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Dad chat: I’ve spent the evening building the LEGO Saturn V rocket. Wife has been helping, stage 1 complete. How’s your holiday times working out fellow dads and moms and childless uncles? (me).
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I’ve been playing Operation non stop since Christmas and I gotta tell ya, gently caress writers cramp. E: Charlie horse too
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I'm watching the Demon House specials on travel channel while hitting the oil rig. It's gonna swing below 0°F tonight and I wanted brain candy.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I'm watching the Demon House specials on travel channel while hitting the oil rig. Same except while sober
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Took the brood to the Seattle Pacific Science Center and chased them around all day. They had a great time and the behavior was not bad. Good start to the year.
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Best holiday season I’ve had in many years. As much as I like to joke about how being a new parent is awful, it really is wonderful to have this little tiny baby be so happy to see me in the morning.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Dad chat: I’ve spent the evening building the LEGO Saturn V rocket. Wife has been helping, stage 1 complete. How’s your holiday times working out fellow dads and moms and childless uncles? (me). I'm insanely jealous. It's loving great when kids are young enough that you can shop for toys just by looking for cool poo poo. Transformers, Legos, Hot Wheels...those were the days. Now my kid is 18 and in college but still lives with family so he doesn't need (or have room for) a bunch of the practical grown up stuff yet. Which means I need him to provide ideas besides books and gift cards. So I've started giving a warning: if you don't come up with any ideas, your presents will be things you would've loved 10 years ago. BAM I'm back to browsing Transformers and Legos and all that. I came within an inch of buying the G1 Devastator set for myself for like $80. So this tactic could backfire. Edit: Nah I'm paying off debt. No hobbies for me. Godholio fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Jan 2, 2019 |
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You know you can have a hobby, right? The world has changed, you no longer have to hide your autism through childrens gifts purchases. This isn't the 80s and model trains. I used to do jigsaw puzzles at/near the height of being unhinged. Now I just don't own a big enough table to do one on. Damnit, now I kinda want to look at legos. CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Jan 2, 2019 |
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Dad chat: I’ve spent the evening building the LEGO Saturn V rocket. Wife has been helping, stage 1 complete. How’s your holiday times working out fellow dads and moms and childless uncles? (me). Yo, just finished mine tonight. Also a wife gift. Pretty solid. CRUSTY MINGE posted:I'm watching the Demon House specials on travel channel while hitting the oil rig. Is that the one where Zack buys the house in the hood? That episode is hilarious. He rolls up with his camera crew and starts interviewing the squatters living on his property about their ghost experiences. Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Jan 2, 2019 |
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Got to take my old man to see They Shall Not Grow Old last week. The joy on his face when he picked out some of the tunes in the background was priceless: "You hear that? I think that's... Mademoiselle from Armentieres!" (he was right!).
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Naked Bear posted:Got to take my old man to see They Shall Not Grow Old last week. The joy on his face when he picked out some of the tunes in the background was priceless: "You hear that? I think that's... Mademoiselle from Armentieres!" (he was right!). Is your dad like 103 or something?
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Met the gf's family for the first time. Didn't die. I'm as shocked as anyone.
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Just don't drop her down any mountains.
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Fallom posted:
Yep
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Nostalgia4Ass posted:Is your dad like 103 or something? ![]() Kind of a spoiler, here is the version of Mademoiselle from Armentieres that was recorded for the film. It's probably the most tame version you'll hear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtiynnETOlM
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Watched Bird Box or whatever with Sandra B. Not bad, a little Deus Ex Machina but it had decent character development. My wife loving called it halfway through too where are the loving blind people at?.
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Fallom posted:
Yeah, it was a side project and released a couple years ago as a documentary, independent from his travel channel schtick because he did it with his own money and didn't have the entire band of idiots with him, just most of them. It's fascinating and terrible.
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Soulex posted:Watched Bird Box or whatever with Sandra B. Not bad, a little Deus Ex Machina but it had decent character development. My wife loving called it halfway through too where are the loving blind people at?. It was alright. I didn’t really get what the bad thing was besides spooky.
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Banging the poo poo out of the mother of my youngest.
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504 posted:Banging the poo poo out of the mother of my youngest. Motherfucker
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504 posted:Banging the poo poo out of the mother of my youngest. If you're gonna do a play-by-play, at least work on the frequency of your announcing.
