Please share your triumph of the day

[Valkyrie]

I passed an unexpected written drivers license test today.

Do you not remember eating one?

Careful, that's a dad level joke.

[TVC15]

I passed an unexpected written drivers license test today.

Unexpected?

Minority teenagers held me down in an alley and made me take it.

[Valkyrie]

Fixed my water soaked phone by wrapping the SIM tray in thin paper and shoving it inside the slot a few times. Phone kept saying "No SIM" but this seemed to work, which was relieving since I had no rice, or money to buy a new phone. My rear camera also defogged itself the same day. I probably should rice it anyway but I think it'll be fine.

[chronovore]

Fixed my water soaked phone by wrapping the SIM tray in thin paper and shoving it inside the slot a few times. Phone kept saying "No SIM" but this seemed to work, which was relieving since I had no rice, or money to buy a new phone. My rear camera also defogged itself the same day. I probably should rice it anyway but I think it'll be fine.

All those years in Japan, and suddenly you have no rice?

 

[Valkyrie]

Our local rice is  g a r b a g e. It's gonna take a while until I'll accept it again.

[hungrynoob]

dont use rice to dry electronics, doesnt work, myth was born because camera equipment was transported in rice to keep dry in the older days.

Use cat litter, much better, just make sure you have some compressed air for after.

[Rufus]

Or silica gel, but that may be more expensive and I don't know how much you'd need.

[hungrynoob]

well yeah, would recommend stealing the cat litter if you dont have a cat.

[Raist]

To clarify: use unused cat litter.

[TVC15]

You can use the leftover cat litter to set things on fire. Soak it in gasoline and it’s great for that. Learned from Forensic Files. Good for getting rid of bodies.

[Madrun Badrun]

I play a lot of rainbow 6 and I just had two of the funniest games.

1)  We are defending. Im Frost and im dead.  Only Tachanka is left, hiding in a corner on his gun behind a shield.  There are 3 attackers left.  I down all 3 in 10 seconds with frost traps.

2)  Match point.  Its hostage.  I'm Monty and Hab is the only one else alive on my team.  There are four of them left.  Hab opens a wall while I distract with smoke and hab grabs the hostage.  I'm trying to block the getaway with my shield but get shot down.  However, because the hostage is behind me they also kill him and we win. 

[chronovore]

I play a lot of rainbow 6 and I just had two of the funniest games.

1)  We are defending. Im Frost and im dead.  Only Tachanka is left, hiding in a corner on his gun behind a shield.  There are 3 attackers left.  I down all 3 in 10 seconds with frost traps.

2)  Match point.  Its hostage.  I'm Monty and Hab is the only one else alive on my team.  There are four of them left.  Hab opens a wall while I distract with smoke and hab grabs the hostage.  I'm trying to block the getaway with my shield but get shot down.  However, because the hostage is behind me they also kill him and we win.

If we're sharing "cool story, breh" moments, I won two of the tightest GTA Online races I've ever had. One of them, I was drafting the guy in the last 100m or so, and shot past him just before the finish line, beating him by 0.02 seconds. I screamed.

[TVC15]

I just did really well on a job interview! In celebration, here's another story of my glory days in late 70s New York.

Two summers ago a guy answered an ad of mine about water sports and dirty sex and lived near enough to come around for a session. He told me in the letter that he always wore a leather jacket, black pants, and boots.

When he arrived he was. He was blond, butch, and had a beautiful pair of full jutting ass cheeks which, after we'd had several beers, he asked if I wanted to smell before he took his pants off. He didn't have to ask, of course, since he knew by my letter that I was an asshole and shit lover before anything else. So I went right down there with my nose where my asshole would be and began sniffing away at it like crazy. There was a beautiful shit odor on it, so strong I almost shot my cock.

We went into the bathroom, where I sat on the toilet. He took his pants and shorts down and stuck his cock in my mouth and immediately began pissing down my throat. While I swallowed it I felt around to his bare asshole and my finger met wet shit. He'd already let some out. I commented on it and he said he knew it and to lay down so he could shit the rest on me.

