Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
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So. I was approached by some Mormon missionaries after I got off work today, waiting for my ride, smoking a cigarette outside the frozen yogurt place that's adjacent to the restaurant.
Lovely young ladies, really nice and all that. Had a good long chat with them actually, but around the time they asked if I'd be interested in joining the church I finally just had to go "You know, I absolutely respect what you do because it takes a lot of dedication and faith, but as a homosexual who's marrying my partner next month, I could not in good conscience be a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints until they change their views on LGBT issues. I respect you and your faith, but I'm just not interested."
I did take the book though, because from what I hear the more books they hand out the better it looks to their... superiors, I guess?
But also, hey, free book! Books are cool.
Edit: To be clear, I wouldn't be interested in being a Mormon under, like, any circumstance, even if tomorrow morning they came out and started waving rainbow flags to the tune of It's Raining Men. I ain't sittin in church for four hours on a Sunday, not this boy. Plus the church is skeevy for a whole lot of other reasons than the whole "queers are going to hell and we don't want them marrying" thing.
So. I was approached by some Mormon missionaries after I got off work today, waiting for my ride, smoking a cigarette outside the frozen yogurt place that's adjacent to the restau
Why do you have it? NHS website says "GET IT LOOKED AT ASAP" basically.
" Cellulitis in 2013 resulted in about 30,000 deaths worldwide.[5] In the United Kingdom cellulitis was the reason for 1.6% of admissions to the hospital." say wiki, with a linked medical journal source.
Treatment should be fairly cheap antibiotics. Still leaves you with the doctor's bill but...it's an infection. They can be fine for weeks untreated or they start fucking you up immediately.
No, it's not me that has it, it's my lazy-ass stepfather and he's milking it for all the sympathy he can get (none).
Sixty years old, vastly overweight by about one-hundred and fifty pounds (possibly two-hundred at this point), shitty diet, no exercise, prior heart attack about six years ago.
He's got a ton of factors that put him at high risk, but thanks to his job contract getting the axe a month ago, he no longer has insurance; a trip to the doctor and a scrip for antibiotics would be somewhere over a thousand bucks that my mother just doesn't have and neither do I. To be perfectly honest, the man is a drain on my mother's life and her sanity, so if he bites the dust, I'm not going to shed a tear.
I know that seems somewhat cold and callous, but I have personally spent almost five grand on his car because the won't change the oil or transmission fluid, I've seen him mow the lawn once in four years, do dishes ten times in four years and then somehow manage to act magnanimous about how little he contributes to the betterment of everyone in the house.
Oh, he's also an idiot: the day after my grandfather died was the final day of his contract and he broke a rib by reaching into the back seat of his car and putting all of his weight on the console/armrest. He tried to reach for his work bag, felt a slight strain, then reached harder and snapped one right under his lung. Because what you do when you're a fucking idiot is keep doing painful things because everything will work out fine.
Finally, he's a pathological liar. He will literally lie abut something he just did, something witnessed by someone, something that doesn't fucking matter ... yeah, he lies about stupid shit that no one cares about.
Finally, he's a pathological liar. He will literally lie abut something he just did, something witnessed by someone, something that doesn't fucking matter ... yeah, he lies about stupid shit that no one cares about.
And he's SO. FUCKING. BAD AT IT.
This is the real sin. Few things upset a Storyteller, even a scrupulously honest one, as much as a badly-told lie. A carefully crafted lie at least suggests that the liar minimally respects your intelligence, and an entertaining lie at least offers some form of compensation for enduring it.
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Sometimes I think if I am not married by forty I will just pick a particularly ill, but nice, American chap, marry him, let him come here and use the nhs then divorce him and he can bugger off back to America.
"I'm trying to tell you I'm sick as hell! I can't keep anything down!"
"Like the root beer float in the sink? For nearly two months, my father withered and died right in front of me and he had the common courtesy to treat everyone around him with respect and dignity. He didn't snap at me because he didn't get his way or because he felt bad. Grow up and stop acting like a five-year-old, get off your ass, drink some water instead of soda, eat something healthy and cut out the fucking pity party."
