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- A workplace where I can email in "holy fuck my car you guys" and everything will be OK
- Having things (finally) set up so I can effectively work from home
- Friends who think enough like me so we can talk for hours, or reconnect immediately if we haven't talked for weeks, months, or years.
- Being able to bang up against a wildly unexpected behavior from a daily productivity application, complain about it on the internal not!Facebook, and have ... I think actually three tickets filed against the thing from some entirely sympathetic devs, and get more sympathy from some other administrative assistant types who have banged up against the same thing themselves.
- Having a manager sympathetic to exactly why the guy making the "assume" joke was correct in his decision to take it down, but would have been more correct to not make it in the first place.
- Coca-Cola with blackcurrant syrup.
- Reading a book written by a person who knows more about fisting than me, and who's an excellent and hilarious writer to boot.
- Having been part of an amazing and close-knit community in its heyday, and the friendships that will endure everything ever after because they've already been through hell and high water. (I'm crying again.) ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
- A braintwin who gets me. ♥
- An Overlady who understands how the world gets shook up when stuff happens.
- An Overlady who is actually at least in passing acquainted with what the hell I was actually talking about.
- An Overlady who tells hilarious stories
- Really hilarious bad impulses that are fun to explore
- Fun party games
- Thinking my own bad ideas are the funniest shit ever
Sep. 8th, 2012
For some reason I thought this would be a good idea.
Materials:
6oz each of orange and lime jello
way too much caffeine and taurine powders, on reflection (I did measure them so I'd know what was up)
16oz boiling water
24oz each Mountain Dew (the good kind with real sugar) and citrus-flavored (in this case) vodka
Mixing vessel
Kettle
Fork
28 x 3oz paper cups
Dump powders in bowl. I should have mixed but I didn't. At first I was going to only use half the jello, but after adding the first bit of water, it was way too fucking bitter from the caffeine (a whole energy drink's worth of caffeine in 1 ~3oz shot is Not Recommended) so I went whole hog. (I used a fork for tasting - stir with fork, open mouth, hold fork well above mouth, don't prevent the brew from dripping off the tines into mouth, and there's a teeny-tiny taste of what's going on in the cauldron.)
I took the hot water straight from the kettle into the measuring cup, 8oz at a time, so all the powder dissolved in the hot water. I must thank the good folks from the Ultimate Jello Shot project for the Science!! so I could just sort of muddle along.
Next I added a 12oz can of Mountain Dew, and topped it off with vodka (4oz). Then I measured out 16oz of vodka. Then I realized that a) another 16oz would be a lot more vodka than I was figuring on, and b) I didn't have enough left in the bottle. So another can of Dew, and another 4oz of vodka.
I mixed it all up. Next the pouring. In ideal circumstances I'd have been doing this on a large work table, with a tray on which I'd lined up the cups and could just transfer smoothly to the refrigerator once I was done, perhaps a nice large sheet pan. However. My kitchen is first tiny and second generally a complete mess. I lined up a few cups at a time on a plate (to catch drips, mostly), then transferred them into the refrigerator one at a time. Before each round of pouring, I'd stir the bowl again, to avoid any case where something that was perhaps not quite evenly distributed might end up all in one cup (really not desired).
In the end I had 28 little shots all lined up. They're chilling right now. And then I did the math.
Each ~3oz serving (one shot is one serving) contains:
~114mg caffeine (discounting the caffeine that's coming from the Dew)
~90mg taurine
~.86oz Mountain Dew
~.86oz or vodka
Tomorrow's going to be *interesting*. (No, I'm not planning to have them all myself. That would be, how you say. VERY BAD IDEA.)
Materials:
6oz each of orange and lime jello
way too much caffeine and taurine powders, on reflection (I did measure them so I'd know what was up)
16oz boiling water
24oz each Mountain Dew (the good kind with real sugar) and citrus-flavored (in this case) vodka
Mixing vessel
Kettle
Fork
28 x 3oz paper cups
Dump powders in bowl. I should have mixed but I didn't. At first I was going to only use half the jello, but after adding the first bit of water, it was way too fucking bitter from the caffeine (a whole energy drink's worth of caffeine in 1 ~3oz shot is Not Recommended) so I went whole hog. (I used a fork for tasting - stir with fork, open mouth, hold fork well above mouth, don't prevent the brew from dripping off the tines into mouth, and there's a teeny-tiny taste of what's going on in the cauldron.)
I took the hot water straight from the kettle into the measuring cup, 8oz at a time, so all the powder dissolved in the hot water. I must thank the good folks from the Ultimate Jello Shot project for the Science!! so I could just sort of muddle along.
Next I added a 12oz can of Mountain Dew, and topped it off with vodka (4oz). Then I measured out 16oz of vodka. Then I realized that a) another 16oz would be a lot more vodka than I was figuring on, and b) I didn't have enough left in the bottle. So another can of Dew, and another 4oz of vodka.
I mixed it all up. Next the pouring. In ideal circumstances I'd have been doing this on a large work table, with a tray on which I'd lined up the cups and could just transfer smoothly to the refrigerator once I was done, perhaps a nice large sheet pan. However. My kitchen is first tiny and second generally a complete mess. I lined up a few cups at a time on a plate (to catch drips, mostly), then transferred them into the refrigerator one at a time. Before each round of pouring, I'd stir the bowl again, to avoid any case where something that was perhaps not quite evenly distributed might end up all in one cup (really not desired).
In the end I had 28 little shots all lined up. They're chilling right now. And then I did the math.
Each ~3oz serving (one shot is one serving) contains:
~114mg caffeine (discounting the caffeine that's coming from the Dew)
~90mg taurine
~.86oz Mountain Dew
~.86oz or vodka
Tomorrow's going to be *interesting*. (No, I'm not planning to have them all myself. That would be, how you say. VERY BAD IDEA.)
47 tweets for 2012-9-8
Sep. 8th, 2012 11:55 pmIn the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:
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- Saturday, 0014: @kolfinnaherald <3 I keep Trader Joe's dark chocolate caramels in my desk drawer, and my Overlady told me hilarious stories.
- Saturday, 0014: @kolfinnaherald Plus Kat freaked out with me.
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