Dark Alex's Really Long Post Thread.

[Alex]

that's star trek based? hhmm... i THINK i saw that available on one of the roku channels, i'll check it out soon. glad you're feeling okay!

Star Wars m'dear. Jango and Boba Fett were both Mandalorians.

[chefzombie]

oh. oh well. 

[Alex]

Been a busy old weekend in class del Corbett. I've been sorting through my old Warhammer 40K stuff looking at getting rid of some of it. The space marines have been up first. Some of them are amongst the very first marines GW ever made when for some reason they thought giving marines las guns Would be a good idea. Ever seen Toy Story where Woody taunts Buzz about his blinky light? Well that's las guns In 40K.

Anyway, Kristi decided to clear out our hall cupboards. We are getting rid of a load of jackets we don't need (which will do to a local charity to be donated to people who can use them, along with some bed sheets and quilt covers we have never used as we have too damn many).

Ash has a cold but is still being his cheerful self. He isn't sleeping as much as we'd like though. He woke up about two am this morning. I just took him through to our bed and cuddled him in a way that lets him turn around and make himself comfortable but makes it clear that escaping from my arms and playing on the bed is not an option. He's learned to just lie still when I do that.

Indeed he lay that way quietly for two hours before he fell asleep.

Once he fell asleep that's when I let go. Trouble is he is a very mobile sleeper and it ended up with me and Kristi sleeping on opposite edges of the bed trying not to fall out while he dominated the middle ground.

Downstairs still needs some work, but is looking much better. I can see us continuing to get rid of stuff though. The next project I think will be the garage and I've already dropped some hints about a few things I'd like to get rid of.

[chefzombie]

de-hoarding is what i call it. it's a strange process, isn't it? once you get started, you really do realize how much stuff you have that you don't really know WHY you have so much of it. like, WH did we have 2 DOZEN bath towels? and my answer to myself was" because you hate empty shelves". and WHY did i have 3 sets of pots/pans that never came out of the box? and don't get me started on blankets, lol, we donated at least 25 to my friends homeless outreach.
  we still have too much " stuff" , but we use it most of it regularly now, except for curtis's tshirt collection, and i won't make him get rid of those. just like i don't get rid of my platters, sentimental value.

[Alex]

Over the past year Barri, I've gotten rid of 5 full black bags to tee shirts. I may have to ask people to stop buying me more of them. Certainly I am going to ask them not to buy me Xmas tee-shirts. They generally get worn once and then never again and it seems like a big waste to me.

So found out today my time in my current place of work is coming to an end. Next April my time there runs out and I'll be moving on to what should be my final posting. It might be anything up to a year after that before I actually get moved, but it is coming. I had mentioned to Kristi the possibility of volunteering for a particular job. She had mostly demurred off but now it is a case of we either jump or we get pushed. I was hoping to see out my time in the house we are in, but I guess it is in the hands of other people and I can only control so of my own life while I am in this job.

Not sure what I'd do if I don't get the one I am looking at though. Would have to see how things go from there. Just need no major wars to break out between now and summer 2023. Mind you, no major wars after that date would be good too. Always seems some big threat to the world though. When I was a kid, it was nuclear annihilation, now it is the environment. Doubtless, every generation in every place has had its threat. Half the time whatever particular danger comes up is a consequence of how the previous one was dealt with.

Oh that reminds me. Stresshead Jim was driving home from work and (this is his version of the story anyway) he decided he urgently needed a pee, so he drove his car into a nearby field and got his car stuck there. He phoned one of the other guys who has a four by four to come tow him out. Said guy got his four by four stuck in the mud too, although he did eventually manage to get it out and rescue Jim into the bargain. At one point Jim looked out his window to see when the tow rope was going to go taunt and got a face full of mud kicked up by the 4x4's tyres. Anyway, Jim is sticking to his story of that being why he drove into the field. I have questioned the guy who rescued him and there was plenty of space for him to have parked up, outside the field and wandered in. He was only ten minutes from his own house and did he really need to go that badly?

I suspect the truth lies in Jim's current mobile phone game of choice (Pokemon).

Anyway, Jim now keeps finding copies of the picture of his stuck car stuck in all the most unusual places.

