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Post by Lt. Broccoli on Sept 11, 2015 5:41:40 GMT -5
The kitchen faucet was leaking, and I fixed it. I just had to screw it back into place, but I'm pretty sure I'm an expert plumber now you guys.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Sept 13, 2015 0:41:57 GMT -5
Today I somehow managed to sleep through the landscapers cutting back the shrubs right outside my window. It was amazing!
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Sept 13, 2015 13:53:57 GMT -5
Doing perfect foley art for a scene I accidentally shot without sound.
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Oct 2, 2015 18:38:29 GMT -5
 I fixed my old push-button umbrella by jamming a big pink eraser into the handle. |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Oct 4, 2015 18:01:58 GMT -5
I patched up three rips in my lazy weekend jeans so I can keep wearing them in public.
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Post by The Stuffingtacular She-Hulk on Oct 6, 2015 8:52:12 GMT -5
I took the #1 place in our office NFL pool this week. I'm happy because I made back my $20, so if I win any future weeks, that'll just be icing on the cake.
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Post by Ice Cream Planet on Oct 12, 2015 5:40:32 GMT -5
I just ordered my Student Railway card and Student Oyster card.
I feel productive this morning.
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Post by Generic Poster on Oct 12, 2015 11:27:21 GMT -5
I just ordered my Student Railway card and Student Oyster card. I feel productive this morning. As a railroad oyster, how do you pump enough water through yourself to stay alive? |
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Post by afropig on Oct 12, 2015 11:54:42 GMT -5
One of the designers refused to make a coworker's 40th birthday card and I was asked to make one (I'm no designer). It ended up being not completely garbage-y which made me happy. The recipient also liked it.
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Post by afropig on Oct 12, 2015 11:57:49 GMT -5
I just ordered my Student Railway card and Student Oyster card. I feel productive this morning. I wish I wasn't an old person and could still get one of those. Minor accomplishment: I've aged ok. |
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Post by Ice Cream Planet on Oct 12, 2015 17:29:40 GMT -5
I just ordered my Student Railway card and Student Oyster card. I feel productive this morning. As a railroad oyster, how do you pump enough water through yourself to stay alive? It's really a state of mind. |
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Post by Smacks on Oct 12, 2015 18:59:36 GMT -5
I'm not really all that super proud, but I took a little college admissions exam today and scored really well. It was just a reading-comprehension assessment, which may have been required only since the majority of my classes would be online, but I finished in 15 minutes of the allotted hour and scored higher than the admissions person said she had seen in years. It was like, just shy of perfect. Again it was 5 passages of dry text with 5-7 questions following each thing, but I'm going to go ahead and feel pretty good about it.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Oct 12, 2015 22:36:33 GMT -5
I half-assed my final assignment for my first grad school class and got a perfect score on it! Sure, that means that the professor is an easy grader. But still!
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Oct 24, 2015 22:06:44 GMT -5
Today I successfully* put new front brake pads and rotors on the car.
*In as much as that it has stopped making that grinding noise, and I haven't run into anything since.
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Post by Generic Poster on Oct 26, 2015 8:53:00 GMT -5
Today I successfully* put new front brake pads and rotors on the car. *In as much as that it has stopped making that grinding noise, and I haven't run into anything since.I don't think that's minor at all. Car Talk always made that sound really hard. |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Oct 26, 2015 9:02:23 GMT -5
Today I successfully* put new front brake pads and rotors on the car. *In as much as that it has stopped making that grinding noise, and I haven't run into anything since.I don't think that's minor at all. Car Talk always made that sound really hard. Yeah, you wanna come put new brake pads on my car? Because I'm gonna need to pay someone to do that soon.  |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Oct 26, 2015 9:20:54 GMT -5
I just had to have my brakes (pads and discs) replaced—it was something my father was supposed to get the pads resurfaced when I was in Amsterdam, didn’t and ha ha one trip through the Rockies later I need to replace everything.