So I lay on the floor face up. He straddled my chest and shit a huge load of creamy, hot crap on my chest. I jerked my hot cock watching it come out.

He put one booted foot on my chest, squashing the warm wet shit. I was wildly excited but he knew I wanted more than that. So he straddled me ass toward my face, and sat right in the whole mess, rubbing his ass, balls, and cock in it, getting them thoroughly smeared with it.

I knew what was coming next and was not disappointed. Down came his shit-laden ass crack onto my face. I almost came without touching my cock when it hit me. He ground it around, smearing me totally. Then he sat back on his shit and gave me a second facial, and a third and a fourth. I can't remember how long it went on but I could have had it go on all night. I was not conscious of anything else but that beautiful ass and the stink of his shit. Finally he stood up and told me to suck him off. When I took his cock in my mouth it was shit-covered. So were his balls. But by then my mouth was thoroughly accustomed to the taste...

It took him ages to come but I didn't care. I wanted to go on tasting his piss and shit forever. When he finally came I swallowed come and shit together.

My only regrets are that he moved out west shortly after that and I never saw him again. Some lucky guy elsewhere is getting the same treatment, I'll bet. Whoever you are, I sure am jealous.

[Rufus]

Hope you get the job. :I

[hungrynoob]

 i thought i was crazy

[Kara]

My girlfriend said, "Whenever North Korea comes up I think of you."

spoiler (click to show/hide)

https://twitter.com/NoContextUnruhe/status/935471172745129985

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[zomgee]

"And then, I was on the case."



Picked up my 6th game yesterday, Who Dunnit? Needs some tuning but it is in very good shape. Deep ruleset yet simple gameplay. People will dig it I think.

[Brehvolution]

Zomgee, when I come over, that will be a roll of quarters in my pocket. 

[CatsCatsCats]

Me too, next to my erection

[seagrams hotsauce]

Not really 'of the day' per se but I've recently gotten an Anova and an Instant Pot and they fucking kick ass. Two very different approaches to cooking that actually compliment each other fairly well.

[Valkyrie]

- Antibiotics seem to be working really fast (yes, I'll continue taking them as adviced)

- Just applied to go back to school in August! I'm missing some basic subjects required to start a BA degree, but I'll be able to take them over the course of one school year. Downside is most of my classmates are gonna be hella younger and I'll feel out of place (but what else is new), although I need this done and I'm doing it to get a decent job so I can give my daughter a good and secure future. So I'll have to suck it in and embrace the temporary grandma role.

[I'm a Puppy!]

All this triumph for borians

[Mupepe]

I hadn't gone to school in 13 years when I started last year.  It was kind of hilarious hearing some of the excuses these kids would give about why they missed class or a test.  One even asked if he could get his mom to write a note to excuse his absence in which he missed a test. 

What was depressing was seeing the other folks who were clearly past the regular school age and how their numbers would slowly dwindle over the semester as they dropped and gave up. 

[toku]

[Raist]

Shiaro Labuhfoki?

[zomgee]

Well today was weird. I am not done doctoring on my Who Dunnit and suddenly this becomes available:







Again, quite a bit of work to do on it - monitor brightness, backglass lighting, and T-molding are the obvious starters but this game is in surprisingly good shape. Got it for a good price, too. I am a very lucky person.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Last day today of alcohol free january, was a good initiative, might do this more often.

[Cerveza mas fina]

212 days sober. Last week was nearly indomitable and yet... here I am.

Lmao just read this after I posted I did a month without booze.

Good job man, keep it up

[Tasty]

Last 36 hours have been soooooo good.

- Got high for an hour and banged out a blog post I've been meaning to write for a year - in one sitting.

- Cooked something I would normally never cook and it was fucking delicious (cheesy chicken fajitas.)

- Ex-roommate came over and we caught up on some shows we watch together over a six-pack (we're basically domestic partners without the sex, unfortunately.)

