally The Ghost and has been for years
(his nickname is "The Ghost" because whenever he has to do work, he mysteriously disappears. The name just matched so perfectly to today's scenario
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lonelyahavaCall me Ahava ~~She/Her~~Move to New ZealandRegistered Userregular
WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
So far, everyone in person I've talked to about moving to Magnolia has responded with some variation of "Hmm, isn't that pretty far?"
It's a single transfer bus trip, plus in early afternoon traffic I drove it in fifteen minutes back to where we've been living.
or "Oh hmm not much over there."
To which I say yay! I want to live in a quiet neighborhood where the morning birds aren't intermingled with the sounds of junkies trying to fight a dumpster.
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Tynnanseldom correct, never unsureRegistered Userregular
Magnolia is lovely. You're close to Discovery Park and the locks and fisherman's terminal, and it's really not that far from either downtown or Ballard for other things to do.
I just deal with the sounds of coyotes running around in packs trash talking lately
I do find it funny when the city said it was our problem to take care of if we felt it was a problem [when it comes to the feral cats, skunks, rabbits and coyotes in the area] We should hire an exterminator
as three of them have done a good job keeping the junkies from hanging out in the area
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WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
Swear by all the gods of every culture dead or alive, if we get this place I'm going to have the most luxurious bath.
Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
Packing sucks. I'm bored. Someone else do it for me.
On the upside I found a bag full of British coins in my wardrobe which comes to about £24. I have no idea why I had that many coins out here but it was a nice surprise to find.
Packing sucks. I'm bored. Someone else do it for me.
On the upside I found a bag full of British coins in my wardrobe which comes to about £24. I have no idea why I had that many coins out here but it was a nice surprise to find.
Not to rain on your parade but your £1 coins might not be valid anymore.
Packing sucks. I'm bored. Someone else do it for me.
On the upside I found a bag full of British coins in my wardrobe which comes to about £24. I have no idea why I had that many coins out here but it was a nice surprise to find.
Not to rain on your parade but your £1 coins might not be valid anymore.
I'M SORRY, WE MOVED ON
You can always sling the old ones to a bank and you'll get exciting new polyhedra in return
Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
well this is america where only 2 cream and 2 sugars is what people who have triple diabeetes / double bypass order only because they want to live a few more weeks.
i mean if we went with your method more regular people shouting SEXTUPLIT and OCTUPLIT into the drive through mic might get a little confusing.
I believe a regular medium hot coffee at Dunkin is three cream and three sugar.
Just as a follow up. You folks made me feel mildly self conscious about my coffee order - like maybe I was ordering in some weird obscure moon language. So today I spelled out my order "medium hot coffee, two cream, two sugar". The gentleman responded back "medium hot two and two, anything else?". So at least i know when my brain isn't off it's normal routine and trying to order the off menu, secret item of medium large coffee, my order is ok.
Just as a follow up. You folks made me feel mildly self conscious about my coffee order - like maybe I was ordering in some weird obscure moon language. So today I spelled out my order "medium hot coffee, two cream, two sugar". The gentleman responded back "medium hot two and two, anything else?". So at least i know when my brain isn't off it's normal routine and trying to order the off menu, secret item of medium large coffee, my order is ok.
Don't get me wrong, if the place you order from understands by all means go for it.
I've however never heard the phrase "two and two" and I can only assume the original server you ordered from hadn't either.
I have never heard any of these terms before but I have long since realised that in America you guys can order really specifically.
If I asked someone in Pret for my Cofee medium iced they'd look at me funny.
Maybe the equivalent is "oh can I have a dash more milk/water please?"
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KakodaimonosCode fondlerHelping the 1% get richerRegistered Userregular
It always a good morning when you can pretend to hit the door open button on the elevator while pressing the close button and watch the doors close on those assholes from the 17th floor.
Sorry, I may have worked that wrong. Medium is the size, hot is the temperature (as opposed to iced)
Yeah there's an implied comma from the double adjective going on there
Not sure why someone would think medium has anything to do with temperature, but also I wouldn't be surprised if a minimum wage person would be like "oh... okay let me just dump some cold water into your coffee to even out the temps then".
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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We both have brain problems, mine being PTSD being a vet, so first we gotta actually have our application approved and then do the move, and after that figure out how to get emotional support animal paperwork so we don't have to pay the pet deposit and monthly pet rental addition. Which wouldn't be cheating the system for us, having a fluffy friend would help us out so much.
Weeeeeellll turns out that you totally do. It's called "homework." And it's pot. Also, a PAX Era vape pen, which is lovely. The only trouble is that I can't really smoke In my apartment at all, and smoking in public is of course a no go. The vape pen they sent me home with as, basically, a new hire bonus I'm told (also I get like 30 percent discounts at local retailers W H A T ) is fine to use in the apartment so that's cool, but still. How am I gonna get my product knowledge right!?
Yes, I too hate the auto carrot.
This is how I know I'm the old.
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How did it feel? Was it like flames? Flames burning on the side of your face?
It was exactly this feeling.
Although none of them knowing the movie explains why nobody gets my funny funny jokes.
Between this and most of them never seeing Princess Bride...... Sigh.
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idgi, why would it feel like that
I host trivia in bars two nights a week, and I've been doing it for over two years now. I would have thought that at a certain point I'd stop being surprised or disappointed by how many people have never even heard of things that I thought were widely known, if not cultural touchstones.
But no. No, I get to experience those flames on the side of my face often.
FUCK today!
And also tomorrow probably.
Ducking what!?
One of them says "must have been a gho-" when another guy steps out from behind a corner and says "oh I opened it".
That guy's nickname is literally The Ghost and has been for years
I know!
Same kids have also never seen The Labyrinth and I really just want to cry.
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It's a single transfer bus trip, plus in early afternoon traffic I drove it in fifteen minutes back to where we've been living.
or "Oh hmm not much over there."
To which I say yay! I want to live in a quiet neighborhood where the morning birds aren't intermingled with the sounds of junkies trying to fight a dumpster.
I do find it funny when the city said it was our problem to take care of if we felt it was a problem [when it comes to the feral cats, skunks, rabbits and coyotes in the area] We should hire an exterminator
as three of them have done a good job keeping the junkies from hanging out in the area
No matter what sort of shit person I am, I did that for my bro.
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On the upside I found a bag full of British coins in my wardrobe which comes to about £24. I have no idea why I had that many coins out here but it was a nice surprise to find.
Absolute goldmine
Not to rain on your parade but your £1 coins might not be valid anymore.
I'M SORRY, WE MOVED ON
maybe not my brightest moment.
I guess I get all the nerves done in one day.
You can always sling the old ones to a bank and you'll get exciting new polyhedra in return
We are learning the wrong lessons from toxic masculinity.
At that point I’m not sure it’s coffee any more.
It also helps that my coffee order is really simple
Filter coffee, black, no sugar.
Unless the cafe doesn't do that and then I just swap out filter for Americano
I'm sure they all do it slightly differently.
No big.
Don't get me wrong, if the place you order from understands by all means go for it.
I've however never heard the phrase "two and two" and I can only assume the original server you ordered from hadn't either.
I have, on the other hand, ordered a medium drink, without specifying it was a medium sized drink.
If I asked someone in Pret for my Cofee medium iced they'd look at me funny.
Maybe the equivalent is "oh can I have a dash more milk/water please?"
Yeah there's an implied comma from the double adjective going on there
Not sure why someone would think medium has anything to do with temperature, but also I wouldn't be surprised if a minimum wage person would be like "oh... okay let me just dump some cold water into your coffee to even out the temps then".