I had a meet and greet with the new people who are going to be taking care of Widget while I'm gone this weekend.
They take pictures every time they visit and send you a text with like a timestamp and checkmarks for food/water/litterbox and stuff. Which is maybe a little over the top, but I'll take it over "guy who forgets to feed Widget and then lies about it".
Anyway, the girl who's going to be feeding Widget had a couple really great shots of her:
Widget has the best perpetually surprised face
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I used to love cooking for people. But too many times I’ve invited people over and they’ve canceled or I’ve brought a dish to a gathering and it wasn’t touched because people are afraid of chickpeas or something they can’t pronounce. They’re labors of love. I’d still love to cook for good friends but spending that time and energy for people to no show or be unadventurous is just devastating for me.
I want to post "Maybe you're just a bad cook" but it's beyond the pale tbh
I want you to know I had the thought, though
There aren’t a lot of things like this but my cooking skills are one of the few things so secure not even you or DK could abrade the edges
How about the two of us in concert, with diagrams and schedules, plotting to reveal "accidental" messages, to make sly comments, to mutter to others conspiratorially while glancing at you, carefully practicing faces of concealed disgust to employ at your events
I don't think we can get him on flavor or execution but we aren't sunk yet. You develop attacks based privileging of ingredients or flavors as "sophisticated". I'll go after presentation and artistic ability.
Wow, chu, that looks so... homemade. I bet it tastes really good though.
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The best wedding gift I ever did were custom M&Ms in a pewter dish. The M&Ms were their favorite colors (I contacted their parents to find out) and had their wedding date and names inscribed on them.
Someone made it like the centerpiece of the wedding gift table and when they walked over they were like M&Ms???? oh I really like the colors. Wait.. is that our names? And our wedding date? Wow this is amazing who did this
I snuck out the back door of the venue so I wouldn't receive any recognition.
All the other weddings I went to were kind of eh.
Either I disliked one half of the couple or I spent all my money to get to the wedding because it wasnt local.
The other book was probably Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent.
I also strongly recommend Triumphs of Experience by George Vaillant. I actually would recommend it higher than the other books.
I Don't Want to Talk About It by Terrance Real is specifically about male experiences of depression, but it deals strongly with the same general themes of other books on male psychology: stunted emotional range & emotional intelligence, weak interpersonal relationships, etc.
Raising Cain by Michael Thompson is an older book and I haven't read it recently to see if it holds up well, but it was good at the time.
Real Boys by William Pollack is okay, though he's pretty Freudian. He puts a lot of emphasis on the relationships between sons and their mothers, specifically, and engages in some gender essentialism why mothers are more important influences than fathers on young boys.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
I used to love cooking for people. But too many times I’ve invited people over and they’ve canceled or I’ve brought a dish to a gathering and it wasn’t touched because people are afraid of chickpeas or something they can’t pronounce. They’re labors of love. I’d still love to cook for good friends but spending that time and energy for people to no show or be unadventurous is just devastating for me.
Chu when u make it out to Boston we will have potluckssss
I used to love cooking for people. But too many times I’ve invited people over and they’ve canceled or I’ve brought a dish to a gathering and it wasn’t touched because people are afraid of chickpeas or something they can’t pronounce. They’re labors of love. I’d still love to cook for good friends but spending that time and energy for people to no show or be unadventurous is just devastating for me.
Bring in a big old casserole of shakshuka for breakfast
Yasssss
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man if all the things could stop happening at work, that would be great. just like... form an orderly queue so I can deal with stuff one by one for a week.
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In other fun news to bury at the end of the chat:
My entire office is being rearranged. No one is being spared - every office is changing to better accomodate the fact that we are stuffing too many people into this workspace.
So... whee? I should have more storage post-move, but that means I need to probably pack up my board games and protect them until the move is done.
I used to love cooking for people. But too many times I’ve invited people over and they’ve canceled or I’ve brought a dish to a gathering and it wasn’t touched because people are afraid of chickpeas or something they can’t pronounce. They’re labors of love. I’d still love to cook for good friends but spending that time and energy for people to no show or be unadventurous is just devastating for me.
I want to post "Maybe you're just a bad cook" but it's beyond the pale tbh
I want you to know I had the thought, though
There aren’t a lot of things like this but my cooking skills are one of the few things so secure not even you or DK could abrade the edges
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My entire office is being rearranged. No one is being spared - every office is changing to better accomodate the fact that we are stuffing too many people into this workspace.
So... whee? I should have more storage post-move, but that means I need to probably pack up my board games and protect them until the move is done.
I used to love cooking for people. But too many times I’ve invited people over and they’ve canceled or I’ve brought a dish to a gathering and it wasn’t touched because people are afraid of chickpeas or something they can’t pronounce. They’re labors of love. I’d still love to cook for good friends but spending that time and energy for people to no show or be unadventurous is just devastating for me.
