Hellraiser97

Yeah, as I got through the last of the Jordan Books, I had to listen to one, then take a break and listen to something else, between each one. Just seemed a lot of repetition of scenarios and I found myself saying "Not this shit again!" Still liked them, but hard to do back to back. I've been listening to the series for about a year and a half or so now. It's something like 400+ hours.

I'm listening to the last book right now.

That sounds a bit high but I guess it depends on your insurance. I think it’s more because people freak out about large payments but put it in terms of per month and they don’t. That’s how all of mine has been Fuck OU

True, but that will be entertaining and we’re fucked already so why not? Fuck OU

The only way the city council will get its head out of its ass is if things get so bad with prices and traffic they have no other viable choice. And even then, they still might not, but at least, unlike now, there will be a chance. Bring on Amazon!

Get the gift certs, don't lose anything that way. All the shit I put in my lawn the past couple weeks that I had to actually pay for, I bought with a Home Depot gift certificate I got that way.

I watered it, but I think I had some type of fungus. I've now installed rainwater barrels (that I got for free of course from a friend) so I can water it more and not pay for it.

I still use a coat hanger antenna for my TV. Of course, it gets better reception than any one I ever bought before, but I think I'm more pleased with the fact that I spent less than $8 on it.

My wife berates me for a being a cheap bastard. I revel in it, and I may have reached a new level. I recently took down some really over grown bushes and spent yesterday putting a new garden in place. Putting the edging in, I had to remove a decent chunk of grass that had grown into the area. On my front lawn, along the street, its dead as fuck. Put some sod in last year but it didn't take. Was going to sod again after putting some lawn soil down, but thought, hey I have perfectly good grass in that garden! Spent the after noon cutting out the garden grass and planting it as plugs (St Augustine) in the dead area. My wife was on the porch just shaking her head at me.

If there's another option than tapa for viewing mobile, I'm open. I've used chrome on my iPhone but fuck that was difficult to do.

I've had a CPAP since 2005. My quality of sleep before was complete shit. Now, I can't deal with sleeping without it. Get tested.

So I realize I'm late to the game on this, but figured I'd put it out there before a blew a shit ton of money. Situation: Wife went back to work in January 2016. Her job blows and with her commute (going from Circle C to the Domain) she's borderline useless in getting the kids to/from school/child care. I'm working from home, so my schedule is somewhat flexible, except that sometimes I have to be on site for something and then its not, but all this shit ends up falling on me. 3yo is at Primrose, so her child care is set up. 6yo is just completing kindergarten at public school. Last year she was at Primrose so summer child care was taken care of. Over the two week Christmas break, I had the bright idea that I could manage her at home while I worked since its usually super slow in our business (Construction) at that point and lots of her friends on the street would be at home as well. That was a complete fucking disaster as my partner was out of town for his honeymoon and due to some backups, a shit load of work was being done on one of our custom projects. My wife was able to help some the second week as her office was closed, but it still didn't work. Regardless, I knew it would never work for the whole summer. So for Spring Break, we did a camp at Lifetime fitness. She liked it and good news/bad news was that she was pretty wiped out at the end of the day. So now we come to summer. I've signed her up for a few camps that I know she wants to do and we're taking a family vacation for a bit over a week in July. I'm leery, however, of putting her in non-stop camps for the 10 weeks we're not on vacation. That just screams burn out to me, and fuck the prices on a lot of these things are high for a week! I had a stay at home mom, so I have no experience with this growing up. My wife basically stayed at a friends house or her older brother watched her. We have no family that can help out unfortunately. So what is the experience of Surly in this? Those of you that are single parents or dual income, do you just do non-stop camps? Is it possible to hire a care giver but just for the summer? This whole thing is just beating me down. Thanks for any advice.

So for the science tards like myself here, would that amount of gravity in an area of space make life, at least as we know it, impossible? IE, is there basically a region of space with hundreds of galaxies, each with billions of stars, where not a single planet likely supports life?

I’m just amazed at the number of dumbasses that lose their pets. Sure cats are just assholes but if your dog runs off at the first chance it gets maybe you should look into some training? My 3 yo opened the front door on Saturday and our dog apparently slipped out. I mowed, weed wacked and fertilized our backyard before I noticed that the dog wasn’t inside. Went it front and she was just sitting in the garage chilling Then there’s my neighbor that lets his dog roam off leash and twice he’s barged into my house when I’ve opened the door. Fuck OU

I have never heard the term commodork before! That looks pretty cool.

I pulled a Pong machine from my Dad's house over Christmas. Damn thing still works! Been thinking about buying a dead C64 and putting a RaspberryPi in there for fun.

The original campaign was so bad, and the whole interface so unrefined, that I never got far. Apparently they fixed a lot of the interface and other complaints with the expansions. I knew some people that played mods online for several years. They only gave it up because they had basically played through every decent mod. Figured it might be worth giving a chance again.

Never really got into NWN (though I played the shit out of NWN2), but I own the whole damn thing. Finally going to to run through it and some of the mods that are highly rated, may even fire up an online game with some friends, but curious if anyone has got the Enhanced Edition? Big thing seems to be that multi-player works a lot easier now.

Do they still do the buffet at North Star? Used to love that but it’s been 15 years I think since I’ve had it Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I like Kerby but it’s mainly because my kids love their pancakes and I can take them there for kids eat free dinner and get a decent dinner myself. I like their breakfast but it’s nothing out of this world. I haven’t exactly been dining out a ton since I moved back three years ago but I’m amazed at how blah I find pretty much every Mexican place. Flores, Maude’s, Santa Rita, Matt’s El Rancho - they’re all good but nothing exceptional. I really have no preference of one over the other. One thing I find vastly over rated is most of these brewery/distilleries in southwest Austin. If they have a nice outdoor place for the kids, I’m in, but otherwise I’ve found most of their drinks and just about all their food to be mediocre at best Yeah an P Terry’s blows. Are their the first week I was back as a bunch of people told me how great it was. It’s just an over priced McDonalds Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah this is the deal. I'd have no issue living in some tiny town as long as I was a reasonable drive to a major city (1 to 1.5 hours), but I'd never do that to my kids. My in-laws live in Graham, TX, moved their when my wife went to college, and I can't imagine raising kids there.

The number one thing driving our real estate prices is people moving here, tourism (AirBnB, etc) has a marginal effect. We have had roughly 30k people moving here year for over a decade which means we need roughly 15k new housing units each year to keep equilibrium. The best we’ve done is 13,500. It’s basic supply and demand. Code Next was supposed to help address that imbalance but of course the NIMBY crowd has gutted it Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I found it hilarious when Will Wheaton read the line calling Will Wheaton an old geezer

Greatest group of assholes in Britannia? I'm in. So I had an account when it first launched. I played for a few months, never got very far in it or did anything special with my character. Would it be worth it to try to revive this, or just do a new account?

Can we get this moved to the new book forum?