John T

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Headache from out-of-date eyeglass perscription - check. Headache from pinched nerve in neck - check. Headache from general stress - check. Headache from sinus pressure - in progress. Headache from brain tumor - saving for later.

Re: Trollhunter Given that English routinely rips-off other languages, it's only fair.

Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. So you like the prospect of managing a slobbering nitwit?

Re: A Thread for Random Musings We make things go...

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Heh, my wife and I have played Diablo 2, City of Heroes, Heroes of Might and Magic, Aion, Rift, Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, 7th Sea, Legend of the Five Rings, D6 Star Wars... and many, many other games together. I had the sense to MARRY a gamer-girl, rather than someone my hobbies had to time-share with.

Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. Heh, you want Peter Principle? Why are you (A) striving to make your department perfect enough to be handed off, when ( the odds favor it winding up in the "capable" hands of some slobbering nitwit who'll decide that his/her vision of perfection is more perfect, and unravel everything you've accomplished... messily? That depressing little quibble aside... yes, go for the bigger office with the bigger money!

Re: More space news! *puts you in the box with the possible cat... maybe*

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Look in the dictionary next to "Crawling the #&%$@! Walls" The picture there is turning into mine...

Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. Me: "I haven't gone on a good rant in two weeks... maybe ten days! I feel great! I really should rant more!"

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Some Babylon 5 yesterday with a friend, Mysterious Island right now.

Re: The cranky thread And I'm so wonky right now, the first thing through my mind was "Yeah, I hate it when they don't follow gravity like they're supposed to." Edit: I'm trying to cheer you up with a bit of humor, rather than share my own track record with long-distance relationships.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Have lately watched most of the Godzilla, Gamera and other kaiju films that I have on DVD. Have apparently felt the need for mindless camp entertainment, lately. Given the RL strife of late, I am monumentally unsurprised.

Re: The "Nice Happy" Thread Michelle, my wife, has landed a new job that amounts to about a 40% raise. That translates to about $70k a year. She was hyperventilating after that phone call.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Philosophy tidbit for the day: Don't look for ways to "test" your friendships. Your friends are not guinea pigs. They will test themselves.

Re: The cranky thread Sarcasm warning. There's nothing in my life that brings me more joy than a friend that gets mad at me, and then gets even madder when I try to find out what's wrong, and refuses to tell me... because "I should know." **** that. Seriously. If I wanted to put up with this nonsense, I'd have married you.

Re: The cranky thread My luck has a burnout roll. Probably several.

Re: The cranky thread There are no trivial problems in life. There are only problems we believe we can overcome, and problems we do not believe we can overcome. Finding ways to shift my problems into the first category always makes me happy.

Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. Salad: it's what food eats.

Re: The "Nice Happy" Thread Great news that you've nailed down the root of the problem. Maybe the doctor should have considered an x-ray as the next step. And maybe finding a new doctor would be a good next step.

Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. More tourist explosions, even.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Just finished watching the movie version of Quatermass and the Pit.

Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. Patriotic castrophobia: the fear of being emasculated for (by?) your country. Yep, I can easily see this as a real problem, these days...

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Just finished The Golden Voyage of Sinbad.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Watching The Usual Suspects at the moment.

Re: The cranky thread Sometimes it's not the steps... it's the leaps. We are all, in whatever capacity we may, here to catch you.