What Are You Doing Today?

JamesTCat · Post by **JamesTCat** » Wed Jan 22, 2020 1:09 pm

Just ordering something from amazon. Disregard my comment about commissions at the moment. April is when I'll aim for asking a commission.

Vertigo Fox · Post by **Vertigo Fox** » Thu Jan 23, 2020 12:08 am

Looking after my under-the-weather cat (yesterday he was a sick cat but now he's getting better), then de-stressing with the much bigger cats at the zoo here, then making a minor update to the mix on a song I was recording over the last two days. I think it's ready for prime time now!

Also being all sad that Monty Python is now down to four.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Jan 23, 2020 12:12 am

Cleaning up my quesadilla maker since I had quesadillas for dinner.

Vertigo Fox · Post by **Vertigo Fox** » Thu Jan 23, 2020 10:07 am

Looking up where to find a quesadilla maker, a beautiful, wonderful machine I did not know existed in this universe until today.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Jan 23, 2020 1:39 pm

My mother got mine on Amazon for me as a Christmas gift so you could actually try there and see if you can find one. My quesadilla maker is made by Hamilton-Beach who up until this point I thought only made ceiling fans. XD

Ash Greytree · Post by **Ash Greytree** » Thu Jan 23, 2020 1:41 pm

Continuing to recuperate at home while taking my medicine for my sinus infection. I've got some art and some comics to catch up on.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Thu Jan 23, 2020 7:47 pm

Dinner and a movie.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Jan 23, 2020 11:26 pm

Trying to think about what I should do now that my first week of work is over and I have the rest of the days off.

CuriousCnidarian · Post by **CuriousCnidarian** » Thu Jan 23, 2020 11:59 pm

I got Assassin's Creed Odyssey around a week ago and it has consumed my life. Send help.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 7:32 pm

Sure I will get onto it. What is the address? xP

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 7:59 pm

Send assassins?

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Jan 25, 2020 12:22 am

I was gonna go and call 911. As soon as I figure out the number for it. xD

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Sat Jan 25, 2020 1:24 pm

Adds up to 20.

Vertigo Fox · Post by **Vertigo Fox** » Sat Jan 25, 2020 1:58 pm

Figuring out a good metal-ish guitar tone for when I record later in the week.
And then grocery shopping!

One of these is more exciting than the other...

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Jan 25, 2020 2:40 pm

Is it the grocery shopping? Over here it is very exciting now because we have that weird little robot that goes around the supermarket and tells the staff over the PA when there is a spill.

Vertigo Fox · Post by **Vertigo Fox** » Sat Jan 25, 2020 10:09 pm

It's not, but it absolutely would be if we had that here.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:38 am

Supposedly they are in Giant Food Stores and Stop & Shops which are located in the Northeastern states. But then I realized that you live in Canada. XD

JamesTCat · Post by **JamesTCat** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 7:34 am

Gonna work on my fanfiction some more. Just wanted to let you guys know I'm still at it.

Vertigo Fox · Post by **Vertigo Fox** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 11:16 am

Amazee Dayzee wrote:Supposedly they are in Giant Food Stores and Stop & Shops which are located in the Northeastern states. But then I realized that you live in Canada. XD

True, but my brother and I are planning a possible trip down to Fargo or somewhere else in your midwest sometime within the next two or three months. So we can keep our eyes peeled for it when we do.
Even if we can't find that store Walmart might have certain things they don't have available here. Or there's that other department store with the bullseye and the funny story.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:57 pm

I think its only in the northeast states so it wouldn't be there but don't quote me on that.

The other department store you are talking about is Target.

Vertigo Fox · Post by **Vertigo Fox** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 6:29 pm

Oh I know... they've just lost most of the respect they had up here cause of that funny story.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:13 pm

I really wanna know what the story is because I never heard of it. (Then again, I don't go to Target much as most of the time I go to the mall instead if I need something).

Vertigo Fox · Post by **Vertigo Fox** » Wed Jan 29, 2020 9:19 pm

Right then... it's not a short story but I should be able to get to the gist...
So Target decided that since Canadians like to shop at their stores when they visit the States they should expand into Canada. They went all out on it, bought or drove out one or two of the department stores that were already up here to make themselves space, and made sure to give themselves a nice self-congratulating fanfare on opening... and then they left, two or three years later, because Canadians weren't flocking to them as much as they'd expected.
Their official statement was something like they had no idea why their reception from Canadians at home was so different from Canadians visiting the States, and IIRC made it sound like Canada had deliberately tricked them somehow. All when, as I'm sure you people have already figured out, the real story is probably that people who are on vacation like to try new things, and people who are living their everyday lives tend to stick to the places and things they already know are good enough for them.
The only real result of all this is that we're now short a few department stores up here -- even moreso now that Sears is gone. It's mostly just Wal-Mart and Hudson's Bay, with a few smaller ones here and there. ...I guess IKEA and Canadian Tire might also count partway, they've both got their areas of specialty but tend to get their paws into more than that regardless.

