No Stealth Bragging in This Thread

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Mine, too. Once we got it into our living room and got settled, we just sat there kind of grinning at each other. (Also: the crotchety older male cat has so far not decided to get all territorial about New Thing In House and hasn’t peed on it. Wheeee! The previous owners had a dog, so I was a touch worried.)

Mr. Shoe bought me a dress a few weeks ago and today, the temp looked me up and down briefly and said, “Dang, girl, you must work out!” Ummmm … no. No, I don’t actually. But I’ll take the compliment even if it is a total lie! :smiley: This dress is now going into heavier rotation, over-AC’d office be damned.

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Let’s see:

The kids both brought home good grades this year.
My Crohn’s is under control.
I have lost 16 pounds.

And I am taking my big sister to Disneyworld with us in November! (She’s 38 and has never been.)

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My wedding dress now zips up! It did nothing of the sort when I bought it. 28 pounds, give or take.

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Damn, we could make a couple of whole new Dopers out of all the weight being shed in this thread. Congrats, all of you! :slight_smile:

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Isn’t someone working on that?

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My wife got a huge, nasty virus on the computer today. She tried to “deal with it”, but, sorry honey, but that was like throwing gas on a fire. At the end, she was in tears, with “nothing” working. It sounded like a major clusterfuck.

So why am I posting in this thread?

Because I literally backed up my hard drive yesterday, less than 24 hours before this happened, with the intention of wiping the hd free, re-doing the partitions, and installing Win7 this evening. All that happened was my schedule was moved up 6 hours.

So valuable lessons were learned by all, with little damage actually done.

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FTW!

My kid’s at a schmancy new school this year with the schmancy new uniform & shoes to match. The shoes were falling apart after just on six months and, against all my experience and understanding, the kid told me that if she went in uniform to the only local suppliers of that shoe, we’d get an exchange … and we did! No receipt no question and (on their advice) got a different brand and made up the exchange difference in chocolate.

My kid is brilliant.

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Apparently I am. Don’t tell anyone, and send sticky thoughts :stuck_out_tongue:

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Sticky and choclatey! Congrats.

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I think I need this thread. I’m intensely unhappy with my current employment situation (the ‘not so great pay or benefits but stable’ state job that was to be the position I retired in has turned to shit about 5 years too early.)

So: I have two great kids, and my relationship with my wife is good and getting better, even if she has her own demons to slay. I’m spooling up for a third year running the cubscout pack, keeping it balanced because it’s not going to be another career for me, and I have some philosophical differences with the organization, but I can see it being important for the kids, and it’s worth doing.

And I am a mechanical savant. really.

I’m machining a bracket for the exhaust on a 1966 Cadillac because a replacement can’t be bought.

Bought a new camera last month that was a real financial stretch, but made it a net-zero cost thing by selling the old camera and machining some motorcycle tools for some folks online. It’s already made some AMAZING photos and feels like the right thing to have done.

Put 18,000 miles on a motorcycle over the last two years and am not dead yet.

The home network is running like a swiss watch, most of it running in a virtual environment and all protected by enterprise-grade network security bits. Because that’s what I do for a living.

Only I’m learning that the whole quiet self-deprecating ‘oh that? That was nothing.’ schtick really is incompatible with trying to land a job. And yet, how do you say you can do all this stuff and not come across as arrogant? (Sounds like fertile ground for another thread). I can protect a network, detect attacks, manage and tune an enterprise switch-fabric. I can forensically capture a computing asset and analyize it…and when data recovery is required, can even recover some of it sometimes. Though it’s not my favorite thing to do, be a C level Information Security Officer, requiring crafting and interpreting security policy derived from Federal Standards that stand up well against federal auditor scrutiny.

And I can screw up, letting Linked-in send requests to 164 of my closest friends. :smack:

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Basically, say what you can do, without putting down others or specifically saying you’re awesome, and let them judge for themselves. (Actually, I got one of my funner jobs by posting an ad and saying I was a goddess, which is obviously bullshit, but proves that a little bit of boasting isn’t bad).

Actually, now that I think about it, the ‘that was nothing’ schtick can be seen as boasting - you’re so good, that something that most people can’t do, is just too easy for you to mention.

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Apparently, several someones, so I guess we got that part covered. Wishing you all trouble-free pregnancies, easy births, and healthy babies! :slight_smile:

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I just got a new job.

Same company but different position, moving from hourly to salary, getting a small pay bump and a bonus plan are in there. This is good. I like my company but I’m getting burned out at my current job and starting to feel underappreciated. Hello work/life balance, my name is Intergalactic Gladiator, it’s nice to meet you.

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Congratulations!

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Ah, thanks, but apparently things are now officially unstuck, so I spoke up a bit prematurely. Such is life, and all that. :confused:

To avoid threadshitting, I’ll brag that the community group I co-lead got a letter of thanks from our local politician for our hard work, and an invite to go visit the Scottish Parliament, as well as any other help he can arrange! I know they’re just after votes, but it’s still nice to be noticed :slight_smile:

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I finished the first draft of the novel Sunday night and just finished typing it up. 51,124 words in 17 days. Lots of editing and rewriting to do, but that’ll be quite a while later.

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After three tries (and three failures), I FINISHED MY KNITTING PROJECT !

:smiley:
:eek:

(Unfortunately?) It was a 3.75" square “Easy Knit Coaster” in el cheap-o cotton yarn.

a tiny project

but I’m VERY PROUD!

I’ve flunked knitting 101 multiple times … :frowning: :smack:

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The next one will be easier, and the one after that. Do enough and you can sew them together for a doll’s blanket (2x3), scarf (1x12+) or blanket (heaps).

Well done.

And ‘Aw’ to Imp, hope you’re ok.