I've been driving to New Glarus all week, and there's a detour so 8 can either see more of Mount Horeb then I'd prefer or I can see more of Belleville then I'd prefer.
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Apologies for my near-complete absence except for the occasional C&C update, I've been busy on an array of projects for my NWN server as well as burying myself in playing Xenoblade 3.
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"You know Wakandan technology is super advanced because their bandeaus stay in place through intense physical combat, meanwhile I cannot find a strapless bra that can withstand the force of a vigorous page turn."
This is truth.
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Today was another Hapless Constructo-Longears Day.
I tried to dismantle a fitted wardrobe, and failed. I think this will be a crowbar job.
I wanted to prime the attic floor with PVA glue mix, but realised I would never have time before I got pissed off and wanted to eat my tea. It's flippin' huge.
I put up a coat-rack; I very much suspect that it will not stay up once we actually hang some coats on it.
ALL (DE) is moving in properly tomorrow, so it will certainly be a frantic Saturday. We could have done with getting those bloody wardrobes out beforehand, but it was not to be.
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Last night, I took Teensy Valeros to the funky drive-in to see the newest Minions movie. Which wasn't bad. It was like someone double-dog-dared Quentin Tarantino to make a kids' movie with no blood or cuss words.
So after the movie, we're headed home and I turn on one of my favorite oldies stations. And in the first few guitar licks, Val says, "Yeah, the Eagles!"
I say, stunned, "It IS the Eagles! I love your knowledge of classic rock!"
There is silence. He says, "Mo-om" in his best eye-rolling voice. He is pointing at the smart screen, which is displaying the name of the station, the band, and the song.
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ALL (DE) and the kids moved over wholesale today, so most of the day was spent carrying and unpacking boxes of various sorts; we got a surprising amount done, but there is still (inevitably) much more to do before the place is how we'd like it. Everybody is knackered; the children went straight to sleep as soon as they were in bed, which is far from usual; ALL (DE) is heading that way now, and I am topping off the day with a nice Belgian brown ale.
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So after the movie, we're headed home and I turn on one of my favorite oldies stations. And in the first few guitar licks, Val says, "Yeah, the Eagles!"
So after the movie, we're headed home and I turn on one of my favorite oldies stations. And in the first few guitar licks, Val says, "Yeah, the Eagles!"I feel obligated to post this.
LMAO, YES!
But, if you want the Chicago and the Blood Sweat and Tears and the Bowie and the Mott the Hoople, you have to put up with some Eagles and (lord help us) even some REO Speedwagon and Alabama.
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Fantasy NPC: Millian Mossveil.
A rather shy gentleman with a big mansion, a bigger garden, and a small secret.
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Fantasy NPC: Millian Mossveil.
A rather shy gentleman with a big mansion, a bigger garden, and a small secret.
I'm just going to headcanon this one into the plot of "Being There", just like "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies".
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Saw Prey tonight. Possibly the best Predator movie ever made.
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I dreamed of my old love today.
The dream took a dark turn early on, when she told me she is battling cancer - we didn't speak for long, because she was busy (going for a doctor appointment? hurriedly trying to do more with her life while she still can?). Then I ended sitting somewhere listening to some university students about their highly successful friend (which I am pretty sure was also my friend who I haven't seen in years) while my mind focused on what I can try to do to help my past love... Am I willing to fight gods over this? When I finally stepped into the crowds, someone ask me what will I am gonna do, so I answered that I am going to change the (time) line. My body phased incorporeal passing through the crowd and my eyesight shifted into different bands, then there was a noticeable crack, and then everything vanished and I woke up.
Follow up. Sort of.
After I told her about the dream, she said that she doesn't have cancer, but she is pregnant again.
There is a difference?!
I dreamed of my old love today.
The dream took a dark turn early on, when she told me she is battling cancer - we didn't speak for long, because she was busy (going for a doctor appointment? hurriedly trying to do more with her life while she still can?). Then I ended sitting somewhere listening to some university students about their highly successful friend (which I am pretty sure was also my friend who I haven't seen in years) while my mind focused on what I can try to do to help my past love... Am I willing to fight gods over this? When I finally stepped into the crowds, someone ask me what will I am gonna do, so I answered that I am going to change the (time) line. My body phased incorporeal passing through the crowd and my eyesight shifted into different bands, then there was a noticeable crack, and then everything vanished and I woke up.