[chefzombie]

i would be willing to contribute to a fund to buy stresshead jim a pee bottle, lol!
  now, seriously, where would you land if you volunteer and get that job? and what would housing be like? *kristi my dear research queen, would it be okay for all of you?* i worry...
  again,seriously, WHY are they jerking your chain like this? you're GOOD at what you do, and you're within 4 years( i think?) of retirement, it doesn't make sense to me.
  curtis's tshirts are all stuff from shows we,or he, has been to, and some are from my travels. mostly long sleeved florida stuff from me, he likes those, oddly enough. a few have gone to dust, of course, but i try to make artwork from them when i can, or at least cut a piece to go on the matboard with ticket stubs. those dang stubs were HELL for me, i had to look inside all of the LPs to find them all, and in coat pockets and such, but those are his physical memories of shows, if that makes sense.. they're important. now, yes, i donated about 50 tshirts that were just..shirts, from both of us, my beloved MIL was notorious for sending us unwanted clothing,bless her heart!

[justme2013]

I'm hijacking your thread with a picture of your mini me, wearing a black t-shirt and jeans while watching a bad movie.

https://imgur.com/a/WpoB3lE

[Alex]

In my job they consider it a good idea to move people around to give them a wide experience base. I am coming up to 5 years in post and that's when they like to move you on.

[chefzombie]

freakin bureaucrats...

[Alex]

Discovered last night that Kristi had never seen the remake of Slither, so tonight we are watching it. Played some hands of Jurassic Uno while we've been watching the film.

Decided to watch Rick & Morty. Not something I'd ever seen before but I can't really avoid the pop culture references. Figured I should see what it is all about. Somewhere on season 3 now and I've not decided if I like it, or if I am just leaving on because I can't be bothered looking for something else to watch.

Ash has not been sleeping well the past few nights He only has a few more teeth to cut and it looks like one of the last is working its way through. Of course, if he is not sleeping then neither are we. I did discover a parenting hack today though. The lid of one of his bottles fits perfectly over one of the big cartons of milk and I can save myself having to pour him bottles by just putting the nipple on it.

[Paquita]

That's brilliant!  I need to try that.  Bat would love it!

[Alex]

Kristi was going shopping today first thing with a friend and asked me if I wanted her to take Ash or leave him. It was entirely my choice. So I thought about it for 5 minutes and then said: "Well if you take him for the morning, then drop him off when you come home to drop off stuff, you can leave him here."

She then replied, "Well I don't want to take him if we go to Inverness and I think that is where we will be going."

Ah. One of those conversations where I  was supposed to pick the right answer and didn't. Well, she took him for the morning anyway which allowed me to get the kitchen floor mopped and clean some other things. I use a lot of bleach and I didn't want him around for that. The baby gates we'd bought have been recalled, as toddlers can pull them down, but I'd already figured a way to get around that (they had slippery plastic caps over rubber stoppers. I removed the plastic and the gates haven't been pulled down by him since). We'd been figuring we didn't need them as much now anyway so took them back and got a full refund on them, so that was nice.

Finished watching 4 (I think. Might have been 5) seasons of Rick & Morty. Decided I liked it in the end. Just as well, it would have been a bit of a waste of time otherwise.

Watching more of 'The Stand'. I figure it will save Kristi the effort of reading the book. Reading the authors notes I got the impression at the time Mr King thought this was his masterpiece. Well, if he wants to think it's his best work then more power to him. Not that I've read all his work or anything (and well, it was certainly better than' Tommyknockers' which I failed to even finish), but I have preferred almost anything else of his work to that one.

[chefzombie]

why are you watching it instead of actually reading it? just curious...* and yes, tommyknockers sucks, nut not as bad as the regulators under the bachmann psuedonym*

[Alex]

I read The Stand previously and it isn't one I'd want to read again. Kristi had mentioned she was interested in it, or was wondering something about it, so I dug out the mini series and we are going through it.

[Alex]

There comes a time in every man's life when it is time to Werf some Nebels.

And if you don't know what that means, then you just aren't a real man yet.     

Went back to the gym today. Making an effort to do that regularly. I figure I want to lose some weight before I get out, which my diabetes does make a little bit harder, but I am cutting carbs back just now. See if I can't put that into remission.

Made it to part three of 'The Stand'. Kristi isn't enjoying it though so I don't think we'll go any further. Kristi asked me how it ends though, so I told her God literally comes down and kills all the bad guys.

Figured we could watch 'Prince of Darkness' instead, which I think is one of his most underrated good movies. Not as underrated as 'At The Mouth of Madness' though.

Been feeling more and more inclined to write some stuff by hand recently. Think I am going to give into the temptation and see where it takes me. Of course, that means I won't be able to post what I write up here for people to read.

I'll let you decide for yourself if that is a good or a bad thing.