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<Coraline>
I've got the good stufff
<Coraline>
Vicodin
<jfhbrook>
no :(
<Coraline>
I have enough to last me the rest of the month at least
<meowrobot>
pain management?
<Coraline>
I just had surgery on the 26th
<meowrobot>
ahhh
<Coraline>
Today my doctor told me I can end bed rest
<Coraline>
Pretty happy about that
<meowrobot>
i only have muscle relaxants for what i have...sometimes i feel like i need something a lot stronger
<meowrobot>
oh neat
<meowrobot>
oh gosh that means you were stuck in bed since the 26th, more or less?
<meowrobot>
that is annoying :|
<jfhbrook>
bed rest? holy shit Coraline
<jfhbrook>
you're okay?
<Coraline>
Yeah
<Coraline>
Just major surgery but I'm recovering really well
<Coraline>
Healing will take 6 months
<Coraline>
I have 6 weeks of paid medical leae
<Coraline>
leave
<Coraline>
But I may go back to work early. (I work from home.)
<Coraline>
Getting kinda bored
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<Pyrrh>
Coraline: 3 months of post-surgical bedrest earlier this year drove me up the wall. I'd've gone back to work early too if I could have tolerated anything but lying prone
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<Coraline>
I can't imagine having to lie prone all that time... at least I've been allowed to sit propped up on pillows
<Coraline>
How terrible
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<Pyrrh>
Yeah the boredom was real :P It was more of a 'not able' than a 'not allowed' unfortunately. Complications FTL
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<Coraline>
Sorry to hear that.
<Coraline>
Sorry for all the disconnects. Not sure what was going on
<Coraline>
Restarted my client, hopefully that fixes things.
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<pikajude>
Welp
<pikajude>
I just got my keycaps in the mail after months and months of waiting
<pikajude>
and the spacebar is the wrong size
<pikajude>
Nice
<jfhbrook>
sick
<pikajude>
actually it looks like it'll work out
<pikajude>
They're made of silicone gel, so they bend
<pikajude>
And apparently the spacebar is too bendy to work properly for most people
<jfhbrook>
that's good, I guess?
<jfhbrook>
too bendy to work properly sounds bad
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<pikajude>
yes
<pikajude>
It's ugly but functional, like me
<pikajude>
rather than pretty but buggy, like my girlfriend
<incomprehensibly>
hi
<purr>
incomprehensibly: hi!
<incomprehensibly>
ELLIOTTCABLE: i now have a job doing research
<jfhbrook>
that's not a very nice thing to say pikajude !
<pikajude>
that's true
<incomprehensibly>
ELLIOTTCABLE: how is school going
<incomprehensibly>
ELLIOTTCABLE: re life scheduling and full time jobs, full time jobs are pretty bad for my mental health
<incomprehensibly>
i have found
<jfhbrook>
I do okay at full time jobs
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
hi
<purr>
ELLIOTTCABLE: hi!
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
incomprehensibly: hi!
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
jfhbrook: hi!
<jfhbrook>
hey
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
Coraline: hi!
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
Pyrrh: hi!
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
(omg ak omg ak omg ak)
<jfhbrook>
hah
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
alexgordon: hi!
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
wait
<jfhbrook>
me n' Pyrrh went to college together ELLIOTTCABLE back in fbx
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
jfhbrook: W…were
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
YOU TOO
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
JOW DID I FORGET
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I ALSO REMEMBER FORGETTING ON AT LEAST TWO OTHER OCCASIONS
<jfhbrook>
hah, yeah XD
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
ih8mylyf
<jfhbrook>
ehh
<jfhbrook>
not really h8worthy
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
sup
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I just failed a class
<jfhbrook>
oh ouch
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
an undergrad class on systems programming
<jfhbrook>
I'm failing a background check right now
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
it was so fucking trivial
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I'm so upset with myself
<jfhbrook>
a background check I should *not* be having
<jfhbrook>
try again, ELLIOTTCABLE ?
