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BigNorseWolf wrote:

captain yesterday wrote:

You know you're going to sleep well when you have to load and unload and then load again a jumping jack compactor into your truck by yourself without any mechanical assistance. Also, now I know I cam lift a jumping jack compactor above my waist after working 12 hours.

On the plus side, at least I know I'll be in great shape for my date this weekend.

careful, backs go out quickly without warning and they don't always bounce back.

Thats bad planning on someone's part and just plain dangerous.

I lift with my knees.

I lift with other people's knees.

The word "homeowner" has "meow" in the middle of it.

Good luck pronouncing it correctly from now on.

Last week there was a discussion of "yogurt" vs "yoghurt", and today I have the answer!

In short, the Brits are wrong.

gran rey de los mono wrote:

lisamarlene wrote:

It's a good thing I'm not the rabid sportsball fan that durned near everyone I know here in Dallas is. I care a bit about the outcome of tonight's game, but not enough to be emotionally invested.

It's the fact that tickets, parking, and hot dogs for a family of four costs as much as a day at the state fair. Baseball is supposed to be a blue collar sport and an affordable day out. I love the game, but I despise the sports economy.

I've been told I should start following minor league ball instead, but I can't seem to drum up enough interest to care.

Before I moved up here, I used to love going to see the Evansville Otters play. They play in the 3rd oldest currently functioning professional ball park (only Fenway and Wrigley are older). Parts of A League of Their Own was filmed there. Tickets were $5, concessions were reasonable, and it was fun. They also offered family packs (4 tickets, 4 sodas, 4 hot dogs or hamburgers, 4 fries) for about $35.

I think tickets are still cheap, but I heard concessions had gone up quite a bit.

Edit: A quick check and it looks like tickets for this season, which is over, started at $6. Still really cheap.

See?! That's exactly what I want!

Then I suggest you move to Evansville, IN.

Paying to watch sports is gross and weird.

Sports involve humans, and humans are gross and weird, so...yeah.

It's a good thing I'm not the rabid sportsball fan that durned near everyone I know here in Dallas is. I care a bit about the outcome of tonight's game, but not enough to be emotionally invested.

It's the fact that tickets, parking, and hot dogs for a family of four costs as much as a day at the state fair. Baseball is supposed to be a blue collar sport and an affordable day out. I love the game, but I despise the sports economy.

I've been told I should start following minor league ball instead, but I can't seem to drum up enough interest to care.

Before I moved up here, I used to love going to see the Evansville Otters play. They play in the 3rd oldest currently functioning professional ball park (only Fenway and Wrigley are older). Parts of A League of Their Own was filmed there. Tickets were $5, concessions were reasonable, and it was fun. They also offered family packs (4 tickets, 4 sodas, 4 hot dogs or hamburgers, 4 fries) for about $35.

I think tickets are still cheap, but I heard concessions had gone up quite a bit.

Edit: A quick check and it looks like tickets for this season, which is over, started at $6. Still really cheap.

I'm pretty normal and I shower every day, so not all humans.

Every day? Hmm...weird.

lisamarlene wrote:

My kids are still in the "romance is gross and weird" stage....

Isn't it, though?

It involves humans, and humans are gross and weird, so...yeah it is.

*SIGH*. Why is communication so insanely hard for people?

I think I've mentioned before that I put a calendar on the front door so people could track what other family members were doing. That was an utter failure so I put it on the fridge. That's been better, but we still have issues like today:
- Impus Minor is in school from 8:30 am - 1:00 pm.
- Impus Major has a weekly D&D game so he needs the car right at 1:00 pm, but he didn't put it on the calendar.
- GothBard got invited out with a friend, checked the calendar, and slated it for this afternoon because the car was marked as free.

We have car conflicts like this almost every single week and people are left scrambling. Last week Impus Major had to cancel the game at the last minute because he realized he didn't have a car. Every time it hapens I remind the family that if they don't list when they'll need the car, they likely won't get the car. And they keep making the same mistake. Week after week after week.

So... is it insanity to expect them to learn from their frustrations and start using the calendar, or is it insanity to continue to ignore the calendar and run into car conflicts?

