Author Topic: Please share your triumph of the day (Read 787490 times)

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #420 on:** December 19, 2014, 10:32:37 AM »

Having no obligation to buy anything for anyone on Christmas

Granted I am gonna buy my mom a briefcase though since I heard she wants one, but that's it.

I'm a Puppy! · « **Reply #421 on:** December 19, 2014, 11:11:43 AM »

My second youngest got his yellow belt last night, so to celebrate I decided to introduce him to Jackie Chan.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #422 on:** December 21, 2014, 03:38:44 PM »

I saw gas for $1.98 yesterday. Newt Gingrich promised if we voted for him, he'd get gas down to $2, but even though we didn't elect him, he decided to do it anyway.

Good Guy Newt

seagrams hotsauce · « **Reply #423 on:** December 21, 2014, 05:26:51 PM »

Barbequed in the snow

toku · « **Reply #424 on:** December 21, 2014, 11:47:22 PM »

homemade cherry moonshine from the carolinas

Atramental · « **Reply #425 on:** December 22, 2014, 12:00:57 AM »

sarslip · « **Reply #426 on:** December 22, 2014, 08:38:16 AM »

Short work week.

bork · « **Reply #427 on:** December 22, 2014, 09:08:12 AM »

Was sleeping on the train this morning and missed my stop. Got off at the next station and walked, to the train that just arrived on the other side of the platform, like a boss. Lost literally two minutes of time and got back to my stop, still seeing people from the previous train going up the escalator.

Quote from: sarslip on December 22, 2014, 08:38:16 AM

Short work week.

Next week too!

sarslip · « **Reply #428 on:** December 22, 2014, 10:04:19 AM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov on December 21, 2014, 03:38:44 PM

I saw gas for $1.98 yesterday. Newt Gingrich promised if we voted for him, he'd get gas down to $2, but even though we didn't elect him, he decided to do it anyway. Good Guy Newt

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #429 on:** December 22, 2014, 11:46:58 AM »

Quote from: sarslip on December 22, 2014, 08:38:16 AM

Short work week.

today is my last day, feels good. Gonna catch up with all the shit I've put off lately - Homeland, Path of Exile's new patch, Skyrim, reading, etc.

Am_I_Anonymous · « **Reply #430 on:** December 22, 2014, 11:48:28 AM »

Working until wednesday. Then we're going to my mom's for christmas. I miss mom so this should be fun.

Had a work xmas party yesterday and got out for less than 2,500. Which is great.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #431 on:** December 22, 2014, 11:50:54 AM »

Working til Wednesday, then off to the

sarslip · « **Reply #432 on:** December 22, 2014, 11:52:09 AM »

pittsburgh for new years, welcoming all suggestions, never been.

Am_I_Anonymous · « **Reply #433 on:** December 22, 2014, 11:56:55 AM »

Quote from: sarslip on December 22, 2014, 11:52:09 AM

pittsburgh for new years, welcoming all suggestions, never been.

Well you got to eat at Primanti brothers at least once. Provided you aren't a vegetarian.

And if you're so inclined, Pipers Pub is a pretty good place for a night out.

And of course there is the Andy Warhol museum...which is pretty cool

Or if science is more your thing, go here

Or, ya know

sarslip · « **Reply #434 on:** December 22, 2014, 12:21:04 PM »

all of the above

thanks!

vegetarians

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #435 on:** December 22, 2014, 12:49:15 PM »

Quote from: sarslip on December 22, 2014, 08:38:16 AM

Short work week.

no work week

Am_I_Anonymous · « **Reply #436 on:** December 22, 2014, 02:46:39 PM »

Wow 1,500 dollars on draftkings for finishing 3rd place in a game that had over 22,000 players

demi · « **Reply #437 on:** December 22, 2014, 06:38:09 PM »

came home, and started my 2 week vacation with a nice load

#whitejesus

chronovore · « **Reply #438 on:** December 22, 2014, 07:38:03 PM »

Cleaned house.
Met with an accountant, turned over my year’s invoices and receipts to have SOMEONE ELSE deal with my first round of corporate taxes.
Applied for a new business bank account, which entailed a trip to the municipal records hall, city hall, post office, printing business cards, and (of course) the bank (twice).
Received a discount on services without even asking for it (because I don’t yet really have much in the way of profits, sadly).
Went out for a four-course fugu meal with my mentor, and a couple of symphony musicians.

