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“Dedicated Galvanic rape victim”
Ulthuan for the high elves, Naggarond for the dark elves, but the Empire for everyone?
N e o v a g i n a
As an expert on Spanish gay porn were you able to correct them or affirm their fears?
RAPID SLAMMING
We’ll just say “4chan, isn’t that a girl’s website?”
is it your internalized nationalism preventing you from painting red coats?
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there’s nothing wrong with accepting Ireland was a vassal state. actually, that’s wrong, Ireland wasn’t a vassal state because the King of England was also the King of Ireland. Ireland fought as part of the Crown forces during the English Civil War
Not a whole lot to say – settling into engaged life. Work is fine. Began cycling to and from work, about an 8KM round trip. Bloody cold in summer gear, but hardening myself to it. Not really lifting more than 1x week, even then only fucking around with pullups and pressing.
Also decided on the real ring for the engagement, a vintage 1970s sapphire set in diamonds. Setting is neither too low or too high. Bargained it down from €1900 to €1500. If the Falcon had not said she was willing to pay €1500, I could have gotten it lower. Falcon has adequate bargaining skills. But often says the wrong thing in her “routine”. Case in point in China, she was looking to buy a pair of shoes, which were cheap converse knock-offs. The guy was trying to charge 500RMB (€60 at the time), after saying she couldn’t spend any more than 500RMB.
I came in while eating a tea egg and squatted right down beside him and said “50RMB, that’s all I paid last time,” in a thick Shanghai accented Mandarin. He agreed immediately. Pity the shoes were too small. More people should learn to bargain and haggle, it has an outsized effect on your salary compared to actual hard skills. I got a 15% raise on my current job’s offer after asking for it. All I had to do was say I had other offers in the pipe and let them stew. This also added to the 10% bonus. If you change jobs every few years, this really adds up after 3 job changes.
Visited friends down in Cork and explored a few 17th century star forts. We mourned the failure of Hugh O’Neil to defeat the English at Kinsale and wished for the return of a butter-based economy. Used a Dremel to grind out a jamming door catch. Made a pipe tool out of a suitable hex screw with a file. Raided the bins of a Games Workshop and recovered some magazines and hardbacks. Drank some nice beers. The Falcon came down mid-way and we had a great time all told.
Trying to finish the CCNA exams this year, getting some support from work to do it. Have some networking stuff to do in work, which will support the learning.
Warhammer 40k club in work is going well, we now have weekly games between 5 people. Made some nice pieces, which apply what I learned this year about colour theory and detailing scale models. I’d hate to put my early stuff side by side – even the towers lack the greebling the ruined factory has. So this was very satisfying.
Also left my phone offline for 3 days. This felt pretty great. Might be something I do again. Less anxious. More relaxed and able to enjoy shit.