Clearly the answer is to buy more cars. May I suggest a diesel dualie running on 35s with propane injection and a cat delete? Can't really roll coal without a cat delete.

I've been through 2 "significant" earthquakes. As in, they were reported on the news, and people talked about what they felt. I slept through one, and didn't notice the other even though I was awake and at work. All my friends said that it woke them up, and even one guest called down to the desk and asked what had happened, but I didn't feel or hear a thing.

In the 1962 movie "The Longest Day" about the D-Day landings at Normandy, during the battle for Pegasus Bridge, the British actor Richard Todd portrayed Major John Howard. Richard Todd had actually participated in the real battle, being in a company that reinforced Major Howard's unit. This means that one of the extras in the film was playing the uncredited role of Richard Todd.

If Grogu (aka Baby Yoda) speaks the same way as Yoda did, will his first word come after his second word?

"Could you imagine Sean Connery as Gandalf? He'd come into the shot and just Sean Connery all over the place!"

Themetricsystem wrote:

Maybe I'm not cultured enough (heh) but until now I have NEVER ONCE heard of or even considered yogurt to be used as a cooked ingredient in anything, reading it makes me recoil just imagining heating it making me think it would just make it go bad and sour but ... I guess that's often a desired ingredient function for many foods so I guess it makes sense even if it did make my head spin.

I guess I shouldn't be TOO surprised as up until only a month ago I thought that when people were talking about eating and liking "cold pizza" they were talking about pizza that wasn't heated and simply left out on the counter/table at room temperature and thought "oh that's fine, totally normal" rather than, you know, actually COLD REFRIGERATED pizza which, when I learned about it, shocked me to my core and to this day makes me feel like retching, just the idea of actually COLD pizza, you might as well ask me to try eating frozen fish it just doesn't sit right with me.

*Cavorts in mischievous fairy.* “Oooh, tell the mortal about chocolate zucchini cake! They won’t want it, so more for us!” :)

I need to faff around a bit with some raw stevia, so I also need to experiment with some bulking ingredients that aren’t too annoying to prepare in a (lazy) student’s bedsit.

captain yesterday wrote:

Why are we putting an h in yogurt?

Since, as any witch or wizard will tell you, a healthy respect for words is important, you got me wondering. My first instinct was that it might be French (when I was a little girl, which I’m going to insist wasn’t all that long ago, I even encountered the form yaourt, which struck me as a bit odd, and which I think is getting rarer, as opposed to yog(h)ourt, which is probably still my go-to), but Etymonline is tediously terse and skips some steps, so I broke out my school’s subscription to the OED.

That informs me that the form without the h is actually original when the French adopted the word in the 15th c., but it might be a Dutch...

I don't really care how you spell it, as long as you don't try to make me eat it.

Yum...Good soup. And it tastes even better since I'm not at work.

*makes a pot of stew*

*eats three quarters of the pot's contents...*

ooff...

Sounds like good stew. I'm planning to make pasta fagioli tomorrow, which should be good. Hopefully I'll make it last for 4 or 5 days.

We had someone place an online order with pay in store and then try to show a doctored confirmation email to prove they had already paid. $240 worth of food wasted.

We occasionally have people bring in doctored discount forms. Usually you can easily tell, like the one a few weeks ago where they had changed the guests name and expiration date, but used a different font, made it almost twice the size (as in, it should have been 12pt but they used 20pt), and the doctored info was badly placed (way above the line and about a half inch to the side of where it should be).

As long as you aren't being the jerk who calls in a complaint because someone is getting laid next door, it's completely understandable.

If you're being so loud that someone in another room can't sleep, then they aren't the problem.

I just realized that tomorrow is Friday the 13th.

Vanykrye wrote:

Freehold..Now you can have a room party in gran's hotel, but only for a limited time.

Let's do it. You, me, and everyfawtl we know having a completely ordinary time in one of his hotel rooms, if only to show that the room party stereotype is completely untrue.

No more than 5 people in a room. That's fire code.

1 hour left until vacation. Assuming 1st shift is on time, which is unlikely. So more like 65 or 70 minutes.

Vacation starts tomorrow. There is no motivation to go to work tonight.

