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Despite working at a garage for 3 years (albeit as a janitor and night clerk), my level of automotive knowledge is permanently stuck at "Pakled."LOL!
I spent 10+ years of my life SELLING auto-parts. Which by NO means qualifies me as a mechanic.Heck these stupid new cars I cant even change the spark plugs in! (You cant get to them without special tools anymore. By design.)
I can barely change the oil.Give me a good old PRE-mid-80's model car! THOSE I can at least work on. A little. ;P
I don’t miss tune-ups, but I’m nostalgic when I think about them.
Believe it or not, my 2001 Ford Focus (two cars ago now) required periodic spark plug changes. Most cars had gotten away from that earlier.
Cars. A necessary evil. Sadly, my dutiful steed is getting to his end date. 210K miles though. He’s a champ.
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Cars. A necessary evil.
All I could hear when I read this was the bike guy from Portlandia.
Because we built our civilization on motorized travel. We can’t all live in urban cores.
And even if we DO live 'in' the urban core, even in my college town with delusions of grandeur, I still wouldn't want to rely on a bike to get me to and from work.
I'm 10 minutes from work (5 miles) MINIMUM driving time by car, with good weather and regular traffic.
I shudder to think how long it would take me by bike. (Although I would be in MUCH better shape!) ;P
There are a couple of teachers in my building that do ride their bikes regularly to work when weather permits. But I'm pretty sure they live closer than I do,...
(I hope so, cuz they're my age, so I can't blame me not riding on that,...) ;P
Anyway. I have been running on all cylinders lately
- Work is super busy
- I went back to the gym
- Im trying to spend time with the new woman
- Christmas is bearing down on me like a freight train full of iron spikes
- Impending governmental shutdown just to make things extra interesting...
Hm,... lets go down the list,...
> Understood.
> Good for you.
>BETTER for you!
>Yikes! It's only chugging towards me like an empty freight train. ;P
>AND,... I hadn't even heard of this one. And my wife insists on watching a news channel for at least a few minutes several times a day. O_o
Wow. Take care man! (And everyone) :)
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They compartmentalized this well. I had no idea this was going to drop. But it’ll be interesting. If the folks in the Bureau of Competition pull it off it will be as big as breaking up Ma Bell.
It’s still weird to me to see an attorney I’ve sat with and done work for leading the charge against MFing Facebook.
Not related to anything other than how my day has been going, but if anyone out there says that Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film Shichinin no Samurai (Seven Samurai) isn't the greatest film ever made, they can straight up fight me. Granted, I'll almost certainly lose, but screw it, I'll die on that hill.
Like Kurosawa, I make mad films, 'kay, I don't make films
But if I did they'd have a Samurai
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Like Kurosawa, I make mad films, 'kay, I don't make films
But if I did they'd have a Samurai
Not quite Canadian, but I still got that reference.
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Odd sign of the year award goes to one I saw on the way to the bank today. This one was made of sticky letters (like you'd put on a mailbox, likely with a few missing) on white cardboard, and was a good ten feet up on a telephone pole. It's no "YARD SARD," but still perplexing:
BIRDS, BIRDS
YOU T JUNK
WE CAN TAKE IT
[6-digit number]
That's obviously a secret Illuminati code.
The Illuminati can only be reached by six-digit phone number.
Sadly, YARD SARD makes total sense to me, as does YALE SALE.
What's with the BIRDS, BIRDS thought. Coupled with being 10' in the air, it makes me wonder if it's a nest-junk hauling service. Maybe birds only have 6-digit numbers?
I'm picturing junked cars being hauled away from someone's yard by a flock of starlings.
Happy 2021.
I'm waiting for the hue and cry when the first half of the year isn't any better than 2020.
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You mean December 37th 2020.
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Today, I saw someone use the malapropism "recursive nightmare" in place of "recurring nightmare," after which I realized that a "recursive nightmare" would be infinitely more horrifying.
These past eight weeks have been a shambles. In almost any way imaginable.
*sigh*. I need to get my games together
Slowly getting there. I’m feeling more like gaming
Interesting dream I had last night.
