You know the parody of 300, that pudgy guy? That is who he ended up getting ...

Forcibly retired now, but that was about what I did - I telecommuted as a forensic accountant. Normal day was log in at 8 am, an hour lunch in the middle, technically log out at 7 or so, and have emails going on in the background until bed. Salary not wage so theoretically I only was to work 8 hours a day, but…

You do 'world' MMORPGs or group shoot'em's [Doom, Cod, you know - you and your buds vs those 5 buds over there shooting at each other, or clearing the alien menace from that refinery over there]? There is a fairly big difference between the two.

Understandable, I quit EVE Online after Vile Rat died - it hurt too much to not have him sending me silly chats and inviting me to hit the test server to spar.

I am pointing out that Mr & Mrs McJ0bScum can afford to take little Scumlet on a 3 day Disney cruise with their income tax refund, or heaven forbid on their 24% CapitalOne Visa card, you do not have to be wealthy to do so - so your saying they are wealthy enough to simply up stakes and move [or they have the type of…

Well, my father could well have pulled us out of school for an around the world trip, however his job would not have moved if he had decided we needed to live in Florida instead of NY, and honestly, it really is not as easy to pull up stakes as you make it sound. Once you get to a certain age, it becomes more…

Well, lets see, shall we? I pay my taxes. I attend town meetings when the town budget is on the schedule. I research the maters. I *vote*. All this, and I literally have no dog in this fight, no kids. I would run for office if my physical condition didn't prevent me. Until my physical condition stopped me I…

Hm, compared to the vast majority of apparently knuckle dragging, mouth breathing Americans who barely speak English, being able to communicate in 2 foreign languages, yes I *am* special. If the school systems keep sliding the way they have since I went to school in the 1960s and 70s, we will turn into Idiocracy where…

Hm, basic education. Reading, writing and arithmatic. I had reading down [and was reading at the high school level] by second grade, call it the age of 7. I had basic math [up through decimals, fractions, percentages] by the age of 8. At the age of 8 I could cook basic foods - my pride and joy was making a pumpkin pie…

Young, working in kitchens, what are friends for =) Though I ended up stopping working in kitchens after 3 years, I still kept my friends for years after that. I still tend to prefer to have people hang out here instead of going out - kitchen, cable tv, *clean bathroom* and crash space =)

I had an extra bedroom and would let friends crash there wen they had the shit clopenings. Most of my friends worked in the 3 places nearest my apartment. Any given morning I would have to wade through 3 or 4 people to shower for my 8 am class.

Nothing wrong with the perfectly good Chevy S-10. Gone through 2 so far, the original 1984 [nicknamed Zombie, after 15 years, parts started having connectivity issues, repaired with wire, bondo and duct tape...] and a 1992 [Zombie 2, still chugging along, though getting a bit cranky and starting to have rust issues.]…

She could easily pass for Jewish, Spanish [continental] or Sicilian Italian very easily. Spain and Sicily both were conquered by the Moors for several hundreds of years and had a small influx of Northern Saharans living there. <shrug> I don't get the desire to own someone, but I suppose it is because I have been…

I grew up spending a fair amount of time on my grandfathers yaw, I love the motion of the waves and the sound of the slap on the hull. I don't get motion sick, I am the type that gets the boiled bacon ready <evil grin> I'd rather not add planes and engines to the mix!

Try working nights .... with flybys going on through your entire sleep period ... *sigh*

If you can use this, you can make homemade soups. I did a wicked good chicken and veggie soup [dice chicken, make small chops of onion, carrot, celery and potato, to 1 pint of chicken broth from a can/box never cube add a large pinch of italian herbs and several grinds/shakes of pepper. cook until veggies and meat are…

Meh. Lived under 2 flightlines, NOB Norfolk and NAS Oceana. I can probably ID aircraft by sound still. Underwhelming. Though living in Ocean View was decent, we got low flight black unmarked helicopters and the helos from HM14 doing low passes over the beach looking at bikini girls.

Going on a family day on a 688I is fun when they do an emergency blow to amuse the kiddies =) I used to just head straight down to Machinery 1 and hang with my husband and his buddies to avoid the kiddies and idiot wives. I would absolutely hate family day on a carrier, way too many wives and kids.

Well, maybe if I was going in for a colonoscopy later =) Chocolate would beat the hell out of the fake citrusy drink you have to choke down to prep.

Works for me ...