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, you have just met Angry Mom.
I can't wait for her next performance; it's bound to be a thriller, I'm sure.
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SheriResident FlufferMy Living RoomRegistered Userregular
I'm so tired I'm afraid I might fall asleep on the drive home from work
Sometimes I think if I am not married by forty I will just pick a particularly ill, but nice, American chap, marry him, let him come here and use the nhs then divorce him and he can bugger off back to America.
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Sometimes I think if I am not married by forty I will just pick a particularly ill, but nice, American chap, marry him, let him come here and use the nhs then divorce him and he can bugger off back to America.
Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
Was there a thread for renting apartments and whatnot? I could have sworn there was one. But now I can't find it and I need adviiiiice. I've never lived on my own before and it's scary
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FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
I was a bit apprehensive of living on my own at first but I quickly became used to it and it's pretty awesome. I can do what I want when I want without interruptions.
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NocrenLt Futz, Back in ActionNorth CarolinaRegistered Userregular
I was a bit apprehensive of living on my own at first but I quickly became used to it and it's pretty awesome. I can do what I want when I want without interruptions.
Hmm looking at a local schools CS degree holy shit there's a lot of math. There's a class just called "Algorithms". Hmmm
A small comfort to CS based math, is you learn less how to complete equations, than just to make sure you equation is proper for the computer to work with.
Yeah, CS math tends to be a lot less about, "Can you crank out these calculations", and more about "How do these math things work together, and what can we do with that?"
Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
Well I had a chat with one of my old managers.
I asked him to assess me and be critical of me in terms of strengths and weaknesses. And he was pretty complimentary and covered things that I knew any way, so it was pretty confidence boosting!
Then I had a chat with him in terms of work prospects and he said he's willing to throw me a few small bones in terms of design and what not and I also had a chat with him and asked if he wants to collaborate with some quotes I've had in the pipeline that haven't come through and he said yes.
So I called up the client and they said they are happy for me to requote the work.
Things are looking up I guess. I mean it's not enough to keep me going full time or anything but it's a few extra dollars in the pocket while I look for full time work.
Hmm looking at a local schools CS degree holy shit there's a lot of math. There's a class just called "Algorithms". Hmmm
A small comfort to CS based math, is you learn less how to complete equations, than just to make sure you equation is proper for the computer to work with.
Yeah, CS math tends to be a lot less about, "Can you crank out these calculations", and more about "How do these math things work together, and what can we do with that?"
At least in my experience.
Non CS maths isn't really about calculations, in a procedural sense, it's more... conceptual. Well, ok, some of the applied stuff can get a bit bogged down in details.
I had to take a class called "Applied Combinatorics". When people ask me what that is, I tell them I obviously have no idea because it's the only class I've ever gotten a D in.
My favorite math class was a special version of Calculus III we had (have?) for CS majors. Calc III is normally where my school introduces multidimensional calculus. While the engineers just stuck to two or three dimensions, we got to play around in n dimensions by focusing on the algorithms behind everything. I only got a B, but it was easily the most fun I ever had in math.
Omg not only did I get a check from work to use my education budget towards that class I took starting before I got the job
But I checked my bank account and that missing week of unemployment money from January for which I wrote a physical letter to the department of labor to get back many weeks ago appeared in my account !!! I didn't expect to get it
Hmm looking at a local schools CS degree holy shit there's a lot of math. There's a class just called "Algorithms". Hmmm
A small comfort to CS based math, is you learn less how to complete equations, than just to make sure you equation is proper for the computer to work with.
Yeah, CS math tends to be a lot less about, "Can you crank out these calculations", and more about "How do these math things work together, and what can we do with that?"
At least in my experience.
Non CS maths isn't really about calculations, in a procedural sense, it's more... conceptual. Well, ok, some of the applied stuff can get a bit bogged down in details.
