That sucks, although I guess it really can do wonders to your RL productivity. But don't you have any portable Internet you could use instead in the mean time? Since you live in a big city, there should be good 3G/3.5G coverage.
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That sucks, although I guess it really can do wonders to your RL productivity. But don't you have any portable Internet you could use instead in the mean time? Since you live in a big city, there should be good 3G/3.5G coverage.
I wish my Internet was down. Today I'm going to the library to try to unaddict myself to the Internet.
lol, I have no wish to do that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sapphire
I only wish I can learn to survive on less sleep.
I think Kramer from Seinfeld tried the uberman method and it didn't work out too well for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sapphire
I've been doing the siesta for a while now, but I find the 20 minute nap isn't long enough and I wake up groggy from it, then pass out and it ends up being a 2 hour nap in the afternoon (which refreshes me for the rest of the evening) or evening (which messes up my main sleep that night, screwing up the cycle for the next day).
If you master it, Sapphy, let me know how and we can patent it together.
My schedule would never let me do that. Roster times can be kinda all over the place, and I work 8+ hour shifts with only 30 minutes break for lunch. Often, the act of eating lunch itself can take that long. (So I don't really rest during that time.. just using my jaw muscles instead of my legs/arms.)
I do sleep whenever I can on the bus (which can be up to 1.5hrs per trip, but more like 1hr or less taking into account interruptions and all. Plus, that's not one contiguous block and I get interrupted often).
Like I said though, since my schedule varies day to day, I've never tried adding up my sleep hours - alongside the fact that I can't really estimate the time I'm actually sleep on a bus instead of just having my eyes shut.
The Gods or spiritual beings must be laughing at me.
I'm trying to drink my sorrows away with some red wine I just bought at home only to realize I don't have a corkscrew, so I can't get buzzed/drunk even if I wanted to.
I don't drive either, so it's out of my way to walk/ride transit and I have to go sleep in a couple hours because I have work in the next ten hours.
This is a crock of bull.
Also, no, I don't want to open my bottle without a corkscrew, I wanted to do it "the right way" because it'll enhance the drinking experience and thus, make it taste better.
Furthermore, because my family doesn't drink, the only wine glasses available all have all these sticky residues on my drinkware.
This is a crock of bull.
Since when was there a "proper" way to open a bottle...
I can't say that there is a "proper" or "right" way of opening it, but I wouldn't want to forsake generations and years of forged European and Western wine-opening tradition because I didn't have a corkscrew.
It's the experience that makes it worthwhile, I'd say.
If I wanted to get a cheap drunk feeling, I would've went for some beers or lagers instead, but it wasn't what I was after.
Dude, opening a wine bottle without a corkscrew is a pain in the ass. Pretty much anything else you use destroys the cork or pushes it into the bottle. I say stick to wine coolers, they have twist off caps.
edit: Wtf, I wish I had been clever enough to google it like you did. Some of those tricks at I don't want to open my bottle without a corkscrew definitely make it easy.
I would definitely break the wine bottle that way. Or get arrested.
Speaking of European traditions, there's this saying that no drink was ever left undrunk because the bottle couldn't be opened.
I would have recommended the "put the bottle in your shoe and beat it against a tree" method to a customer who asked about how to open her bottle without the intended tools, except that was a bottle of sparkling wine that she was dealing with, and I wasn't sure how the pressure would work with all that.
Well the uncork isnt so important, they usually do it the "cool" way for the waiter or sommelier to smell the cork and decide if its in good state before drinking it wich could screw their sense of taste if it was in bad shape.
I would say that the altenative screw method is the most effective and I even have seen people doing it with some small twezeers. Anyways what its most important about wine "experience" is to let it oxigen (wich should take a few minutes wich could make it heat to more than the ideal temperature) so lately the trend here is to use some decanter that has Venturi effect.
What the heck kind of tools do you need for sparkling wine? Unless you call your hands tools. The cork only needs a bit of encouragement to leave the bottle all by itself. Must have been her first bottle of sparkling wine ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
I've actually noticed a lot more winemakers using twist off caps lately then before. And not just cheap wine, either...one surprise was a $30+ bottle of Wolf Blass Grey Label. I can't remember if it was the Shiraz or Cabernet, but it was pretty tasty.
well, fuck.
I just found out that a project, which I thought was due to mid-august, is actually due next week, I need to sit on my ass real hard to get it done.
Also, another project, which I need to hand over in two weeks, but it's a project in three-men team and I'm really not getting along with the rest of the team right now (which is bad, because one of them is my go-to-girl) and we got the notes on our draft, and it was really bad.
so, as to say. fuck. (and I hate my job, Diabetes... if you know you've got it, go see the doctor)
What does diabetes have to do with it all?
my job in the medical care organization puts me in direct contact with diabetic people. they became the enemy which I need to ensnare in the web of meeting the doctors (eye and regular) and bloodtests.
they don't want to, so I hate them.
Ah. I thought you were still selling stationary. How long ago was that?
Yeah, assignments creeping up on you suck, haha.