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lisamarlene wrote:

Of course I do!

NobodysHome is one of the two people on this planet who make me feel like I ought to be riding the short bus, instead of assuming I'm one of the smartest people in the room. I *always* listen to what he has to say.
I may not like it, but I listen.

Greaaaat... now I have to start making s*** up.

"Hey, AI! Tell me about the fall of the French monarchy and how it relates to Paizo's We Be Goblins campaign. And I don't mind hallucinations..."

Just put what i put in the app for travel notes "F!%&ing Dragon". It's short and can apply to anything.

I worked 55 out of 72 hours.

I'm done with work.

I've worked 55 out of 72 hours, shoveling snow.

I have a rock collection.

The American South.

I recommend it. Sure, the humidity makes Satan wilt, but I can count on the toes of one foot the number of times in the past two decades that snow has created actual problems.

That is okay, I'd rather deal with the snow than people and politics from the south every day.

Aaand... so it begins... one of the players has already said: "The news is talking about snow."

*sigh*

Not to be That Guy, but where the f*!~ do you live where not driving if it's snowing is even viable.

Says the guy doing snow removal and hasn't had a weekend off since the week before Thanksgiving.

I'm just going to leave this here, probably unrelated.

Breaking Bad is extremely well done and one of the greatest shows from an artistic perspective.

That said, it can be hard to watch.

Personally, I prefer Better Call Saul (which is actually WAAAAY better artistically even).

Waterhammer wrote:

Gen X is the best. Only because there’s less of us.

When people ask me why Gen Xers are so bitter when we had it so much better than more recent generations, I point out:

Childhood: "OK, you need to make yourself breakfast, make yourself a bag lunch ('cause no way in heck are we paying those outlandish prices for those crappy school lunches), get yourself to and from school, let yourself in to the empty house, entertain yourself and do all your homework until we get home, and in my case, plan and make dinner for the family every night." I didn't know a single friend who had after-school activities; we were all left to our own devices to find our own way. Which, according to studies, was incredibly healthy for us and made us far more independent adults much better at handling life's hardships.

Teenage years: "Well, we decided to do away with pensions so you'll be responsible for your own retirement as well. Oh, and don't expect Social Security by the time you're old enough to retire; there are too many of us and too few of you, so it'll go bankrupt before you get it."

Early twenties: "Oh, you can vote now? Well, too bad! we vastly outnumber you and you're not responsible enough to rule, so we'll just keep right on going."
(If you ever want to understand Gen X's fundamental bitterness, review our congressional representation over time. It's never even come close to matching our population. We have had the least say of any generation in this country's history, all because the Boomers outnumbered us so heavily.)

Early fifties: "Look at how much the older generations have f***ed up the world! You're all selfish monsters!"

TL;DR: We were never allowed representation because the Boomers outnumbered us, yet now we're being blamed for ruining the world because somehow we had a hand in something we were never allowed to have a hand in. All the while being completely self-reliant from an early age and then being told we...

I had to ride my bike 7 miles one way to get to school, past two different farm dogs that actively tried to kill me and my friend Joey, just to go to school, because my d%@%#ead brother (who was going into town anyway) wouldn't give me a ride into town or home unless I paid him gas money.

See, in Wisconsin, you have approximately 30 seconds to reply before the follow up with the name, especially with Gen X. They will not shut up about their f#%!ing cats!

Edit (preemptively): I'm not complaining about it or you, it's just a fact Gen X loves cats and loves to talk about them.

Vany CH, and Freehold all do it too!

When I first started at Alt's Operation 8 years ago it was to work with 5 guys I'd worked with before Toys R Us, going back 21 years.

Now, I'm the only one left.

Fortunately, I now work with, and in fact, trained in most of their kids.

Time is pretty weird, just saying.

We're on day 2 of setting up for the Home and Garden Show at Monona Terrace this weekend, which is not to be confused with the Garden and Home Show, which is in March and a much bigger deal.

This morning I will be cutting a new countertop after one broke over the summer in storage.

Edit: Puts on safety glasses and Bluetooth earmuffs. Safety first!

Limeylongears wrote:

Drejk wrote:

I just got an ad for a cane that unfolds into a portable seat.

Sounds like a shooting stick.

Arrow. In American English we call shooting sticks 'arrows'.

No, I believe we call it Football.

For Christmas, my nieces gave me a "LEGO" "Serenity" from the show Firefly. It's actually much better quality than I would have expected from a knock-off brand. Anybody else get anything fun?

Original painting of Placidusax (a two headed dragon god in Elden Ring) by my daughter. And some cookie cutters.

More importantly I got to spend it with my daughter and her bunny.

Merry Christmas!!

Next week I will be helping to corral boulders from the free range boulder field.

The head of the mowing department pulled his truck into the barn and remarked "Hmm, I think it's a little too the left?" I said, jokingly, as I do "Yeah, you should back it out and do it over!"

