I'll be the judge of that after I eat some :P

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Thanks to Grargar for coming up with the name! And thanks to everyone else who pitched their ideas!
And thank you GOG support!

I'm doing a giveaway and it made me all warm and gushy on the inside.

I'm happy because I decided that I would look for my cat Angel( after not seeing her for dinner time) instead of thinking she's a cat and this pretty normal behavior but shit am I glad I did as she had somehow found her way into the neighbors roof space (thankfully they were home) She is safe and not to freaked out and I am so happy that she is OK and that I found her with the help of our lovely neighbors and my wonderful partner.

Good news! We "registered partnership" in Germany that is still not on the same legal level as marriage. But it's at least something - the rest will probably come through courts - equal rights and so on.

Also: (Autopost) It's friday!

Knowledge of having cold beer waiting for me home.

My beer is still waiting for me in the convenience store...

The restaurant we usually order meal from fucked up something (again......), but this time it was positive, at least for us.
- their website didn't charge my card when paying last week
- they phoned us, telling about this mistake now
- we had to pay this in cash now to the delivery boy, but the bill was a LOT lower (about 1/4) than the missing amount :D
- we got triple amount of pear juice today with our daily meal, because...?????

In other words: They fucked up, we paid less, and got more pear juice :D

If you've seen me in the "bitch about life" thread lately, you know that I've been depressed constantly for a few months, but today...
I just feel good today.

One day of societal pressure to engage in nonsense down, only one more to go, then it can all piss off until the moronic cycle repeats next year.
Also, sitting here playing a crappy game instead of being stuck around people acting like five year olds with fresh head trauma and having to suppress the urge to commit assault with a 200 pound shopping cart while they act like imbeciles in the name of getting a deal.

I visited my sister this afternoon and my brother in law showed me one of his latest acquisition: An electromechanical digital voltmeter. The display looks like old mechanical counters and you hear a motor running (not a fan) when it is running. I think it had 4 digits.

When you check a voltage the mechanical counter counts back or forth until it show the value for the voltage being measured. It dates from the early 1960's and is still accurate or 1/10th of a Volt. And I'm guessing it's been a while since its last calibration. (I did not see a calibration tag/seal)

I always thought that the first digital electronic measuring instruments use nixie tubes and that mechanical counters were only used to count things from peoples entering a place to meters of tissues in a factory.

I was so amazed by the thing that I forgot to check who made it, I don't think it's one of the big name like HP or Fluke as I believe I would have noticed that. It was really neat to see running.

Christmas is just one day in your family?

Yes. The day isn't celebrated at any great length, which works out really well for me.

Thanks! I'll check it out (I think I really need it). Gratz on the cat return as well!