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
What
<Pyrrh>
ELLIOTTCABLE: Hullo there :3
<jfhbrook>
s/having/failing/
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
Did you tell people your birthday and middle name
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
Everyone knows you don't do that
<jfhbrook>
yeah ELLIOTTCABLE they're like
<jfhbrook>
nah ELLIOTTCABLE it's not quite like that
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
your dark history coming out yo
<jfhbrook>
ELLIOTTCABLE: I lined up a new job and they were like, routine background check and I was like okay
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
gotta keep that shit buried
<jfhbrook>
except then they demanded a full work history
<jfhbrook>
and then made me supply w2s (that I've mostly had thank god) for multiple jobs
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I wonder if sephr has figured out my birth name yet
<Pyrrh>
whoa they made you submit old w2s?
<Pyrrh>
Is that even allowed??
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
jfhbrook: wtffffff
<jfhbrook>
I'm missing one for CN which they were somehow unable to confirm either
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
pretty sure that's illegal, yeah
<jfhbrook>
well it's Univision/ABC doing this
<jfhbrook>
but yeah I'm going to send a pissy email to their HR department
<Pyrrh>
I would too
<Pyrrh>
that's fucked up
<jfhbrook>
well like, nobody should have to go through this process
<jfhbrook>
it's awful and they're inept
<jfhbrook>
idk erica joy
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
jfhbrook: idk?
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
aphyr's wife, apparently, although I'm not sure if that's a joke? I thought he was 100% gay.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
also, I've never seen an intense dom/sub relationship in an open marriage, that *wasn't* between the married couplet? BUT idk, buckets of not my business
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
POINT IS they're all awesome
<incomprehensibly>
...i feel like i missed most of a conversation
<incomprehensibly>
ELLIOTTCABLE: i got a D in an embedded systems class last semester
<incomprehensibly>
glowcoil: hi
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
incomprehensibly: wow
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I feel less bad about Things
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
incomprehensibly: are you the web-2.0 micah or the '80s-POSIX-command-line micah
<incomprehensibly>
I'm Web 2.0 he's posix
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
posix 2.0
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
websix
<incomprehensibly>
ELLIOTTCABLE: fall the year before last i failed a scientific writing class and retook it in spring
<incomprehensibly>
ELLIOTTCABLE: and then last semester got a D in embedded
<incomprehensibly>
my gpa is ~3.4
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I had a 4.0 very briefly >:
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
but oh well
<incomprehensibly>
yeah i did too my first semester
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<Pyrrh>
I only have a 3.3 :c but I'll take it I guess cause work eats all my time
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
embri0n still exists, and I still know them only as ‘the person I don't know’
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
except at this point I do, but just as the one that I don't, but I do, so does that mean they're implicitly no longer the one I don't, and thus are one I know?
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
ahfaehhwaf
<incomprehensibly>
Pyrrh: yeah it has gotten much harder since I started working along with school and that's largely what's dragged it down
<embri0n>
incomprehensibly could be talking about a penis
<embri0n>
hi ELLIOTTCABLE
<Pyrrh>
embri0n++
<purr>
Let it be known that Pyrrh loves embri0n.
<embri0n>
i am loved
<embri0n>
i will no longer die alone
<embri0n>
yay
<Pyrrh>
:>
<jfhbrook>
what do you do for work again Pyrrh ?
<Pyrrh>
Working for a section of UnitedHealth, doing prescription/Medicare Part D related stuff but slowly working my way into data analysis / code-related areas
<Pyrrh>
my boss is v helpful with supporting me in my slow lateral movement outside the dept
<jfhbrook>
exciting D:
<Pyrrh>
It pays the bills and keeps me insured
<Pyrrh>
and also affords me flexibility for school while still getting my 40 hours in
<Pyrrh>
I'm extremely fortunate
<Pyrrh>
I'm sure I won't really want to leave unless/until they make me get a different boss. Then all bets are off
<jfhbrook>
yeah I hear you
<jfhbrook>
I left my old gig mostly because of my immediate team :( so I know what it's like when your team doesn't have your back
<Pyrrh>
yeah, absolutely. The manager and the team really make or break a job
<jfhbrook>
I hope this background check goes away
<Pyrrh>
I don't really like my daily tasks but I don't mind because I don't dread clocking in every day
<jfhbrook>
these people are seriously out of control
<jfhbrook>
I honestly believe someone's asleep at the wheel and pulling a UPS
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
< jfhbrook> I hope this background check goes away
<jfhbrook>
"oh yeah I totally tried to deliver that package"
<Pyrrh>
Gosh, I hope so too :( it sounds super unreasonable and hellish
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
jfhbrook livin' my life
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
IRS is all over my ass 24/7 rn so like, I'm on ur lvl bruh
<jfhbrook>
*sigh*
<jfhbrook>
wait really ELLIOTTCABLE what for?
