Please share your triumph of the day

[nudemacusers]

It’s six figures in Boston which is like one figure elsewhere in the country tho.

[Tasty]

I mean, if you really didn't care you would have just said you didn't care and not brag about how much money you're making. But okay.

Well, this is the triumph thread, and I just got paid for the first time at my new job.

[Huff]

6 figured for 6x the rent

[Tasty]

Got two showings in the North End tomorrow. Same or less rent than I pay now, hardwood floors, and a twelve minute walk to work.

[Cerveza mas fina]

I could make 6 figures too but my wife says shell leave me if I sling crack

Good job though Tasty 

[Nabbis]

I could make 6 figures too but my wife says shell leave me if I sling crack

Good job though Tasty 

I too make six figures.

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Of Rubles.

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[Rufus]

Got two showings in the North End tomorrow. Same or less rent than I pay now, hardwood floors, and a twelve minute walk to work.

Fuck hardwood floors, this is the real deal.

[Atramental]

*comfy*


In the midst of moving my stuff to my brother's new house.

It's going to be so nice not living in a tiny house next to a fucking railroad track and one of the busiest/loudest roads in my area. 

[Mupepe]

You're going to have a roommate? That's a struggle, breh

[Atramental]

I basically have the 2nd story to myself tho.

Also, my brother and I get along.

[Tasty]

Got two showings in the North End tomorrow. Same or less rent than I pay now, hardwood floors, and a twelve minute walk to work.

Fuck hardwood floors, this is the real deal.

I'm crazy excited. I thought my dream of living much closer to the city was at least another 5-10 years off but for some reason the North End is a fricking goldmine right now, AND it's the closest neighborhood to my new office except downtown itself. It's even closer than Chinatown which I had assumed is where I'd end up in 5-10 years, haha.

You're going to have a roommate? That's a struggle, breh

Finally going to live in a 1BR, too.

Accomplish your dreams 5 years ahead of schedule, brehs.

[Madrun Badrun]

A fresh fish store opened up literally beside where I live!

Having some Norwegian smoked salmon tonight. 

[chronovore]

A fresh fish store opened up literally beside where I live!

Having some Norwegian smoked salmon tonight.

Smoked salmon is not fresh fish.

Still, I'm jealous.

[Valkyrie]

Smoked salmon with boiled egg slices and cucumber on bread..

[Huff]

Hey guys i just had fresh fish. that was shipped from around the world 

[Cerveza mas fina]

guys if father mike is happy then let him be

[Madrun Badrun]

Having red snapper today.  Think this is the beginning of a new fish odyssey for me. 

[shosta]

Having red snapper today.  Think this is the beginning of a new fish odyssey for me.

amazing fish

[Tasty]

Having red snapper today.  Think this is the beginning of a new fish odyssey for me.

amazing fish

Worth a lot of Bells too.

[TVC15]

Having red snapper today.  Think this is the beginning of a new fish odyssey for me. 

[Madrun Badrun]

The fodyssey continues today with kingfish. 

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

[Cerveza mas fina]

I passed two Danish language exams with great marks, now there is one left.

In two years I will be able to apply for citizenship. Of course I still need to pass the citizenship test but that will be doable.

Polish citizenship Dutch citizenship

no more travelling to embassies to get a new passport no more thinking of what will happen when EU implodes

[desert punk]

no more thinking of what will happen when EU implodes

lol u think tiny ass denmark will come out okay if the EU ever implodes

get real breh

I think what he meant is that if this happens, they're not gonna be able to chase him out with a Danish pass.

[Cerveza mas fina]

no more thinking of what will happen when EU implodes

lol u think tiny ass denmark will come out okay if the EU ever implodes

get real breh

I think what he meant is that if this happens, they're not gonna be able to chase him out with a Danish pass.

Yeah that would be pretty bad considering my wife and daughter are Danish citizens. Wouldn't want to be in a position where we even think we might get separated like some families in the UK now.

Before Brexit I didnt even want a Danish passport, now I think its a smart move.

[skullstorm]

Got a new electric toothbrush with all sorts of (useless) bells and whistles for free. I already had one but two free thingies is better than one.

[hungrynoob]

Went to that job interview i cancelled last week. 10 mins on the bus ride home "Greg, they really like you and want you to come in next tuesday to meet the team to see what yous think".

Least I have leverage for a job regardless of situation.

