Attending a SciFi Convention. One that I have know folks for over 30 years! They are my 2nd family! one that I chose!
I only do a few, Mostly due to the cost. Yes I would LOVE to do a couple of the Bi ones one day. Like DragonCon & SDCC = San Diego Comic Con
@therealjrn You should attend a “Local” one if you have not been to one before. Just to sample go on Saturday. you will get the Flavor of the con. Each one has it own difference.
@mycya4me Oh, yes, that’s why I said it sounds fun! I went to one and got an autographed picture of the Irish actor Colm Meaney. We used to have some come thru but I haven’t seen any lately.
@therealjrn Well if you had the money of Bill Gates you could go to a SciFi con pretty much every weekend around the World/ Some may overlap (but they are well spaced apart in Distance!
@therealjrn Although I did go to one this past weekend… Well there is another one I wish I had the $$$ for! It is called MystiCon, in Roanoke, Va. I went to it the year before Covid shut everything down. Nice small (6-800) folks but they have a star that I would like to see in person, “Gigi Edgley, she played Chiana, s a street-smart, savvy, and mercurial character, Chiana is a Nebari, a grey-skinned race.” But the cost 7 having just done a SciFI con… it is Not viable option! But in April I will be at RavenCon, Since I will be volunteering a lot I will get in free.
@cfg83 We don’t talk about what’s up in the attic. Or out in the garage. Or on top of the sewing cabinet. Or in those sagging plastic bins in the next room. Or in the back of the closet that I haven’t emptied out since 1999.
Cleaning up this sea of boxes from the latest carload of stuff I brought back from my storage unit. I think I might be running short on places to put things, since I don’t have any obvious stowage locations.
The Fellowship of the Ring tackled last night, The Two Towers this afternoon, and The Return of the King tomorrow afternoon to celebrate the 25th anniversary in theatres (extended editions, of course). Oh, and some yoga and World of Warcraft thrown in there for good measure, too. And also not making a sound because new kitty I brought home three nights ago is hanging out in a borrowed dog kennel while I bond with current kitty, hoping they accept each other in the end!
Working a couple of short shifts in our local ER.
Watching season 3 of OUTLAWS.
Clearing off some of the crap on my desk
Doing some work out in the shop and yard
Having friends over for a game night Sunday
Dinner with the wife each night.
Snuggling on the couch with the kitties and my tablet while I play on the meh forum and read the local newspaper
Exercise, a trip to the credit union, attend a community litter pick up event, work on my website, practice my Python and database skills, grocery shopping, and paint my walk-in closet so that it’s ready to install the new closet system when I get back from San Diego
@phendrick subtracting.
An ally way that was absolutely disgusting. I was shocked by how many tires were dumped there. I was not shocked by the number of needles we all found.
@kittykat9180 Props for the good work! Pitiful and aggravating that such has to be done by a few people to atone for the many who are ignorant, asocial, or just plain indifferent to the common good. But such is the way of our species, I guess.
As to the tires, not real surprising, since dumbass legislators in most states think it’s a good idea to charge people for returning used tires themselves, hence many people just dump them to save a few bucks. Notice that you most likely didn’t find a plethora of used car batteries, since people are paid to return those (get a refund of their core charge). smh.
Hope all you volunteers got some recognition for your good work (or at least coffee and cookies).
@phendrick
Good use of the word asocial. Most people use the word antisocial, but they are using it incorrectly.
Volunteers get a free shirt and water.
Every state should have programs of recycling to encourage people to return those items rather than dispose of them in the community. For example, beverage bottles redemption.
Going to the casino for my bday tonight. Then tomorrow having pizza and ice cream cake with the family for my late fathers and my bdays. His bday is tomorrow it was always tradition for us to do something together for our bdays.
@Lynnerizer
It was a good night. I played on the same $100 for 6 hours and even took home $76.76 of it. I probably won about $350 overall but gave it back playing so for 6 hour of entertainment $25 isn’t to bad to me.
@Star2236
Not bad at all! Sounds like you gamble like me, I only bring what I’m willing to lose! Lol Six hours is a good time for $25 in all. Glad to hear you had a good birthday!
