OOC Raves

Oceana

Weekend!

Chryenth

I had the most wonderful talk with an old friend last night, and now I am inordinately cheerful. As you might imagine, it's pissing everyone around me off no end, which makes me even happier.

Possibility of getting paid for volunteer work over Christmas, too. ^^

Mishgul

i like hats. you should all like hats.

Aedin

OH WHAT A MARVELOUS DAY FOR GAMERS..... Tom Clancy's The Division which was supposed to be for xbox one and ps4 only got announce that it will be on the PC as well!! over 100k gamers voiced their opinions over a petition and we was heard woot!

Article about it being released on PC:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/08/20/ubisoft-bringing-the-division-to-pc-in-response-to-gamers/

The Amazing Gameplay:

Wilhelmina

That's one down. One more to go.

Aedin

Wilhelmina said:

That's one down. One more to go.

I wasn't a huge fan of Destiny, it just looked like a mix of Halo, Star Wars, and a hint of Borderlands all wrapped into one.

Wilhelmina

Aedin said:

I wasn't a huge fan of Destiny, it just looked like a mix of Halo, Star Wars, and a hint of Borderlands all wrapped into one.

That's exactly why it looks fun. It's supposedly seamless, too.

Kyriella

Moving day with Dad went surprisingly well. Everything fit where it needed to, timing worked out for the various portions, and best of all, he adored @Illyose. I'll call it a win! Just a bit more cleaning to do tomorrow, and then I can forget I'm moving until Tuesday morning.

Mannimar

transitioning from the newfangled Gillette Fusion Proglide to the traditional Merkur 33c safety razor. 

I now get a better shave, while saving $350 USD a year on blades. 

Peak

1. The last of the negative people have left the office.
   
2. Several new hires translates to I have four new minions muahahahaha
3. All of my new minions possess pretty much all of the qualities anyone could ever ask for in a trainee.
4. Between the five of us, more tasks have been accomplished in the past 3 days than would be in an entire month a few weeks ago.
5. I have reconnected with one of my best friends growing up.
6. Dove season opens on September 1st (a Sunday)
7. September 2nd is a courthouse holiday i.e. a Peak holiday i.e. moar dove hunting
8. Finally get to use my new shotgun.
9. Even though I had a 12 hour day today, I am happy with how today went and with how much I personally accomplished.
10. The only condescending bitch left at the office only works half-days and I can tell her what to do.
11. Got another (small, but still) pay raise.

Sybilla

I'am "delightsfully" tipsy with clebrating after long day! woop

Sherazad

Life is going to be almost back to normal in a few days. Almost done cleaning a mountain of flooded stuff, it's been like days and days of doing laundry >.>. The local government somehow noticed we've been flooded and gave us relief goods a few days after the disaster. Best of all, I've managed to put my lolbuntu hard drive from my broken Samsung N150 Plus into my inherited Emachine EM350 and it's not crapping out yet! I'll try to post a pic of my broken netbook and the new one in celebration.

Ruth

This is not technically a rave, but god. I went to watch the Conjuring and it scared the bejeebus out of me. Honest to ground, I couldn't watch some of the scenes and the sound effects were terrifying.

I guess the true rave is: I managed to survive through the entire movie though.

NEVER AGAIN.

Sherazad

Ruth said:

This is not technically a rave, but god. I went to watch the Conjuring and it scared the bejeebus out of me. Honest to ground, I couldn't watch some of the scenes and the sound effects were terrifying. I guess the true rave is: I managed to survive through the entire movie though. NEVER AGAIN.

Man, I love The Conjuring. Usually, I feel cheated by horror movies but not this one. It had scares that made me jump but I liked it more for having a good story and presentation. I got a bit teary-eyed in one of the last scenes, dem feels! 

Also wheee, netbook.

Transfer complete, rawr! I missed you, Achaea! xD. Dat sense of accomplishment when their hard drives look identical and errything worked! >D Also saved monies for a new TV instead of having someone do this for me. 

EDIT: >.> Don't look at the clutter, we're still in the process of cleaning up. 

