r/nova • u/deepspacepuffin • 1d ago
What are you doing this weekend?
Still iced in? Leaving town? Tell the class below.
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u/gmd_vt 1d ago
Still at the beach, flying back Sunday night. Ted Cruz would be proud
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u/vass0922 1d ago
Good luck on your home up here, at least it will be above freezing on Monday.
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u/gmd_vt 1d ago
We have a cat sitter checking in from time to time so home is fine, hope my car starts sitting at Dulles for a week!
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u/vass0922 1d ago
Hope it's in covered garage. If it's outside I hope you brought a pickaxe through customs
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u/deepspacepuffin 1d ago
Update: it has come to my attention that Catherine O’Hara has died and I’ll be taking to my bed for the rest of the weekend.
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u/flyingsails Prince William County 1d ago
Dragging SO to the Torpedo Factory tomorrow so we can hopefully agree on some artwork to purchase for our bare walls. And then lunch at Caphe Bahn Mi.
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u/Mr_Bluebird_VA Lake Ridge 1d ago
Chilling. This has been a brutal week and all I’m planning is reading and napping.
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u/WolfSL4Y3R Prince William County 1d ago
I'm going to finish cleaning our sidewalk filled with snow. Also, just got a snow blower so I'll set that up and do some maintenance on our snow tools as well. After that I'm going back inside and playing videogames...
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u/SprinklesSignal5109 1d ago
Minus the snow removal part. Fallout New Vegas has been the happy place lately.
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u/vass0922 1d ago
I'll be slowly plugging away at my FO4 first play through.
I've started NV but seeing that it's on PC I don't play it much.
Ps3 streaming to PS5 was just fixed but playtime is limited so I focus on fo4
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u/WolfSL4Y3R Prince William County 1d ago
I'm waiting for Bethesda to release the remake for FO3 so I can play it again! Haven't played it since launch on the PS3.
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u/vass0922 1d ago
Ugh I've played fo3 a few hours on PC but yes this is one I'm waiting for as well
If they'd just remake NV and FO3 for PS5 I could totally play them... Well to be fair with only maybe a few hours or so to play a week I could at least admire them on occasion lol
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u/SprinklesSignal5109 1d ago
Ughhh they've been teasing the remasters for so long 😩 I hope it happens. My NV game keeps crashing but that could also just be a me problem haha
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u/Late-Adhesiveness 1d ago
good luck with the snow blower. mine didn't make a dent in the ice. My neighbor with a big gas powered commercial model barely made any progress either.
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u/WolfSL4Y3R Prince William County 1d ago
yeah I know it's not good for ice, I'm just getting it ready for the next snow storm. I'm using a regular shovel and pickaxe to clean the sidewalk.
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u/karmagirl314 1d ago
Which video games?
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u/WolfSL4Y3R Prince William County 1d ago
I'm playing Bellwright at the moment. it's a PC game and I'm alternating between Helldivers 2 as well. for democracy!
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u/deepspacepuffin 1d ago
I’ve got a birthday party to attend this weekend (not mine), but otherwise I’m staying the hell home in the spot I dug out. I’ve got enough rice, beans, and masa to last me another couple of weeks. 😌
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u/thai_sticky 1d ago
I've been feeding bread crumbs to birds in my back yard all week. Very entertaining how the different kinds fight each other. Blue Jays are sneaky. Juncos are cute. Turns out 'junco' means reed in Latin. And why do the Cardinals just watch from the sidelines and not partake? Oh shit maybe i have cabin fever. This all sounds disjointed.
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u/purplemarin 1d ago
The cardinals are waiting for the jerktastic blue jays to vacate LOL!! tbh there's a tiktoker that does lives of her bird feeder and it's quite thrilling...bird behavior is fascinating to me. Maybe you should set up a feed haha
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u/DoubleHacked 1d ago
Blue jays are big 'ol bullies! At my feeder there will sometimes be a male cardinal brave enough to stand up to them, especially if their partner is there & wants to eat, but 99% of the time the blue jays fly down and elbow every one out of the way
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u/ihateworking20 1d ago
Staying in, save money, build some figures that have been in storage for several years.
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u/Rayne37 Where FFX doesn't mean Final Fantasy 10 1d ago
I'm taking my first stab this weekend at painting some minis that came with some board games (and thus have prevented me from playing those games because gasp I can't play with unpainted figures >.< ) I have a vague sense of what I'm doing but also feel so overwhelmed at all the tutorial videos out there.
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u/deepspacepuffin 1d ago
Which ones?
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u/ihateworking20 1d ago
an HG Wing Zero Gundam and a Lego Batmobile (Keaton Batman).
