So... How'd Your Day Go?

So, today the computer of my partner's mother got taken over and locked. Ransom is $1,500 !! Not a joke.

WE NEED MORE NERDS, NOT MORE MARINES & GUNS, TO PROTECT US. WE NEED GUYS WITH BRAINS. AND PAY THEM WELL. AMERICA HIRES THE "C" STUDENT GEEKS BECAUSE OUR POLITICIANS ARE TOO CHEAP TO PAY THE BRAINS.... BUT OUR MILITARY GETS PLENTY OF MONEY. THE SMART GEEKS GO ELSEWHERE. THIS IS A FACT. THE CYBER DOGS ARE COMING TO A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION BY YOU. THAT IS THE WAY TO TAKE DOWN CAPITALISM. NO QUESTION.

WHAT....am I going... to eat for lunch today?! Oh... the stress of it.

Kevin: Me....avocado & hard boiled egg. Then hand full of walnuts. If memory serves, your son would approve. smiles.

There's this sandwich shop around the corner... Banh Mi- it's Vietnamese - you know - the French bread, spicy as..fresh jalapeño slices. They have this tumeric chicken, can't get it where I live. I'm at work and I usually don't have time, but it's a Saturday... One thing about this town is there's food. I generally pack a lunch but it's Saturday. :)

But it then there's the seafood cocktail place... Pulpo, abalon, camaron... Tapatio and limes

...and then there's Cha Cha Chicken... Haven't been there in a while- Caribbean, side of black beans and platanos...
Oh, decisions...

He-he, eat what you can and get the rest in a doggie bag for tomorrow .... and the day after ... and ...

If I ate out every day I'd be about two tons. :)

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Originally Posted by Firemajic

How can one say it, so that it does not offend? I am not taking ANY credit, when someone tells me that they have accomplished a goal, and I say I am proud of them... I never thought that THEY might feel like that... I assume they KNOW, that I know, that THEY did the work. THEY are responsible for their success.... As when they tell me about a failure, and I say how sorry I am that this happened to them, I am not claiming responsibility for the failure.....

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It's okay if one has a connection ... if you're my mentor, my raw material supplier, etc. and you in some way helped me accomplish <xyz> then you have a stake in my accomplishment. It's when folks out of the blue--who have no stake--claim pride that my dander is raised.

I don't mind you saying:

• I'm happy for you
• I'm pleased with you
• Good job
• Well done
• etc.

Those express recognition of an accomplishment without attaching pride to it. I don't object to compliments--I object to the attachment of false pride to someone else's accomplishment(s).

As for "I'm sorry" that's an expression of sorrow--if you said "I apologize" or "My bad" or "pardons" I would be all over your butt in the same way. (I was raised that, "I'm sorry" is not an apology -- "I apologize" is--but needs to be accompanied with actions.)

In simple metaphor--you're not my daddy and you didn't teach me to fly that kite.

And yes, people say it all the time. Does that mean it's an okay thing to say? When I was little, the eenie-meenie rhyme went like this:

eenie-meenie-minee-moe
catch a nigger by the toe
...

My kids learned it as tiger​--from other kids. So it can change. But not if people aren't willing to recognize that maybe there's something wrong with the way they're doing it.

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Originally Posted by mrmustard615

Whoa, guys. I don't think any harm was meant. No, maybe we shouldn't be giving out lollipops for behaving the way we're supposed to to begin with, but it was meant in the best spirit possible.


So let's get on with how your day went shall we? As for me, I'm waiting to see how many doctors and nurses my Mom pisses off at the hospital today. I'm keeping a running count and with a little luck, she'll make the Guinesses' Book of World Records. Other than that, things are going so swimmingly well. :icon_cheesygrin:

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Agreed here with the post, the whole post.

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Happy Cat-Cat photos...17 years strong!

From now on, I am never going to tell any of you that I feel pride for you all. >:[