LIKE A BAWSE.

Or, rather, like being my own boss, but hey.

Tasty · « **Reply #439 on:** December 22, 2014, 10:16:41 PM »

First screening of a rough cut for my Christmas buddy cop short film went amazing. I'd probably feel like I'm on cloud nine right now except I haven't slept in 32 hours and am about to crash hard.

WORTH IT

Note to self: don't ever fucking procrastinate on editing again

El Babua · « **Reply #440 on:** December 22, 2014, 11:29:23 PM »

Not much work the next week and a half.

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Not much pay either.

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Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #441 on:** December 23, 2014, 10:11:09 PM »

The new grocery store after my move is a lot cheaper, I can afford a lot of meat now. Had 6 (small) chicken breasts today. O ya.

chronovore · « **Reply #442 on:** December 23, 2014, 11:09:27 PM »

Worked out for the first time in two months. Felt great, but it is a drag to see how far I’ve fallen during my two months abroad, debauching on beer and scones instead of elliptical and weights. Still: IT’S A START.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #443 on:** December 24, 2014, 09:41:38 AM »

team filler · « **Reply #444 on:** December 24, 2014, 12:36:31 PM »

gas just dropped from 2.25 this morning to 2.17 during lunch.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #445 on:** December 27, 2014, 06:00:47 PM »

Booked a short vacation in the middle of January. Gonna hide out in a cabin in the mountains for 3-4 days, drink, and have lots of sex with my ex. What could possibly go wrong?

chronovore · « **Reply #446 on:** December 28, 2014, 02:49:29 AM »

This was yesterday's triumph: I managed to get my year-end cleaning done before year's end. Took the whole day.

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #447 on:** December 29, 2014, 08:07:25 PM »

Used the Taco Bell app to order and pick up a beef crunch wrap slider add onions and red sauce and a cheesey potato burrito, beans instead of beef add onions and red sauce. Pretentious ordering at Taco Bell without having to actually say it

TVC15 · « **Reply #448 on:** December 29, 2014, 08:10:51 PM »

I just threw up a pretty awesome taco salad I had earlier today while dining with Cruncheon.

toku · « **Reply #449 on:** December 29, 2014, 08:18:58 PM »

congrats!

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #450 on:** December 29, 2014, 09:34:06 PM »

did you get a refund?

Yeti · « **Reply #451 on:** December 30, 2014, 12:07:25 AM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on December 29, 2014, 08:10:51 PM

I just threw up a pretty awesome taco salad I had earlier today while dining with Cruncheon.

Did it taste as good the second time? And the third when you re-ate it?

Kara · « **Reply #452 on:** December 30, 2014, 01:28:27 AM »

I got a new doc this month. It being my fourth fucking intake session of 2014, as well as being run ragged by generating tax scenarios for the haute bourgeoisie and locating logical inconsistencies in episodes of Blossom, I made a very poor first impression--even forgetting to write down the dosages of what I was then on. Not only did I make a bad first impression, but my Russian doc made fun of me in a deadpan manner for it which of course is the worst way to be made fun of.

Anyway, I knew I still had time to restore face so I decided that I'd be "conveniently" engrossed in reading something my doc would recognize from back in the day when they came to get me out of the waiting room. That morning I poured over a shelf in my modest library. Solzhenitsyn? Too prosaic. Mayakovsky? I'd rather not be 5150'd, thanks. Sholokhov? Impossible to pretend to be excited about.

After further deliberations we need not go over for the sake of brevity, I decided to bring Ilf and Petrov. Not only can I easily feign interest in their writing, it being rather amazing, but I could also put to the test all those claims about their prominence one often encounters in reviews or articles written about them in English--though I suppose the fact that Nabokov not only name dropped them in one of his novels, but did so with a joke straight out of their repertoire, should have tipped me off to this being the case.