[seagrams hotsauce]

Got an instant pot and I am about to go fuckin ham on this thing

[Rufus]

The ham goes in the pot, bratan. :B

[skullstorm]

Got an instant pot and I am about to go fuckin ham on this thing

Ooh I want one too, maybe some day 

[Raist]

gawd... ive been working on my space invaders game and finally finished how things should move

in the end, it was embarrassingly simple, but because im a noob it really hurt my head and forgot to do obvious things

still a triumph tho especially since i'm not using javascript

i wanna move on to adding, you know, enemies and shit, so it turns into an actual game, but ive been working through a book, i better continue with the book so i dont spend too much time doing a side project. i like to bounce back and forth especially since the book is supposed to teach me new concepts and shit

and i also haven't done that much seeing as how im still feeling sorta-kinda-maybe-depressed, but i guess its better than nothing

Does it have loot boxes tho.

[Huff]

I am now published in a relatively large medical journal. Even though I wasn't the primary author and mainly was involved with editing and review after, it still feels pretty cool

[Joe Molotov]

I am now published in a relatively large medical journal. Even though I wasn't the primary author and mainly was involved with editing and review after, it still feels pretty cool

Congrats, now Arvie's third butthole will finally get the exposure it deserves.

[shosta]

This isn't a triumph per se, but... today I find myself suddenly overjoyed with life. I was happy before, of course, but right now I'm just absolutely ebullient. I'm getting so much enjoyment out of the things I love to do. Got a nice cup of coffee hitting the spot. Just moved to the Mojave and the weather is nice, for now. Cheers, everyone!

[Tasty]

My Google Wifi got here over the weekend. I impulse-bought it on Black Friday for $99 because while I've been pleased with my Asus AC1750's speed, the admin page makes me want to chug bleach.

Since Google Wifi is supposed to work in a mesh (and I was just buying one), and the AC1750 was pretty top of the line when I bought it 3.5 years ago, I was worried Google Wifi might actually be slower than my current setup. I justified it by deciding to give whichever of the two routers is the slowest to my parents, whose router REALLY sucks.

The Google Wifi app is bliss, setup was mostly quick and painless, and I was even able to directly link my Philips Hue Bridge in the app. This makes it so anyone on my network can go to http://on.here to control my lights! There's also a couple neat features like "family mode" that turns off the connection to certain devices (I assume for kids) for a set amount of time, guest network (which isn't a new feature, but I couldn't tell you for the life of me how to set it up with my Asus router), and priority access (where one device gets prioritized traffic.)

And on top of all that... it's faster than my Asus router! Around 40 Mbps faster (down), in fact. Roughly the same upload speed, though, but that's probably on Comcast.

Extremely pleased with this purchase.

[TVC15]

A weed dispensary opened less than a block from my apartment!

[Oblivion]

I re-bought Super Mario Galaxy

[TVC15]

A Humphry Slocombe opened less than 300 feet from my apartment!

[shosta]

160 days sober.

[zomgee]

160 days sober.

Great job. Very brave.

[shosta]

Great job. Very brave.

It's still as hard as day one...

[hungrynoob]

I am now published in a relatively large medical journal. Even though I wasn't the primary author and mainly was involved with editing and review after, it still feels pretty cool

I was published in a medical journal because I managed to pin a frozen potato to my hand with a themometer spike.




Yours is an actual triumph tho :p

[Madrun Badrun]

New England Medical Journal of Fools? 

[hungrynoob]

New England Medical Journal of Fools?

By the time the xray had been done, and I had been waiting awhile, the potato had defrosted and I peeled it off and threw it in the bin. Whilst alone, the radiologist came rushing in, and almost burst into tears because the potato was gone, because it was so different. She ended up being the one asking me for consent for my xray to be published, so im pretty sure an "unusual cases" motif wouldnt be too far-fetched.

[Tasty]

Locked down my new apartment, triggering my first move in almost six years.

Unfortunately the 12 minute walk commute dream is dead, but it's still closer than I currently am at (should cut my commute by 7-14 minutes overall.)

It also features: hardwood floors, free in-building laundry (when ~70% of places I looked at had no laundry at all), a pretty spacious private patio/balcony, a community yard, a full-sized dishwasher (the only one of two units I've looked at to have one at all), and a parking lot for friends and family (literally the only place I saw to have such a thing, the rest were all on-street.) The place was a full-time Airbnb until now so the landlord kept it pretty slick.

