Surely something good happened to you today

Discussion in 'Miscellaneous' started by rhubarbodendron, Aug 21, 2018.

  1. Sibyl

    Sibyl Caffeine Pill Popper Rear Admiral

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    Two new cat toys. Well, that's not their intended purposes, but my laser range finder (laser tape measure) doubles as a laser cat toy (discovered completely by accident when Kaylee started scrambling to catch the red dot when I was checking the thing out) and the digital DAW controller with motorized faders is a hoot when I start manipulating the faders in my music program and the faders on my board start moving "on their own!" I think I've frustrated Kaylee a couple too many times in the few days I've had it. Have you ever seen a cat try to capture a mouse pointer on a computer screen? It's kinda like them literally chasing a physical manifestation of your computer mouse! :lol: I need to capture it on video with a side-by-side of my PC screen.
     
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  2. rhubarbodendron

    rhubarbodendron Vice Admiral Admiral

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    Is it this one?
    This would make nice music for meditation or autogenic training.

    Good thing today: due to a flood we couldn't do today's sampling. According to the official schedule in such a case the sampling is to be postponed by a month, i.e. to August 10th, in which case I couldn't have taken a vacation. But now they preponed it to the 24th of July and I can have the first half of August off as planned. YAY!
     
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  3. Doom Shepherd

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    That's the one!
     
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  4. Butters

    Butters Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    My special tweezers arrived today.
     
  5. Discofan

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    I have a very good cellar. Even when the temperature outside gets really hot, it keeps a steady temperature (give or take two degrees.). That's a good news.
     
  6. auntiehill

    auntiehill The Blooness Premium Member

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    Was finally able to eat a real meal after 3 days of being ill.

    Stomach still hurts, but it's improving.
     
  7. rhubarbodendron

    rhubarbodendron Vice Admiral Admiral

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    have you tried ginger (as a condiment or as tea) ? It is very stomach soothing. As are jelly bears /gummi bears :)

    Good thing today: it's my office's summer party today. And since at the same time we celebrate the fact that a particularly unpleasant collegue is getting pensioned off it'll be bound to turn into a major orgy :D
     
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  8. Avro Arrow

    Avro Arrow Vice Admiral Moderator

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    ... oh my. :eek:

    In other news, HR would like to have a little, um, "chat" with all of you.
     
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  9. rhubarbodendron

    rhubarbodendron Vice Admiral Admiral

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  10. Avro Arrow

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    Sorry, "Human Resources". Maybe you call them something different? The department who handles personnel issues and makes sure employees follow the appropriate conduct rules and such. Granted, I'm only guessing, but I'm assuming "no sex parties" is a fairly standard rule worldwide! ;)
     
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  11. rhubarbodendron

    rhubarbodendron Vice Admiral Admiral

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    LOL yes indeed. Besides, there are only 2 cute colleagues and both are heavily married ;) But there'll be a lot of boozing today and music and dance.
    Being a non-dancer and cursed with a very sensitive hearing I'll stick with the BBQ and our geologist's excellent tabbouleh :drool: and sneak off when the general mood gets too raunchy.
     
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  12. Butters

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    I did my first pony tail today, keeping my hair off my face with a hair band, I can do the washing up unhindered.
     
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  13. Haggis and tatties

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    I had a coffee and a sesame seed roll with cheese and tomato.....home made, none of that pre-packed rubbish.
     
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  14. Discofan

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    I ate a delicious meal.
     
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  15. auntiehill

    auntiehill The Blooness Premium Member

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    Earned another $10 Amazon gift card from Survey Junkie.

    Who knew having no life could turn out to be profitable?
     
  16. JirinPanthosa

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    Lying under the covers thinking of the 7 summers I spent in an apartment with no AC.
     
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  17. rhubarbodendron

    rhubarbodendron Vice Admiral Admiral

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    my darned lumbago is almost gone =)
     
  18. Random_Spock

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    Finally got over 100 points in Tetris 99. So now I have the Splatoon theme :).
     
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  19. Discofan

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    I realized how much my close friends are reliable. They never let me down.:)
     
  20. auntiehill

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    Hubby did some shopping on Amazon and bought me 3 months of BritBox. Woot! Just watched some Inspector Frost and now enjoying some QI.

    My couch-potato heart is so happy.
     
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