Yeah, a little bit. Not like a number of other places, even in North America, but after a few weeks of sort-of-hottish weather (100+ °F) I'm turning off the fan in my home office when I get home, and wearing sweatpants, a hoodie, and a wool watchcap.
TNP can remember the last time he or she got measured for a suit (you know, tailor getting up in your crotch for inseam, all that).
Not measured for a suit, but I had the waist of some pants taken in maybe seven or eight years ago. I know some good local tailors - and one who's good but who takes 'way took long, so I don't go to him anymore.
TNP has been kept waiting an unreasonable amount of time for something recently.
Sure. Impending doom. To silence my enemies. Waiting to get kicked off an MST3K forum because the self-describe "queen of the mods" has an attitude problem but appaears to not have the votes to unilterally impose exile upon me.
TNP is sure of very few things in life, but one is that he or she will never pick up Tagalog/Filipino as a spoken language.
Yeah, that’s a total certainty.
TNP has ordered Filipino takeout.
Y'know, I'm not sure I've ever eaten Filipino food, let alone gotten takeout. Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, definitely... but not Filipino, as I recall.
TNP has a favorite Filipino dish.
No. I'm completely unfamiliar with Filipino culture, except knowing a few commonly held cultural or political beliefs among those few I've known recently. That and Filipino (men.... this woman I used to work with was horrified when I suggested I'd never play her a game of pool....might have been that she was offended at being lumped in with the scruffy nerf herders who typically begin playing with a sawed off tree branch at the age of three or whatever) historically have made some of the greatest pool players (any game!) for many decades....and Manny Pac didn't do bad as boxer.
When TNP changes jobsites, he or shoe scrutinizes maps like Lewis and Clark to find the best way to get there, and revises his or her route over the first few days of commute. Or,.otherwise said, TNP takes finding the path of least resistance and least likely to have one's car totalled by a jackass very seriously, even to the point of making a more circuitous, but less traveled route with fewer potholes and potheads, or whateber.
Nah, I use Google Maps pretty much all the time now when I need to know how to get somewhere. Far more often than not, that's all that's necessary.
TNP loses WiFi signals when driving, far more often than he or she would prefer.
Not exactly...but during my "order drive-thru fast food using the companies' various 'apps' I was alarmed by how many places on main thoroughfares had unsatisfactory mobile reception. In town, mind you, not going into the mountain passes and such.
(I use WiFi on my phone whenever possible if I'm planted someplace....I suspect you might have meant mobile reception....but I suspect I have a habit of being wrong often, as well).
TNP has not found that notebook/laptop computers in general last all that long, when used heavily, and at that, not docked to a station at home with various peripherals, and subject to all kinds of environmental hazards (static electricity, dust/particulates, spills and thrills, all that).
No, we're an Apple household, and their stuff tends to last. After 6+ years my wife's laptop is missing a few keys, though.
TNP thinks a customer might reasonably expect that "boneless chicken wings" will be, you know, boneless.
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/...n/74810554007/
Yeah. That was a disturbing tale of justice gone wrong....or something (didn't scan the link to the very final ¶)...which I hadn't heard of. I'd expect "boneless chicken wings" to probably include gluten, trace amounts of tree nuts, or whatever else....trace amounts of methamphetamines, dairy, fingernail clippings, hair... but certainly not bones.
TNP has eaten a fairly substantial amount of "Buffalo wings" over the years, and has a preference for the "flats" (I guess one could call them) or the drumstick parts.
Bonus points if TNP has ever been outraged that a server provided ranch sauce vs. blue cheese.
Double bonus points if TNP doesn't really bother about the celery sticks much.
I prefer boneless, but I've had all kinds over the years. Definitely prefer blue cheese, and lots of it, over ranch sauce. And I like the celery sticks, too!
TNP likes "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood (1983):
Yeah, no offense intended to another's taste, but that's a hard 'no' from me. I'm sure it's great in the context of a disco floor or whatever they call them, but I can't listen to that.
TNP uses one, two or or more sets of headphones kind of regularly....and yet TNP really regards headphones as a necessary accomodation or tool, at best. Sort of moving air "minus."
Hey, no offense taken. To each their own.
I've been very dissatisfied with headphones lately, as it happens. Either they're uncomfortable, or they don't stay in my ears, or they seem to wear out in just a year or so.