I was basically an NPC in an event where a Great Old One was manifesting in modern day. The GOO was named Odwalla (I know- it was an old sports drink. Don't know where my brain dredged that one up). But it was fascinating in the dream state feeling as if I was going insane by the effect of Odwalla manifesting. Everyone in the area was literally going stark raving berserk. I somehow managed to make a saving throw and throw off the effects after a time, but the immediate area (a generic city scene) was in complete chaos.
Very bizarre
Ugh. Rough day. More craziness to follow
And the craziness keeps on churning
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Saturday. Which means gaming
Clickety clackity math rocks smackety!
I’m running the Cthulhu Mythos-themed adventure path Yig Snake Grandaddy from Petersen Games. It’s a bit disorganized in format, but a lot of fun.
5e, not that there’s anything wrong with that ...
In other news, RPG collectors are definitely insane
I sold a Spelljammer book for $100. Spelljammer
Which reminds me, I need to post more of my collection
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I’m kinda sad that Dubs will be retiring soon. It’s my first long-term rogue character. One of the only ones I’ve ever gotten to top-tier levelage
Gods I have so much RPG crap.
Too bad the Pathfinder stuff will take another decade to appreciate in value. I already have all of it in PDF form.
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I’m kinda sad that Dubs will be retiring soon. It’s my first long-term rogue character. One of the only ones I’ve ever gotten to top-tier levelage
The good news is that the slow pace of high level combat means my estimate for how long we need to finish the campaign was off. I now figure we are going to need a session on the 28th, rather than finishing on the 21st. So there is one more Sunday in store.
Too bad the Pathfinder stuff will take another decade to appreciate in value. I already have all of it in PDF form.
Probably around five years ago or so, I sold my copies of the Kingmaker AP and a couple others on eBay. I think I got around $200 for Kingmaker, and $150 for each of the other APs. Can't remember the exact amount, but it was enough to cover a month's rent.
He did a good job with that. And fast!
Not sure if taking 3 weeks to finish a 3"x5" image counts as "fast".
Too bad the Pathfinder stuff will take another decade to appreciate in value. I already have all of it in PDF form.Probably around five years ago or so, I sold my copies of the Kingmaker AP and a couple others on eBay. I think I got around $200 for Kingmaker, and $150 for each of the other APs. Can't remember the exact amount, but it was enough to cover a month's rent.
Yeah the APs are gone. They sold well. It’s the Rulebook that are a glut on the market. You can’t get your money out of them.
So... I heard through the grapevine that my ex is getting married. Add one more entry to the list of things that make it seem like life is just kind of passing by while I'm stuck in the same place I was a decade ago.
Yeah I feel that. 2000-2015 feels like a huge blank spot in my life. I'm literally working with 23-year olds.
So I’m going to play an old game me and David played a while back on the boards. What songs are you listening to as you surf the boards?
I’ll begin:
1. Bastion- Two Steps From Hell
2. Slow Change- Blues Traveler
3. Salutations - House of Pain
4. The Biz v. The Nuge - Beastie Boys
5. Enjoy - Björk
6. Rip Off - Mindless Self indulgence
7. Soldier Blue - The Cult
8. Bag of Hammers - Thao and the Get Down Stay Down
9. Invasion - Ramin Djawadi
10. Pizzi Chop - Grammatik
Three day weekend on the horizon. Most fantastic
I’m happy I finally dragged my Silver Rose game over to Erelhei-Cinlu. It took long enough. That ridiculousness started in ... 2016?
Jesus PbP is slow.
More music:
Harvester of Sorrow - Apocalyptica
Pretty Woman - Van Halen
Hand o’ Bats - Ramin Djawadi
Refusal- Beats Antique
The New Day - Greta Van Fleet
Planet Sakaar - Mark Mothersbaugh
Life of Brian (Omniflux Mix) - Puscifer
Canary in a Coalmine - The Police
Come Closer (Salva Remix) - Glitch Mob
Gardenia - Kyuss
Pluma - Caravan Palace
Superheroes- Daft Punk
Save a Prayer - Eagles of Death Metal
Jesus PbP is slow.
Still sometimes too fast for me... There's a reason I don't play IRL anymore. I'm worse at improv than Pickles.