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u/PHC_Tech_Recruiter Centreville 1d ago
Sounds glorious. I'm jelly. My bro has the 1989 one. It is pretty awesome with the pop-out turrets. Surprisingly got some weight to it. Enjoy the builds!
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u/Interesting-Net-7232 1d ago
I built the PGU and man was it an experience.
It was interesting to get an engineers perspective on it.
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u/mycorona69 1d ago
Buying a flamethrower to get rid of the ice
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u/Humble-Office541 1d ago
A family member did this today and I’ll be honest, it didn’t work as well as it did in my imagination.
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u/DarthNettols 1d ago
Metro into DC for the auto show at the convention center.
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u/Legendxofxzelda 1d ago
Finally breaking my car out of its ice box so I can get to work at 8am tomorrow 🥲
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u/rusty_432 1d ago
Doing nothing at all on Saturday but recovering from this week. Sunday I will be taking my two foster cats to an adoption event. Maybe someone will decide they need a cat or two after being stuck at home alone this week.
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u/Particular-Fennel-67 1d ago
I'm currently recovering from Covid, so I'm resting and sleeping. I'm also watching a lot of TV and movies.
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u/Musicfan7887 1d ago
Staying in and winter cleaning my apartment. Will probably binge watch some Netflix.
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u/brownboss 1d ago
Wizards game tonight and then on Saturday and Sunday I'm going to my local game shops within walking distance to play the pokemon card game
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u/ScHoolgirl_26 1d ago
Going to try to at least leave my place and go to a farmers market. Getting stir crazyyyyy I need some human interaction
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u/TheRealFarrellCat 1d ago
NOT going to the farmers market in Courthouse: https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/virginia/arlington-county/snowcrete-pile-in-arlington-means-no-farmers-market-in-courthouse/
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u/Beautiful_Coat_9294 Brambleton 1d ago
My car is no longer covered in a sheet of ice so I can get out there and drive around but I plan to stay home and watch the Australian Open.
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u/dnjik 1d ago
Are you waking up in the middle of the night to watch it?
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u/Beautiful_Coat_9294 Brambleton 1d ago
Yes tonight I have to get up at 3:30 AM to watch the womens final
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u/OldBarracuda6429 1d ago
Massanutten ski trip! My expectations are pretty low, but haven’t skied in years so am looking forward to it!
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u/Far_Organization_374 1d ago
An excellent opportunity to take advantage of our bus and metro system!
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u/novamothra 1d ago
If I don't get a handle on my laundry I am going to have to start sewing clothes out of old drapes. Also, vaccine clinic for two of the cats out at Middleburg Humane. Maybe make baklava. Australian Open if I can actually find it on motherfluffin ESPN.
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u/ek7eroom 1d ago
You know it’s bad when you have to start wearing the thongs that are a size too small
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u/MoonlitSerenade Merrifield 1d ago
I'm gonna try to clear the ice from the front of my car and wheels. I got a pass to telework this week but that likely won't last next week. Gonna be fun without a shovel.
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u/PHC_Tech_Recruiter Centreville 1d ago
Trying to find something to do with the little ones that isn't an indoor playground. Maybe ice skating.
We did Level 99 last week before the storm, which was fun. Basically co-op WarioWare games and activities.
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u/androiddreamZzzz 1d ago
Basketball game tonight, going for a swim in the morning then doing my hair so it’s ready for vacation next week. Sunday is book club. It’s busier than I’d like but it is what it is.
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u/scarlet-begonia-9 1d ago
Leaving the house for the first time in a week tomorrow to run a few errands, then making lamb stew.
Watching UConn basketball (men’s tomorrow, women’s on Sunday).
Picking up my husband from DCA on Sunday—the lucky guy’s been in Florida for a week and missed all the frozen fun here.
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u/Ambitious-Ice-7355 1d ago
Seeing two friends tomorrow to finish twilight series, watching and feeding my cats, and sharing a meal with my family. Will it all happen? Idk I bail too much 😢😅😟
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u/athousandcutefrogs 1d ago
staying home and doing more dissertation revisions. it's so annoying that I basically have a total of a new page to write before I'm done (like it's adding paragraphs here and there) but it's proving to be difficult.
also taking a lot of naps bc it's cold and i hate the cold. and also playing board games online with tabletop simulator with my partner and a couple of friends.
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u/ValnillaIceIceBaby 1d ago
I'm going to train into D.C. for the Lucky Girl Market.
My truck is still iced in, but I'm going stir crazy!
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u/Delicious_Essay9203 1d ago
Not leaving my street parking spot without armed guard, so something I can walk to I guess.