totm aug 2023 What funny/interesting thing happened in your life today?

[FleshJeb]

@Triop

The cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon /

Little Boy Blue and the man in the moon...

[GDJ]

3 minutes ago, FleshJeb said:

@Triop

The cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon /

Little Boy Blue and the man in the moon...

 

40 minutes ago, Triop said:

My daughter came by today, she is 19 now and she has school/job/social life so I don't see her as much as I used to.

It's funny, when kids are young you wish they would get out of your face.

And then they grow up so fast that they don't even have time for you.

Yep.

[Triop]

4 minutes ago, FleshJeb said:

The cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon /

Little Boy Blue and the man in the moon...

Man, I hate that song, but you made me look up the lyrics and you are point on.

Lyrics:

Spoiler

 

My child arrived just the other day
He came to the world in the usual way
But there were planes to catch, and bills to pay
He learned to walk while I was away
And he was talking 'fore I knew it, and as he grew
He'd say "I'm gonna be like you, dad"
"You know I'm gonna be like you"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man in the moon
"When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when"
But we'll get together then
You know we'll have a good time then

My son turned ten just the other day
He said, thanks for the ball, dad, come on let's play
Can you teach me to throw, I said, not today
I got a lot to do, he said, that's okay
And he walked away, but his smile never dimmed
It said, I'm gonna be like him, yeah
You know I'm gonna be like him

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man in the moon
"When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when"
But we'll get together then
You know we'll have a good time then

Well, he came from college just the other day
So much like a man I just had to say
Son, I'm proud of you, can you sit for a while?
He shook his head, and he said with a smile
What I'd really like, dad, is to borrow the car keys
See you later, can I have them please?

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man in the moon
"When you coming home, son?" "I don't know when"
But we'll get together then, dad
You know we'll have a good time then

I've long since retired and my son's moved away
I called him up just the other day
I said, I'd like to see you if you don't mind
He said, I'd love to, dad, if I could find the time
You see, my new job's a hassle, and the kids have the flu
But it's sure nice talking to you, dad
It's been sure nice talking to you
And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me
He'd grown up just like me
My boy was just like me

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man in the moon
"When you coming home, son?" "I don't know when"
But we'll get together then, dad
We're gonna have a good time then

 

 

5 minutes ago, GDJ said:

 

Yep.

And still, I'm happy to pay all her bills just to make her life easier.

Us dads are good guys.

[Jacke]

Wow, @Triop, you're a lot older than I thought you were.

I do kind of understand your dilemma.  But I'm in the opposite place.  My parents are both gone and I have no close family.  And I didn't have any children and it's very unlikely I will.

This is an ache all its own.  Fortunately, I don't think of it that often....

1 minute ago, Triop said:

Man, I hate that song....

There are many that are worse from around the same time.  I dislike them so I won't make us all more miserable than we already are.

But, hey, I tracked down issues on 3 mods today and reported them, even posted a fix for one, and dealt with an irritating config issue as well.

So slowly we make the world a better place.

 

[Triop]

1 minute ago, Jacke said:

Wow, @Triop, you're a lot older than I thought you were.

That makes 2 of us, I was born in 1973, you ?

2 minutes ago, Jacke said:

I do kind of understand your dilemma.

It's not a dilemma, I was the same when I was 19.

3 minutes ago, Jacke said:

But I'm in the opposite place.  My parents are both gone and I have no close family.

I feel you, My mother died of cancer in 2007 and my dad died 2 years later also with cancer.

It's hard, you are forced to think about life and that it's mostly hard and not fun.

Games like KSP keeps me going when it comes to the fun bit, I can always be sorry later.

[Jacke]

50 minutes ago, Triop said:

That makes 2 of us, I was born in 1973, you ?

Before even Gagarin flew into space.  1960.

50 minutes ago, Triop said:

It's not a dilemma, I was the same when I was 19.

As was I.

50 minutes ago, Triop said:

I feel you, My mother died of cancer in 2007 and my dad died 2 years later also with cancer.

My parents had me in their mid to late 30's, so it was age that took them.  Still hurts and I still feel their absence from time to time.

50 minutes ago, Triop said:

It's hard, you are forced to think about life and that it's mostly hard and not fun.

Games like KSP keeps me going when it comes to the fun bit, I can always be sorry later.

Oh, very much so.

[CatastrophicFailure]

Doot, doot, doot, lookin’ out my back door...

“Just a dusting,” the man said. “Maybe an inch or so,” the man said. “Barely even a moderate impact to travel,” the man said... 

Meanwhile, my wife just stayed home. Her entire workplace shut down shortly thereafter. There’s numerous power outages, emergency protocols are being called up, and the roads are eerily deserted save for all the Priuses and Subarus in the ditch. 

Spoiler

But damn it’s pretty. 

 

[cue raucous laughter from the midwest]

[RizzoTheRat]

On 1/30/2019 at 4:05 PM, cubinator said:

Temperature here:

Yikes, that's a bit nippy.

 

I was cycling to work in the snow last week, and then went for a walk on Sunday, what a difference a week makes!