TNP will be in Philadelphia by Dec. 31.
Not that I know of....although a good old-fashioned Philly winter sounds good enough to me. (No, not really kidding: I have some good friends a short train or bus ride from Philly and wouldn't mind at all catching up on the scene).
That doesn't "sound" good at all! I think my least favorite pair of cans, the AKG K240s, could be run over be a car or a person on foot and not skip a bit....plus, the connecting cables can be replaced, just plug and play with a mini-XLR adapter cable....no soldering.Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
TNP doesn't trust bluetooth much as far as reliably maintaining a connection goes, and therefore prefers good old wired "old tech." Generally.
Never tried Bluetooth, actually, so I have no opinion on it.
TNP knew that the wireless tech is named after an ancient northern king: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Bluetooth
Hell no. Good lord, what will they think of next? No, I had no idea. Bluebeard? Sure. Harald the Bluetooth of youths jumping around the gymnasium using radio waves of a certain specification? No, not really.
TNP can think of a dozen good reasons to take some old whiskey or whisky bottles and cut and sand the necks off them. No, TNP does not have to name a dozen reasons, such as "fun, fairly large drinking glasses" or candle holders or whatever. But even better if TNP has actually taken a dremel-style tool and done this to one or several examples.
A dozen reasons? No. But it sounds like you're off to a good start.
TNP is pretty careful about recycling glass, paper and plastics.
Negative. I really don't think it matters in single-stream recycling. I would have no objection to take recyclables to a central depot, except I lack the time most months, and especially now for family reasons. I do "recycle" corrugated cardboard, but I have zero confidence that my flattened, clean cardboard is "recycled" in any way. Nor any glass nor plastics.
It's a grand idea, but, I find it to be a failure, in most cases excepting heavy metals, various other deleterious materials.
I make the effort but am disappointed time and again. However, beer cans and such with a deposit....I'm 100% sure the scroungers find those from the dumpster and....dunno where they go after that, probably landfill, but I'm certain they get "recycled" and give some soul probably a decent chunk of change.
TNP is amazed by the soft, appealing properties of wool flannel, either as a fabric for a suit, or trousers, or a jacket, and finds that an excellent non-funeral suit, especially in this more casual age in which we dwell, could well be navy or charcoal flannel, in 13 oz. weight, or even 16 oz. weight for a colder winter.
Yes, wool flannel is a good fabric for lots of cold-weather gear. I prefer cotton in the summer, though.
TNP has seen Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956).
Yes. But I don't recall one damned thing about it. One might be shocked, but there are many pictures about which I could say the same. Those were in the days before I kept daily records of medications taken, amount of alcohol, tobacco, and kCals consumed, whether I used the Waterpik or not, weight at morning, and after work, and all that.
It is not a diary! Dammit! It's a scientific document!
Given the choice to have a made-to-measure jacket that matches exactly this absurdly heavy pair (16 oz. flannel in true charcoal) of MTM trousers for $550, from the same company, one would pull the trigger, or else pick up a cotton or linen navy suit for the hellish solar radiation months....if needed, or perhaps just stick with sportcoats and trousers during the hotter months.
Weird question, since all about personal budgeting and priorities, but that's what came to mind.
I have pretty much lost interest in spending money on dress clothes, so whichever of those is cheapest.
TNP has sometimes wondered why there are no male dental hygienists.
Huh. No, I have not ever wondered that, but I am now!
That is a strange thing. It's not a particularly well-paid job, especially considering the precision and accuracy good hygienists provide, and one is more or less a contracted worker for an LLC of whatever DMD or DDS...same with pharmacy techs, I guess.
TNP has recently come close to buying a bit of home-fitnesss gear, like a free-standing pull-up/dip station, for example, but decided against.
No, I get most of my exercise from long, very brisk walks while listening to music on my iPod.
TNP has been in an Apple store in the past week.
Nah. not that recently.
TNP still likes the iPad, but has trouble justifying the purchase of a new one.
Yeah, that's probably true, although I'm gonna have to buy a new Apple computer sometime before too long.
TNP has been in California in the past month.
False. Not for years.
TNP can name one or even more reasons to visit California. Let's say except if TNP has family down there...other reasons.
