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Running that page through Google Translate gives one of the items as "Reverse jablčník"

I think I had an ex-girlfriend try that once. It did not end well.

During the big blackout of 2003 I took my wife (then girlfriend) to the only restaurant open near me, which happened to be a vegetarian restaurant. We had the best key lime pie of our lives.

This didn't happen specifically today, but I was thinking about it today.

I work a cash register, so you count your drawer in at the begining of a shift, and count it out at night and make deposts, whatever, etc. I'm kind of OCD and find i ttoo distracting to continue and keep the numbers in my head proper unless I turn all the bills the face the same way - face up, ton of the presiden'ts head to the right. Every time i count my bills, I'll pause and fix any that are out of this alignment. You can imagine how comical and sad at the same time this is.

To ilustrate just how damaged I am is where the story comes in. I was counting my drawer IN for the night one day, which is where the dollars should be pretty orderly from the night before. I got to the ones, and the stack was showing the back up instead of the face on this first few bills. So I flipped it over to see if it was put in upside down, as they sometimes are.

Bu tit was all backs up on the end too.

Somehow the bills had been put in such away that almost half on both sides were sandwiched the backwards way, so I had to fix at least half of them one by one to get to a batch with faces up and count quicker.

After a short while of flipping it and trying to find a face-up bill, out of nowhere I snapped. I whirled around in my chair with extra crazy-face on and yelled at my general manager, 'DID YOU DO THIS JUST TO VEX ME!?' Like I was seriously ready to cut somebody over it all of a sudden. xD

I don't know why I have a job with all my crazy, my GM is so chill. He just shrugged and was all, '*I* didn't even touch that drawer today...' and went on about his business.

But I seriously had a melt down for like, 15 seconds there. xD

see that story touches me because I work with registers. and it really, really bothers me when people put in their money differently than me, at least in regards to order.
Empty slot/spare change, twenties, tens, fives, ones.
Empty slot/left behind change, quarters, dimes, nickles, pennies. how could you possibly be efficient doing your job if they are in the opposite order

SPEAKING OF!
HEY GUYS, SO GUESS WHAT?
So I went in to work on the 26th with my knees feeling really bad because of the cold. Went to the nurses' station and they sent me to the company's hospital for a reevaluation of my left knee. An MRI was ordered (and approved yesterday) and the doctor sent me back on my merry ol' way....right after letting me know that my knee is showing serious signs of a degeneration disease that I shouldn't be getting until I am in my mid-50s. WHOO. However, this doctor sent me back to work without any restrictions, so everyone was about to make me go work my shift and be hurt as fuck which is goddamn dumb. Went as high up as I had to (Human Resources, since no one else has the common sense to go "hmm, yeah maybe you shouldn't be working if they need to do an MRI on your fucking knee") and the doctor resent a note that made a little more sense:

Restrictions:
- No prolonged standing
- Must sit 10-15 minutes for every hour of standing
- No extended walking or climbing of stairs/ladders

A few hours later, HR called and let me know that these restrictions can't be met in my department, so until the MRI shows just what the fuck is going on with my knee, I'm on medical leave. I can appreciate that this means I can really take care of/tend to my knee instead of forcing myself to "bear with it" for eight hours, but at the same time, I kind of really needed the income. Either way, the very next day, an attorney got back to me and we went over my case. As it turns out, Universal has a veeeery large history of getting sued by people for injuries -- particularly in the food service department. We will see what the MRI says before we determine what actions to take, but in the meantime... WHOO NO WORKING NO PAIN
guys they are so stupid there. they put ice cream in a thing that is -57 degrees and expect workers to be able to calmly and slowly take out the ice cream to count it at the end of the day, which can be 10-11PM. At about 44 degrees outside. After holding a single packet for a few seconds, I was screaming. My fingers were turning purple at the tips and burning like fuck. MY KNEES ARE ALREADY FUCKED, DON'T NEED TO MESS UP MY FINGERS. Tossed that shit back in and waited until someone else came to do it.
someone else with gloves.

i don't understand how something that basic has been overlooked for this long.

