Talk about your day thread

[spike]

you should pay people to mow your lawn

free yourself

I had a terrible experience with this when my mower was in the shop last year. Plus not much point now since this place is sold as of 7/2.

Does Australia have grass?

sometimes

[Higgs]

I've recently started back at the gym with a PT as I find that commitment to an appointment keeps me going and not having to think about anything, just do as I'm told while I'm there keeps things simple.

But I swear, everytime I walk out of the place I'm like John Bender at the very end of The Breakfast Club.

[Peeps]

passed an exam today by the skin of my teeth (ITIL)

28/40

Good job! Tech exam?

thank you sir. Information Technology Infrastructure Library. to pass you had to get 26/40. I took the class like a month ago and put off the test until now. Studied for about 2 hours before taking the exam. with this and joining a national team in the company puts me in position to be promoted, question now becomes when i get promoted with the new job title. i heard the bump in salary is pretty good. though i have no idea what it is i am guessing between $5 and 8 per hour so who knows

Nice one bruv! At the end of last year I did one of those Microsoft certified exams - was sure I'd failed that as I was doing the test, but somehow passed. Now trying to muster the motivation to do another.

those microsoft exams are no joke. great job

[Jorge]

passed an exam today by the skin of my teeth (ITIL)

28/40

Good job! Tech exam?

thank you sir. Information Technology Infrastructure Library. to pass you had to get 26/40. I took the class like a month ago and put off the test until now. Studied for about 2 hours before taking the exam. with this and joining a national team in the company puts me in position to be promoted, question now becomes when i get promoted with the new job title. i heard the bump in salary is pretty good. though i have no idea what it is i am guessing between $5 and 8 per hour so who knows

Actually ITIL is just ITIL now. It no longer stands for Information Technology Infrastructure Library. I know, it's weird, but AXELOS made this change with v4 and are weirdly intense about it. Congrats on getting certified

[Peeps]

passed an exam today by the skin of my teeth (ITIL)

28/40

Good job! Tech exam?

thank you sir. Information Technology Infrastructure Library. to pass you had to get 26/40. I took the class like a month ago and put off the test until now. Studied for about 2 hours before taking the exam. with this and joining a national team in the company puts me in position to be promoted, question now becomes when i get promoted with the new job title. i heard the bump in salary is pretty good. though i have no idea what it is i am guessing between $5 and 8 per hour so who knows

Actually ITIL is just ITIL now. It no longer stands for Information Technology Infrastructure Library. I know, it's weird, but AXELOS made this change with v4 and are weirdly intense about it. Congrats on getting certified

thanks.

good to know. funny that the instructor never mentioned this (although it was a month ago so it may not have changed by then)

[wease]

Good job peeps!

[wease]

Sitting in the ortho office for a rather unplanned appointment for my tennis elbow. Hopefully I’ll get some relief before our trip next week.

[daft twat]

Sitting in the ortho office for a rather unplanned appointment for my tennis elbow. Hopefully I’ll get some relief before our trip next week.

Brutal. I had surgery on both elbows a couple years apart. Elbow tendinitis is excruciating. I think with the first one I tried everything else first for two years. When the second one flared up, I went immediately to surgery.

[Strat]

why are you at the orthodontist for tennis elbow. You're doing it wrong, wease. Just wanted to give you that heads up. Good luck though

[BurtReynolds]

I get these scam emails about people wanting to purchase my artwork, even though I don't make fine art and barely make anything physical. Apparently it's a pretty common scam, but I don't know how it works. Maybe it has something to do with NFTs, but it seems they could make anything an NFT without asking for permission.

[96583UP]

i realized some scam emails may be prominently including an unsubscribe link as the bait to get you to click the link so i dont even click to unsubscribe things anymore

never click anything

[BurtReynolds]

I was getting NFT scams for awhile, but those died down.

[96583UP]

ok i will start re-sending them

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[96583UP]

i am a gay man with AIDS

[wease]

why are you at the orthodontist for tennis elbow. You're doing it wrong, wease. Just wanted to give you that heads up. Good luck though

That would explain why my elbow still hurts.

[BurtReynolds]

ok i will start re-sending them

thank you

[daft twat]

Went to a retirement party last night for a teacher who was probably the best teacher in my school for 40 years. I’ve been at this school for 21 of those years. It felt like A Christmas Carol. Pretty much everyone who retired or left in the past 10-15 years was there, and while they all aged as you’d expect, it was a trip just seeing them and remembering what our school was like when they were there or where I was in my life when they were a regular part of it. I do not like big social gatherings, but last night was pretty great. I still left early, obviously, but I enjoyed myself and was happy to see so many people doing well.

[Jorge]

That's nice

[Peeps]

Went to a retirement party last night for a teacher who was probably the best teacher in my school for 40 years. I’ve been at this school for 21 of those years. It felt like A Christmas Carol. Pretty much everyone who retired or left in the past 10-15 years was there, and while they all aged as you’d expect, it was a trip just seeing them and remembering what our school was like when they were there or where I was in my life when they were a regular part of it. I do not like big social gatherings, but last night was pretty great. I still left early, obviously, but I enjoyed myself and was happy to see so many people doing well.

is this the same school you went to as a youngster?