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Mmm... Sourdough bread!
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I thought it would be harder living with subzero temps again after our brief warm up.
But this isn't so bad.
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One of my kids is reading Good Omens. There is yet hope for culture out here.
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My favorite airport stories all involve Texas, of all places:
TSA with a brain! What a concept!
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~curses up a storm~ Well, so much for buying a new video card anytime soon. Thanks a bunch, cryptocurrency miners for driving the video card prices up so much.
I might be switching back to a PS4, because the $800 dollars of processor, RAM, and graphics card I bought in 2015 amd 2016 are running Assassin's Creed: Origins and Grand Theft Auto V at the lowest graphics setting. Individually, either a mid-range GPU or a better processor will cost well over $100 more than a new PS4 will. Computers may be capable of much better performance in theory, but this is just far too much money for me to keep up.
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So, I have the funniest "on paper" vs. "in reality" moment so far this year:
Much to my amazement, Global Megacorporation approved a raise for me this year. Their typical attitude is, "Want more money? Go get a job somewhere else, make them pay you what they think you're worth, and we'll hire you back in a year or two. Or just acquire them."
On paper, my raise was pretty darned decent: $150 per paycheck. No small potatoes.
I just got my first paycheck of the new year. After increased taxes, deductions, and whatnot, my raise was reduced to... $7 per paycheck.
Thanks, U.S. government!
Woo hoo! I can buy an extra Slurpee once every two weeks!
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You could buy two pounds of some sweet Colby cheese for that.
Or 3 gallons of hormone free milk with 20 cents left over.
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I've been on a diet of spicy foods. I bet I'm going to get a stomchache soon...
A little distracted playing Path of Exile with my brother. We're trying to clear elder guardians and we're both templars with totems so its just a massive totem fest.
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You could buy two pounds of some sweet Colby cheese for that.
Or 3 gallons of hormone free milk with 20 cents left over.
Wow! Milk in Wisconsin is MUCH cheaper than it is here! Who woulda thunk?
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It's all the maid's a milkin'
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Wow! Milk in Wisconsin is MUCH cheaper than it is here! Who woulda thunk?You could buy two pounds of some sweet Colby cheese for that.
Or 3 gallons of hormone free milk with 20 cents left over.
Yeah, it turns out when your cows are actually happy and not CGI caricatures they produce a lot more milk.
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Homemade sourdough bread in the oven. Can't wait. But I'm gonna have to.
That's a damn' good idea.
I'm going to make challah next week. We shall see how it turns out.
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That is as cool as the PowerPuffyourself website.
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It's all the maid's a milkin'
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So Nobodyswife used this tool to create this avatar of her.
I wish I had that kind of time today at work. But, deadlines...
...OK, I'm lying. I just lack any kind of artistic ability whatsoever. I'd try it and come out with Peter in a thong with a pubic mohawk. Just not going there...
...why did I favorite this? Now I am going to associate Nobodyswife with thongs and pubic mohawks!
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"Every time [news anchor] makes those puns, a little part of me dies."
I'm tempted to ask how much of the student that is so I can mathematically prove the power of puns.
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Pittsburgh is hours away from a Cold Snap. It's 56 and raining now, but it will turn into freezing rain, then snow.
I had forgotten those two terrifying words -- "freezing rain."
*shudders*
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Playtesting a new paladin strategy for viability, before I drop 1600 dust on the Kaleidosaur quest-card.
So far, casual playtests have been promising. But I haven't playtested on the ladder, and the ladder has been brutal lately. (It used to be the opposite.)
Also, HOLY COW, each value-bundle of classic packs guarantees a class-legendary card!!! I am seriously tempted to spend the actual dollars to fill out my classics collection. Completionist urges surging...
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So NobodysWife did me. I don't recall being quite that pudgy, but...
EDIT: I whined to NobodysWife about it, and apparently they only have 2 body types for men, so I was kind of stuck. Ah, well, I still like having it linked so I can admire myself! :P
EDIT 2: OK. I whined and she actually put me on a diet. Woo hoo!
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How NobodysHome Cooks:
(1) Find a recipe for eggnog. Read through the instructions. Cut corners to make it as easy as possible. Result = Foamy sweetened scrambled eggs.
(2) Perform a post-mortem analysis on the result to determine what went wrong.