- Got into work early enough to grab a coffee from Dunkin, which until now has never happened. (I'm chronically anti-punctual.)

- Absolutely slew the other team tonight in our gay bowling league.

- A well-known person at my company bought my entire department two giant cakes because of the feature I basically took over and finished two weeks ago (and which two weeks ago was giving me a lot of angst because of how difficult it was to finish.)

And to top it all off:

- The past month I've been paying everyone back who helped me get my current apartment, but I miscalculated and my last paycheck had to be stowed away for February rent, leaving me mostly broke during the week my dad's coming down for the Bruins game of which I bought tickets for us to attend. However, I came home just now after a night of drinking with gay bowling buddies to find I've gotten a giant check for the deposit at my old apartment.

Was literally considering making my dad buy my beers at the Garden until this happened. FUCK this feels so good! I'm bursting out in spontaneous laughter after getting this check.

Life is good.

[Tasty]

My blog post has 200 "claps" (🙄) on Medium and hit #2 on Hacker News within two hours.

Also I got retweeted by Mega64.

These last two days have been almost too good. Now I'm scared of something really terrible happening lol.

[Tasty]

The Joy of JavaScript

[Tasty]

Link to blog post?

I'm usually not cagey about my IRL self here but ehhh I'll just PM ya anyways.

[Madrun Badrun]

My clocks are fucked (all year) and today I got such a good sleep I thought it was daylight savings and that I got an extra hour.  I did not. 

[chronovore]

I think I kicked my cold's ass. Managed to get out, get some work done, and am going to bed without nighttime cold medicine.

[Oblivion]

Got hired for a new job with higher pay. Woo!

[Oblivion]

- Antibiotics seem to be working really fast (yes, I'll continue taking them as adviced)

- Just applied to go back to school in August! I'm missing some basic subjects required to start a BA degree, but I'll be able to take them over the course of one school year. Downside is most of my classmates are gonna be hella younger and I'll feel out of place (but what else is new), although I need this done and I'm doing it to get a decent job so I can give my daughter a good and secure future. So I'll have to suck it in and embrace the temporary grandma role.

I did the same thing with going to school with classmates a lot younger than me.

It was less bearable than I thought. But it helped that I wasn't the only one.

I hadn't gone to school in 13 years when I started last year.  It was kind of hilarious hearing some of the excuses these kids would give about why they missed class or a test.  One even asked if he could get his mom to write a note to excuse his absence in which he missed a test. 

What was depressing was seeing the other folks who were clearly past the regular school age and how their numbers would slowly dwindle over the semester as they dropped and gave up.

Hey, good on you guys for going back to school. What are you guys studying?

My last few years wrapping up my bachelor's made me finally start realizing the age gap between me and most of my classmates was. There were the odd 40-50 year olds as well in classes mostly full of kids in their early 20s, so I didn't feel too embarrassed. Of course it helps that I can pass for a mid 20 year old.

[Mupepe]

I’m going for mechanical engineering. I’m in my 2nd year and it’s gotten a lot easier now that I’ve built my schedule and I’m used to it.

[Raist]

There's no fucking way I could get back to studying

glhf tho brehs.

[Huff]

I’m considering an MBA or MHA but the programs I’m looking at are built for people in the workforce so everyone would likely be my age or older

[TVC15]

Pray for TVC’s triumph. Big interview today. This is the job I want!

Good mojo! I’ll start:

[TVC15]

No updates?

I think it went very well. I walked out of the interview loop feeling more confident that I nailed it than I ever have in the past. The job sounds like a great fit for me and the company’s culture seems great. There’s a dog park on the roof of the building. During my interviews, I was stationed in the same room all day, and three cats passed by the conference room window in the the time I was there. I’m used to dogs in the workplace, but here, people bring their f’n cats. I better get this job.

[Valkyrie]

In-office cats?

You better have nailed that interview enough for ALL of us to get a job there.

[Raist]

The cats are the HR staff.