And he did it! Not only that, but he also had one of his junior mowers stand in front and guide him in.

This is why I work in the shop during the winter.

And what did I do?

I drove around town all morning pushing boulders back into place that had been hit by plow trucks with a mini bobcat.

Yeah, it's 46 degrees here on the tundra. I wore shorts to work today.

I just cleaned and organized the flamethrower shelf at work last week.

I got the 2nd edition Starfinder player and GM core yesterday.

It is genuinely the only time I bought a paizo product and had buyers remorse.

I do not like the art direction (waaaay too cartoonish) and I don't feel like they differentiated it enough from 2nd edition Pathfinder as you can save yourself 115 bucks by just using the 2nd Pathfinder books and just tell everyone that it's in space and your bow is now a laser and your sword is whatever you want to call a lightsaber that won't get me sued by Disney).

After having a few days to look over everything more in depth I'd like to rescind pretty much everything i said.

Penny looked through it and loved the new art style and everything I criticized about it so i realized I was just being grumpy about change.

It's Freehold's birthday?!

But, it's also National Fleshlight day!!.... wait, no, that's Flashlight Day, my bad!

captain yesterday wrote:

lisamarlene wrote:

captain yesterday wrote:

lisamarlene wrote:

captain yesterday wrote:

Before the app, when I salted a place, I'd roll up, get out, throw some salt on the ground and get back in my truck, write down the time and on to the next place.

Now, with the app.

I go in the app, hit find jobs, go to routes, hit all routes, type in the address (but only partially because it can't find the whole address) from the sheet, click on said address, scroll down, click on if I'm salting or shoveling, begin the job, and then I can throw my salt on the ground, and then after I'm done I have to click done and write down in the notes again if I salted or shoveled.

Meanwhile, as I'm filling it out, Penny has completely salted the entire place by herself.

I f!&%ing hate the app.

You're the superhero, she's the sidekick.

The app should be Penny's responsibility.

The app is on my phone.

Is she not riding shotgun?

She is, I actually gave her my phone once and had her fill out the app for the day while I drove back to the shop, for landscaping, where we were at one place the whole day, she vowed never again.

Hmph. Sounds like Hermione, willfully misconstruing which person is the sidekick.

No, she's a pretty good sidekick, literally the only thing i ask of my sidekick during snow is just being present, I will do the rest.

Before the app, when I salted a place, I'd roll up, get out, throw some salt on the ground and get back in my truck, write down the time and on to the next place.

Now, with the app.

I go in the app, hit find jobs, go to routes, hit all routes, type in the address (but only partially because it can't find the whole address) from the sheet, click on said address, scroll down, click on if I'm salting or shoveling, begin the job, and then I can throw my salt on the ground, and then after I'm done I have to click done and write down in the notes again if I salted or shoveled.

Meanwhile, as I'm filling it out, Penny has completely salted the entire place by herself.

I f+%@ing hate the app.

You are definitely doing it wrong. The cats should produce power for you in that wheel, not you powering the wheel for them...

Sheesh...

Cats would never do anything to benefit someone else so they'd never fall for it, as soon as it's hooked up they'd immediately stop using it. But not until AFTER you've spent an obnoxious amount of money or time trying to make it happen.

gran rey de los mono wrote:

I never thought my driveway was that big, but it sure seemed huge as I cleared 9" of snow off it in sub-zero (Fahrenheit) temps. Surprisingly, it only took 45 minutes (it was light and powdery, not wet and heavy).

I'm sure captain yesterday could have cleared it with a fart without even opening his truck's door.

That sounds like the kind of thing people used to say about Chuck Norris.

FaWtLites don't need Chuck Norris.
We've got the captain.

His action figure comes with three boulders, a pie, a giant doobie, a skid loader, and a shaved bear.

Also, not to brag, but I am considerably more liberal than Chuck Norris.

lisamarlene wrote:

gran rey de los mono wrote:

I never thought my driveway was that big, but it sure seemed huge as I cleared 9" of snow off it in sub-zero (Fahrenheit) temps. Surprisingly, it only took 45 minutes (it was light and powdery, not wet and heavy).

I'm sure captain yesterday could have cleared it with a fart without even opening his truck's door.

That sounds like the kind of thing people used to say about Chuck Norris.

FaWtLites don't need Chuck Norris.
We've got the captain.

His action figure comes with three boulders, a pie, a giant doobie, a skid loader, and a shaved bear.

...what kind of pie?

Pumpkin or chess.

Also, you forgot the Stihl 420 (#4) chop saw with my name on it.

After 15 days straight of working looks like I'll finally get a couple of days off.

