Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

We finally started Dream Daddy last night and... we had a lot of fun. It’s a lot more interactive than the standard conversation tree games. It’s also funny and quite sweet. You get to make choices on how you play it, and it seems the dates can be more like play dates with other single dads and their daughters if you so choose, but that’s not how we’re playing it. At any rate, not trying to sell anyone on it, but I thought I’d relay our experience so far.

@HobbitGamer - I’ll have four mint juleps please. One of my all time favorite mixed drinks, but it seems like nobody serves them North of the Mason Dixon line. I have some some great memories of hanging out on Beale Street, beating the heat with a cold, refreshing julep.

@ThanosReXXX - Late reply from last night. I know you’re far too empathetic to harbor blanket opinions about large groups of people. Sorry if it seemed I implied otherwise.

@bimmy-lee No need for that, my friend. I never interpreted it as such.

@ThanosReXXX I like to bombard the system with ‘legitimate’ queries all at once when he aggravates me. Deleting my offline email cache, then syncing it again. Put a “GoTo 10” type loop in a report and run it. Open 15 charts at once. Login from desktop and laptop simultaneously and fetch large data on both. Move share drive folders back and forth in excess of 2g. Send an agency-wide email and then immediately recall it.
Hypothetically speaking, of course.

@bimmy-lee You’d think they’d be anywhere that has warm seasons. Maybe it was mostly a southern debutante drink thing.

Mental note for grinding coffee:

Adding cinnamon to the coffee in the grinder is good.

Adding too much cinnamon to the coffee in the grinder is bad.

I might as well call this cinnamon tea. Bleh.

Edit: though I guess if you want a strong cinnamon tea, using the coffee grinder and a coffee machine is a valid way to get it

@HobbitGamer That also sounds like a fun pass time. Well, for you at least, not for him...
Make it a GoTo 50 loop, though, and you'll have earned my undying respect.

@HobbitGamer - You would think that, it’s the first thing I look for on a drink menu. The only places I’ve found them traveling in the S/SE, and weirdly, there was a soul food place in Portland that served them as a signature cocktail. It’s hot for one week there. It’s all circumstantial, but I seek them and never find them.

Whew! Still not done with my busy day - on the way to an anniversary celebration at a winery right now (A fact I'll be taking some advantage of.... ) - but I at least have some phone time now. I'm finally not driving for a change. XD

@HobbitGamer It's a shame that IT won't give you the access you need to make things less convoluted. Is there a formal reason along with the director being a Basscat, or is that more or less the sole reason?

In the meantime, keep it up with the wonderful subtle trolling. XD

@ThanosReXXX I try to sweep the forums here at least once daily. When normally depends on what I have going on and how fast I get through my news feed.

@Tyranexx It’s pretty much the sole reason. One of those folks that assumes someone else can’t think ahead or know what they’re doing. Very much a “This is solely my domain of knowledge” personality. Blegh

Enjoy the winery!!

@Tyranexx Soldiering on, regardless of other obligations. You have my sincerest respect, ma'am.

P.S.

A Basscat? I think I'm up for a dictionary update...

@HobbitGamer It sounds to an extent like how the head IT/networking guy works where I am. However, the difference is that, if you can prove that you know what you're doing, he doesn't mind giving you access to things as needed. It sounds like your director won't move at all on that front.

Our director used to lock stuff down a bit less, but he had to close some access a little more. Not only to protect your casual email users from themselves, but also to protect some in-depth and physical server access from some who think they know what they're doing, but really don't. (I'm not implying this is correct in your case btw)

As for the winery....I definitely am enjoying it. I've had a catered meal, some cake, (normal) lemonade, red wine sangria, and an alcoholic mango slushie. I'll probably stop there for now. XD

@ThanosReXXX Heh, thanks! I'm mostly handling replies this evening so far, but might comb the rest of the forums since I don't have anyone to talk to right now. I rode with my mom, and since this is her side of the family, we might be here for awhile. To be fair, we're on vacation during the actual reunion next weekend, so she'll get a lot of the yakking in now.