And it tends to be a rather abrupt transition. You go through the Calc sequence and then end up in Real Analysis and Topology and you're not solving the problems, but writing proofs. Or you do numerical analysis and everything turns into linear algebra.
You can hit that in CS, but it really only starts at the advanced undergraduate or graduate level.
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GrobianWhat's on sale?Pliers!Registered Userregular
I don't know what weak cs you all had but theoretical cs 1 was mandatory for all cs tracks at my university in the first semester and that had us writing a bunch of proofs.
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Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
Why the hell is the school district list of approved apps on pintrest? I refuse to have to make a pinterest account just to view this god damn list of what apps I am allowed to install as part of my god damn job.
Can they not just.... like make a Word doc or something?
I DON'T KNOW. THERE ARE A LOT OF WAY THIS COULD HAVE BEEN MADE.
They aren't even categorized well. There is a board that is High school apps. Then one that is High School Science, but some of the science apps on general one aren't in the science one!
I am definitely pointing this out during my presentation.
Like jesus just make an excel document with a list!
Omg not only did I get a check from work to use my education budget towards that class I took starting before I got the job
But I checked my bank account and that missing week of unemployment money from January for which I wrote a physical letter to the department of labor to get back many weeks ago appeared in my account !!! I didn't expect to get it
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Apparently password expired.
With no prior notice so I could do anything about it.
The person I need to talk to is offline, and located in Estonia.
Looks like I'm watching cat vids for the rest of the day.
In fairness, everyone who can reset your password is also watching cat videos.
... I still won't be surprised if he's back tomorrow.
Lovely young ladies, really nice and all that. Had a good long chat with them actually, but around the time they asked if I'd be interested in joining the church I finally just had to go "You know, I absolutely respect what you do because it takes a lot of dedication and faith, but as a homosexual who's marrying my partner next month, I could not in good conscience be a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints until they change their views on LGBT issues. I respect you and your faith, but I'm just not interested."
I did take the book though, because from what I hear the more books they hand out the better it looks to their... superiors, I guess?
But also, hey, free book! Books are cool.
Edit: To be clear, I wouldn't be interested in being a Mormon under, like, any circumstance, even if tomorrow morning they came out and started waving rainbow flags to the tune of It's Raining Men. I ain't sittin in church for four hours on a Sunday, not this boy. Plus the church is skeevy for a whole lot of other reasons than the whole "queers are going to hell and we don't want them marrying" thing.
Shit, they got him!
What's the mortality rate on untreated cellulitis?
" Cellulitis in 2013 resulted in about 30,000 deaths worldwide.[5] In the United Kingdom cellulitis was the reason for 1.6% of admissions to the hospital." say wiki, with a linked medical journal source.
OH LET'S DO STATIONS THAT HAVE 30 SECONDS OF HIGH INTENSITY DUMB AS HELL CROSS FIT ACTIVITY AND THEN FOUR MINUTES OF NOTHING AT ALL
YEAH LET'S DO THAT FOR AN HOUR AND 40 MINUTES INSTEAD OF AN HOUR LIKE WE SAID
Leg muscles are just spasming non stop
Sixty years old, vastly overweight by about one-hundred and fifty pounds (possibly two-hundred at this point), shitty diet, no exercise, prior heart attack about six years ago.
He's got a ton of factors that put him at high risk, but thanks to his job contract getting the axe a month ago, he no longer has insurance; a trip to the doctor and a scrip for antibiotics would be somewhere over a thousand bucks that my mother just doesn't have and neither do I. To be perfectly honest, the man is a drain on my mother's life and her sanity, so if he bites the dust, I'm not going to shed a tear.
I know that seems somewhat cold and callous, but I have personally spent almost five grand on his car because the won't change the oil or transmission fluid, I've seen him mow the lawn once in four years, do dishes ten times in four years and then somehow manage to act magnanimous about how little he contributes to the betterment of everyone in the house.