It's pretty telling that everyone I know can tell I'm not a happy camper right now. Impus Major keeps walking by, stopping, looking at me, and giving me hugs. My manager reminds me daily that I get up to two weeks for bereavement. My online FFXIV buddy, who thinks I'm a middle-aged woman and calls me "Mom" (and yes, LM, you KNOW I Love it), checks in with me every morning to see whether I'm OK.

And it's funny; it's not so much that my mother's death is emotionally devastating me. I can tell there's some depression; my body's asking for 9-10 hours of sleep instead of its usual 6. But there is *SO* much else going on. At work, all of our jobs are uncertain and at the moment I'm working on an idiot project that never should have been assigned to me. (My manager and I finally worked it out today and it turns out that assigning it to my Indian colleague probably would have resolved the whole thing in half a day. India does payroll in a really weird way, and gee, assigning it to the native Indian might have been wiser, y'know?). My brother is utterly botching executing the estate and I need to set up appointments to try to clean things up. And the Celica needs its annual smog and oil change. While Nefret is refusing to eat.

So not so much "depressed" as "I was already near my limit and everyone started needing stuff at once".

And this, too, shall pass.

I get that.

One of the hidden epidemics among rich people, especially older rich people, is hoarding.

I can't tell you how much s*#~ they can pack in those mansions.

So yeah, definitely declutter.

Hey now, hey now, *I* didn't name names.

But yes, I was very much thinking of him...

EDIT: Do you remember when I finally snapped and pointed out to him that he was currently in a house with THREE other Ph.D.s, including an M.D./Ph.D., none of whom had so much as mentioned the fact during all his visits?

Yeah, I also have 3 PhDs, they aren't mine, but I'm not giving them back.

Freehold DM wrote:

Vanykrye wrote:

BigNorseWolf wrote:

captain yesterday wrote:

I've now been working for 10 days straight, and 13 out of 14 days.

Employees pay with organ failure because we don't pay employees enough to get a bunch of them is NOT a viable business model....

Snow removal in WI. It's hard to get people willing and capable. Most quit fairly quickly.

pay me in dairy queens and I will shovel all the snow you want.

A Dairy Queen is what a milk maid's called when they hit level 20, isn't it?

Yes.

Every county has one, and the coronation is at the fair, by the local 4-H club.

It's a big f~&%ing deal.

Vanykrye wrote:

BigNorseWolf wrote:

captain yesterday wrote:

I've now been working for 10 days straight, and 13 out of 14 days.

Employees pay with organ failure because we don't pay employees enough to get a bunch of them is NOT a viable business model....

Snow removal in WI. It's hard to get people willing and capable. Most quit fairly quickly.

In jr high and highschool I'd make pizza and movie money shoveling driveways. The old lady didn't have any cash but usually had hot cocoa. If it wasn't bad she'd get her driveway done last but if there was a lot she was just before lunch break...

Yeah, if we see an old person shoveling when we roll up on a neighborhood we automatically take over, free of charge.

A lot of times they'll give a tip but i give that to my crew (which boosts morale).

BigNorseWolf wrote:

captain yesterday wrote:

I've now been working for 10 days straight, and 13 out of 14 days.

Employees pay with organ failure because we don't pay employees enough to get a bunch of them is NOT a viable business model....

Snow removal in WI. It's hard to get people willing and capable. Most quit fairly quickly.

Yes, in my case I'm paid entirely too much and I'm too essential for me to miss work.

I'm basically the last line of defense between the office manager and surly customers.

Monday morning I was almost done with my third trip through my list as I was approaching 24 hours without sleep, one of my customers came out as I was shoveling the last inch of snow that had fallen from the driveway and said "Oh, I thought you were my Uber!" And it took me half a minute and looking back at my work truck before I realized I wasn't and said "No, I guess I'm not!".

Sorry about your mom, she sounded like an awesome person!

Hopefully your brother has a miserable time with the house.

We got 13 inches of extremely heavy snow Saturday-Sunday so I've been working (by 7 am Tuesday morning I was already on overtime). Today I was cleaning up parking lots and garages with a mini bobcat, tomorrow I have one more parking lot and then I'll be driving a dump truck and hauling snow out of downtown.

The interesting part of being single after 25 years with the same person is dating.

And not to brag or anything, but I've been through pretty much every bad situation or experience you can think of.

Almost died? Did that one first.

Catfished? Technically no, but I've learned how to spot them.

Job interview date? Check!

Someone is also on a date with someone else? Yup!

Almost go on a date with someone that you realize looks like your mom? Twice.

Dated someone that ended up being an Onlyfans model? Of course!

It sounds bleak but other than the almost dying and catfishing at the beginning I've been having a blast.

I'm still single and I hate online dating to the very core of my soul but it's been an interesting journey and I've learned a lot (especially to innertubing with Republicans at all costs).

We have a new app we're using at work to improve efficiency.

It should be noted, we're a construction company.

