What's the latest in people's lives?

[colmquinn]

Sorry for your loss

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Well... customers have been rather pleasant to deal with over the past week. No idea why, but I am NOT looking the gift horse in the mouth on that one.

[Mikey]

Hooray! I found another money pit in my life!

Now that my son is a yellow belt (at $150/mo. PLUS the dojang's own ssang jeol bong, jung bong, headgear, handgear, footgear, chest protector, mouthguard, tti, and dobok,) he's decided that he likes hockey after we went to watch my buddy's kid play. Well, we thought a small indoor goal net/stick/ball kit would quell the bug... instead, he developed a wrister within 5 minutes and is screaming how much he likes it.

[Captain Picard's Hair]

You know Mikey, I'm a bit concerned about your kids' lack of activity. I think you might want to encourage them to develop some interests.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Ah, hockey. My dad played a bit before a knee injury. Nothing big, just local. And no, arrows had nothing to do with it.

[McAvoy]

Hooray! I found another money pit in my life!

Now that my son is a yellow belt (at $150/mo. PLUS the dojang's own ssang jeol bong, jung bong, headgear, handgear, footgear, chest protector, mouthguard, tti, and dobok,) he's decided that he likes hockey after we went to watch my buddy's kid play. Well, we thought a small indoor goal net/stick/ball kit would quell the bug... instead, he developed a wrister within 5 minutes and is screaming how much he likes it.

You should try to get him into bowling, golf, baseball, football and basketball to round it all out as far as money pits of death.

On second thought, basketball is cheap so scratch that.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Well, my old PC died on me. Fortunately I had backed up my files.

[Tsukiyumi]

Well, my old PC died on me. Fortunately I had backed up my files.

my old PC has gone on to it's afterlife; it's in purgatory as Leia's gaming computer.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

*Crosses self for Tsuki's old PC*

[Captain Picard's Hair]

I was sitting at my desk last night when I heard a loud POP. It turns out my chair broke - it's not the base but the back portion that snapped off where it connects to the base. So, I'll be off to Staples to get a new one shortly.

*I'm only 160-something pounds, for the record.

[McAvoy]

I think it's time to upgrade then.

I just spent $600 on college books today. I got only $20 back from the only book that they wanted back because there are newer editions for the other ones I had. I ended up giving them to charity.

But here is the funny thing, my college uses online homework websites which you pay between $80 to $90 for the access code. I have two classes that I need this for, math and chemistry. This sucks big hairy donkey balls.

[Captain Picard's Hair]

I think it's time to upgrade then.

I just spent $600 on college books today. I got only $20 back from the only book that they wanted back because there are newer editions for the other ones I had. I ended up giving them to charity.

But here is the funny thing, my college uses online homework websites which you pay between $80 to $90 for the access code. I have two classes that I need this for, math and chemistry. This sucks big hairy donkey balls.

I plan to get a more solid chair, yes.

The textbook story is one I know well; I have a whole heap of my old textbooks sitting in my attic because they're no longer worth anything to sell. This is all because of a few lines changed around and a couple of different homework questions inserted into a "new" edition.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

I never bothered to sell my old textbooks back. I might still have them kicking around somewhere...

[Mikey]

There's no reason to - every year, the professor in question changes "the" to "a" (or something similar, and a new edition is born to replace the old.

[McAvoy]

There is a place by me that you can sell them at the end of each semster. Basically, no teacher in my college gets a penny from those books so they don't give a shit if it's a seventh or eigth edition. Homework questions are done online now and some teachers don't even use the books.