Arador

Last year we bought a place in a semi rural area. Very close to everything but on the edge of the city were it is nice and calm. We have been saying how perfect it is for biking but today I decided to go out and buy two mountain bikes. What a lovely time. Just coasting up and down, exploring the area with a cool August breeze.

Arador

Update: MY LEGS! MY ASS! WHY DID I DO THIS?!

Hyraeth

This weekend's book haul!

\o/

The boxed set is Proust!

Katzchen

Arador said:

Update: MY LEGS! MY ASS! WHY DID I DO THIS?!

Try biking with not one but two kids on your bike... about an extra 40kgs. Flat was fine, did a 20km ride like that once, could have done twice that, but hills.... aaaagh.

Why did I have to do this every time we went out on the bikes? Because my ex bought a bike with fancy brakes, and neither of the kid's seats would fit on on his bike. I'm glaring at you @Valden.


Also I want my bike back. Too far to get it down here where I'm living right now.

Ruth

I've rarely had the occasion to get shit faced drunk (without even trying, I'm really light weight) but today was the day. Amazingly, I managed to get home safe and sound, without being fleeced by the taxi driver.

I love that Singapore is comparitively safer than other countries. Also, I sound really sober online than I do in real life, thanks to autocorrect. Yay.

Synbios

Ruth said:

I've rarely had the occasion to get shit faced drunk (without even trying, I'm really light weight) but today was the day. Amazingly, I managed to get home safe and sound, without being fleeced by the taxi driver. I love that Singapore is comparitively safer than other countries. Also, I sound really sober online than I do in real life, thanks to autocorrect. Yay.

@Ruth: Oh, thanks for reminding me. I spoke with my nemesis in my internship(with a reasonably reinforced force field protecting me, of course). It turns out her name was also Ruth. No doubt this human is your doppelganger. You IRL  Occultist you.

I'm watching you, human.

Kyriella

Celebrating @Illyose's birthday today!! Already had a fantastic breakfast with friends, and now settling in to play an awesome goblin-based Pathfinder game. Best day!

Aitox

This is too good not to share and it made laugh like I have not laughed in a long time (a.k.a clenching your stomach trying to stop), that is my rave:

This review is from: Veet for Men Hair Removal Gel Creme 200 ml (Personal Care)After having been told my danglies looked like an elderly rastafarian I decided to take the plunge and buy some of this as previous shaving attempts had only been mildly succesful and I nearly put my back out trying to reach the more difficult bits. Being a bit of a romantic I thought I would do the deed on the missus's birthday as a bit of a treat.I ordered it well in advance and working in the North sea I considered myself a bit above some of the characters writing the previous reviews and wrote them off as soft office types...oh my fellow sufferers how wrong I was. I waited until the other half was tucked up in bed and after giving some vague hints about a special surprise I went down to the bathroom. Initially all went well and I applied the gel and stood waiting for something to happen. I didn't have long to wait.At first there was a gentle warmth which in a matter of seconds was replaced by an intense burning and a feeling I can only describe as like being given a barbed wire wedgie by two people intent on hitting the ceiling with my head. Religion hadn't featured much in my life until that night but I suddenly became willing to convert to any religion to stop the violent burning around the turd tunnel and what seemed like the destruction of the meat and two veg. Struggling to not bite through my bottom lip I tried to wash the gel of in the sink and only succeeded in blocking the plughole with a mat of hair. Through the haze of tears I struggled out of the bathroom across the hall into the kitchen by this time walking was not really possible and I crawled the final yard to the fridge in the hope of some form of cold relief. I yanked the freezer drawer out and found a tub of ice cream, tore the lid of and positioned it under me. The relief was fantastic but only temporary as it melted fairly quickly and the fiery stabbing soon returned .Due to the shape of the ice cream tub I hadn't managed to give the starfish any treatment and I groped around in the drawer for something else as I was sure my vision was going to fail fairly soon.I grabbed a bag of what I later found out was frozen sprouts and tore it open trying to be quiet as I did so.I took a handful of them and tried in vain to clench some between the cheeks of my arse. This was not doing the trick as some of the gel had found it's way up the chutney channel and it felt like the space shuttle was running it's engines behind me.This was probably and hopefully the only time in my life I was going to wish there was a gay snowman in the kitchen which should give you some idea of the depths I was willing to sink to in order to ease the pain. The only solution my pain crazed mind could come up with was to gently ease one of the sprouts where no veg had gone before.Unfortunately, alerted by the strange grunts coming from the kitchen the other half chose that moment to come and investigate and was greeted by the sight of me, arse in the air, strawberry ice cream dripping from my bell end pushing a sprout up my arse while muttering..." Ooooh that feels good ". Understandably this was a shock to her and she let out a scream and as I hadn't heard her come in it caused an involutary spasm of shock in myself which resulted in the sprout being ejected at quite some speed in her direction. I can understand that having a sprout farted against your leg at 11 at night in the kitchen probably wasn't the special surprise she was expecting and having to explain to the kids the next day what the strange hollow in the ice cream was didn't improve my status...So to sum it up Veet removes hair, dignity and self respect...