So I'm in the waiting room ripping through the opening of The Golden Calf (the opening of that book is top fucking shelf, this isn't particularly difficult), jotting down notes in the margins, et cetera, when my doc comes out to get me and makes some quip about tearing me away from something more important. When we get into their office they take the bait and ask me what I'm reading and I show it to them and they're like

I didn't know they'd translated that into English and I'm like

.

Then we had a furious 10 minute discussion about who I'm reading, Sovlit, the difficulties in translating it for an American audience, cabbages, and even a few kings.

Mission success.

Books.

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Then they had to ruin everything by going, "You need to get a new girlfriend." I'm like, "Yo, Mikhail Bulgakov, we just had a passionate discussion about 20th century Russian language literature that touched upon Pyotr Schmidt, I can't exactly hop on down to Andrew's Descent and pluck a replacement off the street. The closest thing we have to that is where I already live and where I already live is a place where bohemianism consists of walking downstairs from your loft and grabbing something from a taco truck that takes credit cards. And even if we had one, I'm not going to indulge in Zoshchenkoan behavior k thx."

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team filler · « **Reply #453 on:** December 30, 2014, 01:38:14 AM »

^^^cigarillo

sarslip · « **Reply #454 on:** December 30, 2014, 06:47:21 PM »

Quote from: Am_I_Anonymous on December 22, 2014, 11:56:55 AM

Quote from: sarslip on December 22, 2014, 11:52:09 AM
pittsburgh for new years, welcoming all suggestions, never been.

Well you got to eat at Primanti brothers at least once. Provided you aren't a vegetarian.

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And if you're so inclined, Pipers Pub is a pretty good place for a night out.

(Image removed from quote.)

And of course there is the Andy Warhol museum...which is pretty cool

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Or if science is more your thing, go here

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Or, ya know

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How am i doin?

toku · « **Reply #455 on:** December 30, 2014, 06:51:51 PM »

Kara · « **Reply #456 on:** December 30, 2014, 10:54:04 PM »

Quote from: filler on December 30, 2014, 01:38:14 AM

^^^cigarillo

I smoked pink Nat Sherman Fantasias (by choice) in public the other day.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #457 on:** December 31, 2014, 02:30:17 PM »

Sunny as fuck out today. Yea it's pretty cold but this has been a dope winter. I woke up to the sound of shoveling sounds, but looked out the window and saw only half an inch of snow in the drive way (none on the grass). That's the first snow since early November iirc, and the third of the winter.

Looking out the window it looks like an early October day.

To top it off I've been exchanging flirty texts with the chick who's coming over tonight. Couple other people are coming for new years but they're going to leave around 1AM or so. She's staying.

Am_I_Anonymous · « **Reply #458 on:** December 31, 2014, 02:44:46 PM »

PD about to smash....good on you, man.

sarslip · « **Reply #459 on:** January 01, 2015, 06:44:22 PM »

Ive reached the promised land

Two Hearted Ale on cask and corned beef and cabbage

:praise aia

sarslip · « **Reply #460 on:** January 01, 2015, 07:43:27 PM »

This scotch list

king of the internet · « **Reply #461 on:** January 01, 2015, 07:46:04 PM »

Quote from: Vularai on December 30, 2014, 10:54:04 PM

Quote from: filler on December 30, 2014, 01:38:14 AM
^^^cigarillo

I smoked pink Nat Sherman Fantasias (by choice) in public the other day.

Used to buy those for my 16 yr old girlfriend back in highschool

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #462 on:** January 02, 2015, 06:54:00 PM »

I put 5 gallons of gas in my car...for $10

Once I got to the halfway point I started thinking oh shit, it might go to 5. Towards the end I was like nah, it'll be just short, like 9.85 or something...then it hit 5 gallons

Putin

Atramental · « **Reply #463 on:** January 02, 2015, 06:55:37 PM »

Oh yeah, I didn't have a panic attack or shut down at that NYE party. So yay... act like a relatively normal human being at social events, brehs.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #464 on:** January 02, 2015, 11:59:14 PM »

I just had a sudden realization that today was Friday, and tomorrow is Saturday, not Sunday.

dunno why I thought today was Saturday. I went to work today.

two more days of the weekend

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #465 on:** January 03, 2015, 03:56:28 AM »

They found my ex's stolen car. Got 2 of the 3 dudes that "allegedly" stole it, 3rd is at large.

