[12:30] <widox> morning
[12:31] <widox> finally got power back yesterday evening!
[12:45] <rick_h> widox: congrats!
[12:45] <rick_h> Hope you can get home and put stuff back together
[12:47] <widox> rick_h: thanks. yeah we got back and the heat had kicked back on, so at least it was warm :)
[12:48] <widox> nice to be back at my desk
[12:56] <cmaloney> widox: Glad you finally have power back
[13:02] <widox> cmaloney: thanks. good to be back in the land of good coffee and mechanical keyboards :D
[13:03] <rick_h> widox: hah, it's the small things we miss
[13:03] <rick_h> When I get back from sprints I just want a decent sized monitor, a drive in my truck, and some of my own coffee
[13:03] <rick_h> oh, and real internet connectivity
[13:04] <jrwren> i just want to sleep in my own bed and sit in my own chair and eat light food
[13:05] <rick_h> yea, normally I don't gain weight on sprints but damn I did this one
[13:06] <rick_h> should have stayed in the hotel where the food was awful. Would have eaten a lot less
[13:06] <jrwren> i didn't. I was reasonably carefu.
[13:06] <jrwren> and I did 30min of cardio on Tuesday and WEdnesday.
[13:06] <jrwren> it wasn't until wednesday afternoon that I started feeling sick.
[13:16] <cmaloney> Where was this last sprint?
[13:16] <rick_h> New Orleans
[13:16] <cmaloney> Oh boy
[13:17] <cmaloney> yeah, you're kind of screwed in the diet department
[13:19] <jrwren> not really.
[13:19] <jrwren> I mean, if you let yourself go... yes.
[13:19] <rick_h> Yea, only had beignets one day
[13:19] <rick_h> :)
[13:19] <jrwren> but if you are doing low carb, all it takes is ignoring beignets.
[13:19] <jrwren> the rest is delicious meat :)
[13:19] <jrwren> I only had 1 bite of a beignet, I think.
[13:20] <jrwren> It reminded me of paczki which I had just had the tuesday prior.
[13:20] <rick_h> It was like if someone made a funnel cake but instead of funneling it into loops just plopped it out at once
[13:20] <jrwren> but the first night I was there I was hungry and we found a place and nothing really stood out on the menu, so I decided on ribs, but they didn't have 1/2 rack, only full rack.  ZOMG
[13:26] <jrwren> rick_h: what was the best thing that you ate there?
[13:27] <rick_h> jrwren: honestly, nothing jumps out. I had a good red beans one day. Most things were kind of average to be honest.
[13:27] <jrwren> rick_h: same here. nothing was bad, but nothing was really great either.
[13:27] <SneakyPhil> widox: do you live out in the boonies?
[13:28] <SneakyPhil> we were lucky and got it back early Sunday morning
[13:28] <cmaloney> SneakyPhil: Worse - Detroit
[14:08] <widox> SneakyPhil: heh, Detroit. Corktown neighborhood
[14:08] <widox> we just happened to be in a small cluster of houses without power
[14:09] <widox> actually, we had a partial outage; so we fell low on the list. even though we had no heat because of it :-/
[14:17] <SneakyPhil> :(
[14:17] <SneakyPhil> that blows
[18:18] <greg-g> dangit, my new standing desk arrived 6 days early! I wasn't ready!
[18:19] <brousch__> So use a stool until you're strong enough
[18:21] <jrwren> lol
[18:21] <greg-g> not in that way, in that I don't have my current desk clean yet!
[18:22] <greg-g> I'll just dump it all in a box, then let that box sit there on the floor for a few months
[18:25] <_stink_> s/ a few months/ever
[18:27] <cmaloney> Nah, eventually you can just throw out the box
[18:27] <greg-g> cmaloney: you haven't seen our garage....
[18:28] <greg-g> That's a half joke. It's bad, but... well, this is a marital issue that I should stop talking about ;)
[18:28] <cmaloney> I have those same boxes
[18:28] <cmaloney> "Honey, can't we put the books in this box on the shelf so we know what we have?" "No, they stay in the box"
[18:29] <cmaloney> (usually followed by a "you're one to talk" followed by a carefully-laid-out point-by-point dissection of all of my shit in the basement)
[18:29] <brousch__> I have a basement full of them
[18:29] <jrwren> lol
[18:29] <jrwren> we still have boxes from the move 4yrs ago.
[18:30] <jrwren> CDs, because we don't actually need those anymore.
[18:30] <brousch__> We moved in 2001
[18:30] <jrwren> and books :)
[18:30] <cmaloney> I still use the CDs. Those are like the old Autodesk boxes.
[18:30] <cmaloney> where you have to keep the packaging to keep the license.
[18:31] <jrwren> ha!
[18:31] <cmaloney> but when we had the power out I also have the backup copy to listen to on a CD player
[18:33] <brousch__> CDs exist so you can rip to the latest digital format every 5 years
[18:33] <cmaloney> Yeah
[18:33] <cmaloney> or for when you blitz your drive in an upgrade
[18:34] <jrwren> yeah, 5 yrs ago, I think disk was $$$ enough that I didn't flac 'em all. now I flac 'em all and transcode for whatever quality format :)
[18:34] <greg-g> yup, flac or nothing at this point for me
[18:35] <jrwren> its funny, i bought some CDs recently and it included digital download, but I forgot and ripped 'em myself anyway.  Old habbits die hard, I guess.
[18:35] <cmaloney> I get discs of stuff that I download in Bandcamp
[18:36] <greg-g> Lately I've only been downloading (flac) from bandcamp/etc, no discs, except for special bands