Jasper_the_2nd Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 2 hours ago, Pegazus said: Oh, forgot to post Sunday’s dinner here. Chopped steak topped with beef gravy and sautéed mushrooms with a side of roasted red potatoes and a bacon Caesar salad. That is some seriously smooth and brown gravy.....took a sec to realize you hadn't put chocolate sauce on your mushrooms and steak...... 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ShadowRaven Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 1 hour ago, Pegazus said: Just got invited to interview for an internal job. Deep space mission. Cool cool! what did you do that has them ready to fire you off into deep space? 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratsmitglied Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 9 hours ago, TGP said: Was that partial eclipse today /or/ last night? Well, that may have been associated with the timing of my last post 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegazus Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 1 hour ago, Jasper_the_2nd said: That is some seriously smooth and brown gravy.....took a sec to realize you hadn't put chocolate sauce on your mushrooms and steak...... Thanks! It took me so long to make! I had to boil water and mix the powder in. Put some serious sweat into it! 23 minutes ago, ShadowRaven said: what did you do that has them ready to fire you off into deep space? Oh, I wish, I wish. I feel I was born 200 years too early. I should be on an exo-planetary ground survey crew scouting sites for colony landings and establishment. Instead, I’m stuck in a gravity well. I am curious if the thoughts that go thru my brain trying to fall asleep are worth pursuing. I mean, who knows?! Matter could be a sink for space-time while antimatter is a source. Sort of makes sense but I need to sit down and do the math, find some predictions that can be tested. 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 6 hours ago, Jasper_the_2nd said: So all signs point to tomorrow as my back surgery. With everything going on with our health care system there is still a small chance that something could delay it at the last minute, but otherwise I'm headed to the hospital tomorrow before lunch witha surgery set for 1 pm. Not saying I'm not a bit nervous (they ARE opening my spinal column) but I also can't wait for it to be done. Well over a year of waiting and hoping nothing gets worse (it hasn't gotten too much worse) while being super careful and missing out on a bunch of things I'd have liked to do. So I'm more that ready to get it done. Praying here for you! 2 hours ago, Pegazus said: Just got invited to interview for an internal job. Deep space mission. Cool cool! Good luck on the interview! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Jack Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 3 hours ago, Pegazus said: Just got invited to interview for an internal job. Deep space mission. Cool cool! You should totally redraw all the technical specs so that they build the thing to allow you to stow away on it - it's not like anybody reads the damn plans once they're drawn up, right? lol 1 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Chaoswolf Posted November 9, 2022 Moderator Share Posted November 9, 2022 8 hours ago, Arkady said: So, yesterday my nose was running like Usain Bold for Senate like a well-oiled machine on three cylinders like a leaky faucet*. I was preparing for the usual week of going through tissues like a kid through Halloween candy, as the common cold is wont to require. But today, my nose is almost back to normal. And I'm not entirely sure that's a good thing. I've heard of several (and known, in three cases) people with a single day of of severe cold symptoms earlier this year. At the time, we still had heavy testing in our area, and all of them had Covid. *you know, running might be one those English words with entirely too many meanings that might completely stump a non-native Here's hoping it's not Covid. 8 hours ago, Jasper_the_2nd said: So all signs point to tomorrow as my back surgery. With everything going on with our health care system there is still a small chance that something could delay it at the last minute, but otherwise I'm headed to the hospital tomorrow before lunch witha surgery set for 1 pm. Not saying I'm not a bit nervous (they ARE opening my spinal column) but I also can't wait for it to be done. Well over a year of waiting and hoping nothing gets worse (it hasn't gotten too much worse) while being super careful and missing out on a bunch of things I'd have liked to do. So I'm more that ready to get it done. Good luck! I hope it goes smoothly and that you recover quickly. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkady Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 20 minutes ago, Chaoswolf said: Here's hoping it's not Covid. *shrug* I won't even find out. See, due to my suspecting I may currently have Covid, I'm not supposed to use the testing station just around the corner, but one I'd have to ride a couple of stations on the subway to get to. Because that somehow minimizes the risk of others being exposed if it is Covid, according to people who presumably aren't rationally intelligent enough to hold a different job than bureaucrat. (Yes, I actually called to confirm that.) I'm not going to be as mad as our bureaucracy. I don't actually need to leave home for a couple of days (home office rules!), so I just won't. This has about run its course as far as my health is concerned already, so by about Friday, I shouldn't be infectuous anymore even if it was Covid. Which means I could go to the testing station around the corner then, because I'll technically no longer be suspecting I currently have Covid. Eh, maybe I'll do that, but if I'm right, I should be testing negative even if I actually had Covid. So what the point, then? 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Chaoswolf Posted November 9, 2022 Moderator Share Posted November 9, 2022 40 minutes ago, Corsair said: Planning, or predicting? 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Eyed Monsty Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 2 hours ago, Corsair said: GEM 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGP Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 9 hours ago, Pegazus said: Just got invited to interview for an internal job. Deep space mission. Cool cool! Yay. . ! How soon can you tell us more, like what the mission is? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegazus Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 (edited) 3 minutes ago, TGP said: Yay. . ! How soon can you tell us more, like what the mission is? Oh, not a secret or anything. (Was just checking here before bed, thus the instant response). New Frontiers probe called Dragonfly. Supposed to put a quad-copter drone on Titan, one of Saturn's moons. Dragonfly (spacecraft) - Wikipedia Edited November 9, 2022 by Pegazus 4 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitterwolf Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 1 hour ago, Pegazus said: Oh, not a secret or anything. (Was just checking here before bed, thus the instant response). New Frontiers probe called Dragonfly. Supposed to put a quad-copter drone on Titan, one of Saturn's moons. Dragonfly (spacecraft) - Wikipedia That sounds very very cool! Can you equip it with some lasers and rockets, just in case it encounters the Borg? Aaannnddd Youngest tested positive for Covid. That makes it the third time she got it in two years, I think she has had all the variants now. She had her shots the first rounds, this time she wasn't scheduled for one yet.. Oh well... 1 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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