<Pyrrh>
the IRS gets crazypants. One time they were like "you are a dependent and you already filed taxes" and I was over here going "lolwut"
<purr>
lolwut
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I'm pretty sure I've gotten to have happy-fun play-times with a different government agency every year for the last six years.
<Pyrrh>
good lord :c
<jfhbrook>
that's nuts
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
thank god for lawyers?
<jfhbrook>
wow
<jfhbrook>
I need to get way better at keeping records
<Pyrrh>
lawyers ftw
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
but yeah the IRS is a particularly fun one because Reasons
<jfhbrook>
I'm damned lucky I've had what I've had so far
<jfhbrook>
like I'm embarrassed to be missing my 2015 w-2
<ljharb>
irs, what for?
<ljharb>
wait how can you be missing a w2
<jfhbrook>
because I didn't save it to my fs ljharb I just read the data off from a temp view
<Pyrrh>
tbh, I go have a professional do my taxes every year just so that I get a folder of the most important financial documents all neatly organized for me
<jfhbrook>
and put it into turdbotax
<jfhbrook>
I'm ***awful*** at financial stuff
<ljharb>
jfhbrook: yeah but the company can just send you another one, right?
<ljharb>
and it's filed electronically with the government too
<jfhbrook>
I sure as fuck hope so ljharb but like
<ljharb>
so like, h&r block's website can probably pull it up eg
<jfhbrook>
this wouldn't even matter ljharb except for this awful garbage background check company
<jfhbrook>
like part of me wants to tell univision to go fuck themselves
<ljharb>
yeah that sounds weird
<ljharb>
nobody's *ever* asked me for a past w2
<ljharb>
besides my CPA
<jfhbrook>
yeah me neither
<jfhbrook>
well
<jfhbrook>
I've given w2s to rent applications
<ljharb>
i've been fingerprinted and background checked multiple times
<ljharb>
ok yeah, maybe rent
<ljharb>
but that's just to verify current employment/income
<Pyrrh>
yeah rent/loans/etc it makes sense
<ljharb>
yeah
<ljharb>
but more than one?
<jfhbrook>
but this has been far and above worse than any rental application
<jfhbrook>
I've ever done
<Pyrrh>
if an employer ever wants more documents than a mortgage lender, I'm telling them to hit the road
<Pyrrh>
bye felicia
<jfhbrook>
yeah like
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
Here's looking forward to employers being legally unable to ask you about prior compensation.
<jfhbrook>
I have no reason to believe this company actually tried to contact conde nast
<jfhbrook>
of course their process for requesting more information seems overly-automated
<jfhbrook>
like it's a suite of checkboxes for verification status
<jfhbrook>
one which is like "we have been unable to contact" and another like "we have been able to contact but ????"
<jfhbrook>
like if they had a brain between them there would be no reason they couldn't contact conde nast
<jfhbrook>
this would be okay if, like
<jfhbrook>
the HR lady from CN would hit me back
<Pyrrh>
why is it that HR people never seem to call you back even when they just called you?
<jfhbrook>
I have no idea
<jfhbrook>
I, just, like
<jfhbrook>
I just have this fear that CN HR is going to purposefully ghost me because there's a record of my boss being mad at me
<jfhbrook>
like I don't think that's legal but
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
“okay, so let me start off with saying that this sub is amazing,when ever my girl yells at me, i simply cant hear her anymore, lips move but yet i hear nothing, and my ears hurt. i love it”
<jfhbrook>
where ARE you
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
lol reading Amazon reviews of my old subs
<purr>
undefined
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I've got a pair of JL 13.5" W7s that I got to use for ... about a week, after the whole installation process was over, before that car got t-boned by a semi
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
they, and the associated 8"ers for mid-base, have been sitting in storage ever since -_-