[Snoopycat_]

I am watching a film about giant fire spiders called Lavantula. It not as good as Sharknado 5 but what is

[Corporal]

I have shed the shackles of mortal flesh and have the GPS track to prove it.


All I did was visit a friend, go to a restaurant to eat some Sushi with them, and buy a few things at a nearby Asia market. Just look how I masterfully phased through solid concrete and massive buildings and danced straight across a minor but still very busy highway.

I rock.

Oh, and I also managed to finally achieve the recommended 8000 steps per day. Well, I guess the sushi might have offset any gains, but hey, baby steps. Eight Fucking Thousand of them. Now I only need to get used to all this walking.

(So yeah, my Smartwatch miiiiight just have a few issues with losing the GPS signal inside buildings)

[Valkyrie]

I survived meeting both my ex (after 4 months) and my dad the same week. Ironically both are people I wish I could cut out, but can't because of my daughter. Also ironic (but a blessing) is that neither of them live in this country, so I don't have to see them again for many months.

[chronovore]

I survived meeting both my ex (after 4 months) and my dad the same week. Ironically both are people I wish I could cut out, but can't because of my daughter. Also ironic (but a blessing) is that neither of them live in this country, so I don't have to see them again for many months.

edit: dunno what that thread was; I'd meant to copy-paste that YT link, but apparently my clipboard was uncooperative.

[skullstorm]

My parents gave me a vintage kinetic sculpture that used to belong to my grandparents. I remember when I was little it used to be on top of my grandparents' tv and I thought it was the antenna  I was always fascinated with it as a kid and now it's mine yesss. It's like this:



It's Danish and most likely from the 60s. I don't know where I'll put it yet but maybe it'll find a place near some other old stuff that used to belong to my grandparents (both from my mom and dad's side). I don't have a lot left to remember them by so I cherish the quirky little items I've managed to get my hands on.

[Raist]

That's a sex toy mate.

[skullstorm]

I'm going to need TVC to confirm that

[archnemesis]

Today I got free cake and pastries at a free open preschool during my paid parental leave. Socialism is pretty good at times.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Well its in the research phase, the spot i wanted to “camp” is not on municipilaty ground so I have to get permission elsewhere. My contact at the city is on holidays this week so ill talk to him again monday, might be other good spots id like to discuss.

Last week I was back in he fatherland for my grandmas funeral so only really feel unemployment started this week.

 I have 3 months paid leave now so taking it easy, started painting the bathroom today. Plenty of other things to do around the house too 

[Cerveza mas fina]

Wife brought me a gift (plus some other stuff for both of us)

At first I was like lol, but then she used one and I was like wow ok thats nice 

[Cerveza mas fina]

Lol no man

[team filler]

you put it over a penis and then put the penis in ur butts

[TVC15]

I got to spend a bunch of days in a row with awesome poodles.

[Raist]

Wife brought me a gift (plus some other stuff for both of us)

At first I was like lol, but then she used one and I was like wow ok thats nice 

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[bork]

Got pulled over the other day because my tag expired.  Turns out I never renewed it and had been driving for almost a year with the expired tag!  Didn't get a ticket and the cop let me go.


Got that tag renewed ASAP.  Thought I might have to pay a penalty fee or something, but nope...just $20.
 

[desert punk]

Got pulled over the other day because my tag expired.  Turns out I never renewed it and had been driving for almost a year with the expired tag!  Didn't get a ticket and the cop let me go.


Got that tag renewed ASAP.  Thought I might have to pay a penalty fee or something, but nope...just $20.
 

Don't wanna rain on your parade but they might still get back to you for that

Had something similar happening to me late last year, tho it concernced my apartment. Went to the authorities to get it over with, expecting to pay a penalty too. Dude handling my case said nothing to me about no fees or anything. Three weeks later I received a letter from said authorities saying I do have to pay a penalty 

Fool was either too lazy or too scared to argue with me and left me happy for no fucking reason 

[bork]