Alfredo punched in one day and never punched out, supposedly if you go out to the job site during a full moon you can see him leaning on his rake under a tree saying "f@!$ this s$!!, man!".

Jose did punch out but it still recorded him working 1,600 hours on the job site and locked him out.

Don almost quit because of it.

Greg's never even used it.

And me, well they have a whole sideshow on how NOT to use the app made up entirely of my Xbox screenshots and notes (if they're going to require notes for drive time I'm going to make s&$$ up).

I'm doing great though I'm keeping positive, I've learned how to live alone for the first time in my life, I have a new car (obviously) with a short loan and I'm kicking ass at work, which is easier to invest yourself in when half the people you work with are basically family.

No jazz! They made me watch a video about maximizing profit and they told me to only play jazz and hand out mints and water bottles to everyone.

It turns out all you have to do to maximize your profit is have a playlist including Piano Man, Bohemian Rhapsody, Kokomo, Black Hole Sun or anything from Nirvana Unplugged.

I should mention i mostly give rides to the bar crowd and college students, in fact on my snow route we do all the frat houses and apartment buildings i drop kids off when I uber, it's definitely handy having 20 years experience driving downtown through every snow and ice storm.

Life update.

Still divorced, my ex-wife is going the born again route, so insert your crazy train memes as you will.

Because of that I haven't seen Milo in 2 years and she's completely cutoff Crookshanks.

Crookshanks works with me now and recently moved downtown, so easier to pick her up.

Because of a lack of snow last year I started driving for Uber, but in a professional and contrary way. In that i never cancel on a rider until at least the required 5 minutes, I never hit on the riders, and I NEVER play jazz.

So naturally I average 6 bucks more per hour then the average.

Otherwise I'm kicking ass at work, I'm in charge of all the artsy projects and instead of working with the same guys for the last 20 years I'm now working with and training their kids. And they still can't keep up.

Life is weird, in the last 4 years we lost our dog, my best friend for 25 years passed away, Crookshanks moved out, and I got divorced.

So don't be surprised if I start ghost writing country songs.

First thread I see "I'm searching for how to make money without woman sacrifice"

Jesus f#%$ing christ the spam has gotten dark!

Really makes you wistful for the Korean gambling sites spam.

Why am I playing Elden Ring at 5 in the morning?

Because work has a new app and someone's been talking s*&$ about monster attacks.

** spoiler omitted **

See? At least trying to keep the griping behind spoilers.

So, how many fake diseases are going to have the kids come up with they absolutely should get their cat tested for?

Vanykrye wrote:

NobodysHome wrote:

Large Denomination Bill Issues

Honestly, we can run into those issues with $50 bills, let alone $100.

No worries, Vany, I'll take your 50s.

Anybody have any issues with their 500 dollar bills? 1000 dollar bills?

Hands Freehold his car payment bill (500) and monthly rent bill (1,000)

Hey thanks, man!

Now I'm going to have so much money for lottery tickets and Pokémon cards!

I know I've complained about it here before, and people identified it as "definitely a California thing", but yet again I forgot to tell the ATM to give me nothing but twenties and it cheerfully spat out three nigh-useless $100 bills.

* After my last writing, some government agency said, "OK, look. $100 bills are legal tender. You have to accept them unless you can't make change." So it's astonishing how most small businesses in the area "don't have change" whenever you try to use them.

* Even at larger stores, handing a cashier a $100 bill is only slightly more polite than taking a dump on their counter. They will give you the stink-eye, then examine the bill, then use one of those special markers on the bill, then frequently call a manager over to take the bill away so they don't have it in their till, and then and only then cash you out. Using a $100 bill is literally slower than writing a check.

So I'm going to dump them on my cleaner and my gardener, because their attitude is, "Hey, cash is cash," but even my cleaner, who travels back to her home country two or three times a year hence has to exchange cash frequently, says $100 bills are a pain for her.

It's just so weird to me that we live in one of the most expensive places in the country, yet $100 bills are derided and considered a massive inconvenience by all but the most high-end establishments. (Yeah, if you go to Alexander's Steak House in San Francisco and pay your $1500 tab with $100 bills, they'll treat you like a king.)

The dispensary takes them, no problem.

How many landscapers does it take to screw in a light bulb?

5. 1 person that does all the actual work and then 4 more standing around him smoking and giving critique.

Ahh, explaining minor word differences to children.

"Google was founded in the 90s" vs. "Google was found in the 90s." Apparently, we just picked up a rock or something.

F$$~ing A right we did.

"Catie-Brie?!!!"

If a doctor doesn't know what Lupercalia is, I don't want their grubby uneducated barbarian hands prodding my delicate bits anyway.

Yeah, totally. But for arguments sake, what do you think it is.

captain yesterday wrote:

I'm really busy snow whoring.

Don't tell Freehold or he'll want to join...

Freehold knows, I've been trying to get him to join my crew for years now.