I've never had the experience of doing a self eval but it sounds like torture. Advice is likely more helpful from the experienced, but I do offer my sympathy. Is there anyway to step outside yourself and do this more objectively? Help your friend Zen with this arduous task?
Zoe: Nobody's saying that, sir. Wash: Yeah, we're pretty much just giving each other significant glances and laughing incessantly.
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Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Laura - Dec 16, 2011 3:09:24 am PST #4332 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Zenkitty - Dec 16, 2011 3:14:00 am PST #4333 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I've reminded my friend Zen that we have copies of this crap from previous years. We're C&Ping right now. We'll update things a bit and hope Boss doesn't ask for documentation.
Laura - Dec 16, 2011 3:17:33 am PST #4334 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
You are a good friend. I think Zen should pamper you later as a reward.
SailAweigh - Dec 16, 2011 4:42:59 am PST #4335 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Indeed! Chocolates and wine, all around.
I've tried to switch over to mostly CFL bulbs, but I'm a little irked that they aren't lasting as long as advertised. If I'm going to fork over $2-5 per bulb, they damn well better last the 5 years they advertise. Instead, I'm got one lamp that eats them up as fast as incandescent so I've gone back to putting those in that particular lamp at least. Room overheads are still CFL and hanging in there pretty good. I think I'm going to start looking for the daylight ones, I don't think any of mine are.
Ginger - Dec 16, 2011 4:54:31 am PST #4336 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I like the warm white ones myself. To me, the daylight bulbs are a little stark.
CFLs don't last as long if they're turned on and off a lot.
brenda m - Dec 16, 2011 4:57:08 am PST #4337 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
The lighting in my living room and kitchen is spotlights embedded in the ceiling. I had to go to CFLs immediately because of the amount of heat the incandescents gave off. It was crazy. But that was four years ago and I've had one blow out since then. (Six weeks ago. Replacement bulb is still sitting on the counter waiting for me to drag the ladder out.) I'm pretty sure I got the daylight ones. They have the CFL coil-style bulb inside a more standardly shaped spotlight bulb.
Liese S. - Dec 16, 2011 5:05:55 am PST #4338 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I wonder why the performance varies so widely. My mom's electrician was completely new to them, but somehow they go out regularly for her. We built at the exact same time and I have yet to change a bulb. I fact, I was an early adopter and put them in the past several houses where I've lived, and I never had to change any of those, either.
They do come on slower these days, but that's it. Not one failure yet in four years.
WindSparrow - Dec 16, 2011 5:06:43 am PST #4339 of 30001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Re: Online Dating - I thoroughly recommend my own method, which was to find a chat room dedicated to an actual interest (i.e. a tv show), make friends with the regulars, and start flirting with one. First time, it worked out ok. Second time, it worked out even better. Plus, it got me away from those horrid scorpions.
§ ita § - Dec 16, 2011 5:22:53 am PST #4340 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
it turns out that most people don't really like the way they look in daylight
Really? What's the preferred light then? I thought artificial was supposed to be the big bad.
Ginger - Dec 16, 2011 5:24:08 am PST #4341 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I had to go to CFLs immediately because of the amount of heat the incandescents gave off.
That is not an uncommon cause of fires, if the builder didn't install the recessed lights correctly. (Also, they're frequently installed without the right sealing and insulation, so they're a common source of air leakage. Bad idea all the way around.)
There was a fair amount of variation in quality in the early years of CFLs. The current bulbs are better in a lot of ways.