8/3/4 (2008 march 4)

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:54 am

So my parents leave today. Wow, no explosions or criticism, and the only tension being when my mom misinterpreted something I said about self-entitled conservative baby boomers as applying to all baby boomers (wtf). All in all it was a good visit. Though even a good visit is still draining, and I'll be glad to be able to fall back into my usual routines.

qotd: When's the last time you saw your parents? Under what circumstances?

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:57 am

Roll Call: Working. Tonight I'm practicing with the trio, getting the drinking songs ready for the St. Pat's 'tour'.

QotD: I did my parents' taxes over the weekend. They live a few miles down the road. I see them often, and we get along better now than we did when I was a teenager.

Billy's Little Trip · Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:01 pm

Ahh, fluf, you beat me to it. so i'm not letting it go to waist.

March Fourth, the Army's favorite day, cha! 2008

Got nothing, just wanted to be the first to post a title with a lame joke that doesn't revolve around math nerdism.

I just bought #9 self adhesive double window envelopes yesterday at Office Max. I buy the 500 count boxes because we use a lot of envelopes and I get good discounts at OM, etc. I paid $48 a box!!! The same box I paid $26 for a few months earlier, and have been paying for the last couple years! WTF! I asked if this is a mistake, but I just got a confused teenager looking back at me, like, "I don't know or care because I just work here until I become rich and famous as a computer hackzor with a stupid fucking hair cut". *eats a bowl of calm down oats*

I'm still mad at Bush and blame him for my high priced envelopes. I really don't envy these lopes one bit. It's just an example of why hard working people, like Hoblit, are struggling to make ends meet.

Billy's Little Trip · Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:03 pm

jimtyrrell wrote: QotD: I did my parents' taxes over the weekend.

Hope you wore a condom.

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:06 pm

No no, it's not like that. They get money back.

On a sadder note, I just heard that Gary Gygax died. That's a drag.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:27 pm

Billy's Little Trip wrote:Ahh, fluf, you beat me to it. so i'm not letting it go to waist.
...It's just an example of why hard working people, like Hoblit, are struggling to make ends meet.

Amen brother billy. (although I was eating a bowl of soup and ignoring a phone call when I was reading that)

DRC: another busy day at work.

QOTD: I visited my brother and my folks over the last week of last year. My dad's birthday is December 29th so I centered my little get-away around that. I have always gotten along with my pops very well. Mamma and I did NOT get along at all when I was a teenager. We're cool now though. My dad got me a softball glove for Christmas and we (including my brother) threw a ball around for 10 minutes before my brother had to be at work.

He bought the glove knowing that I don't actively play softball. He bought that glove so that we could throw a ball around while up was up there. If I turn out to be only half the man that he is I will have done all right.

Post by **Spud** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:46 pm

Parents. Last Sunday. My mom has this Don Quixote statue that she bought in Tijuana back in '68, which came all the way back to Seattle in the back seat of a '67 Mustang with us three kids all sitting on top of it. It has been in every house they own, and it gets broken into several pieces every time they move. They recently moved again, and it got broken again. Good thing, too, because a neighbor had recently re-painted it for them, and my mom couldn't stand the new color. She brought it to me for repairs and repainting, back to something closer to the original gold. Sunday, we were out washing the dog, and we were going to be near their house, so we took it by.

http://www.workshop3d.com/stargate/images/goldman.jpg

SPUD

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 1:22 pm

Sometime last year. They made an unexpected visit to my job. Nothing like being at work and getting a call "Hey we're down on the 3rd floor. Come say hello."

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:01 pm

qotd: this morning.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:25 pm

jimtyrrell wrote:On a sadder note, I just heard that Gary Gygax died. That's a drag.

Could no one make a saving throw?

I've never been a D&D guy but I appreciate what he and his creation has meant to the Sci-fi and Fantasy community.

You're right, Jim. That's a drag.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:28 pm

Reïst wrote:qotd: this morning.

What did she pack in your lunch?

Paco Del Stinko · Post by **Paco Del Stinko** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 3:42 pm

-snicker-

QOTD - My dad died eight years ago this coming May. I saw my mom last October when I flew to Albuquerque for my sisters' masters degree graduation. We get along OK, but if I spend a week with her, there's usually a point when we'll both want to kill each other. It doesn't usually last long, though. I reckon she'll make the effort to fly to New England this summer.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:14 pm

Bummer, Gary Gygax.
Last time I saw my parents was just after Christmas... we usually see them around my birthday but i think this year we won't be able to. Darn! A couple of months from now, maybe, don't know. Just talked to them on the phone on Sunday, though.
-bill

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:21 pm

QORD: The weekend we just had. I helped my friend move, and he lives(ed) near them, so i stopped by. Mother and Father Boy are fine.

rone rivendale · Post by **rone rivendale** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:24 pm

QotD: Umm, they are in the next room.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:25 pm

Yes but how long ago did you see them?

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 5:41 pm

fluffy wrote:Yes but how long ago did you see them?

and even more importantly, what are they p... oh never mind.

Märk · Post by **Märk** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:01 pm

qotd: Last saw my mom December 23, 1981. She was delirious on painkillers, and had a bazillion tubes stuck in her. She died of cancer the next day. Last saw my dad October something 1999, in the hospital. (guess what happened the next day?)

Wow, that was depressing. I'm an orphan.

Paco Del Stinko · Post by **Paco Del Stinko** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:15 pm

Hoblit wrote:and even more importantly, what are they p... oh never mind.

Oh, just go and say it!

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:17 pm

Märk wrote:qotd: Last saw my mom December 23, 1981. She was delirious on painkillers, and had a bazillion tubes stuck in her. She died of cancer the next day. Last saw my dad October something 1999, in the hospital. (guess what happened the next day?)

Wow, that was depressing. I'm an orphan.

Same story - just substitute father, January 2003 and mother October 2004.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:19 pm

Märk wrote:Wow, that was depressing. I'm an orphan.

Cool, do you want to go with me and look through the windows of rich people eating dinner with their families?

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:23 pm

Hoblit wrote:
Reïst wrote:qotd: this morning.
What did she pack in your lunch?

Nothing. I ate lunch at home by myself while cramming for my Geology midterm. Then I took a nap.

Maybe I'll go record a song now. BLT promised he'd mix one for me so I can hear my song through a second pair of ears.