Aedin

@Aitox Good lord, I had tears from laughing so hard!

Synbios

@Aitox: 

The best part about playing a MUD for a long time - it's easy to mentally convert the text that you read into vivid and incredibly detailed imagery.

The worst part about playing a MUD for a long time - it's easy to mentally convert the text that you read into vivid and incredibly detailed imagery THAT WILL FOREVER HAUNT YOU, IMMUNE TO ANY ATTEMPTS TO BLEACH YOUR NEURAL CENTERS AS THE SORDID MEMORIES JUXTAPOSE ITSELF INTO YOUR VISION IN THE MOST INOPPORTUNE MOMENTS, WHILE IT TAKES A SIP OF CTHULHIANTI, SMILING WITH THE KNOWING GRIN OF UTTERLY-SATISFIED SCHADENFREUDE AS YOU CLAW OUT YOUR OPTICAL RECEPTORS IN A VAIN ATTEMPT AT ENDING YOUR NOW-PATHETIC EXISTENCE, WHILE DECLARING WITH SMUG CERTAINTY: 

So always remember, humans: Donate to your nearest shrine. Youkai wars are bad.

Mako

Synbios nothing has ever explained the way i feel about achaea more than this

Chryenth

I met a guy called J. Hirst today.

For a fraction of a second, I was sorely tempted to ask if he kept a journal.

Hyraeth

My first Masters course outline approved (Gothic Literature, Film and Popular Culture). Now, if this elective course has takers, I'll have the unholy pleasure of dedicating an entire week to Cthulhu.

Mwah hahahaha

Wysteria

We can text messages to our courier drivers using our email systems - one driver who was having a pretty bad day was annoyed to the hilt about something I couldn't pinpoint. Found out it was his birthday. So I sent an email out to the office stating this and he ended up getting 70 happy birthday messages and all the staff saying the same when they rang him up for updates. Apparently he teared him in front of a customer about it. 

He figured out it was me and managed to get the base managers to thank me for fixing him up. Turns out he has severe depression and was rather close to doing something regrettable. See, I hate this job so much I want to quit each day - but when staff stick together for something like this...it can be worth it... 

Synbios

Wysteria said:

We can text messages to our courier drivers using our email systems - one driver who was having a pretty bad day was annoyed to the hilt about something I couldn't pinpoint. Found out it was his birthday. So I sent an email out to the office stating this and he ended up getting 70 happy birthday messages and all the staff saying the same when they rang him up for updates. Apparently he teared him in front of a customer about it. 

He figured out it was me and managed to get the base managers to thank me for fixing him up. Turns out he has severe depression and was rather close to doing something regrettable. See, I hate this job so much I want to quit each day - but when staff stick together for something like this...it can be worth it... 

Good Human Female @Wysteria: Had many encounters with scumbag human customers in her workplace - still finds it in her heart to do good in this world...or at least in her workplace.

You are a credit to your race, human. 

Wysteria

Thanks @Synbios. I guess it's because it takes one to know one...