Thanks for all of your replies last week (pregnant daughter). Cooling off and thinking about it plus putting myself in her shoes was the right call. She wants to keep the baby and I will have to live with that decision.

So the basement flooded because the sump pump decided to shit out. That’s going to be fun to sort out with insurance and try to clean up.

I’ve done phone interviews and it might sound like a small thing but wearing a nice outfit during it seems to help. You don’t have to get super dressed up but looking and feeling professional seems to do it. It is weird how that works.

There’s a few tenets and tropes that, while not in ALL cyberpunk works, are generally considered to define the genre:

Let’s also not forget Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive, which round out this story quite nicely.

It surprises/disappoints me that more people haven’t read the rest of the Sprawl Trilogy. Personally I like Count Zero more than Neuromancer. And it’s also where he started using the “seemingly unrelated plots come together for the climax” structure.

Top three of these for me: Mirrorshades, Accelerando and Snow Crash. They basically encapsulate all of the ideas of Cyberpunk.

#banmothersday

I’ve always thought female Geralt looks cooler than male Geralt.

Ha, I had a similar experience during a break-up. He had a sort of emotional breakdown while confessing to me; I was cool as ice. It was bizarre, because we usually have the opposite personalities (he was usually collected and I was emotional). Anyway, he was screaming “I know I fucked up and I don’t blame you for…

I’ve fantasized about doing stupid things, but never actually did them, so here’s a story of why dogs are the best: My last awful breakup (I was dumped by email, of course) I was looking after my sister’s dog. I cried hysterically in bed for about 5 minutes until the 130 pound dog latched onto my shoulder and…

In my youth, my temper was very slow to boil but when I did lose it it was spectacular. I broke up with a cheater with, “Well, bye then.” He looked terribly disappointed I didn’t make a fuss over “losing” him. So, oddly enough, did the girl who “stole” him.

My ex thought it was a good idea to move to another state and hide from child support. Since he had such a consistent history of cheating I thought it would be easy to track him down on Craigslist’s Missed Connections. Someone had to know him because he had penis and it did wander. A lot. He also loved to make sure…

Got cheated on. Lost 40 pounds in two months (NOT healthy) and cut my hair off. I was running (because running all the time and living on lentils is how you lose 40 pounds in two months) and my hair tie broke. And because I was not living in a thinking rationally state of mind at the time, this is how my thought…

The asshole cheated and then broke up with me before I could dump him. And I was very angry so I called him a few weeks later and said I was pregnant. I let him stew for a week and then told him I needed $500 for an abortion. He paid and I took my best friend on a road trip and had the best damn time EVER

Broke up with boyfriend of 3 years over the phone (LDR) because I couldn’t let him spend thousands of dollars on a vacation for us when I knew I didn’t want to be with him anymore. Proceeded to get black out drunk at a dive bar with my two best friends - and I mean DIVE bar. Like the lights were harsh, the bartenders…

I was going through a very ugly divorce. My husband cheated multiple times and eventually moved out. While this was going on, I had to change the locks on the doors to my house due to a burglary, and didn’t tell him. One day, he stopped by to get something from the house and couldn’t get in. He flew into a rage and…

My (then) boyfriend’s best friend, who thought I wouldn’t recognize his voice on the phone, called me to let me know his asshat friend was two-timing me with another chick at a bar near my house. I went there, spotted them, approached the table, grabbed a glass bottle of Coke off a waiter’s tray and hit him over the…

NYE 2003: Long story short, I saw my long-term boyfriend making out with my “friend” (LIKE TWO HOURS BEFORE THE BALL DROPPED so there was no excuse). I screamed at him but didn’t bother with her because I didn’t want her to know she could get to me like that (she was SUCH a pathetic attention whore who lived for shit…

This was during the “pack your shit and get THE FUCK OUT OF HERE” part, but he was threatening to kill himself.