Yay MulMizu! Bout damn time you got some treatment.

I don't think this is actually that unusual, when I was working registers, I would do this all the time.

During my dark days at McDonald's, we were required to do this.

One of my bosses actually told me she really likes the neat way I keep my bills, and I think some of the other employees might rearrange there's similarly to all-the-same-direction, but I think I'm particularly specific. They always have to be with the top of the presidents head to the right, in every slot, all the way through, every time. I will move them if not. I could probably do stuff without rearranging them if I had to, but it would BOTHER ME BAD. Which is why I was ready to flip a table when I had to re-arrange like 50 $1 bills that time I wigged out on my boss. It's unresonably distracting.

And then my boss and a few other employees who don't care at all and almost seem to PURPOSELY mess them up so I have to fix them all when I am inevitably last to leave and end up couting all the drawers. GAH.

At least she wasn't trying to talk you into a double Dutch Rudder.

Something to keep in mind:

I don't know how extensive your OCD tendencies may be, but if you notice that you're OCD about a lot of things in your life, you might actually have the condition. If so, it's generally considered a good idea to resist the smaller urges so that it doesn't end up taking over your life.

As with all things health related, please see a professional if you suspect you might have the condition, if you can manage it. However, as a person who is currently unemployed, I understand how difficult that can be for some folks.

A lot of people have OCD-type quirks. The different between normal quirks and mental illness is if it fucks up your life. Like, we all know somebody vain, but that doesn't mean they have narcissistic personality disorder. And a lot of people like things to line up exactly or be symmetrical or whatever; the line between that and OCD is whether or not it's taken over your life. Like, before I got on the medication that treats my OCD, I would have trouble leaving the house for fear of triggering the obsessive thoughts and compulsions.

Oh,and small aside: OCD does not always mean neat freak. Hoarders often have OCD, and so do a lot of slobs...

Here is my random OCD thing:

If I am eating candy that comes in colors (like, say, M&Ms, for example), I only eat the same color at a time, and I must only eat even numbers.


Christmas was good, but the day after I spent throwing up, and I still feel kinda queasy. Not sure what that was about. We're home from NJ, though, and I'm feeling a little down about it because the trip out went so fast (especially since I lost an entire day to puking and sleeping). Ingmar has had a crappy day, he somehow managed to lose his ID at the airport between the metal detector and retrieving his shit from the x-ray bins, he left one of his chargers on the plane, one of our bags got sent to LA instead of SFO, and now his computer won't turn on.

Now I feel like posting pictures of my BABY NIECE that I finally met (I was supposed to meet her earlier this year but whoops Sandy decided to eat New Jersey and kinda derailed that plan). And I didn't know where to put it. So CONGRATULATIONS, thread, I picked you:

ME + CHILD:



(By the way, she is like ... smiling all the time. I have never met such a smiley baby.)

ME + CHILD + INGMAR:



That is Ingmar doing is best to pretend he likes babies at all. My family was not fooled. Also the reason I am covered in burp cloths is because when Baby Niece is not smiling, she is throwing up on someone. And after she throws up on someone, she lights right back up with a huge, happy smile, which makes me think she is throwing up on people on purpose and finds their reactions hilarious.

No babies in this one, but too bad, I am going to make you look at my sarcastic smile, which is basically the same as my usual for-a-picture smile, but fuck you, I know the difference in my heart:



That present was for me and my siblings. It is evidently some game that all the retirees love to play in my parents' retirement community. My parents decided that meant we all needed to learn to play.

We did not learn to play, due to none of us wanting to learn it ironically at the same time. Alas! Perhaps next year.

Nope Sjofn does not look like I expected either. Sorry, come back when you match the entirely random mental image of you that I have fixed on.

BABY. Beautiful people, and BABY! <barely-muted squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee>

I am totally curious what you think I should look like! I hope it was something like this:

The young miss totally deserves a squee, she was highly entertaining and very good at dealing with being passed around like a doll during Christmas. :P

It's actually pretty fun, my parents play it a lot in their retirement community as well.