@Lynnerizer
Yeah last time I went I lost all $300 I brought so I was really happy this time, especially since I sat on the same slot machine for like 4 hours.
At first I was thinking how painful it must’ve been sitting for that long, then I remembered this documentary I watched about people gambling at casinos. It spoke about people wearing diapers so they didn’t have to get up from their slot machine or table.
I think you’ve reached a whole other level when you ever THINK about diapering down!
Lol
@Lynnerizer
I was talking to someone who stood out in the cold for 8 hours to see the pope and he was telling me how people put on diapers to do it to and the people down in nyc for the ball drop do it too. I could never do that. I’d rather loose my spot and go to a bathroom. I got up a couple times to get a drink from the far bc it was like 40 feet from me and after the 4 hours I had pee really bad so I moved to something else after that. It wasn’t to bad bc the chair had a back and getting up the couple times to get a drink helped.
@chienfou@Kyeh looked like SF had other places in mind they had rather been vacationing in.
@sillyheathen rock the hawk top
I don’t see any frost on your eyelashes.
Your guy accept that it’s more exciting than his football? (At least before the game is out of hand…)
@chienfou@Kyeh@phendrick same. I’m not allowed to get sick. So far it’s just two of them. Just started washing the mountain of laundry and have chicken soup start d on the stove. Need to try to stay awake or I won’t sleep tonight.
@Kyeh@sillyheathen
That’s what we’ve been seeing locally primarily this season. Have an occasional B but for the most part they’re all A. Haven’t seen a positive covid in a while. Did they get scripted for Tamiflu?
@chienfou@Kyeh I wash my hands religiously. I think it’s part sensory and part previous kitchen experience actually took the dogs and the well kids for a walk. Our first plan was mixed because even though it’s a gorgeous (pun intended as it’s in the gorge) day, the wind was whipping down the gorge and it was bitterly cold. So we wandered back toward the house and wound up hiking Hopkins demonstration forest which is just a few miles from the house. It was kind of perfect.
@chienfou@sillyheathen That’s right outside your house? So beautiful!
Edit - Oh, you said a few miles. Still wonderful to have that so close by! I do have mountain trails with trees within walking distance, but it’s not that green right now.
@Kyeh@sillyheathen
OMG… that’s not a minion … that’s a “mini me”!
Glad you’re (all) able to get outside and enjoy some fresh air. Another few days and you’ll be able to make that trip together as a family…
/giphy patience young grasshopper
@chienfou@Kyeh one of the benefits of where we are in the PNW. We’re not close enough to the mountain to get regular snow. There were patches of ice in spots. And yeah. I’ll have to look at the distance as the crow flies but it’s a five minute drive on country roads to Hopkins. It also backs on to the property where we had our small farm years ago, and I always tease Carys that she was born in a bathtub right by the creek that runs through it.
@chienfou@Kyeh she was born at home. Thankfully it was planned. We had an inflatable birthing tub and our midwife was only a few miles away. It was kind of amazing.
@Kyeh@sillyheathen
Though both our kids were born at home and we followed a lot of Leboyer methodology, we never did the water birth thing.
Kudos to you…
@chienfou@Kyeh my first birth was supposed to be a water birth but then I just felt like I needed to get up and move around. They redrew the tub but when active labor hit, I couldn’t fathom getting back in.
@chienfou@Kyeh that was for all three. I wasn’t comfortable enough to do a home birth with our first. We wound up using Alma birthing center in Portland for him. Then the second was at home. The third was supposed to be at home but we transitioned to the hospital because my water broke, which only happened during active labor for the other two, and there was meconium present in the fluid. I just wanted to be safe. She wound up being my longest labor. I had a really hard time focusing when people kept trying to come in to monitor etc. it kept throwing me off. I can’t complain regardless because hers was still only 9 hours.
Rear suspension.
@yakkoTDI That’s what she said.
@yakkoTDI Kinky…
FOOTBALL!!
Polishing the Allen Edmonds shoes I bought over the holidays.
Napping, shopping and eating
Attending a SciFi Convention. One that I have know folks for over 30 years! They are my 2nd family! one that I chose!