TVC15 · « **Reply #466 on:** January 03, 2015, 04:02:22 AM »

Be honest, are you the third?

Rufus · « **Reply #467 on:** January 03, 2015, 08:33:23 AM »

Quote from: Human Snorenado on January 03, 2015, 03:56:28 AM

They found my ex's stolen car. Got 2 of the 3 dudes that "allegedly" stole it, 3rd is at large.

And it wasn't cleaned out already?

I'm a Puppy! · « **Reply #468 on:** January 03, 2015, 11:23:21 AM »

Found an old score of a piece of Weiss that I played back in college. It still had all my notes, edits to the arrangement and performance notes on it. I picked it up and played through it, it was godly. Man, the younger me really had style.

Kara · « **Reply #469 on:** January 03, 2015, 08:42:08 PM »

Quote from: king of the internet on January 01, 2015, 07:46:04 PM

Used to buy those for my 16 yr old girlfriend back in highschool

Nothing gets kids interested in smoking like Fantasias. Camel was barking up the wrong tree with that cartoon bullshit.

chronovore · « **Reply #470 on:** January 04, 2015, 09:14:08 PM »

Why the hell is Meat Loaf right-wing? I mean, isn’t anyone who appeared in The Rocky Horror Picture Show pretty much forbidden from claiming conservative interests for life?

Redneck anarchist pseudo-conservatives like Ted Nugent, I understand: they’re ignorant of their own limitations. Take libertarians for example.

But Meat Loaf? C’mon!

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #471 on:** January 05, 2015, 05:10:07 PM »

Quote from: Human Snorenado on January 03, 2015, 03:56:28 AM

They found my ex's stolen car. Got 2 of the 3 dudes that "allegedly" stole it, 3rd is at large.

Do the police have any leads? Are they working in shifts?

chronovore · « **Reply #472 on:** January 05, 2015, 05:54:24 PM »

Job that was supposed to start immediately is being shoved back by the client while they shop for less expensive options.

BUT another job popped up which will keep me too busy to worry about it this week.

TVC15 · « **Reply #473 on:** January 05, 2015, 06:56:30 PM »

I'm so sick. I just got out of bed and threw up bad and almost pooped my pants while throwing up. My lower back/kidneys feel like someone's been hitting them with a crowbar. I'm even seeing fuzzy and I feel all bloated. I'm throwing up everything I drink. I tried orange juice first before I knew how bad this was going to be and it burned oh so bad on the way up, in my throat and in my nose. Now I'm watching Hannibal whilst sitting naked on my leather chair, waiting for the next iniquity to be inflicted upon me.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #474 on:** January 05, 2015, 08:04:46 PM »

naked skin on leather furniture

Do you at least place a towel in the chair before sitting down?

TVC15 · « **Reply #475 on:** January 05, 2015, 08:50:13 PM »

Fuck no. Skin on leather, baby. So sexy.

I hope this passes soon. My bowels are still so loose. I'm shitting like once an hour and it's like there's no physical resistance. It feels kind of like after getting fisted.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #476 on:** January 05, 2015, 09:45:15 PM »

Wait until the sweats start and then not even feral cats feasting on your spoiled corpse could peel you off that leather. So sexy.

TVC15 · « **Reply #477 on:** January 05, 2015, 09:49:41 PM »

Oh Arvie! Remind me to mention you in my murder/suicide note.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #478 on:** January 07, 2015, 03:25:43 PM »

Hand-off of a project.

chronovore · « **Reply #479 on:** January 07, 2015, 08:01:43 PM »

Working.

Feels good. Feels really good. Going to go do some more.

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Author Topic: Please share your triumph of the day (Read 787490 times)