Girls don't do it as well as guys. Really, what were you expecting?

We come home today to find out that Mr. Alligator has been selected for jury duty. So now he gets to go to the courthouse tomorrow to tell him that he's moving the day after. LULZ.

I only ever get called to jury duty right after I've moved, and thus do not have to actually do it. It's very odd.

Funnily enough.... Basically all that I had learned through careful stalking ofhand comments that you'd made were that you A: were taller than average; B: had long hair and C: worked hauling stage props around. Also that you were married to someone who I was sure was Gotrek Gurnisson in human form.

Based on that comprehensive physical profile I immediately composited some kind of Amazon/shieldmaiden image of you. Except in cargo pants and sweaters rather than chainmail lingerie.

I've always pictured Sjofn as a bunny. Who knows why?

As a side note - that would be an awesome series of miniatures. Casual battlemaidens, big swords, winged steeds, hoodies and jeans...

you can play that character in The Secret World. (Sans winged steed, there are no mounts in TSW.) You can even wear an Innsmouth Acadamy hoody.

can't find a sword pic on a moment's notice, alas

So basically you were picturing my aunt.


(Also it's hard to see my Amazonian nature in those pictures, I think. Although I am not sure I have one that shows it off better lying around, and as I am about to go play D&D, Ingmar would smite me if I started looking right now. ;) )

I finally used up the roll of wrapping paper I've had for ... a couple of years now (I can't remember ever buying wrapping paper and every gift I can recall wrapping has been with the same paper) and was having fun playing Cardboard Tube Samurai with the empty roll until it broke in half, and then I got all hopped up on Red Bull and rum and decided to try and see how many escrima drills I could remember.

Answer: most of them! I should look into getting a good set of sticks again and possibly see about fighting crime.

Uhhh, sorry but just casually quoting this because I want to frame it it's so wonderfully stated <3 So! Don't mind, just being dorky.

My sister's staying over which means I get to play with my adorbs too precious for words niece!! AAAHHH she's so silly n______n
And so we'll watch period dramas/soap operas. Which! Always note the number of episodes before you start or you'll get stuck being compelled into the rich tapestry of the story of a truly epic length one. Oh and we may possibly get to celebrate New Years together joy of joys~

IainC deserves an award of some kind, for getting language praise from Soli-Chan. Soli, you're adorable, but given how often you make no sense I think Iain should be worried about his English about now... :D

Yeah, we can see that in his "Don't try anything cute, I've got my eye on you" look. They're obviously both keeping their distance and only tolerating proximity for the sake of picture time.

It's weird, but I can usually figure out the meaning of Soli's posts pretty easily... the sole exception being when she's drunk. Dear lord, I'm not even going to try and translate some of her posts in the Drunk Thread.

Turns out the Louvre is a *reeeeaaallllyyyyyy* dizzying place. Who knew?


Also Mona Lisa be tiny, yo

The Mona Lisa isn't even the best painting in the room that it's in. Did you check out all the Babylonian/Mesopotamian stuff in the lower basements?

Yeah, today was "let's look at what the French stole from Egypt" day. We only went to look at the poor girl because it was on the way to the exit. My favorite painting was probably the Passion by Antonio Campi. John Martin's Pandemonium was the most Metal though.

Weird. I thought I was the only one who had that experience in that place.

Update to your update: For the next few days you can watch the full-length production on the BBC iPlayer. It's really good, so don't miss it.

Link is here.

November: Busy busy busy work work work.
December: Busier busier busier. Work more, work more, work more.
December 18th: 2 week vacation. Relax, relax, relax.
Now: New Year's Eve fun
Wednesday: Transplant clinic for a checkup
Thursday: 12 hours worth of travel
Friday: Back to work work work.

Update to your update:

Currently BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only, but all BBC iPlayer Radio programmes are available to you.Why?

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Plunger Warriors were nerfed in the last patch. Reroll shaman.