(3) Meticulously repeat the recipe, this time doing the failing steps as correctly as possible. (Yes, I was sitting there with a double boiler and a thermometer, waiting for it to hit exactly 180 degrees while stirring madly).
(4) Repeat until result is edible or the recipe is deemed useless.
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My favorite airport stories all involve Texas, of all places:
Dallas: The plane was late coming in, so I had to sprint across the entire airport (and it's a pretty big one) in slacks and tie, laptop in hand, to make the connecting flight. All I could think about during the entire run was OJ Simpson's famous commercials from the 1970s.
In Houston I forgot to put my Leatherman in my checked baggage. Security found it, and she was utterly dear about it: "Oh, sweetie! You can't take this on the plane! The checked bags for your flight are right over there. Why don't you go on over and put it in?"
TSA with a brain! What a concept!
that would get you bodily tackled in jfk. The power struggle between airport security, tsa and plain old cops is quite real.
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How NobodysHome Cooks:
(1) Find a recipe for eggnog. Read through the instructions. Cut corners to make it as easy as possible. Result = Foamy sweetened scrambled eggs.
(2) Perform a post-mortem analysis on the result to determine what went wrong.
(3) Meticulously repeat the recipe, this time doing the failing steps as correctly as possible. (Yes, I was sitting there with a double boiler and a thermometer, waiting for it to hit exactly 180 degrees while stirring madly).
(4) Repeat until result is edible or the recipe is deemed useless.
Alternative: you ask Whingey Wizzard to make it using his grandaddy's recipe, which is sublime. You serve it to your guests. You don't drink it yourself.
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...why did I favorite this? Now I am going to associate Nobodyswife with thongs and pubic mohawks!So Nobodyswife used this tool to create this avatar of her.
I wish I had that kind of time today at work. But, deadlines...
...OK, I'm lying. I just lack any kind of artistic ability whatsoever. I'd try it and come out with Peter in a thong with a pubic mohawk. Just not going there...
I suspect the Freehold doth protest too much.
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So NobodysWife did me. I don't recall being quite that pudgy, but...
EDIT: I whined to NobodysWife about it, and apparently they only have 2 body types for men, so I was kind of stuck. Ah, well, I still like having it linked so I can admire myself! :P
EDIT 2: OK. I whined and she actually put me on a diet. Woo hoo!
i am that pudgy...
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How NobodysHome Cooks:
(1) Find a recipe for eggnog. Read through the instructions. Cut corners to make it as easy as possible. Result = Foamy sweetened scrambled eggs.
(2) Perform a post-mortem analysis on the result to determine what went wrong.
(3) Meticulously repeat the recipe, this time doing the failing steps as correctly as possible. (Yes, I was sitting there with a double boiler and a thermometer, waiting for it to hit exactly 180 degrees while stirring madly).
(4) Repeat until result is edible or the recipe is deemed useless.
How NobodysHome Kjeldorn Cooks:
(1) Find half a recipe for eggnog pot-roast at the bottom of the freezer of indeterminate age. Read through the instructions Try and determine eatability, by thawing said meat, poking it to determine consistency, and watching for any alarming signs (ie smell and so on). Cut corners to make it as easy as possible Shrugs, and since I'm just cooking for myself and I've already been f~!+ing sick for a week now, what's the worst that could happen?. Browns diced roast-meat in a pot, over low heat for about an hour. Adds meat to a Bell-pepper, garlic, chili, lemongrass, baby potato stir-fry. Throws in 3 different kinds of curry, adds a pinch of salt, a bit of honey and a splash of port-wine and orange juice. Cooks a bit of rice, adds to the stir-fry and turn off the heat to let it cool/simmer/ripen for 10-15 min. Result = Foamy sweetened scrambled eggs Stir-fry pot-roast with a bit of vegies and rice.
(2) Waiting to perform a post-mortem analysis on the result (probaby won't be in before my first visit to the porcelain alter) to determine what went wrong/right.
(3) Meticulously forget almost everything about the whole process from the proportion of the spices added to which vegies were used. It makes cooking so much more fun!. repeat the recipe, this time doing the failing steps as correctly as possible. (Yes, I was sitting there with a double boiler and a thermometer, waiting for it to hit exactly 180 degrees while stirring madly).
(4) "Repeats" until result is edible or the recipe is deemed useless result wreaks a terrible vengeance on my bowls.