Why is it generally considered acceptable to tell an introvert that the need to get out of their comfort zone, but ask an extrovert to shut up for a while to make things more comfortable, and you're the a%%%###?

gran rey de los mono wrote:

Waterhammer wrote:

Try being on the crew that gets to fix the main break. Also, try doing it at 3:00 AM.

Nobody’s happy in that scenario.

Considering that the leak started (or at least become noticeable) on Sunday morning and that they didn't fix it until Monday morning, I don't think they're going to be very likely to work on it at 3am.

I can’t speak for what “they” might do, but in 23 years of working for a water company, I’ve been called out at 3:00AM many times. As well as any other time. Nights, weekends, holidays. Small leaks do get let go till normal work hours sometimes. It’s not legal to dig without a bluestake or 811 as they call it these days. It’s best not to call those guys out on a Sunday for a trivial leak, because you want them to take you seriously when you really need them.

The water system that I tend to is fairly old. A lot of it was installed in the 60s, so the pipes are reaching the end of their lifespan. Major replacements are budgeted annually, and in my opinion, the replacement schedule is far behind what it should be. You don’t live in my area, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the situation was the same where you are. You should probably expect more outages, or major construction to replace the mains.

I know that last year's leak was much bigger than this year's. Last year there was a "fountain" of water about 4" high coming out of the ground. They came out early Sunday morning (yes, it was also a Sunday last year), got it marked out, and repaired it all that day. This year, it was a saturated patch of yard with water leaking out into the street. Now, it was a significant amount of water, but I suppose they could have deemed it "trivial". Also, I know they got it marked out sometime on Sunday, but it could have been late enough that they didn't want to start and have to keep working after dark. They came back around 8 Monday morning, and were done by around noon.

gran rey de los mono wrote:

You know what's fun? A water main break.

What's funner than that? The break being in your yard.
Funner than that? It's the second time in under a year that the main in your yard broke. Last year in late October, the main going into the cul-de-sac behind me broke, and part of my yard got dug up. Yesterday, the main for my street broke, and today a different part of my yard got dug up to fix it.

Such fun. Much wow.

But sure keep digging up a line that has obvious problems with it (probably not burried deep enough and or without a sand foundation) bit by bit instead of the job 4 times easier of replacing the entire thing at once...

The thing is, it hasn't even dropped below freezing yet this year. Last year, the break occurred after the first freeze (it dropped into the 20s overnight, with highs in the low to mid 30s for a few days), but the lowest it's been in the last week in 40.

Try being on the crew that gets to fix the main break. Also, try doing it at 3:00 AM.

Nobody’s happy in that scenario.

Considering that the leak started (or at least become noticeable) on Sunday morning and that they didn't fix it until Monday morning, I don't think they're going to be very likely to work on it at 3am.

You know what's fun? A water main break.
What's funner than that? The break being in your yard.
Funner than that? It's the second time in under a year that the main in your yard broke. Last year in late October, the main going into the cul-de-sac behind me broke, and part of my yard got dug up. Yesterday, the main for my street broke, and today a different part of my yard got dug up to fix it.

Such fun. Much wow.

Was walking through the lobby a few minutes ago, and noticed that the temperature varied wildly as I moved around. Of the three PTAC units in the lobby, two were set to cool to 65F, and one (which is in-between the other two) was set to heat to 75F. So, I fixed that b$!+~#@&.

...

EDIT: And there we go. "Account holder's name (no hyphens)". Um... what if the account is under a legally-hyphenated name?

Coder: "Hypenated last names? F&&+ that! Pick one name and use that, you indecisive entitled prick!"

Friday is my 2nd favorite word that starts with "F". Can you guess my favorite? I'll give you a hint: it has 4 letters.

Food. It's food.

NobodysHome wrote:

Y’know, you’d think people would provide a user’s manual for getting old. My manager has PVDs in both eyes. Shiro had one so bad he went to the hospital for it. It apparently affects 50% of all people over 50, and 86% of everyone who reaches 90.

But I’d never heard of it before. So… why aren’t common ailments of aging more commonly known?

Edit: clothed post.

Probably for the same reasons that the more unpleasant side effects of childbirth aren't really discussed, like the fact that it's going to sting and burn like the dickens every time you urinate for a couple of days afterwards.

i.e. It happens to almost everybody, and there really isn't much of a way to avoid it, so would it really help to know in advance?