Oh, he's also an idiot: the day after my grandfather died was the final day of his contract and he broke a rib by reaching into the back seat of his car and putting all of his weight on the console/armrest. He tried to reach for his work bag, felt a slight strain, then reached harder and snapped one right under his lung. Because what you do when you're a fucking idiot is keep doing painful things because everything will work out fine.
Finally, he's a pathological liar. He will literally lie abut something he just did, something witnessed by someone, something that doesn't fucking matter ... yeah, he lies about stupid shit that no one cares about.
And he's SO. FUCKING. BAD AT IT.
This is the real sin. Few things upset a Storyteller, even a scrupulously honest one, as much as a badly-told lie. A carefully crafted lie at least suggests that the liar minimally respects your intelligence, and an entertaining lie at least offers some form of compensation for enduring it.
whut the feck america
Don't worry though, if you have insurance it'll be much cheaper!
And the insurance will only cost you over $100 a month!
Not in socialist Navy America.
Thats a nice way of putting it!!
DW that sounds an extremely difficult situation to be in and quite frankly you sound a hell of a lot more patient than me.
"I'm trying to tell you I'm sick as hell! I can't keep anything down!"
"Like the root beer float in the sink? For nearly two months, my father withered and died right in front of me and he had the common courtesy to treat everyone around him with respect and dignity. He didn't snap at me because he didn't get his way or because he felt bad. Grow up and stop acting like a five-year-old, get off your ass, drink some water instead of soda, eat something healthy and cut out the fucking pity party."
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, you have just met Angry Mom.
I can't wait for her next performance; it's bound to be a thriller, I'm sure.
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You're a saint.
No pants day, every day.
Yeah, CS math tends to be a lot less about, "Can you crank out these calculations", and more about "How do these math things work together, and what can we do with that?"
At least in my experience.
We spent the time making references to committing murder to get Full Time status. (All of us except the lead are on contract.)
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I asked him to assess me and be critical of me in terms of strengths and weaknesses. And he was pretty complimentary and covered things that I knew any way, so it was pretty confidence boosting!
Then I had a chat with him in terms of work prospects and he said he's willing to throw me a few small bones in terms of design and what not and I also had a chat with him and asked if he wants to collaborate with some quotes I've had in the pipeline that haven't come through and he said yes.
So I called up the client and they said they are happy for me to requote the work.
Things are looking up I guess. I mean it's not enough to keep me going full time or anything but it's a few extra dollars in the pocket while I look for full time work.
Satans..... hints.....
Non CS maths isn't really about calculations, in a procedural sense, it's more... conceptual. Well, ok, some of the applied stuff can get a bit bogged down in details.
My favorite math class was a special version of Calculus III we had (have?) for CS majors. Calc III is normally where my school introduces multidimensional calculus. While the engineers just stuck to two or three dimensions, we got to play around in n dimensions by focusing on the algorithms behind everything. I only got a B, but it was easily the most fun I ever had in math.
But I checked my bank account and that missing week of unemployment money from January for which I wrote a physical letter to the department of labor to get back many weeks ago appeared in my account !!! I didn't expect to get it
Yes!!
That woulda been a spendy meal
Oh a hospital gown! I was confused for a moment there.
And it tends to be a rather abrupt transition. You go through the Calc sequence and then end up in Real Analysis and Topology and you're not solving the problems, but writing proofs. Or you do numerical analysis and everything turns into linear algebra.
You can hit that in CS, but it really only starts at the advanced undergraduate or graduate level.
Today the dental assistant came in and said they were probably going to recommend removing my wisdom teeth.
I have politely but firmly declined.
I DON'T KNOW. THERE ARE A LOT OF WAY THIS COULD HAVE BEEN MADE.
They aren't even categorized well. There is a board that is High school apps. Then one that is High School Science, but some of the science apps on general one aren't in the science one!
I am definitely pointing this out during my presentation.
Like jesus just make an excel document with a list!