Follow up. Sort of.
After I told her about the dream, she said that she doesn't have cancer, but she is pregnant again.
There is a difference?!
You dreamed about her and now she's pregnant? That's a dangerous power you've got there.
Never dream of me.
I had dreamed of NobodysHome recently...
Has anyone seen NobodysHome recently?!
Anyone?!
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Saw Prey tonight. Possibly the best Predator movie ever made.
I really liked it, but I still lean towards Predators. I just freaking loved the cast.
"I love anime!"
"Really? What's your favorite?"
"Rick and Morty."
Do you think Buzz Aldrin ever introduced himself by saying "Neil before me, for I am Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon."
Isn't it on youtube?
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Being a responsible adult , I went yesterday and paid the bills.
Now my wallet is not talking to me anymore.
The next three weeks will be rather tight financially.
A bit more than usual, at least.
At least I saw a squirrel near my house when I was returning.
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And today, not having adult reasons, I went for a pure walk-no groceries, no bills, just walk—doing... 7 miles? 11+ kilometers sounds better.
No wonder everything is bigger in America. You are using wrong measurements, making everything shorter on paper, so you need to compensate by pushing those numbers up because you don't know they are already big as they are.
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We have a colony of bats outside (and some rooks)
♫ You are the Prancing Thing! ♫
♫ Tongue in cheek ♫
♫ Only seven teeth ♫
♫ Rancid Bling ♫
♫ Meals are sweet coming in tureens, oh yeah ♫
♫ Hugh banned ants ♫
♫ Yew sand I've ♫
♫ Lasting the lime on your knife ♫
♫ Ooh, Bees pat burls ♫
♫ Hatch that teen ♫
♫ Rigging the chance's spleen. ♫
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Huzzah huzzay, for we art doing sidesworde agayne.
Why there are sideswords and backswords but no frontswords?
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I discovered that rare trifecta of two bridges out and a main highway closed while trying to get from New Glarus to Madison at the end of the work day.
Needless to say my route back to the shop got pretty interesting.
Fortunately because I grew up in the area and am quite familiar with all the back roads south of Madison I was never lost, just ended up way further west then I wanted.
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I had dreamed of NobodysHome recently...
Has anyone seen NobodysHome recently?!
Anyone?!
Life has been unfortunately interesting, but I won't go beyond that.
The kids and I *did* just get back from yet another grossly-shortened backpack trip (we were supposed to get back on Friday), but that was voluntary, rather than injury-related.
I'll talk more about the trip tomorrow, since I can.
Why there are sideswords and backswords but no frontswords?
You try wearing a sword on your front.
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What do you get when you cross an octopus with an elephant?
Why, this, of course!
*Shows everyone a hideous looking creature, it clearly is a hybrid of an elephant spliced together with an octopus, but resembling neither animal. It painfully, yet purposefully, lurches forward on its feet and tentacles to attack everyone else on the thread. Each breath is torture.*
A fine work of genius, is it not?
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Eh...We'll allow it.
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So, the backpacking trip was quite "interesting":
Su-Mo: After last year's fiasco at one of the worst places I've ever stayed (and I have an amazing number of horror stories -- remember that my parents believed in staying in "rustic" cabins with no electricity nor insulation) for $120/night, I shelled out $270/night for the "Tahoe Seasons Resort".
Holy carp.
As Talky put it, "This room is bigger than your house!"
That was an exaggeration, but it was a HUGE room, with a private bedroom, a dining room with a fold-down bed (I forget what they're formally called), and a living room with a sofabed. The staff was exemplary, and my only complaint would have been the valet-only parking... except...both the architect and the interior designer should have been beaten within an inch of their lives.
The room's layout was idiotic, with a giant in-room hot tub taking up the center of the room so that every other door was ridiculously narrow (26"). Worse yet, many of them were sliding doors, making moving around even more difficult. The shower was 72" x 24", but the shower head was mounted perpendicular to the long direction, so even Impus Major had trouble taking a shower in the confined space. There were two toilets, and the towels were mounted in the toilet rooms, in spite of the fact that the shower was in a completely separate room. There were towel racks by the sink, but they were cheap and decorative; if you hung a towel from them they pulled loose.