I mean, it could help people not freak out when it happens to them.

There is a reason why every "fail at work" video has at least one clip of someone or something walking through wet cement.

Because caution tape is actually a component for the various"Summon Idiot" spells.

Anyone looking for a non-traditional, yet still nerdy, idea for a couple's costume this Halloween? How about Sam Gamgee and a potato.

Why do I want to run an encounter where the PCs meet a ghost singing "We are living in the material world, and I am an ethereal girl", while some dancing zombies provide backing vocals?

I can honestly say that I was not expecting to see the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile in the parking lot when I got to work tonight. Yet there it is.

Freehold DM wrote:

Drejk wrote:

Fantasy Monster: Dire Dog

A bear-hunting, knight-carrying dog.

Bleh. Give me Dire Cat.

There are seven cat monsters versus three dogs on my blog. I think that's a decent ratio.

Disclaimer: The actual numbers might vary, depending on what will be counted as a cat or a dog.

No idea about NPCs, though. I should be going to sleep hour ago, not going through old entries.

We need more dogs in fantasy. It irritates me greatly that so many games have catfolk races, yet rarely do I see a dogfolk.

Party met a banshee tonight. It wailed, and the cleric (who just replaced the inquisitor) died instantly. The paladin only barely made the save. So now the party is heading back to get the cleric resurrected.

Researchers say that when a women is attracted to a man, she speaks in a higher pitch than normal.

This explains why every woman I talk to sounds like f!$$ing Batman.

David M Mallon wrote:

Ever since moving to the state of Iowa, license plates.

Illinois is just as bad.

Best plate I ever saw was an Illinois plate in an Indianapolis parking lot that said "FAH Q 2".

When I lived in Florida, I saw a car with a plate that read "A55 RGY", with the orange on the license plate right in the middle.

I never learned how to drive stick and I'm fine with that.

My brother tried to force me to learn by driving me about a mile from home, parking, and telling me that the only way to get home was for me to drive. I tried a little, but since his teaching method was to call me stupid, tell me to do better, and not give me any advice, I got out and started walking home. I got almost halfway before he pulled up to me, yelled at me some more, and told me to get in the car. Since I suspected that he might just drive us farther away and tell me to drive again, I just kept walking. He then proceeded to insult me for the rest of the weekend until he left, and then for years he would bring it up.

Of all the places one would guess you'd get stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic for two hours, "rural Minnesota" was not on my bingo card. But, here we are...

Tractors, man. Gotta respect their lack of speed.

Or, more likely, a massive accident.

In other news, why does the ratty little shop down the road have two blue pipes leading out of the walls into a catering-sized tub of mayonnaise in their front yard?

Is it, as my colleague Ms. Marplears thinks, connected to a dehumidifier, or does it have a more sinister, mayonnaise-themed purpose?

The have a Ratatouille inspired marmite factory in there, and that's the output. The mayonnaise tub is to fool the cops.

gran rey de los mono wrote:

Mom is trying to recover from her leg fracture, but has somehow caught COVID for the 4th(?) time. So, that's fun.

How is she healing?

As well as can be expected.

Mom is trying to recover from her leg fracture, but has somehow caught COVID for the 4th(?) time. So, that's fun.

"Whenever someone says 'I'm going to break every bone in your body,' I think that's ridiculous. It would take way too much work. But, given that over half your bones are in your hands and feet, I could break half the bones in your body with very little effort really."

NobodysHome wrote:

EVERYONE says that method words, but when we spent our time in the Sierras in mouse-infested "rustic" cabins, we never caught a single mouse that way.

It didn't work with the outdoor rats either. Maybe the house mice are more used to climbing on human made stuff and the wilderness rats are looking at it going "yeah that can't be a good sign...."

The outdoor rats would see me setting it up and start staring at me "the peanut butter box is here! The peaaanut butter boooox is hheeeeeere...."

This guy tests mousetraps on YouTube.

Question: Who needs this?

Answer: We all do.

"If at first you don't succeed, try try again. Then give up. No sense being a damn fool about it."

You ever feel so tired that you think the bags under your eyes should count as extra inventory space?