Hi!
Been missing you guys. Dropping in to say hello. And no, I won't be a stranger 'round these parts.
In other news, I got engaged recently. Just thought I'd share.
How are you?
Posted by adampsyche at June 12, 2006 10:43 AMYou did? To whom?
Heh, just kidding. Congratulations to you and Hotlead! I'm happy for you both - and that velociraptor of yours.
Posted by: tizzie on June 12, 2006 01:16 PMYou neglected to mention the part about being hired at the not-evil corporation...
Posted by: dana on June 12, 2006 01:54 PMCongrats on the engagement and the working for non-evil.
I'm OK.
Posted by: jonmc on June 12, 2006 02:18 PMCongrats, Adam. And congrats on that non-evil thing, too, whatever that may be.
Posted by: aine42/czeltic girl on June 13, 2006 12:56 AMAbout time you made an honest woman of her! Congrats, my friend.
I'm in at the new place - want to talk about non-evil? My first client is a pair of environmentalists suing a mining company over lead and thallium tailings. I can actually *feel* my karmic debt lessening.
But I'll be honest, my Infernal Masters are giving me some seriously quizzical looks.
Posted by: Fes on June 13, 2006 09:38 AMI can actually *feel* my karmic debt lessening.
In order to keep the proper karmic balance of our website here, I've begun selling kitty pelts.
Posted by: ColdChef on June 13, 2006 10:31 AMthanks, all! and yes, i got hired at an not so evil corporation, but how evil they are depends on who you talk to, and whether they're in china or not, or whether they feel microsoft excel threatened or not.
Posted by: adam on June 13, 2006 11:42 AMCongrats,Adam! Everything seems to be coming up psyche.
Me? Oh, I thought life was all grand and jim-dandy, and for the most part it has been, until I went off and pulled a commish.
Let's just say that flip-flops and wet wooden deck stairs make a terrible combination. I've now got a bruise approximately 6"x4" on my lower back.
Posted by: ufez on June 14, 2006 10:28 PMI've now got a bruise approximately 6"x4" on my lower back.
This thread is useless without photos.
Posted by: dana on June 15, 2006 11:10 AMadam! luckily chico filled me in on some of your happenings at the mefi meetup or your announcement would have really shocked me. man, 2 1/2 years was a long time for me to be away, apparently. all sorts of goings on in these parts. maybe online years are like dog years.
but anyway, congratulations, my boy!
maybe online years are like dog years.
Readymade, ColdChef, and Eyeballkid all had puppies while you were gone, Witchy.
Posted by: tizzie on June 15, 2006 03:15 PMI'm not surprised. After all, I wasn't really in graduate school. I was at a Catholic home for unwed mothers. After I had the first baby and gave it up, I got into trouble with the gardener and ended up staying on for baby #2.
Posted by: witchstone on June 15, 2006 11:41 PMFiled under "Things I never needed to know, but now that I've gained this knowledge, I must pass it on to everyone, everywhere":
Coya the killer got her first opossum last night (as well as a cicada for an appetizer). My dad encouraged me to leave it in the yard to see if it was faking death and give it a shot to run away. It wasn't faking.
Ants go after the eyes first.
Posted by: ufez on June 16, 2006 10:30 AMOne more reason to buy your insecticides from places overseas, where our pansy-ass EPA has no jurisdiction - bug poison so strong that one bug eats it and every bug in the nest dies like the Jeff Goldblum at the end of The Fly.
Go ahead, come for my eyes you six-legged bastards. I'll lay a Chemical Ali smackdown on your ass so hard that bugs all the way in the Amazon will raise their antennae and say "WTF was THAT??"
Posted by: Fes on June 16, 2006 02:53 PMUfez, be glad it was a possum and not a skunk.
Mine got into the garbage at the park last spring, where Pepe Le Peu was enjoying his petit dejeuner. Oh, the after effects lingered for months.
And all the home remedy shit that people recommended? Useless, including the 6 pack of extra-strength Massengil douche that I had to buy with a "It's for my dogs" that the cashier did not believe.
Posted by: tizzie on June 16, 2006 03:54 PMWow, they never believe me either when I use that excuse.
Posted by: Vidiot on June 16, 2006 05:35 PMIn order to keep the proper karmic balance of our website here, I've begun selling kitty pelts.
In tenth-grade bio, the kids who could manage to dissect a kitty (and I wasn't one of them, although while I'll totally admit to it being a "don't cut up the kitty!" kind of guy, I did, with the assistance from a suitably deranged friend, make a jump rope out of the intestines of three rats, and hung a gutted frog on the pencil sharpener after going a little bit off the lesson plan to find out if there's anything interesting in a frog's eye [nothing, really...]) Oh, yeah, but the kids who could cut up Garfield skinned the cat and hung it up on the chalkboard.
It stayed there all trimester.
(Oh, yeah, and congrats on the impending wedding thing. I had to go get fitted for a tux for my bro's wedding today. Here's hoping your groomsman have the same, "that's not my waist size!!!" moment that I did.)
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