I want to post "Maybe you're just a bad cook" but it's beyond the pale tbh
I want you to know I had the thought, though
There aren’t a lot of things like this but my cooking skills are one of the few things so secure not even you or DK could abrade the edges
posts hot dog video
Artists are never appreciated in their time
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My entire office is being rearranged. No one is being spared - every office is changing to better accomodate the fact that we are stuffing too many people into this workspace.
So... whee? I should have more storage post-move, but that means I need to probably pack up my board games and protect them until the move is done.
you get to keep board games at your office?
do you...do you play them?
I organize weekly board game lunches and participate in monthly after-hours events, yeah.
I remember driving my fiancé to the mall and feeding him names of the people he needed to buy christmas gifts for one by one.
Taking the CVS scented candle out of his hands and pointing towards the Vera Bradley store as he was shopping for a gift for his mom.
Getting thanked by name in the thank you note despite my name not being featured anywhere on the gift. she somehow knew
Meanwhile Dan and I are so fucking bad at this that I think we jointly failed to cough up a wedding gift for one of our closest friends last year. Just never got around to it...
I did buy a bottle of wine though for the coworker who bought me fluids last week when I was dehydrated, and put thought into the selection and she seemed pleased, so I think that is a win for thoughtfulness
What kind did you get? What was your selection criteria?
@kamiro I was in nyc and walked through a farmer’s market so I got a $30 Pinot noir from a finger lakes vineyard, knowing that she likes dry reds and that probably she hasn’t had the occasion to try some random New York winery and the locational variation is probably interesting to her as a wine snob
and also making a documentary about the weird commune so that when it implodes horribly there'd at least be an interesting documentary about the mess with a title like Losing Shangri-La
My entire office is being rearranged. No one is being spared - every office is changing to better accomodate the fact that we are stuffing too many people into this workspace.
So... whee? I should have more storage post-move, but that means I need to probably pack up my board games and protect them until the move is done.
you get to keep board games at your office?
do you...do you play them?
I organize weekly board game lunches and participate in monthly after-hours events, yeah.
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Widget has the best perpetually surprised face
I don't think we can get him on flavor or execution but we aren't sunk yet. You develop attacks based privileging of ingredients or flavors as "sophisticated". I'll go after presentation and artistic ability.
Wow, chu, that looks so... homemade. I bet it tastes really good though.
Someone made it like the centerpiece of the wedding gift table and when they walked over they were like M&Ms???? oh I really like the colors. Wait.. is that our names? And our wedding date? Wow this is amazing who did this
I snuck out the back door of the venue so I wouldn't receive any recognition.
All the other weddings I went to were kind of eh.
Either I disliked one half of the couple or I spent all my money to get to the wedding because it wasnt local.
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The other book was probably Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent.
I also strongly recommend Triumphs of Experience by George Vaillant. I actually would recommend it higher than the other books.
I Don't Want to Talk About It by Terrance Real is specifically about male experiences of depression, but it deals strongly with the same general themes of other books on male psychology: stunted emotional range & emotional intelligence, weak interpersonal relationships, etc.
Raising Cain by Michael Thompson is an older book and I haven't read it recently to see if it holds up well, but it was good at the time.
Real Boys by William Pollack is okay, though he's pretty Freudian. He puts a lot of emphasis on the relationships between sons and their mothers, specifically, and engages in some gender essentialism why mothers are more important influences than fathers on young boys.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Chu when u make it out to Boston we will have potluckssss
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Bring in a big old casserole of shakshuka for breakfast
Yasssss
I think I might buy one of these for myself.
I made this a couple weeks ago and it was amazing
https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/spicy-sweet-sambal-pork-noodles
My entire office is being rearranged. No one is being spared - every office is changing to better accomodate the fact that we are stuffing too many people into this workspace.
So... whee? I should have more storage post-move, but that means I need to probably pack up my board games and protect them until the move is done.
you get to keep board games at your office?
do you...do you play them?
Artists are never appreciated in their time
I organize weekly board game lunches and participate in monthly after-hours events, yeah.
@kamiro I was in nyc and walked through a farmer’s market so I got a $30 Pinot noir from a finger lakes vineyard, knowing that she likes dry reds and that probably she hasn’t had the occasion to try some random New York winery and the locational variation is probably interesting to her as a wine snob
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as in the library owes HER $30
lol how in the what
Arch,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_goGR39m2k
When you're so late returning books that there's a temporal paradox
and also making a documentary about the weird commune so that when it implodes horribly there'd at least be an interesting documentary about the mess with a title like Losing Shangri-La
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On average, this thread was blasting along at warp 1.9
@Athenor will create the new thread
@Preacher is backup