Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@HobbitGamer If it's that hot, you don't even need to fire up your grill, just put it outside.

Sounds like you need this man.

opens wallet...moth flies out

Ya'll aren't funny...

@bimmy-lee all sounds delish. Haven't had smoked saus in a while. Love me some kabobs too.

Unfortunately, my wife did shopping. I have no clue what she got. But, I know I'll be manning the grill. I did see burger and hot dog buns on the counter when i get home a few min ago. So i assume, it'll have some thing to do with Frank's and burgs

@NintendoByNature - Can’t go wrong with that. I might put hamburger as my favorite food. Top three easy. Enjoy!

@ThanosReXXX @DenDen - Have you picked yourselves up off the floor yet?

Im really happy haha they did a fantastic job!!

Eye surgery went well. Some bruising on my left one, but I can see out of it fine. I've just been trying to avoid small children. My eyes are still healing - my vision is still a tad fuzzy, and I'm on antibiotic and steroid drops for a week - but I can see much, much better already. It's so weird not needing any sort of eyewear....

But I was offline pretty much the rest of the day yesterday after the surgery. I was highly discouraged from doing any "staring" activities yesterday (not that I felt up for much), which includes screens and reading. I mostly just listened to podcasts and a couple of movies that I'm familiar with.

@ThanosReXXX Heck, I'd go to Europe just to sample some of the local cuisine from each country! _{Though I do have limits....}

@Tyranexx Got a pair of new eyes?

@Octane I thought Somone was missing

@ThanosReXXX remember that tv station the game network .It was brilliant . Wonder why they stoped. That's the sort of tv station I'm looking for. I know tere's good programmes on GINX but game network was better. Also there s no nintendo magazines anymore which is a pity.

@Heavyarms55 you just leave stuff like that lying in the corner. My God Japan sounds great

@Ninfan Well my preference for the internet is kinda more of a personal choice thing, rather than a Japan thing. I stopped watching regular TV years before I moved to Japan. Though I'm hardly alone in it. Japan or elsewhere.

But yes, Japan is awesome for a lot of reasons. Public transit makes owning a car entirely optional. Japan is much more open to gaming and anime and other hobbies that are shunned in the US. Or at least considered abnormal or undesirable. Japan is one of the absolute safest countries in the world to live in, often ranking in the top ten. Japan is also an extremely technologically advanced country, with high speed internet and modern infrastructure even in areas considered extremely rural. I live in an area so rural that when I visited Tokyo and was talking to someone I had to explain where it was - they hadn't heard of it and yet I have a fiber-optic internet connection and never have connection issues with my phone! (Well once, but I think that was some kind of accident with the tower.) And with a few exceptions, Japan is an extremely clean country. With most pollution issues being air pollution blowing over from China.

But like any country Japan has its faults too. Japan has issues with overworking people, especially with regards to office workers and home room school teachers(Thankfully I am neither). The one area Japan does have criminal issues is sexual abuse which is disproportionately higher relative to other issues. (though no where near the level it is in many other worse off countries) And the cost of raising children in Japan is astronomical - meaning few families have more than one or two and contributing greatly to the declining and aging population. That aging population problem is furthered be the popularity of marriage and having children in general at very low levels. Many people just aren't interested, or don't have the time due to over work. Others decide not to because of costs.

@the_shpydar I prefer to taste the meat, and not the heat. Hank Hill and Bob Belcher are my kitchen idols.

@Heavyarms55 your not from japan.

@Ninfan Nope, just an American working here. Lived here for about 4 years.

@Octane Same eyes, they just received a next-gen upgrade. XD

There are still some bright light halos and a slight fuzz to my vision, but these side effects are temporary and are supposed to fade after a month or two. Even with those, I can still see much, much better unaided than I've been able to for almost fifteen years.

@Tyranexx sounds like you eyes needed some stability. 😉hoping you have a Speedy recovery

@NintendoByNature Thanks! They're receiving stability updates four times a day (two different eye drops for each eye) along with the occasional patch (normal eye drops) to keep the new circuits from drying out.

My first major update (day 1 post-op exam) went well too. I go back on Friday afternoon and will schedule another appointment for next week then.

The only thing I gotta do is resist scratching or rubbing my eyes. 😬

@Tyranexx Glad it went well!!

@Tyranexx
Nice to hear it went well, hope you recover soon!