 

 

[qzgy]

1 hour ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

[cue raucous laughter from the midwest]

[cue some jealousy from the east coast]

[CatastrophicFailure]

4 minutes ago, qzgy said:

[cue some jealousy from the east coast]

Didn’t you guys just get hammered tho?

[qzgy]

Just now, CatastrophicFailure said:

Didn’t you guys just get hammered tho?

From where I'm sitting (central NJ), not really. Got some light snow dusting and some chillier temps (-15 C or so), but nothing so significant as far as snow goes.

If you go up north more, I believe they also got hammered.

[CatastrophicFailure]

2 hours ago, qzgy said:

From where I'm sitting (central NJ), not really. Got some light snow dusting and some chillier temps (-15 C or so), but nothing so significant as far as snow goes.

If you go up north more, I believe they also got hammered.

Not all fun and games tho.

Spoiler

Eek. 

[qzgy]

1 hour ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

Eek. 

No.... doesn't look great....

[IncongruousGoat]

7 hours ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

Didn’t you guys just get hammered tho?

7 hours ago, qzgy said:

If you go up north more, I believe they also got hammered.

Over the course of the last couple weeks, yeah. The snowstorm that kicked it off wasn't too bad (it only dropped about a foot or so, which is nothing unusual around here. City had it cleared within a few hours), but some of the sidewalks didn't get cleared as well as they should have, and we had a thaw right after the snow fell... which means sidewalks covered in sheet ice. No good. Then, a couple more inches of snow, then that big cold snap that seems to have hit everywhere from Boston to the Twin Cities. Not as bad as it was out in Chicago or Minneapolis, but the place I live is perpetually windy, which as you can imagine exacerbated the issue. Right now it's unseasonably warm, though (the high today was in the 50's. I was overheating in a light fleece).

[kerbiloid]

On 1/30/2019 at 6:05 PM, cubinator said:

 

Just another day on the terraformed Mars.

[CatastrophicFailure]

1 hour ago, IncongruousGoat said:

it only dropped about a foot or so, which is nothing unusual around here. City had it cleared within a few hours

I have to laugh when I see statements like this.  A couple of inches absolutely paralyzes this place. What little I saw today was a ghost town. How much of a ghost town? I drive a bus, but today I just sat at the bus yard cuz they just cancelled half the runs. I heard guys were running so late everyone just said "flarp it, drive for a while, then come back." One guy who did go out sat in a van for three hours waiting for his relief bus to show up. Which never actually did. And then, this was my commute home:

Spoiler

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*complies with all relevant laws of the state of Washington regarding personal electronic devices 

Nope, road was never plowed. Not even touched. It looked like this until I got to my ferry, then over here on my little rural backwater island with a shoestring transportation budget, everything was clear and dry.

"it only dropped about a foot or so... cleared within a few hours..."

 

[Geonovast]

6 hours ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

I have to laugh when I see statements like this.

I've lived both situations.  I grew up in southern Wisconsin, where dropping a foot of snow in 12 hours was common and all it meant was you left for work a little earlier.  The town I lived in had less than 4,000 people, but just the town had over a dozen salt/plow trucks... nevermind that half the farmers owned their own plows.

Now I live in SW Missouri, where people absolutely lose their minds if we have over an inch forecast, and I'm pretty sure the entire county has a dozen trucks.

[RizzoTheRat]

My wife's work was closed on Friday due less than 2cm of snow. A few miles west the motorway was closed with people abandoning cars all over the place as they couldn't get anywhere.  

To be fair though it was the heaviest snow in 10 years so the councils just aren't set up for it.

[Delay]

... and six hours later I'm back with a somewhat better functioning computer!
Hard drive replace, Windows newly installed, fortunately most of my programs were on the E: drive, not C. I have to reinstall less, maybe Visual Studio, but that's about it.

However, it turns out that the old product key for Windows 7 doesn't work anymore, probably because it is being used by a different machine right now. Oh well, I can do a few days without computer too. It's not like Windows completely uninstalls itself after 3 days of unlicensed use.

[kerbiloid]

I remember those old times when formatting the system (usually - the only) drive was a normal method of software protection...

 

[cubinator]

Yesterday I dissected a cockroach!

[qzgy]

36 minutes ago, cubinator said:

Yesterday I dissected a cockroach!

Cool! Pics?

I dissected some stuff before a while ago (meal worm and a cricket). Had to uhh... un-liven them first so that was fun....

[razark]

53 minutes ago, cubinator said:

Yesterday I dissected a cockroach!

I've always found their innards rather uninteresting.

Thin, spread out, all mixed together, and stuck to the bottom of my shoe.

[cubinator]

17 minutes ago, qzgy said:

Cool! Pics?

Ask, and ye shall receive.

Spoiler

The thing peeled upwards is the circulatory system and part of the respiratory system - you can see the line of the heart which runs along the back and the branching hemolymph vessels and clear tracheae (they get oxygen to their cells directly from the air - the "blood" is separate). Still intact inside the abdomen are the digestive and excretory systems, and on the ventral (belly) side is the central nerve cord. The white stuff around the edges is mostly fat.

 

[CatastrophicFailure]

2 hours ago, cubinator said:

Ask, and ye shall receive.

He’s gonna be ok, right?