Well, our reasons late last month were our niece's gala wedding by the ocean in La Jolla, and then a week of touristy stuff in L.A. and vicinity, including the Getty Art Museum, a Paramount Studios tour (including Stage 31, where the USS Enterprise interior sets were for the original Star Trek), Griffith Park, Legoland, Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House, etc. We had a great time, despite the horrible traffic.
TNP has been on a studio tour.
You mean like Universal Studios tour and stuff? Sure. Nothing super fancy though.
TNP actually enjoys as part of "the job" some of the traditional or practical garb, whether it be HazMat PPE, suit and tie, or just a simple hi-viz vest. Bonus points if TNP can explain how or why.
Yes, when I put on a suit and tie and go to court, it helps focus me and get into the proper mindset, recognizing that I'm not just going to the store to buy a bag of chips and a sixpack.
TNP has a favorite non-American beer.
Probably not, there's a bunch of good ones. Maybe Bass Ale when I can find it.
TNP misses TV variety shows.
Sort of, I guess. When I was a kid my sisters and I enjoyed The Carol Burnett Show, especially the comedy sketches.
TNP considers SNL a variety show, since it has comedy, and music, and sometimes other stuff.
Sure. I haven't seen SNL in a long time....a long time....although it seems the players/comedians are all over general interest "news" on the web for the past half-decade or so; can't hardly avoid their shenanigans and tomfoolery!
Yeah, I'd call it a specific kind of variety show. How much "variety" is offered...well, an historian or a media critic would have to weigh in, but it meets the basic requirements of the concept, IMHO.
TNP thinks seven or even ten days is not excessive time to take off work if one's mother has died. The argument in favor is that one wishes to be available at a moment's notice to take care of any incidental tasks that require immediate response. Rather than fool around with last minute logistics of contacting one's team and arranging for a last minute reconfiguration of the order of the day, as happenstance necessities arise.
That doesn't seem excessive, if the person says he or she needs it and isn't obviously malingering or lying.
TNP has had a sneaky, lying and/or cheating coworker in the past, or does now.
Sure. People "picking up" a dropped pen (not some disposable crap, but a real one), or other such among grunt-level employees. Peer pressure IMHO is the best way to deal with disruptive people like that. TNP agrees that self-policing among workers of a certain rank is likely the only way to curtail petty theft, or to encourage fidelity. In the specific context of a large environment within which one knows and depends upon one's cohort.
It certainly helps, although better inventory control and CCTV seem to be popular alternatives.
TNP has seen the 1998 Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks romcom You've Got Mail in the past five years.
Seen it? I watch once every week! (No....I think I saw some of it on an airplane once....whenever that was!) TNP is kind of "meh" about using tablets these days, and is just fine with using notebook computers or the big ones and his or her phone.(Don't know what's wrong with my formatting here....just regular Arch with the Plasma desktop finally turned my back of XFCE, on top of an older Thinkpad T480 [the kind with the hot-swappable battery, which I love, plus is a tinkerer's dream in general])
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Well. I dunno. I still use my iPad a lot, even though I can't be motivated to buy a badly needed new one.
TNP often has dreams involving the house they grew up in.
Very rarely, although I did see its interior again on Zillow recently when it went up for sale for the first time in many years. It's changed a lot.
TNP has visited someplace from their childhood recently.
Sort of. I don't think it really counts, though, since it's part of my daily commute since I relocated to a different station. Average inner city Portland.....used to be hella gnarly in the late 1980s and 1990s, and three of my cousins grew up there, where my father's sister, and her husband raised their family there among the random gunfire. Of course, we visited there frequently for suchlike and whatnot.
Doesn't really count, but maybe partial credit.
TNP is resolved to do basically nothing ¨festive¨ on NYEve this year....at most celebrate a vigil mass...judges will allow that....but no hats and noisemakers and such!
Yes, true, it's been a very quiet (but not boring) New Year's Eve for my wife and me. We had dinner, watched the last episode of HBO's courtroom drama Perry Mason, talked a bit, then read in bed together.
TNP has, by contrast, big plans for New Year's Day.
Somehow I think the window of opportunity for that question has passed!