No dictionary needed for Basscat; it was just a lame text substitution for @$$hat.

@Tyranexx Yeah, and I fully understand that there’s a structural integrity concern; doubly so with our HIPPA and record retention guidelines, let alone the typical concerns. I think it’s also a personality clash. While I’m usually pretty light heartened and easy going on here, my work is my baby and I’m very straightforward about that.
I’ve found that sometimes if I pull the vendor documentation and write an almost thesis-like white paper, I can get results faster. But even then it’s like pulling teeth. But I think they’re slowly getting better. When I took over my half of my department, I kinda came in like a whirlwind, bringing private sector changes and approaches to a public sector agency used to doing the same (sometimes antiquated) ‘ol thing.

@bimmy-lee Watching a silly zombie flick on Prime now; Anonymous Zombie. Some folks got to a remote farm to rehab, zombies somehow get tossed in. Good nonsense. Edit: random nudity for no real plot purposes.

Got back from my vacay to MOA and Valleyfair, but a day late 'cuz my folks' car decided to have it's transmission water pump go out. Ugh. Got Three Houses tho!

@Tyranexx Ah, got it. Well, then I'll just replace the dictionary query for Basscat with one for "yakking"...

@HobbotGamer Wow, people are sure disliking your comment in that "Bethesda will provide fix for mandatory login in Doom Games" article. Some people are REALLY quick to push that thumbs down button...

Pathetic.

@HobbitGamer - Awesome, it’ll be my next movie, thanks. I’m of the opinion that random nudity should be in every horror movie. It’s just what I was raised to believe. I started watching something kind of insane last night, it made me feel vaguely like I felt the first time I watched Tim and Eric; I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson (A Comedy Show). It does bite T&E at times, and it’s hard to recommend because it’s crazy, but episode two had a skit with one of my favorite things: Completely unhinged Will Forte. This could be his craziest and finest work.

@ThanosReXXX - Yakkity yak (don’t talk back). Yakking is just two or more people conversing, a lot. It does have slight maternal implications, and connotes catching up or light hearted gossip. In the old song I referenced above, it’s from the perspective of a subservient individual being told/ordered to perform mundane household tasks by a parental figure.

@bimmy-lee Ah, of course. I kinda suspected, but I don't like to make assumptions, so I just asked to be sure. And as it so happens, I do actually know that song.

@ThanosReXXX I’m sure there’s a huge number, because folks don’t always like to admit that maybe one’s feelings actually aren’t caused by someone or something else, and we’re each responsible for our own reactions. Especially for something as trivial as a video game. Hey, it is what it is. 😁
@bimmy-lee I adore T&E comedy, I’ll have to check it out. The sheer randomness of it is what I enjoy.

@HobbitGamer It sounds like half your problem is in revitalizing a dinosaur system, so to speak. And then with what sounds like an IT director stuck in their ways, you definitely have your work cut out for you. Perseverance, my friend!

@ThanosReXXX Yakking - excessive talking, chatter, "Mom-dad-can-we-go-home-it's-been-hours" chatter. XD

Edit: Never mind, bimmy apparently covered it. I even refreshed the page before posting, but apparently my phone went ahead and used the cached page anyway.

@HobbitGamer It definitely IS the part of the internet that I really LOVE to hate. Makes me want to go all "parenty" and slap 'em across the face with the back of my hand, to knock some sense into them. The utterly senseless toxicity of it all sometimes really gets to me.

@Tyranexx Yup, bimmy beat you to it...

@HobbitGamer - Well then, I can recommend giving it a spin on Netflix. Just ordered the first Labo kit for my daughter’s upcoming birthday. It’s on sale and she’s ready. I’ll see how my son does with it, and maybe we’ll get him the second kit for Christmas. Also, from a prior conversation, I picked up Video Kid after @NintendoByNature mentioned it was on sale last week. I’m bad at it, but it’s fun. References galore, and of course, Fred made it immediately worthwhile.