I only do a few, Mostly due to the cost. Yes I would LOVE to do a couple of the Bi ones one day. Like DragonCon & SDCC = San Diego Comic Con
@mycya4me
/showme You can’t pick your family but you can pick your nose.
@therealjrn Here’s the image you requested for “You can t pick your family but you can pick your nose.”
@mediocrebot @therealjrn THIS … is a masterpiece. Take that, Louvre!
/showme real cats at a science fiction convention dressed up as their fav actors and having a lot of fun
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@mycya4me That sounds like a blast!
@mediocrebot @mycya4me Okay, that’s scary good. It dressed them in actual recognizable famous movie character costumes.
@therealjrn You should attend a “Local” one if you have not been to one before. Just to sample go on Saturday. you will get the Flavor of the con. Each one has it own difference.
@mycya4me Oh, yes, that’s why I said it sounds fun! I went to one and got an autographed picture of the Irish actor Colm Meaney. We used to have some come thru but I haven’t seen any lately.
@therealjrn Well if you had the money of Bill Gates you could go to a SciFi con pretty much every weekend around the World/ Some may overlap (but they are well spaced apart in Distance!
@mycya4me Sounds like I need to snuggle up with Melinda then.
@therealjrn Did you not hear that that they are separated now.
@therealjrn Although I did go to one this past weekend… Well there is another one I wish I had the $$$ for! It is called MystiCon, in Roanoke, Va. I went to it the year before Covid shut everything down. Nice small (6-800) folks but they have a star that I would like to see in person, “Gigi Edgley, she played Chiana, s a street-smart, savvy, and mercurial character, Chiana is a Nebari, a grey-skinned race.” But the cost 7 having just done a SciFI con… it is Not viable option! But in April I will be at RavenCon, Since I will be volunteering a lot I will get in free.
@mycya4me asked: “Did you not hear that that they are separated now.”
Yes, yes I did.
Supposed to be cold & rainy.
So weakened plans.
Mostly TV, mingled with chores, all indoors.
@phendrick
ISWYDT… Nice job.
@chienfou
/showme @phendrick enjoying life playing with words and pets
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@mediocrebot @phendrick I would NEVER play word games with my pets. I’d lose every time.
Same thing I do every day, pretty much. Try to make some headway against the backlog of Crap I Should Have Done Ten Years Ago.
@werehatrack
OK Pinky,
@werehatrack Ten years ago? Try forty!
@cfg83 We don’t talk about what’s up in the attic. Or out in the garage. Or on top of the sewing cabinet. Or in those sagging plastic bins in the next room. Or in the back of the closet that I haven’t emptied out since 1999.
@werehatrack Is there something nasty in the woodshed?
@werehatrack Orrrrr, is this a Fight Club thing?
Cleaning up this sea of boxes from the latest carload of stuff I brought back from my storage unit. I think I might be running short on places to put things, since I don’t have any obvious stowage locations.
@Wireball_
… maybe you could rent a storage unit…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@chienfou @Wireball_ Yesssss …
/showme Human moving boxes from storage unit 1 to storage unit 2 while anthropomorphized goat moves boxes from storage unit 2 to storage unit 1.
@cfg83 Here’s the image you requested for “Human moving boxes from storage unit 1 to storage unit 2 while anthropomorphized goat moves boxes…”
The Fellowship of the Ring tackled last night, The Two Towers this afternoon, and The Return of the King tomorrow afternoon to celebrate the 25th anniversary in theatres (extended editions, of course). Oh, and some yoga and World of Warcraft thrown in there for good measure, too. And also not making a sound because new kitty I brought home three nights ago is hanging out in a borrowed dog kennel while I bond with current kitty, hoping they accept each other in the end!
@wooterondo
A good choice!
—
As much as I regret the various films’ imperfections and omissions
The films took me back to Middle-earth.
And some portion of the minds of so many of us still lingers there.
@wooterondo
@f00l @wooterondo Where Cate goes, I will follow, but I know it will end in tears …
Working a couple of short shifts in our local ER.
Watching season 3 of OUTLAWS.
Clearing off some of the crap on my desk
Doing some work out in the shop and yard
Having friends over for a game night Sunday
Dinner with the wife each night.
