Does this mean that there will be no more bad news? Did we just marginally improve the world? *The idea of a small amount of power gives a thumbs up.*
CONgrats on the new job!
Might be by a bit more than a margin, unless of course now people just don't hear about the bad stuff.
Thanks! It's been very not fun to be back in training.
Who knows? It's a brand new world we've stumbled into.
I wish I'd had more training when I started my job. Instead, the entire engineering department left the country my first week, leaving just me and the other new engineer. What's the job?
Might be by a bit more than a margin, unless of course now people just don't hear about the bad stuff.
Thanks! It's been very not fun to be back in training.
Who knows? It's a brand new world we've stumbled into.
I wish I'd had more training when I started my job. Instead, the entire engineering department left the country my first week, leaving just me and the other new engineer. What's the job?
I guess the only way to find out is to do something awful and see if the other person hears about it.
That sounds terrible, who planned it out that way? Same thing, different company. CAD work for a die-making company.
Who knows? It's a brand new world we've stumbled into.
I wish I'd had more training when I started my job. Instead, the entire engineering department left the country my first week, leaving just me and the other new engineer. What's the job?
I guess the only way to find out is to do something awful and see if the other person hears about it.
That sounds terrible, who planned it out that way? Same thing, different company. CAD work for a die-making company.
Should we play a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors to see who gets has to do the terrible thing?
People who were not communicating with each other. At least you should mostly know what you're doing then.
Aw, man, sorry I never replied! I kept thinking I did, for some reason. Yeah, absolutely!
Oh, yeah, I remember Essa, and I vaguely remember King. That sounds awesome! That must have been so cool to finally meet them irl!
Yeah, that'd be interesting to research, especially since it can affect people so differently.
Oh, yeah, that'd be so fun XD
You're welcome! Yeah, I really hope so, it'd be wonderful ^.^
Lol no worries! At this point it's a personal compliment if someone comes back to this site to reply to old posts.
It was! 10/10, definitely recommend. XD
How've you been lately? Did you have a good Christmas and New Years'? Any news since our last chat?
Lol. It's kinda sad how quiet this place is, compared to how it used to be.
So, this is going to sound contradictory in a minute, but I've doing pretty well! We don't really celebrate Christmas, but New Years was pretty good. ^.^ Hbu? Oh my gosh, so much news since our last chat. Life has been crazy recently. So, shortly before Christmas, we all get a pretty bad cold, but were mostly find in a week, except my fifteen-year-old brother, who gets this crazy sinus infection that almost got into his brain and right eye, and ends up in the hospital for a few days. So, he ends up with a PICC line in his arm for a month, and then almost immediately after he's recovered, my twelve-year-old brother breaks his forearm from jumping a now ramp while we were sledding. Then, the VERY NEXT DAY, on the way home from the doctor, our truck's transmission goes out. Within in a week, our other two vehicles' transmission decide to stop working as well. And THEN a week later, we're sick again with some Covid variant or something that had us sick for almost two weeks. Everyone was doing better, except Dad, who then ended up in the hospital with pneumonia. And now the past two weeks now have been pretty chill, but for about two months, it was just one thing after another. There's been good stuff, too, though, like Dad quit smoking while he was sick, and a friend of his let us borrow his truck until ours our fixed, and another friend of his literally gave us a car that he got from his neighbor. XD So, like I said, I am actually doing pretty well, but there has been a lot going on. What about you?
Some moms are really good actors See, that's the type of motivation kids need. Teach 'em to hunt their prey and take down anyone who stands in their way. It teaches them to physically ruthless and psychologically great businessmen.
That's a scary thought, now I'm second-guessing a lot about my mother. They gotta learn somehow, rather from me than a stranger, right?
Dang, didn't mean to destroy your childhood like that Exactly! Homeschooling 101
Aww, that's so sad! I guess the only way to cure this film FOMO would be to.. watch Barbie and The Twelve Dancing Princesses with me That and iMovie can create some bangers of memes if you're desperate enough.
I mean, that is technically the only way. I guess I'll save experiencing that masterpiece for if we ever meet. I am a great CONsumer of memes...not really a creator.
Good idea. Movie-watching is one of the best ways for online friends to get to know one another (lowkey though, that would actually be a lot of fun) Fair enough. More internet fame for me, then.
Do you think memes have gotten better or worse over this past decade?
I guess they do it while they're at work, though I feel like it'd be hard to think under the racket of the McDonald’s cash registers beeping.
Good point. Have you seen those videos of moms spray-painting their babies' toys beige and gray so that the colors don't mess with the aesthetic of their house?
I'm not sure I would've liked who I would've turned out to be if it came about while working fast food.
I haven't, but we know a family that donates all the toys they get that don't fit the aesthetic, even if their kid really likes it!!! I was so mad when I found out about it.
Lowkey though, I probably would have become a sociopath and ended up on the news.
W H A T Ok.., that's just evil I don't know if I'd be able to stay polite if I found out people I knew were doing that.
Oof, that's rough. At least I had the excuse of there being no shoulders on the steep and windy roads.
Ooh, that's a good idea. I've been meaning to eat lunch outside more often as it begins to warm up. During our breaks in painting class last semester, I'd take my burger and fries outside and sit on the hill that gives you a good view of the valley, and it was surprisingly calming. I'd often leave the class feeling incredibly angry and stressed-out, so having that twenty minutes of peace in the grass and sunlight was really nice.
