(06-13-2012, 06:38 AM)Luinbariel link Wrote: tortured one of the peacocks to death once

(06-13-2012, 08:13 AM)k0ala link Wrote: Just had my front door tested by a stranger a couple days ago. I happened to be home at the time and chopping onions with my favorite chef's knife, so I had options; but I lock it behind me whether coming or going, so I just stared lasers at the rattling doorknob. She was stupid enough to yell, "OKAY IT'S LOCKED WHAT NOW?" before running back down the stairs, so now I know she wasn't alone.

(06-13-2012, 06:19 PM)Duck link Wrote: [quote author=k0ala link=topic=2632.msg247341#msg247341 date=1339593213]
Just had my front door tested by a stranger a couple days ago. I happened to be home at the time and chopping onions with my favorite chef's knife, so I had options; but I lock it behind me whether coming or going, so I just stared lasers at the rattling doorknob. She was stupid enough to yell, "OKAY IT'S LOCKED WHAT NOW?" before running back down the stairs, so now I know she wasn't alone.

(06-13-2012, 09:15 PM)Caffeine link Wrote: I don't think this quite fits under the FML thread, but I'd call it the bottom of the rollercoaster.

As a few of you know the first boss I had a lot of friction with, and in addition to not being fond of what I was doing I ended up getting a poor review at year end. At this point I considered any future with the company likely sunk and began to search for new positions. I thought things had been getting better, I even got a positive mid-year performance review.

Yesterday I finalized a new position doing something I've been wanting to do since I graduated, I was planning on turning in my two week notice on Monday. However they beat me to it today and I was dismissed for in their terms 'not improving enough'. I said nothing of the new position I already have locked down, grabbed my things thanked them and left.

I suppose I probably should have seen this coming, while I had been working to improve on things I did somewhat enjoy doing I had neglected others. Though I would have rather left on my own terms, and I was not planning on using them as a reference in the future, its something I plan to use to teach myself a few lessons.

- If there is something you aren't happy with, speak up and try to get onto things you like doing
- Never get any kind of attitude, while I fixed it, its a tough hole to dig out of
- If you really don't think its fixable, always be entertaining new offers and take the first good one that comes your way


tl;dr - Learned a valuable lesson about offices, work, and related things, came out on top despite the really dumb mistakes that were made

(06-14-2012, 11:59 AM)Käse link Wrote: [soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/krastak/flovemix/s-xhV8Q[/soundcloud]
Dusted off the old keyboard and played the first two pages of an X Japan song. I tried to use a variety of um.."voices" just for fun. I had some troubles putting the clips together so it sounds kind of strange at some parts; in addition to my terrible piano skills and random tempo changes.

The voices used:
Strings 2
Violin
Shakuhachi
Rain
Trumpet
Accordion
Xylophone
Tenor Sax
Sci-Fi

There were some really funny ones I wanted to use as well but they would have been too useless (like birds chirping, gunshots, helicopter...)

(06-14-2012, 08:53 PM)Vongore link Wrote: [quote author=Käse link=topic=2632.msg247430#msg247430 date=1339693145]
[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/krastak/flovemix/s-xhV8Q[/soundcloud]
Dusted off the old keyboard and played the first two pages of an X Japan song. I tried to use a variety of um.."voices" just for fun. I had some troubles putting the clips together so it sounds kind of strange at some parts; in addition to my terrible piano skills and random tempo changes.

The voices used:
Strings 2
Violin
Shakuhachi
Rain
Trumpet
Accordion
Xylophone
Tenor Sax
Sci-Fi

There were some really funny ones I wanted to use as well but they would have been too useless (like birds chirping, gunshots, helicopter...)

(06-14-2012, 09:07 PM)Didzo link Wrote: [quote author=Vongore link=topic=2632.msg247468#msg247468 date=1339725189]
[quote author=Käse link=topic=2632.msg247430#msg247430 date=1339693145]
[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/krastak/flovemix/s-xhV8Q[/soundcloud]
Dusted off the old keyboard and played the first two pages of an X Japan song. I tried to use a variety of um.."voices" just for fun. I had some troubles putting the clips together so it sounds kind of strange at some parts; in addition to my terrible piano skills and random tempo changes.

The voices used:
Strings 2
Violin
Shakuhachi
Rain
Trumpet
Accordion
Xylophone
Tenor Sax
Sci-Fi

There were some really funny ones I wanted to use as well but they would have been too useless (like birds chirping, gunshots, helicopter...)

(06-18-2012, 04:39 PM)Saxxy link Wrote: I have become weirdly obsessed with buying some canned coffee in bulk, after seeing that ad for Boss coffee that (i think?) rummy posted.  Also I'm very confused that canned coffee is not more available in the U.S., it seems like starbucks is the only brand that sells it (unless you count those horrible coffee flavored shit storms from Monster).  And the starbucks stuff is good (at least the small doubleshot cans are yummy ), but a 4 pack is almost 6 bucks.

Apparently there's a Japanese food store not too far away from me, so I'll try that... although now that I think about it, even if they have any, it'll probably just as, or more espensive, then the starbucks doubleshots :-\

I think I'll just switch to mixing my own from this concentrated new orleans style iced coffee+ice and cream... need to cut down the amount of money I spend on coffee, its kinda silly

and no, quiting is not an option