I'm rambling again. I didn't even get to the part where I tell you what I'm doing today before I started rambling!

Nathan Kerbonaut · Post by **Nathan Kerbonaut** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 12:11 pm

My university book store may have forgotten to give me an online access code, if so I'll go back. Otherwise I'll be enjoying my last days before the next semester. This morning I watched the last half-season of Bojack Horseman (I meant to watch only a few episodes but it was so good I couldn't stop...). Also gotta get caught up on Star Trek Picard.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Feb 01, 2020 1:06 am

I started off today by visiting my grandmother in the rehabilitation hospital and was worried because she didn't want to do any exercises or couldn't then while me and my mother were going home, my uncle called and said my aunt couldn't get out of bed so he had to call 911 and then we got back just in time to see the ambulance pull in and carrying her out so I spent the next SIX hours in the emergency room.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Sat Feb 01, 2020 2:15 pm

Yesterday was 49th Wedding anniversary so the missus and I went to lunch and a show. Nice little snow this morning. Gonna stay home and read.

CunningFox · Post by **CunningFox** » Sat Feb 01, 2020 4:04 pm

NHWestoN wrote:Yesterday was 49th Wedding anniversary so the missus and I went to lunch and a show. Nice little snow this morning. Gonna stay home and read.

I hope you and your wife had a great day.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Feb 01, 2020 6:36 pm

I went to go visit my grandmother in the rehabilitation hospital and my aunt in the emergency room.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Sat Feb 01, 2020 9:28 pm

CunningFox wrote:
NHWestoN wrote:Yesterday was 49th Wedding anniversary so the missus and I went to lunch and a show. Nice little snow this morning. Gonna stay home and read.
I hope you and your wife had a great day.

We did, Cunning, and thank you.

trekkie · Post by **trekkie** » Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:13 pm

Happy belated anniversary Weston! Glad you had a good time.

Today I watched Groundhog Day and some videos on my phone.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sun Feb 02, 2020 11:19 pm

Trying to get at least 8 hours of sleep so that when I go up to the hospitals tomorrow to see my grandmother and my aunt I'm not dead.

Ash Greytree · Post by **Ash Greytree** » Mon Feb 03, 2020 1:34 pm

Heading to the bank to make a deposit. Not a long trip, just 2 minutes away. I could walk there if I really wanted to, and I may actually do so. Gotta burn off some of the stuff I ate last night at the Super Bowl party.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Mon Feb 03, 2020 11:55 pm

Hoping that when I get up for work tomorrow I will have time to iron my clothes since I was at the hospital all day today.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Tue Feb 04, 2020 9:48 am

Assembling stuff. Primarily, getting the garbage and recycle together for the dump; also getting all the forms, instructions, and 1099s together to start my Federal Income Taxes. Gee, hope I don't get them confused.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Feb 04, 2020 12:33 pm

I'm so glad that my mother handles the taxes since if I did them I'm sure the IRS would be pounding down our door to arrest us because i screwed up.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Tue Feb 04, 2020 7:13 pm

For decades, I do my own taxes because I have this cussed attitude that, in a democracy, a person ought to be able to do their own taxes without hiring a panel of mandarins to help screw it up. Our taxes are complicated; won't bore you with why. So, I get audited a lot - letters, demands for documentation, corrections, and I've had many, many phonecalls with IRS folks. They've have ALWAYS been polite, patient and helpful (but I still keep good notes). One year I sent them over two hundred pages documenting deduction claims. A couple times, they corrected my math and I got a larger refund. I've even gotten to know a couple of them over the years - it's not a happy place to work.

Still, the tax code is just mind-cramping.

Post by **SeanWolf** » Tue Feb 04, 2020 7:56 pm

Waiting for the Phantasy Star Online 2 beta to finish downloading and eating a sandwich (Bologna, Mayo, and Sour Cream & Onion Chips).

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Wed Feb 05, 2020 12:06 am

That reminds me of the sandwiches that I had in kindergarten and first grade until I discovered the joy of Lunchables.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Wed Feb 05, 2020 10:03 pm

Cure for tax-computation cramps - Take Sophie to the beach. Such a beautiful day and we pretty much had the shore to ourselves. Good for perspective, the seaside.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Feb 06, 2020 3:25 pm

...And now New England weather did a U-Turn and its crappy out. XD