And on, and on, and on...
TONS of space, great soundproofing, good beds, excellent climate control, but baffling architecture and unbelievably cheap fixtures.
We slept well and the kids had a blast goofing around (for the second night Impus Major slept in the empty hot tub and said it was plenty big enough for him), but in spite of it being the most ridiculously huge place we've stayed in on a trip, everyone's reaction was, "Meh. This place is perfectly fine, but we could probably find better."
Not a fantastic reaction when square footage is the #1 cost for a hotel and they gave us TONS.
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OK, dancing on the knife's edge of politics here, but
The existence of the subpoena is being used...to make a case that [the people involved were] cooperating with [law enforcement]...
Er, no. If I see a subpoena ordering you to hand something over, I don't think "cooperation". I think, "You were being a stubborn mule and they had to bring in the full force of the law to get you to hand over the stuff you could have handed over willingly before they filed the subpoena."
Yeah, yeah, I know: "Never cooperate with law enforcement for any reason, ever," is every lawyer's creed.
But, "There's a subpoena! That proves we were cooperating!" is an amazingly specious argument.
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Backpacking Trip, Day #1: I woke up at 1:46 am feeling anxious that I wouldn't be able to make the climb. For reasons beyond my understanding, Talky heard my statement that they'd have to wake up at 6:30 am as a statement they'd have to wake up at 5:00 am, so by 6 in the morning everyone was bouncing off the walls. I checked the hours of the local breakfast place and the valet so we could actually get the car, and both places opened at 6 so we packed up and checked out at 6:36 am (gotta love text check-outs so you know the exact minute you checked out, because that's obviously important). We had breakfast, drove to the trailhead, weighed in, took a photo, and headed on up.
And hoo, boy! A month of training hiking 3.3 miles and 500' up doesn't prepare you for a 4.3-mile, 1800' climb starting at 6600' and with a trail covered with steps and fist-sized rocks. I'm really glad we set off early (I think it was 8:17 am), because I don't know that we would have made it up in the heat of the day. As it was, by the last mile I was seriously concerned I'd have to suffer the embarrassment of having Impus Minor drop his stuff off and come back to get mine (the boy is in disgustingly good shape). Fortunately, I made it. Even more gratifyingly, once we'd set up camp all three kids conked out for the next 2-3 hours, so I wasn't the only one exhausted.
We sat around, played some cards, and in the evening I had a heart-to-heart with Impus Minor: He didn't mind the hiking, and the views were great, but sitting in camp for 9 hours at a time with people he already hung out with every single day didn't appeal to him at all.
I readily agreed that we could go out on Thursday instead of Friday if he still felt the same way after Wednesday's day hike, but then he pushed for leaving on Wednesday. "I really don't think that'll be possible," I replied...
EDIT: Oh, that's funny. I added the link and looked at the picture, and that picture is within 150' of where we camped. Impus Major climbed those exact logs to get water for cooking and filtering.
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Oh, GothBard gave me permission to post, so in general you've likely heard about layoffs throughout the tech industry. GothBard got hit, but to its credit her company gave her a generous severance package so we should be good at least through November, and she's already had three interviews with other companies so we're fairly sure we'll be fine.
Global Megacorporation also did layoffs, but curiously shut down my department but not me (someone quipped that when Global Megacorporation shuts down, I'll be the one who turns off the lights). I've been off this week but I keep getting texts that the next-in-line for managing me is gone in some kind of grand Machiavellian scheme to keep me from actually having a job or a manager. And yes, having no formal position nor reporting hierarchy in a time of layoffs would be disquieting at the best of times. With GothBard already searching, I'd prefer to keep my position at Global Megacorporation at least until her status is stabilized. Yes, their severance packages would give me nearly half a year's pay due to my seniority so again we'd be fine through the end of the year, but I don't want both of us to be job searching simultaneously. Such events lead to excessive stress.
We'll see how things go. We're hoping GothBard lands something by early September so we can treat her severance package as a "bonus" rather than a "survival payment".