My minor thing I’m inordinately proud of is waking up early to correspond w/colleagues and my mentor from the Netherlands. That’s not a big deal, but I woke up early without any alarm and completely surprised myself.
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Oct 26, 2015 10:47:45 GMT -5
Today I successfully* put new front brake pads and rotors on the car. *In as much as that it has stopped making that grinding noise, and I haven't run into anything since.I don't think that's minor at all. Car Talk always made that sound really hard. I have worked on the brakes on a couple of my trucks where it was a huge pain in the ass, but I guess the complexity varies a lot depending on what make and model you are working on. This was a late 90's Lincoln town car that belonged to my folks, and other than getting a couple of the bolts broken loose, was actually pretty straightforward. Of course, it probably helped that I had done the brakes on the trucks within the last 6 months or so, so I had a little recent experience to draw on. |
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Oct 26, 2015 10:49:58 GMT -5
I don't think that's minor at all. Car Talk always made that sound really hard. Yeah, you wanna come put new brake pads on my car? Because I'm gonna need to pay someone to do that soon. Thanks, but I guess not. My back has hurt all weekend from crawling around under the car on a hard concrete floor. Now if you'd like to buy me a lift for the shop I might reconsider... |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2015 10:52:05 GMT -5
I haven't said "motherfucker" to anyone or berated any of my superiors today despite really, really really, wanting to.
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Post by ganews on Oct 29, 2015 21:11:33 GMT -5
At the security check before tonight's flight my bag was pulled aside because the x-ray spotted my full-size can of shaving cream, which I invariably and compulsively attempt to smuggle in carry-on luggage. The TSA guy pulled the mostly-empty can and weighed it in his hand, then swabbed the inside of my bag and fed the wipe into an IonScan. I made small talk about how I work with devices like that and asked about his swabbing technique, a major source of concern in the scientific explosives detection community.
The point is, he put my oversized shaving cream back in my bag and let me go.
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Post by Dellarigg on Oct 30, 2015 3:19:27 GMT -5
Check-up at the dentist's yesterday - nothing needs to be done. Considering the grand guignol of the last couple of visits, and the decades of not going that led up to them, this doesn't feel very minor at all.
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Post by Ice Cream Planet on Oct 30, 2015 3:48:24 GMT -5
Check-up at the dentist's yesterday - nothing needs to be done. Considering the grand guignol of the last couple of visits, and the decades of not going that led up to them, this doesn't feel very minor at all. Corny as it may sound, it's amazing how something so seemingly inconsequential can lift a giant weight off one's shoulders. Tl;dr–Glad it went well and did you celebrate with chocolate? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2015 17:10:14 GMT -5
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Post by Ron Howard Voice on Nov 8, 2015 17:18:22 GMT -5
I learned something today. When I moved out a few years ago, my parents bequeathed me a vacuum that doesn't do that. It's infuriating! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2015 17:30:30 GMT -5
I learned something today. When I moved out a few years ago, my parents bequeathed me a vacuum that doesn't do that. It's infuriating! I wouldn't have known what I was missing. All those years unwinding by hand... |
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Nov 9, 2015 21:10:15 GMT -5
I put the fitted sheet on going the direction the first time!
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Post by clytie on Nov 9, 2015 21:15:09 GMT -5
I can tell the Olsen twins apart 90% of the time.
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Post by Judkins Moaner on Nov 9, 2015 21:59:42 GMT -5
I wrote my first two poems in fifteen years last night and this morning. Downers, obviously, but still.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Nov 15, 2015 16:18:12 GMT -5
I successfully uploaded a video to Youtube so that others could watch it. It was harder than originally designed, because it was a video of Mrs. Rumak doing a Crossfit workout (so the judges could make sure she was meeting the standards), and the music playing during the workout is apparently copyrighted. You'd think there would be an easy way to fix this on Youtube, but even if you make it the video silent, it still flags the video. So I had to download Microsoft Movie Maker, remove the sound, save the video, and then upload it.
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