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LingcodKilla posted:It was alright. I don’t think it was meant to be known, I think that they were supposed to look like whatever is the worst/scariest thing the individual can imagine. The scriptwriter guy that dies in the grocery store said they were demons, so maybe that. Definitely worth watching, also definitely not worth going out of your way to do so.
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Last day of 12 days off (one good thing about being a teacher because it sure isn't the pay or low stress environment). Built a simple wood toy box for my daughter and she's very good about putting her things away. Going to start building a small hinged-top desk for her (and the youngest when she's old enough to use it) that she can keep her crayons and fingerpaints in.
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Bird box was kinda lame, they didn’t put any thought into what it would look like for a bunch of people to live in a house for a few weeks after the apocalypse. There’s still electricity, everyone is clean and showered and always wearing the same pristine outfit. The loving grocery store dude continues to wear his red grocery store vest for his whole part in the movie lol Kinda took me out of it. Everything once sandy leaves the house is more interesting.
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Eh, A Quiet Place had some holes, Annihilation had some holes, still really decent movies. Not as absolutely loving stellar as the buzz would suggest, but yeah
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Godholio posted:I'm insanely jealous. Not a bad thing. My grandmother insisted on giving me a Lego set every Christmas until she passed in my late 20's. She always said that she loved watching me spend Christmas day putting them together. Plus, gently caress yeah Lego. Gifts can be as much for you as it is for the person you're giving them to. And Shim, I'm jealous of the Saturn V. Holidays were good. Hung out with family and friends. Got to see another old friend get engaged the same night another old friend asked me to DJ his wedding. It's good to be out of that college town and away from my crazy ex and her crazier friends. :edit: Empire Records is on Netflix. I forgot how nonsensical that movie is, but the music is great. Also, Season 2 of The Orville started and Hulu got the rest of Letterkenny.
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current job status: surprise offsite visit to see the marine corpse tomorrow morning, goddamnit poo poo
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Vasudus posted:current job status: surprise offsite visit to see the marine corpse tomorrow morning, goddamnit poo poo Bring some crayons to butter them up
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Better yet bring some butter to butter them up and a green sharpie for your dilz.
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nobody likes it when we visit the different offices we're like the grand inquisition
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Just constantly and casually drop the "well y'all are just navy anyhow" line. Bam, mad marines with dip drool pouring out there maws.
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Surprise! Oil check!
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it was hilarious listening to my boss, who is a 5-foot-nothing jewish lady scream at a major from the marines over the phone and ended the call with 'are you in your office tomorrow? block off some time then, we'll be there at 10' <hangs up phone> 'bitch' it was like the scene from snatch, except ten billion times lamer
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poo poo. That Lego Star Wars Star Destroyer is still on my "eventually buy this for yourself" list. I really liked the Imperial starships and how strangly angular they were. Better than Mon Calamari bullshit blobs. Millenium Falcon? gently caress that. Gimme that YT-2400.
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Soulex posted:poo poo. That Lego Star Wars Star Destroyer is still on my "eventually buy this for yourself" list. I really liked the Imperial starships and how strangly angular they were. Better than Mon Calamari bullshit blobs. I wish Legos did combat aircraft. And the SR-71. Just imagine, 1960's technological achievement collection SR-71 Saturn V X-15 XB-70 Flikken fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Jan 2, 2019 |
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I would absolutely buy a lego A-10
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Got a roll of Cinestill 800T 35mm back. Boy this looks good. Definitely not cheap because the roll + development was about 26 bucks all told. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Soulex posted:poo poo. That Lego Star Wars Star Destroyer is still on my "eventually buy this for yourself" list. I really liked the Imperial starships and how strangly angular they were. Better than Mon Calamari bullshit blobs. I got the Star Destroyer set many years ago. It's a fun one. The assembly instructions are a pair of giant coffee table books.
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Flikken posted:I wish Legos did combat aircraft. They had one submitted on their website, and it got the 10k votes to be considered, and they decided against production. ![]()
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I put together the Saturn V and VW Camper Van kits a few months back and they were great. The van set bags didn’t come in specific steps like the Saturn V though. Anyone thinking about putting it together should know it’s just about 4’ tall when finished.
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