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How to make eggnog in three easy steps!
1. Take your eggs
2. Take your milk
3. Make anything other than eggnog.
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This morning I got on the trendy asshat bandwagon and made myself one of those "golden milk" lattes with ginger and turmeric.
It was a horrible thing to do to an innocent cup of coffee, and I feel so ashamed.
Don't judge me.
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Is golden milk some sort of supa dupa Californian Next Stage Of Humanity's Evolution Towards Godhood thing?
As it involves turmeric, I suspect so. Turmeric is quite tasty, of course, as is ginger, but magic powers they don't have.
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No. You do NOT put this evil on us Californians. NO. I didn't do a goddamn thing.
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This morning I got on the trendy asshat bandwagon and made myself one of those "golden milk" lattes with ginger and turmeric.
It was a horrible thing to do to an innocent cup of coffee, and I feel so ashamed.
Don't judge me.
But I was going to use explosives! And cartoon caricatures!!
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*Looks at credit card statement*
...
Plastic model building is not a hobby for poor people.
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I could never use that character generator thing as Family Guy's art stirs a reflexive facepunching reaction in me.
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Yeah, I could tell.
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This morning I got on the trendy asshat bandwagon and made myself one of those "golden milk" lattes with ginger and turmeric.
It was a horrible thing to do to an innocent cup of coffee, and I feel so ashamed.
Don't judge me.
Golden milk lattes? turmeric? coffee? This has to be a jest!
*Googles "golden milk latte", starts snickering, which set off a violent coughing fit!*
Sigh...
Trendy asshats indeed!.
Although...
*Looks a his chamomile tea, then at his spice-rack and a light bulb appears over his head*
There might be potential to separate some cash from their alternative trendy asshat owners!
You could even market it to the neo-yuppie moneyed demographic with saffron laced warm beverages!
*Taps fingers together, while mumbling "excellent", sending him into another coughing fit*
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This morning I got on the trendy asshat bandwagon and made myself one of those "golden milk" lattes with ginger and turmeric.
It was a horrible thing to do to an innocent cup of coffee, and I feel so ashamed.
Don't judge me.
Would try, still judging.
Because reasons. ;)
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I've had a lot of people recommend the turmeric/ginger thing for arthritis pain and inflammation. I hurt this morning, so I tried it. It tasted like the devil's arse, and I still hurt. Won't be trying it again.
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Rub some ibuprofen gel on the achy bits and have a glass of Scotch. That'll relieve any discomfort and actually taste nice 'n' all.
Providing you don't get things the other way around, of course.
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I love when scotch drinkers and bourbon drinkers get into knock down, drag out arguments. Personally, I'll drink either, as well as Irish whiskey, because I'm not too hung up about this stuff.
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isn't remaining clothed while gaming a good idea?That's the problem with big groups: They're too unwieldy for good roleplaying with the NPCs, so unless they interact with each other there's virtually no roleplay at all (that's our table), combats take forever, and everyone sits there thinking that it's a mediocre, tolerable game.
But no one's willing to leave.
So we have enough people to have two really fun groups. Instead we have one overcrowded group. Feh.
Yeah, I'm going to run into this if they bring in other possible kid. There are 6 in the Rainbow, potentially 7. Granted, it usually 3-4 because some are very hit and miss about showing up.
I'm streamlining things with fiat leveling rather than XP and removing some encounters here and there, but it is a worry. I don't think I could send potential babyGM off on her own with them yet, so we remain a large group and see how things go.
does anyone know for play by post? If you could tell that would be more creepy. Or you were sitting right next to someone in the play by post.
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So NobodysWife did me. I don't recall being quite that pudgy, but...
EDIT: I whined to NobodysWife about it, and apparently they only have 2 body types for men, so I was kind of stuck. Ah, well, I still like having it linked so I can admire myself! :P
EDIT 2: OK. I whined and she actually put me on a diet. Woo hoo!
I call shenanigans! Those are not a chef's pants!
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Kjeldorn's cooking looks suspiciously like mine...
I love when scotch drinkers and bourbon drinkers get into knock down, drag out arguments. Personally, I'll drink either, as well as Irish whiskey, because I'm not too hung up about this stuff.
Whisky or whiskey, fine. Bourbon is too sweet for me, but YBMV.