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Post by Marxo Grouch on Apr 7, 2022 5:10:32 GMT -5
Recently started a new gig in which I'll be writing articles for a site that directs people towards appropriate graduate programs. So, in a way, I've become something of an ad man.  I wrote two articles for them in February, for $300 a pop. I only had time to do one in March (last month was loaded for me), I still wasn't feeling particularly comfortable in the work, and I got it in right under the wire, which probably caused me to do one less edit pass than I would have usually. So, I went back a day later and looked it over, writing to my supervisor (yet another fellow ex-chorister, viz. Lemmy and myself, and also, not surprisingly, the guy who got me the job) and told him that I would make a few cosmetic changes if he hadn't already started working with it. Not having received any real evaluation of my work yet, naturally, I was expecting all sorts of guidance on how I could do it better, but he tells me that it was great, they've already published it (with a few small edits) and the main guy is so pleased with what I've done so far, he's already bumping me up to $400 a pop. Things going this well in regard to a new venture is very unprecedented. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Apr 23, 2022 11:44:50 GMT -5
FINALLY re-potted my backyard plants. At least a year overdue on that project. Felt good knocking that little chore out yesterday. Boy did they need it. Rootbound-as-heck.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on May 4, 2022 16:22:18 GMT -5
They told us at the all-staff meeting that there's going to be another salary study only 3 years after the last one, and one year after they approved a 2% COLA. That almost certainly means raises for everyone. With unleaded going for $4.29 a gallon that is damned good news.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on May 4, 2022 16:32:48 GMT -5
Sending a nice box of coathangers to SCOTUS.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on May 5, 2022 20:16:23 GMT -5
Ma's doing better this week, so that's happy enough for me.  |
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Post by Lemmy Caution on May 5, 2022 20:32:27 GMT -5
Ma's doing better this week, so that's happy enough for me.  HUZZAH! |
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Post by Lemmy Caution on May 5, 2022 20:34:39 GMT -5
Interesting little "resurrect old hardware" project on Reddit. Not particularly new. Probably of interest only to geeky reptiles.
(I have a couple old Chromebooks I might try to rebuild with a Pi0W board, just for giggles.)
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Post by Killer Goldfish on May 6, 2022 16:29:26 GMT -5
My new debit card came in the mail after what felt like a month but was more like a week and a half. The old one got phished -- painful irony!
The next morning, before I even had a chance to use the debit card, payday!!!
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Post by Killer Goldfish on May 9, 2022 21:26:36 GMT -5
I'm one of those people who loathes big expenses. Less than a month after I forked over $500 to fix my washer, it died outright. I actually called the appliance repair guys to come and fix it again before coming to my senses and deciding to just buy a new one. HOME DEPOT, said a voice in my deepest id, so I went and found a new one for 100 dollars more than I had just paid to watch my other washer die.
The astounding thing is that after I paid with my debit card for the washer, installation, haul-away of the decedent and a protection plan, I raced home to transfer money into my checking account to live on until payday...and found I still had more than enough to get by on. I could hardly believe it.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on May 13, 2022 13:47:54 GMT -5
Busy trying to knock out as much yard work as I can leading up to the first week of June, when I'll have a full vacation coming up. I don't mind doing yard work, but any stuff I can knock out now is less I'll have hanging over my head while I'm off.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on May 16, 2022 14:04:36 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Kobb on May 17, 2022 23:01:17 GMT -5
My Orlando Magic won first pick in the draft. AND we practically won first pick for the second round of the draft. Hope springs eternal.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jun 4, 2022 15:20:48 GMT -5
Just got Li'l Ishiro back from the Honda dealership where he was getting a new starter put in. To my astonishment, it cost $238 less than they told me to expect AND they also fixed the window -- which was very hard to crank shut, requiring me to use both hands at times -- without my asking them to and without charging me a dime.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 4, 2022 20:14:22 GMT -5
Just got Li'l Ishiro back from the Honda dealership where he was getting a new starter put in. To my astonishment, it cost $238 less than they told me to expect AND they also fixed the window -- which was very hard to crank shut, requiring me to use both hands at times -- without my asking them to and without charging me a dime. Well that's a rare nice auto repair story. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 15, 2022 23:02:14 GMT -5
I saved a box turtle attempting to cross a busy section of the road on my daily commute. Motorists were surprisingly decent about stopping while I scooped her up and took her to the side she seemed determined to get to.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jun 16, 2022 18:20:28 GMT -5
They just raised the mileage reimbursement rate at work.
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Post by El Santo on Jun 17, 2022 21:54:06 GMT -5
Holy shit! I just accidentally bought-- for a dollar-- a comic book containing an adaptation of the source story for They Live which predates the movie by some two years!
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jun 18, 2022 4:49:02 GMT -5
Holy shit! I just accidentally bought-- for a dollar-- a comic book containing an adaptation of the source story for They Live which predates the movie by some two years! You mean Alien Encounters #6? If so, I've got that one too. Bought it when it first came out. My high school friends and I loved that story so much, we were talking about what we would want to do with a film version. We were both pissed and totally overjoyed when we found out that Carpenter had already done it a short time later. |
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Post by El Santo on Jun 19, 2022 10:15:36 GMT -5
Holy shit! I just accidentally bought-- for a dollar-- a comic book containing an adaptation of the source story for They Live which predates the movie by some two years! You mean Alien Encounters #6? That's the one! I had seen scans of the story online before, but either I forgot where it had been published or the people who circulated the scans never mentioned it in the first place. What I was actually looking for was Alien Worlds, the antecessor series to Alien Encounters published by Pacific Comics in tandem with their terrific retro-EC-style horror anthology, Twisted Tales. But when I saw four slightly water-damaged issues of the Eclipse title in the dollar bin, I figured they'd make a fair substitute in the meantime-- and they sure did! |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jun 21, 2022 19:26:58 GMT -5
PROOF POSITIVE that The Bowie had Pi  scatorial Love! pin.it/6upiOsiI tried to post the image but it refused. Scroll down and you'll see it... |
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