<LunchBot>
raptop: You try to use parachutes to fight against the Death Star's tractor beam. You build a microwave receiver from microwave ovens to turn the beams back into electricity.
<raptop>
Apparently it's a "make silly devices" sort of day
<Althego>
ministry of silly spacewalks
<Mat2ch>
!mission
<LunchBot>
Mat2ch: You break the laws of rosemary, sage, and time. This proves difficult, as your rockets are all gummed up inside.
<raptop>
It turns out that the bearings need actual lubricants, not spices
Althego has quit [Quit: HMI Module Alpha Humana on approach to Space Station Mercury]
<taniwha>
because someone forgot the parsley
<raptop>
taniwha!
<taniwha>
hi, raptop
<raptop>
How go things?
* raptop
has managed to mostly survive the pandemic, I think. Somehow it's still march?
<taniwha>
pretty much the same here
<taniwha>
I'll be between jobs again come the end of the month, but otherwise things are pretty good
<raptop>
yay for that
<raptop>
or boo, depending on finances
<taniwha>
(one year contracts where even the company you work for doesn't know what will happen the next year aren't fun)
<raptop>
aaaa
<taniwha>
the vagaries of being an Assistant Language Teacher in Japan :P
* raptop
is attempting to finally get a bunch of stalled out academic stuff done (paper 1 revisions/publication, candidacy advancement) this spring, and then paper 2 later this year?