I’m a hiring manager and I call every single person I want to interview because I can extrapolate a great deal about them just based on how they answer the phone and how they react to my inquiry.

And yeah, the VM that’s full or isn’t set up in the first place is definitely a negative.

Also: obnoxious music ringtones.…

Meanwhile, I’m over here explaining to my LP anything more than a few hundred bucks in adjustments on a weekly basis!

I’ve been playing WoW since vanilla, and starting around WOTLK, I started taking breaks that got more and more lengthy as years passed. I tend to resub a month before a new xpac to catch up, play for a few months until I get through the new content, pugging a bit of heroics and raids, then cancel again so I can focus…

I broke a piece off an old tooth with a root canal twice, a few years apart, both times while crunching down on a Good N’ Plenty.

Hello, fellow Trilogy Tuesday survivor. I slept on a cold Baltimore sidewalk overnight with at least a hundred other hyped up fans. I am forever thankful to the theater owner, who intentionally moved the ticket sales to a different day, in person, cash only, 10 tickets max, so we didn’t have the same issue with…

While World Market is the go-to for TimTams, I’ve seen them in Target and Harris Teeter as well, although ymmv.

I had an OD once, when I first started drinking coffee and had zero concept of my caffeine limitations. My head was buzzing badly, and I was running in circles and doing situps trying to burn off the energy, and drinking as much water as I could stand trying to flush it out of my system. My system was never quite the…

I have figured out, through a great deal of trial and error, that my limit is about 3-4 16oz lattes in one week. I can drink about 2 16oz mugs of black tea daily with no ill effect BUT I have to be cautious about drinking tea and then coffee in the same day. There is a certain point where I start feeling squirrelly,…

My intro to anime was the heavily Americanized version of Nausicaa, back in the mid-late 80s. When I got to college, it was a mix of series and standalone shows - Macross Plus, Ghost in the Shell, Wings of Honneamise, Vampire Hunter D, Ninja Scroll.

Sal y limon Fritos from Mexico.

You know what made me burst into tears? The whistle right before “captain on the bridge!”

Oof. I’m sorry. I do not fondly remember the days when I suffered having to use my HVAC as little as possible because I couldn’t afford the bill.

Oof. I’m sorry. I do not fondly remember the days when I suffered having to use my HVAC as little as possible…

Are there down comforters that would not result in waking up in a sweat 2/3 through the night? I first experienced this with duvets in Europe - even the lightest down coverlet was too warm, and then I got a hand-me-down goosedown duvet that I often have to throw off myself at 5am to let some of the heat escape.

Are there down comforters that would not result in waking up in a sweat 2/3 through the night? I first experienced…

I made the Thai peanut butter cookies. They sounded great on principle, but I was seeeeeeriously doubting myself while mixing the batter and after I took the cookies out of the oven, because the red curry paste smelled.... not right for cookies? I love curry, particularly green curry, and I already had tins of Maesri…

My company sells chairs, and I have hated every single “gaming” chair I’ve ever sat in (four or five different models) - the seats are stiff, the lumbar support is in a weird spot, and some of them are almost concave. So uncomfortable. I own a RealSpace MFTC200, which is one of the least expensive mesh chairs that…

My company sells chairs, and I have hated every single “gaming” chair I’ve ever sat in (four or five different…

Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s Christmas Eve/Sarajevo (originally part of Savatage’s “Dead Winter Dead” album from 1995). “Christmas Eve And Other Stories” and “The Lost Christmas Eve” are the best of their Christmas releases.

I do not own a waffle iron, but I am very intrigued by waffled tofu. I like crispy fried tofu, the only place that ever did it the way I liked was Mama Fu’s, and they no longer have restaurants in my state, and I can never be arsed to figure out how to cook it. Waffling might remove that particular annoyance!

I live by myself and could easily have done with another one bedroom when I moved last year, but since I could afford it, I sprung for a two bedroom, since I now live near a heavily traveled region that renders guests more likely than when I lived two hours away from the nearest major highway, but I use it as my art…

Ope, time for a bag of toasted marshmallow Milanos!

I love pfeffernüsse and have been making do with the bagged variety from World Market every winter.