OOC Raves

Tahquil

The marriage equality bill of Australia was passed this morning. After it was officialised by the clerk the public gallery sung a refrain from “I am, you are, we are Australian” and the senators joined them.

I didn’t ask to wake up and be this good damn emotional this morning.

Dairon

After 4 months of job searching, interviews, placement tests, and stressing out from job hunting...

I finally received an offer from the one of the biggest / innovative companies in my country! 

I've never shared an OOC Rave here before, but I just had to throw this out there.

Sobriquet

Rave for me buying Litecoin at £73 per.

HODL!

Antidas

Sobriquet said:

Rave for me buying Litecoin at £73 per.

HODL!

Don't talk to me. I day trade a lot, and sold out at $200 thinking after a 100% increase like that it had to go down. Little did I know that Litecoin doesn't give a flying fuck about what I think, and thus decided to go up $200 more

Trey

The company I work at just got acquired by Target. I had an option to purchase stock in the company when I started, but now that option is off the table. Instead, they're paying out full market value on the shares at time of merger at a rate of 19 shares per month until we're fully vested. Which in basic terms means that as long as I continue working here, I get paid an extra $403.60 a month for the next four years as long as I have continued employment here

Trey

Trey said:

The company I work at just got acquired by Target. I had an option to purchase stock in the company when I started, but now that option is off the table. Instead, they're paying out full market value on the shares at time of merger at a rate of 19 shares per month until we're fully vested. Which in basic terms means that as long as I continue working here, I get paid an extra $403.60 a month for the next four years as long as I have continued employment here

Correction - the above for THREE years kicked off with a lump payment of $4800ish in March.

Puxi

Trey said:

Trey said:

The company I work at just got acquired by Target. I had an option to purchase stock in the company when I started, but now that option is off the table. Instead, they're paying out full market value on the shares at time of merger at a rate of 19 shares per month until we're fully vested. Which in basic terms means that as long as I continue working here, I get paid an extra $403.60 a month for the next four years as long as I have continued employment here

Correction - the above for THREE years kicked off with a lump payment of $4800ish in March.

Sounds like you got some new artefacts coming your way!

Krypton

New custom perfumes*

Torinn

@Kogan save us

Melodie

Finals is overrrr, semester is overrrrr, FREEDOOOOOOMMMM!!!

Aralaya

Melodie said:

Finals is overrrr, semester is overrrrr, FREEDOOOOOOMMMM!!!

Until January 3rd (for me at least)

Time to destroy my sleep schedule!

Reyson

I don't often rave about stuff like this, but!

Today, we brought to a close a roleplaying game campaign that spanned the better part of this year! I had a lot of fun, and it was a bit of a learning curve, but everyone was great. Thank you all for being so wonderful- and if you ever get a chance to, I encourage everyone to spend time writing with the people who played, whether it involves Achaea, or not!

@Stheno, @Alrena, @Melodie, @Kiet, you guys are a bundle of fun.

Caelan

Bought a second house in Florida.  Spent the weekend and now I want to move there full time. 

Currently looking at buying some land in Wyoming or Montana but can't decide which.  Montana had some amazing properties near Glacier National Park.  But I felt true tranquility driving through / staying in Wyoming and South Dakota.

Caelan

Just rewrote my curing.  Before I had a patchwork of about 43 different functions over 1000 lines of code with a ton of nested ifs and just horseshit workarounds.  Got sick of it so I rewrote it.

The re-work has 42% less functions and 250% less code.  So far I'm pretty happy with it.  Can't wait to test it more, an in real-time situations

Aralaya

I passed my driving test!

Solnir

Aralaya said:

I passed my driving test!

Time to never go on roads again. Planes or trains for me.

Caelan

Solnir said:

Aralaya said:

I passed my driving test!

Time to never go on roads again. Planes or trains for me.

I hear AmTrak has a stellar reputation...

Aralaya

Solnir said:

Aralaya said:

I passed my driving test!

Time to never go on roads again. Planes or trains for me.

Don't worry Solnir, I'll be sure to target you last

Vender

Aralaya said:

Solnir said:

Aralaya said:

I passed my driving test!

Time to never go on roads again. Planes or trains for me.

Don't worry Solnir, I'll be sure to target you last

if she aiming for you, then you're safe!

Talamond

Kinda hard to talk about, but never let it be said I am without gratitude.

I've been going through a few things that have left me bitter and closed off for the moment. I haven't cared to do much of anything beyond the necessities, and it's been a real battle to stay away from the liquor store. Naturally, this had to happen during the biggest Achaea event ever, because of course it did.

A little ways back, I gathered some energy and logged back on, after disappearing for about a week. I was shocked at the deluge of Discord and IG messages asking where I was and if I was okay, and the excited/relieved responses I got when I finally showed. There were even a few stockings left out.

I'm a big boy, and I fight my own battles. But damn, if that didn't hit deep. Thank you, Targ (and others). I promise I'm not going anywhere.

Chubbs

Solnir said:

Aralaya said:

I passed my driving test!

Time to never go on roads again. Planes or trains for me.

Planes, trains, but no automobiles? Next you'll be telling me no Steve Martin either.

Kyrra

Probably for the first time this week I have some semblance of being a human being again.

I had to go and refill my script for Metformin and worked out in the process that I'm actually rocking a bacterial infection in my throat and my doctor should have given me a script for antibiotics a week ago when I actually saw her. Instead, I got a bottle of cherry flavoured cat piss. No joke, it's a bottle of ammonia that resembles what you never want to have to clean out of a kitty litter tray, and I've been promised that it's the best thing they have for me to expel all the crap in my throat.

Right now, I still feel hot. I feel better though. So much better. Fingers crossed I am only days away from better health!

Tysandr

Man y you always sick :[

Nazihk

It could be worse. You could be sick and poor and American.

Caelan

Tysandr said:

Man y you always sick :[

Socialised medicine ftw 

Atalkez

Nazihk said:

It could be worse. You could be sick and poor and American.

My Dads recent stint in the hospital came out to roughly $700,000.

He s disabled living on a fixed income. Great setup we have 

Exelethril

Didn't do much at work today. Made a speculative bet yesterday that most of the traders/quants on Wall St are already on their holiday and set the algos to pin AAPL and NFLX at certain strikes based on existing option open interest around the different strikes (to extract the most time decay).

After crunching a few numbers, I figured that AAPL was pinned at 175 and NFLX was pinned at 190. I made a calculated bet and risked $5k of capital worth of iron butterflies at the respective strikes yesterday, wasn't disappointed today. Made roughly $1.3k overnight and today just from sitting on my hands.

Zenii

I won Fantasy Football for the first time ever.
The gloating to the 9 guys in my league is going to be excellent, I can't wait to see this trophy that's almost as tall as I am. 

Caelan

Zenii said:

I won Fantasy Football for the first time ever.
The gloating to the 9 guys in my league is going to be excellent, I can't wait to see this trophy that's almost as tall as I am. 

Shivakamini Somakandarkram!!!

Zenii

Caelan said:

Zenii said:

I won Fantasy Football for the first time ever.
The gloating to the 9 guys in my league is going to be excellent, I can't wait to see this trophy that's almost as tall as I am. 

Shivakamini Somakandarkram!!!

I was called Jenny earlier! I may be planning pictures to send all the guys with me posing with the trophy like she does. Also, "gifts" are being worked on for the draft next year. I think they will be iced.