Snuggling on the couch with the kitties and my tablet while I play on the meh forum and read the local newspaper
TL:DR not much
House projects & chores, laundry, a little TV/movie, fútbol.
@kshayabusa
Thank you for reminding me that I need to start a load of laundry
Watching some Buffalo Bills football - hopefully ending in a W!
@meeberly let’s GOOOOOO!!!
Farmers market, cooking, reading, gaming, tv, whatever,
Using as little household water as possible. Septic tank issues - the service guys are coming Monday morning.
(Blah, blah, shitty weekend, etc…)
@macromeh So it is not just the people in the house that are full of
.
Update: Woo hoo! $1700 later, we are relieved to say everything came out OK!
Reorganize my craft room. Church and just relax.
Exercise, a trip to the credit union, attend a community litter pick up event, work on my website, practice my Python and database skills, grocery shopping, and paint my walk-in closet so that it’s ready to install the new closet system when I get back from San Diego
@kittykat9180
Are you adding or subtracting, or doing some other kind of math?
@kittykat9180
Wow
@phendrick subtracting.
An ally way that was absolutely disgusting. I was shocked by how many tires were dumped there. I was not shocked by the number of needles we all found.
@kittykat9180 Props for the good work! Pitiful and aggravating that such has to be done by a few people to atone for the many who are ignorant, asocial, or just plain indifferent to the common good. But such is the way of our species, I guess.
As to the tires, not real surprising, since dumbass legislators in most states think it’s a good idea to charge people for returning used tires themselves, hence many people just dump them to save a few bucks. Notice that you most likely didn’t find a plethora of used car batteries, since people are paid to return those (get a refund of their core charge). smh.
Hope all you volunteers got some recognition for your good work (or at least coffee and cookies).
@phendrick
Good use of the word asocial. Most people use the word antisocial, but they are using it incorrectly.
Volunteers get a free shirt and water.
Every state should have programs of recycling to encourage people to return those items rather than dispose of them in the community. For example, beverage bottles redemption.
Going to the casino for my bday tonight. Then tomorrow having pizza and ice cream cake with the family for my late fathers and my bdays. His bday is tomorrow it was always tradition for us to do something together for our bdays.
@Star2236
/giphy happy birthday
@Star2236
@Star2236 HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Hope you have a great time celebrating, and win a little something!
/giphy Happy Birthday Star!
@Lynnerizer
It was a good night. I played on the same $100 for 6 hours and even took home $76.76 of it. I probably won about $350 overall but gave it back playing so for 6 hour of entertainment $25 isn’t to bad to me.
@Star2236
Six hours is a good time for $25 in all. Glad to hear you had a good birthday! 
Not bad at all! Sounds like you gamble like me, I only bring what I’m willing to lose! Lol
@Lynnerizer
Yeah last time I went I lost all $300 I brought so I was really happy this time, especially since I sat on the same slot machine for like 4 hours.
@Star2236
Yup, you did good!
At first I was thinking how painful it must’ve been sitting for that long, then I remembered this documentary I watched about people gambling at casinos. It spoke about people wearing diapers so they didn’t have to get up from their slot machine or table.
I think you’ve reached a whole other level when you ever THINK about diapering down!
Lol
@Lynnerizer
I was talking to someone who stood out in the cold for 8 hours to see the pope and he was telling me how people put on diapers to do it to and the people down in nyc for the ball drop do it too. I could never do that. I’d rather loose my spot and go to a bathroom. I got up a couple times to get a drink from the far bc it was like 40 feet from me and after the 4 hours I had pee really bad so I moved to something else after that. It wasn’t to bad bc the chair had a back and getting up the couple times to get a drink helped.
@Star2236
That’s funny, I bet people are wearing diapers all over the world for reasons we’d find absolutely asinine!
@Lynnerizer
And we don’t even notice
Hey!!!
It got cold!!!
No fair!!!
/giphy brrrrrr
Seahawks playoff game!!!
@sillyheathen BIG WIN!
@Kyeh @sillyheathen
Nice… Congrats!
@chienfou @Kyeh looked like SF had other places in mind they had rather been vacationing in.