Mine was a rough gravel drive, so both of us are cleared of some guilt.
We have a longer lunch break at my new work, so I take walks now! There's a little trail/sidewalk nearby. It's quickly becoming the third best part of my day. Painting was rage-inducing for you? I never tried really, so it could be for me too and I'd never know.
I love being cleared of responsibility for my actions
That sounds absolutely lovely! Sometimes I'll take walks around campus to pretend that I can escape. I know, I was surprised, too. But genuinely, that was one of the few classes I've ever had that made me want to throw stuff at people just because of how mad it made me. We'd only have the class once a week, but each class was four-hours long with only one break, and like fifteen people were crammed in a small basement in a small house sitting on the edge of campus. On top of that, the professor--as nice as he was--was not very good at teaching, and he would spend like half an hour talking about something, realize that it wasn't at all related to the class, and then start all over again, with all these little tangents and confusing details that had nothing to do with what we were learning about. Plus I had a hard time telling if he was genuinely criticizing my progress or if he was teasing me, and that stressed me out. After two hours I'd be genuinely trembling with barely-suppressed frustration, and I'd sometimes just stalk out of the studio without asking to be excused because I needed to get myself away so that I wouldn't be tempted to stab someone with my paintbrush. I ended up making some nice acrylic pieces, though, so it wasn't all bad. 2/10 experience.
That'd be great if you would. That way I wouldn't have to spend weeks sighing and pining for your posts.
Well, this job has been possibly even more boring, but I'm still working out whether I'm comfortable posting on a LEGO site in view of everybody (including my supervisor).
Uhhhh, say you're looking for child-rearing advice, and that the site is just designed to look very childish because of the advice it offers to parents.
That'll be next year. This year I'm the assistant to someone who desperately wants to leave the position he's in and give it to me.
You have a clear path of succession it appears. I hope you enjoy the position more than its previous occupant.
Me too. To be fair, he never wanted it to begin with, and I've aspired to it since I first joined staff. But also, his not-wanting-it was based on a decent understanding of what it actually entails, while my aspiration was based on starry-eyed youthful dreams.
Lol no worries! At this point it's a personal compliment if someone comes back to this site to reply to old posts.
It was! 10/10, definitely recommend. XD
How've you been lately? Did you have a good Christmas and New Years'? Any news since our last chat?
Lol. It's kinda sad how quiet this place is, compared to how it used to be.
So, this is going to sound contradictory in a minute, but I've doing pretty well! We don't really celebrate Christmas, but New Years was pretty good. ^.^ Hbu? Oh my gosh, so much news since our last chat. Life has been crazy recently. So, shortly before Christmas, we all get a pretty bad cold, but were mostly find in a week, except my fifteen-year-old brother, who gets this crazy sinus infection that almost got into his brain and right eye, and ends up in the hospital for a few days. So, he ends up with a PICC line in his arm for a month, and then almost immediately after he's recovered, my twelve-year-old brother breaks his forearm from jumping a now ramp while we were sledding. Then, the VERY NEXT DAY, on the way home from the doctor, our truck's transmission goes out. Within in a week, our other two vehicles' transmission decide to stop working as well. And THEN a week later, we're sick again with some Covid variant or something that had us sick for almost two weeks. Everyone was doing better, except Dad, who then ended up in the hospital with pneumonia. And now the past two weeks now have been pretty chill, but for about two months, it was just one thing after another. There's been good stuff, too, though, like Dad quit smoking while he was sick, and a friend of his let us borrow his truck until ours our fixed, and another friend of his literally gave us a car that he got from his neighbor. XD So, like I said, I am actually doing pretty well, but there has been a lot going on. What about you?
Yeah, it is. It's a little hard to believe so many years have passed as they have.
Oh gosh, uhh..! I'm glad everyone's ok now!? ( O_O') That's wiiiild... Well, I'm definitely quite glad to hear things are better now. XD And a free car always makes things better. How're the stories coming along?
Oh, well, bit of ups and downs... I had to put my dog down, who's been part of my family for over a decade and who for the longest time was my dearest friend. I'm still a little in shock about it, but I don't feel as awful as I thought I would, so I guess that's, good..? We're hanging in there. Anyway, midterms are coming up and everyone is stressed out, but we've been able to have some fun. Some friends and I went out driving the other night, but a cop thought we were acting suspicious and pulled us over, which scared us half to death. xDD And of course I've been practicing art in between classes and papers. I haven't written a proper short story or anything in a while, and I'd like to get back on that sometime this year.
Man... it's been a good long while since i was last here...
Feels sad yet nostalgic knowing this place i grew up with in my teenhood now is a shell of it's former self... man... i remember the times of the Chima RP i was in, and im so glad i contributed to it so well...! Now im looking at this old forum, hearing The Caretaker's "It's just a Burning Memory" in my head as i look through these sacred texts of history.
Why does Growing up suck...? im 22 now and i don't want to be an adult, nor do i want to get a job yet. And im not too keen on living on my own since my mom now has to take care of my grandma until further notice. She does come back home to cook for the fam and do some things for R&R but those are rare moments for the weekends. Since my dad works all day, Im now around 95% alone at home left to my own devices, and i just... im not fit to be left alone for long periods of time like this. Especially in rough neighborhoods like the one i've lived in for the past 18 or so years or so where so much has changed...
We were an overly critical lot. 
Started a new job.)
*The idea of a small amount of power gives a thumbs up.* 
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Fair enough. More internet fame for me, then. 
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