Pretty excited, but also nervous. But like my job change two months ago, I know in my heart this is the right decision and a big step forward in my life.

[shosta]

Maybe I'm misrembering, but didn't you say you moved uptown?

[chronovore]

Sounds fantastic! Congratulations on the new Andrex Lair!

Changed my internet provider from NTT to a local company. Supporting the microeconomy, as well as saving money on my monthly service, and giving the finger to NTT, which didn't ever think to upgrade the modem/router in the decade I've been a customer. Recently their service was becoming utter shit on weekends:



I'd paid for 100Mbs fiber-to-home, was getting about 89 most of the time, but you can see how sporadic it became for the past couple of months. It was dropping to 5Mbs or even 1Mbs down (and oddly going 50Mbs up).

Construction dudes came in this morning and rewired for the new 300Mbs, and when I did the speed test, that's the new spike at the end of the graph. 350Mbps on my Mac, but 375 on my iPad. PSN download was also 4X faster than I'd ever seen.

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Japanese construction dudes said "Saturday 9AM" and unlike Comcast's "Your window is 1PM to 5PM, but we probably won't even show up" (TRUE STORY), they were here at 9:00 on Saturday.

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[Raist]

New England Medical Journal of Fools?

By the time the xray had been done, and I had been waiting awhile, the potato had defrosted and I peeled it off and threw it in the bin. Whilst alone, the radiologist came rushing in, and almost burst into tears because the potato was gone, because it was so different. She ended up being the one asking me for consent for my xray to be published, so im pretty sure an "unusual cases" motif wouldnt be too far-fetched.

Why is no one asking the important question.

Why the fuck were you poking a frozen potato with a thermometer spike?

"Yep, it's frozen" moment?

[Nabbis]

For science!

[Tasty]

Maybe I'm misrembering, but didn't you say you moved uptown?

Was looking at the North End but they were all lacking in some way. Only one had in-building laundry, for instance, and only another one had a (half-sized) dishwasher. They were all fairly tiny as well. I couldn't remap my priorities just to get a closer commute.

[hungrynoob]

i work in food safety.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Came up with a lame and transparent excuse to get out of a party tonight.  Now that means more time for Mario

[Raist]

You should have brought your switch along. Apparently it's THE thing to do. Including for rooftop parties.

[fistfulofmetal]

Got two my wisdom teeth out on Friday. After a few hours of soreness in my jaw and a night of sleeping sitting up, I'm pretty much completely pain-free. I'm legit surprised how little trouble it all was. It was an easier procedure than my root canal a few years back. Few minutes and it was all done and I'm good to go.

[nachobro]

Make you keep on cleaning them out if its the bottom teeth. It's super gross but the alternative is far worse.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Some kid sent a clip from American Psycho on slack at work

I said wow I might rewatch it, its been 18 years

He said holly shit ( he was like 5 then)

Maybe this is a secret struggle

[Huff]

Roommate brought home donuts for my birthday breakfast

[TVC15]

Got two my wisdom teeth out on Friday. After a few hours of soreness in my jaw and a night of sleeping sitting up, I'm pretty much completely pain-free. I'm legit surprised how little trouble it all was. It was an easier procedure than my root canal a few years back. Few minutes and it was all done and I'm good to go.

It was a disaster for me. They couldn't extract one of the wisdom teeth as smoothly as planned. It broke apart as they tried to yank it, and they had to crush the remainder of the tooth in the socket and suck it out in pieces. The noise and feeling of them grinding a tooth to bits while still in my sockets is something I can recall by memory. My mouth was sore forever. Not helped by the fact that I probably ate all the painkillers they gave me in one handful as soon as I got home.

[G The Resurrected]

Finally broke 14 minute mile...

Also broke 50 miles a week on my walks. My legs are holding up to it, but my feet aren't. Gotta get some new shoes or something.

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wisdom teeth suck, I've got metal in my jaw because of a broken socket. And now since my sockets weren't filled properly I've lost lots of my molars due to a domino like effect. About to lose another two teeth because of fucked up dental work related to my wisdom teeth.

[G The Resurrected]

I've had plantar fasciitis for years now. I wear old people SAS shoes for it, but they aren't meant for the kind of abuse I put on them. Next step is looking at orthotics and custom shoes, which I'll have to save to afford.