@sillyheathen rock the hawk top
I don’t see any frost on your eyelashes.
Your guy accept that it’s more exciting than his football? (At least before the game is out of hand…)
@chienfou @Kyeh @phendrick the Englishman doesn’t like soccer/football.
He’s a rugby bloke.
@chienfou @Kyeh @phendrick just got home from Seattle. Had to come home a day early because half of my house has the flu.
@chienfou @phendrick @sillyheathen Oh no!!! I hope you don’t get it
!
@chienfou @Kyeh @phendrick same. I’m not allowed to get sick. So far it’s just two of them. Just started washing the mountain of laundry and have chicken soup start d on the stove. Need to try to stay awake or I won’t sleep tonight.
@chienfou @phendrick @sillyheathen
@chienfou @Kyeh @sillyheathen
/showme a house with the flu
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@Kyeh @sillyheathen
If you are certain it’s the flu try to get some Tamiflu for them. Won’t cure them but will make them better quicker.
@mediocrebot
/showme a cure for a house with the flu
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@mediocrebot I guess that means to hose it down with orange juice and then let it sit in the sunshine, with chicken soup on the side.
@chienfou @Kyeh it’s definitely flu. They tested positive for type A.
@Kyeh @sillyheathen
That’s what we’ve been seeing locally primarily this season. Have an occasional B but for the most part they’re all A. Haven’t seen a positive covid in a while. Did they get scripted for Tamiflu?
@chienfou @Kyeh they did. They’re both doing better today. I’m staying in the guest room.
@Kyeh @sillyheathen
Good plan! And don’t forget to use the crap out of the hand sanitizer…
/giphy this too shall pass
@chienfou @Kyeh I wash my hands religiously. I think it’s part sensory and part previous kitchen experience
actually took the dogs and the well kids for a walk. Our first plan was mixed because even though it’s a gorgeous (pun intended as it’s in the gorge) day, the wind was whipping down the gorge and it was bitterly cold. So we wandered back toward the house and wound up hiking Hopkins demonstration forest which is just a few miles from the house. It was kind of perfect. 
@chienfou @sillyheathen That’s right outside your house? So beautiful!
Edit - Oh, you said a few miles. Still wonderful to have that so close by! I do have mountain trails with trees within walking distance, but it’s not that green right now.
@Kyeh @sillyheathen
OMG… that’s not a minion … that’s a “mini me”!
Glad you’re (all) able to get outside and enjoy some fresh air. Another few days and you’ll be able to make that trip together as a family…
/giphy patience young grasshopper
@chienfou @Kyeh one of the benefits of where we are in the PNW. We’re not close enough to the mountain to get regular snow. There were patches of ice in spots. And yeah. I’ll have to look at the distance as the crow flies but it’s a five minute drive on country roads to Hopkins. It also backs on to the property where we had our small farm years ago, and I always tease Carys that she was born in a bathtub right by the creek that runs through it.
@Kyeh @sillyheathen
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You’re obviously a better person than me. I would have teased her that was where she was ‘created’!
@chienfou @sillyheathen Was she really born there?!
@chienfou @Kyeh she was born at home. Thankfully it was planned. We had an inflatable birthing tub and our midwife was only a few miles away. It was kind of amazing.
@Kyeh @sillyheathen
Though both our kids were born at home and we followed a lot of Leboyer methodology, we never did the water birth thing.
Kudos to you…
@chienfou @Kyeh my first birth was supposed to be a water birth but then I just felt like I needed to get up and move around. They redrew the tub but when active labor hit, I couldn’t fathom getting back in.
@Kyeh @sillyheathen
And your wisely followed what suited you best at the time. Definitely no shame in that.
@chienfou @Kyeh that was for all three. I wasn’t comfortable enough to do a home birth with our first. We wound up using Alma birthing center in Portland for him. Then the second was at home. The third was supposed to be at home but we transitioned to the hospital because my water broke, which only happened during active labor for the other two, and there was meconium present in the fluid. I just wanted to be safe. She wound up being my longest labor. I had a really hard time focusing when people kept trying to come in to monitor etc. it kept throwing me off.
I can’t complain regardless because hers was still only 9 hours.