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  1. Ah c'mon, "it's re-tin-OH-sa, not re-tin-o-SAAH..." No glasses either? Wow, that sounds really rough. I needed glasses in college but didn't get them until a few years ago. My vision's not too bad, but I still feel a lot better with them on.
  2. I hear you. I understand that every case develops a bit differently - my wife said she had a professor with pigmentitis retinosa (tell me that doesn't sound like a spell from Harry Potter), who had lost everything but the very center of his vision, but still saw 20/20 with glasses - just a tiny little spot in the middle, but he could read.
  3. Hey man, you should post more suggestions in our beer thread: http://metalforum.com/off-topic/3734-beer-ale-lager-appreciation-thread.html I've had a few Polish beers - Zywiec, Tyskie, Lomza - some of them make a good porter, but mostly they're just very similar light lagers. So any more flavorful recommendations would be awesome. Big Polish population near where I live, so it shouldn't be too hard to find something good.
  4. Katatonia - Sounds Of Decay fucking love this EP
  5. Opeth - Morningrise Everything I've heard from that album is good so far. I think everyone but their main vocalist is in Furia.
  6. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse Yeah, they're pretty bad judging by the music I heard.
  7. It's great that you can still read! My wife thought that's what it was - she told me about a professor of hers that had RP, who still had 20/20 vision (with glasses) right in the very center of his macula. Extreme tunnel vision! That would probably drive me nuts. Thanks for talking about it, I was curious.
  8. Yes, it's time to overcome that hurdle, shape that nice chunk to the Slipknot point of view; there is a lot of people in Slipknot and they feel like it's time for that to be like my number one priority and like the most important thing to me right now. Shape that chunk.
  9. Abyssal - Denouement I seriously love a lot of these riffs.
  10. Queens Of The Stone Age - Like Clockwork I should not have had a full dose of Nyquil last night. This album sounds like I feel right now.
  11. Re: New Purchases/Acquisitions You may need to go this route for a little while to accommodate your weight gain, but we won't laugh!
  12. Re: Rate and Slate It's lucky you have that arrangement! I don't get bored as long as I can keep busy, and the kid keeps me plenty busy. It's like a job. I do go a bit stir-crazy, not much to be done about that. I would have gladly stayed at work, but it didn't make financial sense. And it is a cool gig, maybe the best job I've ever had. Trying to teach him stuff, but also just let him figure things out on his own. He knows the letters and colors, and we're working on numbers. He seems to love it and he's not even two. Another thing that made me more inclined to stay home: too many of our landscaping clients had nannies and housekeepers. I have to admit that that made me uncomfortable. Upper middle class people that work long hours at high paying jobs, so they can afford a staff that will maintain the home they're never at and take care of the children they don't have time to raise. Ugh. It's not how I want my family to be, you know?
  13. Patches in general are kinda funny, but patches on jeans are really funny.
  14. You need an excuse to wear bigger jackets. Sounds like you need to gain some weight around the midsection. Supplement the nutella with lots of potatoes and cream cheese, you'll have plenty of real estate in no time.
  15. Re: Whatcha Eatin'? I'm the same way, but management pushed me into being a customer liaison so frequently... the last job in particular required an egregious amount of hand-holding, and our internal communication was really inefficient. It wasn't rare for work to grind to a halt because the boss wasn't available and couldn't delegate responsibility. That's when the real tap dancing started. I don't miss it.
  16. Re: Rate and Slate Most recently I was a construction manager/carpenter for a landscaping company. Rich people's backyards, mostly. Lots of city driving with trucks and vans, too. Before that I managed and fabricated at a plastic shop. I've also done crate building/art handling, homebuilding, plumbing, and a little bit of work at a prop studio. My wife and I were both working full-time for the first year after my son was born, but I started staying home with the kid last year because all of my money was going to childcare. I was working for the privilege of being able to work, and someone else was raising my kid. I don't know if I'll go back into "my field" or try to do something different, like with my painting. It's been hard adapting to being home all the time, but taking care of the kid is very rewarding and I've been able to find time to keep recording.
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