@blaineg Mine from the time before was actually worth the money. It was the first IRK or BOC I’ve ever managed to get, so I decided not to press my luck, to quit while I was ahead, and any other cliché you can think of.
@blaineg Casinos hate me. The one time I played slots, I won fairly quickly. I stopped playing and cashed out. My mom couldn’t believe it. I said the point of playing is to win. I won, so I quit.
@blaineg@lisagd I spent the better part of a decade 35 cents ahead of the state of Nevada, and then they got it back on a second trip. But they never got me for more than three bucks, because I was never willing to risk more than the loose change in the bottom of my pocket.
@blaineg@lisagd@werehatrack
We lived in Reno for a while when I was a kid. Every grocery store had slot machines and my father played his change occasionally. Once he got something like $20 in dimes and to my childish eyes that was a beautiful fortune. So many dimes!
@blaineg@Kyeh@werehatrack The time I won, I won nickels. I think they filled a couple of those cups they give you. By that time, I had worked counting money in a grocery store for long enough that even a pile of bundled bills didn’t impress me; I just thought of it as more work.
My house used to vibrate only when coal trains came through (which wasn’t all that often), the rest of the trains it didn’t happen. I couldn’t usually hear them either. When my friend from CA was visiting her first thought was that it was an earthquake (central IL at the time).
@Kidsandliz I’m not near a rail line, but when I lived a few miles from here, I could hear the trains when I stood outside late at night. The tracks were 5 or so miles away as the crow flies. I’m not sure how far it is with other birds.
@Kidsandliz@lisagd Your train convo brought me back to my tween and teen years.
I used stay at my cousins’ house/farm in the summers growing up to work on the farm and in the family roofing and siding business.
Every year, I’d be awakened by the 2AM train every night, but only for the first 2-3 weeks, and then I would sleep soundly through the night.
Ironically, when I got home, it would take 2-3 weeks before I’d stop waking up at 2 AM listening for the missing train sounds…
@Kidsandliz also the time of year a friends mystery noise that only happened certain times of years seems that the train rumblings change depending on the temp of the soil between
Maybe construction nearby? Possibly overly energetic events taking place at petrochemical plants in the vicinity? Have they been fracking for natural gas around you? Of course, you could always try turning down the music to see if there are noises which would explain the shakes.
@werehatrack By the time I turned it down, the shaking had stopped. My neighborhood is old and any construction ended decades ago and there’s no fracking being done in my state. There was an earthquake here on the East Coast in 2011, so the thought crossed my mind, but I didn’t hear any reports of one.
It reminded me of when we still lived in my childhood home. We were close enough to Aberdeen Proving Grounds that I could hear the distant booms when I was outside playing, and I was sure that giants were walking toward me through the woods behind my house and that I would see their heads appear above the trees in a moment. At that point, I’d race back to the house and presumed safety. Maybe that’s the source of my anxiety.
Sorry about that. I was emptying my trunk.
/showme whales flatulating
@mediocrebot And there you go. The vibrations can be felt for thousands of miles.
@mediocrebot @mehcuda67 That’s some serious flatulating! Note to self: Stop feeding tacos to whales.
Maybe it’s you shaking and not the floor
@ybmuG We should definitely not rule out that possibility. I had a lot caffeine Sunday night.
@ybmuG agreed. In a few weeks, @lisgd will be either a moth or butterfly.
@njfan @ybmuG It’s so funny you said that–I’m planning to buy a “grow your own butterfly” kit, so I’ll be able to see all that for real.
IRK delivery?
@blaineg If so, that’s surely a whole lotta regret.
@blaineg Mine from the time before was actually worth the money. It was the first IRK or BOC I’ve ever managed to get, so I decided not to press my luck, to quit while I was ahead, and any other cliché you can think of.
@lisagd You’re wiser than most.
@blaineg Casinos hate me. The one time I played slots, I won fairly quickly. I stopped playing and cashed out. My mom couldn’t believe it. I said the point of playing is to win. I won, so I quit.
@blaineg @lisagd I spent the better part of a decade 35 cents ahead of the state of Nevada, and then they got it back on a second trip. But they never got me for more than three bucks, because I was never willing to risk more than the loose change in the bottom of my pocket.
@blaineg @lisagd @werehatrack
We lived in Reno for a while when I was a kid. Every grocery store had slot machines and my father played his change occasionally. Once he got something like $20 in dimes and to my childish eyes that was a beautiful fortune. So many dimes!
@blaineg @Kyeh @werehatrack The time I won, I won nickels. I think they filled a couple of those cups they give you. By that time, I had worked counting money in a grocery store for long enough that even a pile of bundled bills didn’t impress me; I just thought of it as more work.
@blaineg @werehatrack Very smart of you!
You don’t live in Champlain Towers North in Miami, do you? Strange rumblings could be a sign of structural instability…
@PooltoyWolf Fortunately, I don’t live in Florida at all.
@lisagd Heh!
My house used to vibrate only when coal trains came through (which wasn’t all that often), the rest of the trains it didn’t happen. I couldn’t usually hear them either. When my friend from CA was visiting her first thought was that it was an earthquake (central IL at the time).
@Kidsandliz I’m not near a rail line, but when I lived a few miles from here, I could hear the trains when I stood outside late at night. The tracks were 5 or so miles away as the crow flies. I’m not sure how far it is with other birds.
@Kidsandliz @lisagd Your train convo brought me back to my tween and teen years.
I used stay at my cousins’ house/farm in the summers growing up to work on the farm and in the family roofing and siding business.
Every year, I’d be awakened by the 2AM train every night, but only for the first 2-3 weeks, and then I would sleep soundly through the night.
Ironically, when I got home, it would take 2-3 weeks before I’d stop waking up at 2 AM listening for the missing train sounds…
@Kidsandliz also the time of year a friends mystery noise that only happened certain times of years seems that the train rumblings change depending on the temp of the soil between
Maybe construction nearby? Possibly overly energetic events taking place at petrochemical plants in the vicinity? Have they been fracking for natural gas around you? Of course, you could always try turning down the music to see if there are noises which would explain the shakes.
@werehatrack By the time I turned it down, the shaking had stopped. My neighborhood is old and any construction ended decades ago and there’s no fracking being done in my state. There was an earthquake here on the East Coast in 2011, so the thought crossed my mind, but I didn’t hear any reports of one.
It reminded me of when we still lived in my childhood home. We were close enough to Aberdeen Proving Grounds that I could hear the distant booms when I was outside playing, and I was sure that giants were walking toward me through the woods behind my house and that I would see their heads appear above the trees in a moment. At that point, I’d race back to the house and presumed safety. Maybe that’s the source of my anxiety.
/showme radioactive super moles
@mediocrebot Mediocrebot, you’re not even trying.
/showme the reason the floor is shaking
@mediocrebot Aha! There you have it, whatever it is.
@heartny @mediocrebot Thanks! I feel so much better now.