Anyway, past tense, no. I went to vigil mass on the evening of the 31st, discharging my obligation to observe mass on the holy day of obligation, viz., the 1 of January. I think a drank an orange soda (part of it....it was kind of disgusting....likely most of it is still in my satchel in the car). OTOH For me, that's kind of a big plan. Every Tuesday I attend an OCIA group at St. Patrick Catholic Church in order that I may be eligible to receive the sacrament of Confirmation in the RCC (already baptised, yadda yadda, but you really gotta go confirmation to hit all the buttons....or something). Fr. Tim, STL, SJ, is one spooky dude. He is *all* about demonology. And he's only like, 43 or 41 or something. You cannot shut this guy up about angels and demons. Old school. Yes, since he took over at St. Patrick, Eucharist is received on the tongue at the rail. And god help you if you assume the orans position or hold hands during the Pater noster portion of mass. None of that hippie shit. He's serious as a heart attack that nothing should be added to or subtracted from the Novus ordo form of mass.
TNP finds few things more upsetting than losing a decent writing instrument, such as the humble Rotring 600 ballpoint pen while at work of all places. Including, of course, more valuable implements.
It's rare that I lose pens, but yeah, it sucks when it happens. I particularly like the Pilot Varsity disposable fountain pens (in blue). They're a little pricey, but last a long time and give a very smooth, pleasing line for writing and signing.
TNP owns at least three non-disposable fountain pens.
Uh....what? Yeah, sure it's cop tires, cop shocks, cop suspensions, a 440 cubic inch plant.
Meh....I don't do fancy writing. Much favor oil-based ballpoints for waterproof notebooks (Rotring 600) and 2mm pencils in different grades for annotating scores/books or just keeping my daily records, for which I find water-based gel disposables are acceptable.
TNP has recently been stuck on a drawbridge just when it was opening (slowwwwwwwwwly.....B'way Bridge in PDX is deadly slow) and kind of seriously thought about doing an Elwood across it.....
Would have been one hell of a fine, and likely some jail time....but since there was no danger at the time....one would have been tempted.
Also, more apropos, one finds that IRL people who have fetishes about law enforcement and so forth are much more likely to be deranged beyond the senses any normal person would.
Would have made a good cop, a medium lawyer, and an average seaman. But somehow didn't manage. Squirted out some kids or whatever and tricked some broad into shacking up with it, at best.
A regular person might say, Hey, slip out the back, Jack, or get on a bus, Gus. But some people are drawn to punitive measures in ways which are disturbing.
I wouldn't say they are inferior people, exactly. They may have accomplished some small things, or helped breech a fat kid or whatever, but in general, yes. Manic, disordered people cannot be trusted to be the "banker" in a no-stakes game of online Monopoly, which is ironically always and will always been owned by one company, and operated by some subliterate ghoul who is very likely unhoused and is clinging to its one remaining tooth.
Also, such a disgusting, dull wretch would likely not have much of an idea of even the concept of internet addressing.
Therefore, someone like that innumerate, subliterate, unaccomplished, subhuman entity should rather be drowned in a toilet than suffered to live. For it is like a beast which has become horned, and it must be sought, found, smote, and destroyed.
A despicable, unclean, wretched beast for which death is too pleasant. It is written in one of the Pauline epistles.
Actually if TNP were ever accused of being a troll or a "sock" or both. TNP would be inclined to hunt down and kill whoever made that accusation.
Probably wouldn't. but TNP would be making very long lists of names and numbers.
For example, what's a good weight for a framing hammer? Nope. It's closer to 22 ounces. And where off the turnpike is the closest hardware store? Is it near Wilkes-Barr? Nope. Way off.
No, no TNP. This current poster looks forward to discovering who called them a "troll."
Of all things.
Well, it is a corporate web, so apparently anyone can say anything and it doesn't matter.
22 oz framing hammer right to the face seems appropriate recompense for someone insulting one's own existence like a child would. Doesn't deserve to live, and deserves to see his or her own kin tortured and killed before its own eyes.
Utter filth. You *never* call someone a troll. Ever. That's the rule.
And a "sock." Of even greater insult. I don't even know what that is. Some idiot admin who doesn't understand IPv4 addressing? Probably just skin them alive. They don't matter.
And if you hit someone, you damned well better be sure they don't wake up. And who the hell made that turd a mod/admin here? Drop off the key, Lee.
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