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The "I feel awesome today" thread.
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Dayum, wish I could get some 5 megs up.
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I removed 2 cable boxes from the apartment and requested an upgrade in broadband tier. $20 more a month for the internet but $30 less for the boxes. So, faster internets and $10 saved.
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If only I got this rate at home, too:
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Better than I expected, actually. -
The bank that got title to my foreclosed wonderhouse just sent certified mail saying we may be eligible to be paid to vacate. We also have a priority option to buy the property for almost no money. Fuck yes.
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Dude, land owner! Now you can vote!
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That is truly amazing news.
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my obnoxious and incompetent sister is finally moving out after 2 years of living with us. Hopefully my stress levels with drop significantly.
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Seriously! 80k for a house in walking distance of downtown in a gentrifying neighborhood? Get the fuck out!
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Its a pretty good spot, and I should know I've been there.
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Buddy Guy is coming back to Columbus this summer!!! Anyone in the area interested in seeing him?
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Spent today running Cat-6 cables through our half-built house with the help of a good electrician friend. Data points to every room which we'll put plugs to when the plastering is all done. Never done this kind of thing before so I'm quite impressed with myself.
Also strung some HDMI and speaker cabling through our downstairs living room to allow for possible future projector and or surround sound. -
w3a2 said:
Spent today running Cat-6 cables through our half-built house with the help of a good electrician friend. Data points to every room which we'll put plugs to when the plastering is all done. Never done this kind of thing before so I'm quite impressed with myself.
Sweet! I need to do that with my place with the Cat-6, but I was always afraid at how much it might cost. -
Tour de Franzia today. Here's hoping I don't die
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I bought Lisa tickets to Aerosmith and Cheap Trick in Cleveland for our anniversary.
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Dang. Good luck.
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Spankminister said:
Sweet! I need to do that with my place with the Cat-6, but I was always afraid at how much it might cost.
Cat6 cost me about AU$190 for 300metres. Unit Conversion not included.
Putting into relative figures, $90 for 10m of HDMI.
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I'm backing Banner Saga.
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Awesome couple of nights in Amsterdam, but probably shouldn't have stayed at the jazz bar until 4 am when I had to catch a 7 am train (especially when super drunk).
Also, I went looking through an English bookstore there and actually found a copy of Metro 2033 that I have been searching for. -
"The English Bookstore?"
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The American Book Center. It was really big. I guess Metro 2033 isn't hard to come by anymore on Amazon, but I hadn't checked in 3 or 4 months.
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w3a2 said:
Cat6 cost me about AU$190 for 300metres. Unit Conversion not included.
Putting into relative figures, $90 for 10m of HDMI.
Man you had it easy, I did it to my place with that cool and cosy crap in the roof. The roof angle was so acute near the walls I had to lift roof tiles to drop the cabling.
I agree cabling is super cheap and SO much better then wifi.
Pro tip: Get pink bats. -
We got highest possible rating on insulation. Between floors and internal walls as well for sound.
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Solar panels?
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Yesterday was my anniversary. I spent it making too much food and surprising my wife with all sorts of nonsense. It was very nice for us to sort of just hang out with each other which seems like it doesn't happen nearly enough these days.
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I showered in my own apartment for the first time in six weeks. Fuck yeah.
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I just tried to +1 your comment.
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w3a2 said:Spankminister said:
Sweet! I need to do that with my place with the Cat-6, but I was always afraid at how much it might cost.
Cat6 cost me about AU$190 for 300metres. Unit Conversion not included.
Putting into relative figures, $90 for 10m of HDMI.
Word, I was more curious about labor, but I guess you didn't pay for it. I should probably just get an estimate, but I don't know which electricians are good in this area. -
Just do it yourself it's not hard and you get the satisfaction of being a handyman ;-)
Pro tip: Get a punch down tool. -
Obama's giving a speech at my campus on Tuesday. Sure do hope I can get in on that.
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So you can be within his presence when he lies to you about whatever the topic is?
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I honestly don't care about the speech itself, I just want to see the president in person. It also gives me something to do.
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What happened to "Hope", "Change" and "Yes we can". It hasn't even been 4 years yet...
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Bought some nice clothing for a change in Paris today (although not a jacket because they are impossible to find in my size here). Scarf and everything. Going out with a business associate with my father to a fancy place so I thought I should look at least half way decent.
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Very nice! Photos, sir!
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We took some but they didn't look good (very weird lighting made me look like a cannibal). Going to Normandy today, which has some pretty good paratrooper and D-Day museums (although I'm almost sick of museums since there are so many in Paris).
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Easter Monday public holiday, BITCHING!
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Won a $50 Amazon gift card from work today. Just ordered the complete series of Cowboy Bebop and some Wicked City.
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Some project that I did for work made a lot of people's jobs way easier. I got a public, company-wide attaboy, and a case of beer from the product manager for whom I did the work.
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I can't believe this isn't more common. In my experience, employees desperately want to feel respected and to be shown appreciation when they do well, and the resulting boost in productivity and moral is more far-reaching than even cash bonuses. But it's so rare to see any [sincere] human decency from the top! I'm not talking some corporate quota for back-patting or phony awards or ceremonial bullshit. If bosses would just be genuinely and openly appreciative of what good workers do, they would cultivate great workers. How fucking hard is that?
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Yeah, what Jason said. But let's not knock cash bonuses.
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Yeah, appreciation is cool, but my bill collectors only accept filthy lucre.
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I so get what Jason's saying, how hard is it to say thank you or good work.
People just want to feel appreciated. I got two bonuses at my new work, but no pat on the back... WTF man! -
Yes, I am at work to get paid. But that's not why I put effort into my work.xenomouse said:Yeah, appreciation is cool, but my bill collectors only accept filthy lucre.
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I'm just working a shitty job to pay my way through college. I'll take gift cards over an attaboy any day.
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Man, just wait till you get out into the real workforce. It has a way of killing all your ambition.
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I like getting both 'Good Job!'s and 'Your an Asshole!'s from my teachers (they come at a near 50/50 ratio), but I don't care enough about my current job to care.
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The epitome of you doing a good job is displayed in a promotion since it shows that you did so well at your current level that you're ready for the next one. The reason that recognition is so effective is because it makes the employee feel like he's performing well (and is in no danger of being fired) and that keeping it up will lead to a promotion (more money in the long run). The problem is after getting recognized so much and seeing no payoff the employee starts thinking that they're getting held back (and they probably are), this has happened to my wife several times since she always ends up doing really well bosses don't want to lose her but she's usually at the maximum pay so they compliment her work and give her more to do but the promotion never comes (not all bosses are like this though).
That's why in my case I always prefer my attaboys to come in terms of a raise. -
Codger said:
Solar panels?
Maybe, one day.
Things more important:
Stormwater drainage (will DIY)
Rainwater hookup
Window furnishings
Driveway and perimeter paving (hoping for exposed agg, bu very $$$)
Landscape works
Garden shed
Larger screened TV or projector + surround sound
And any other furniture that Mrs seems now essential...
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Yesterday I was sick in bed,
Today I run 9.8 km, so close to run 10 KM :O
But there is always tomorrow :D
I am hungry now, I am gonna it :D
