Nekkid Badgah attack for ToP? Sweet!
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Good Morning FAWTLiers!
It's been a busy week. My parents have been visiting us for the week. This is their first visit to our home since we've moved to Texas over 4 years ago. It's been fun. Lots of Settlers of Catan every night. Saturday we are going to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo for the first time.From what I am told, this is a huge event.
They leave Monday and then the following weekend boys start arriving for spring break. Wow! an entire month of visitors.
And a few thoughts from the last 200+ posts I just read.
Taig: Good luck on your interview.
Solnes: Good luck finding a reliable new employee
Jade: The Coffy reference in the blaxpoitation conversation was awesome.Now I'm off to work.
Brave man! Settlers of Catan is fun...but also the source of great contention in my family. There've been literal assaults during games in my household...
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You know, I am a parent...I have seen this happen over and over again, but this still makes me gag. :PDear. GOD.My wife plans to beat me soundly about the head and shoulders in order to keep this from happening. I can't wait to toss my kid about, nauseated or not, although I wont' do it if they don't like it.
1. Don't start out big, work up to it, get used to the kid. (Their heft, their balance, etc.)
2. Don't panic.
3. Keep your EYES on the KID AT ALL TIMES!My family's (gross) baby throwing vomit story:
** spoiler omitted **
I gave fair warning!
My mom is a geriatric nurse, and my dad worked in ambulances and made it his personal mission to try to gross us out enough to make us unable to eat at the dinner table. He would literally laugh and consider it a victory when something he said made one of us unable to continue eating.
So...I have a rather warped view of what is too gross to talk about over dinner, and have to really to try to remember to give out warnings like that. :)
You know, I am a parent...I have seen this happen over and over again, but this still makes me gag. :PDear. GOD.My wife plans to beat me soundly about the head and shoulders in order to keep this from happening. I can't wait to toss my kid about, nauseated or not, although I wont' do it if they don't like it.
1. Don't start out big, work up to it, get used to the kid. (Their heft, their balance, etc.)
2. Don't panic.
3. Keep your EYES on the KID AT ALL TIMES!My family's (gross) baby throwing vomit story:
** spoiler omitted **I gave fair warning!
My mom is a geriatric nurse, and my dad worked in ambulances and made it his personal mission to try to gross us out enough to make us unable to eat at the dinner table. He would literally laugh and consider it a victory when something he said made one of us unable to continue eating.
So...I have a rather warped view of what is too gross to talk about over dinner, and have to really to try to remember to give out warnings like that. :)
Oh no, this didn't turn me away from my breakfast apple n' tea, it's just a horrid situation. I plan to keep my mouth closed when engaging in such chicanery with my whelps.
If you walked into an interview slipped fell and broke you leg, would you be more or less likely to get the job?Break a leg at your interview. And if that doesn't work, maul 'em.Hello from Gaffney, South Carolina!
And goodbye again. Back to I-85.
Notice she didn't say break his own leg.... ;D
They might frown on that though.
I am willing to bet if he breaks the interviewers leg, he would be less likely to get the job.:)
Hahahaha!!! And the drama starts at the other store with the insanity inducing employee. :P
NOT MY DRAMA ANYMORE!!
Good morning. Why is it morning?Actually, it's not yet morning... Still "premorning"
*Wishes she was on West Coast time*
*Wishes she was on West Coast time*Good morning. Why is it morning?Actually, it's not yet morning... Still "premorning"
*Wishes he was on West Coast soil*
"California dreamin'... on such a winter's day..."
Hahahaha!!! And the drama starts at the other store with the insanity inducing employee. :P
NOT MY DRAMA ANYMORE!!
No...more...drama...
*Wishes she was on West Coast time*Good morning. Why is it morning?Actually, it's not yet morning... Still "premorning"
And in Sunny San Diego, no doubt, he he
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Na I was waiting for that I just haven't figured out how to combine science and the Lady of the Lake.:)You don't vote for science! ;)Well I didn't vote for it.Good morning. Why is it morning?See the Earth turns on it's axis approximately every 24 hours, and when the part of the Earth turns into the light of the Sun we have morning.
:)Well how did it become science then?
One line too many?
Sounds like a new campaign setting. Golarian 9500!
Okay, teaching this morning made me more grumpy. I think I need a late morning/pre-lunch nap. Freakin take school seriously, people.
Okay, teaching this morning made me more grumpy. I think I need a late morning/pre-lunch nap. Freakin take school seriously, people.School is serious?? I thought at that age it was all about how many beers you can drink before you puke?
People seem to take school a lot more seriously when they have to pay for it themselves.
People seem to take school a lot more seriously when they have to pay for it themselves.Okay, teaching this morning made me more grumpy. I think I need a late morning/pre-lunch nap. Freakin take school seriously, people.School is serious?? I thought at that age it was all about how many beers you can drink before you puke?
I'm still floored by those people who somehow got their parents to pay for it...how the hell does that even work????!
No,really. This is my second go round and my parents never paid a dime either time around. I was always expected to foot the bill myself....and then they got pissed when I dropped out the first time. Makes no sense to me.
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I'm still floored by those people who somehow got their parents to pay for it...how the hell does that even work????!People seem to take school a lot more seriously when they have to pay for it themselves.Okay, teaching this morning made me more grumpy. I think I need a late morning/pre-lunch nap. Freakin take school seriously, people.School is serious?? I thought at that age it was all about how many beers you can drink before you puke?
Well then I hope my kids take it real Serious then!
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People seem to take school a lot more seriously when they have to pay for it themselves.Okay, teaching this morning made me more grumpy. I think I need a late morning/pre-lunch nap. Freakin take school seriously, people.School is serious?? I thought at that age it was all about how many beers you can drink before you puke?I'm still floored by those people who somehow got their parents to pay for it...how the hell does that even work????!
No,really. This is my second go round and my parents never paid a dime either time around. I was always expected to foot the bill myself....and then they got pissed when I dropped out the first time. Makes no sense to me.
I"m with you there. My parents wouldn't cosign on loans or anything. I was allowed to live at home rent free when I was older than 18 if I:
Was still attending high school OR
Was working full time over the summer while attending school OR
Was going to college full time
that was the sum total of what I was allowed.
Thank goodness for scholarships, or I wouldn't have been able to attend school at all, as I couldn't get loans without a co-signer. I did have to work through the summer to pay the taxes on my scholarship, or I couldn't have accepted that either.
Of course, I was one of those dorky kids that just adored school, so I wanted to do well.
People seem to take school a lot more seriously when they have to pay for it themselves.Okay, teaching this morning made me more grumpy. I think I need a late morning/pre-lunch nap. Freakin take school seriously, people.School is serious?? I thought at that age it was all about how many beers you can drink before you puke?I'm still floored by those people who somehow got their parents to pay for it...how the hell does that even work????!
No,really. This is my second go round and my parents never paid a dime either time around. I was always expected to foot the bill myself....and then they got pissed when I dropped out the first time. Makes no sense to me.
I paid for the bulk of school through a bank account that was set up for me by my mom when I was a kid. The money didn't last forever, and I certainly needed help(credit card) to pay for books and those last two semesters. The account was only a hindrance when my mother and I had that fight about me becoming a Creative Writing major.
People seem to take school a lot more seriously when they have to pay for it themselves.Okay, teaching this morning made me more grumpy. I think I need a late morning/pre-lunch nap. Freakin take school seriously, people.School is serious?? I thought at that age it was all about how many beers you can drink before you puke?I'm still floored by those people who somehow got their parents to pay for it...how the hell does that even work????!
No,really. This is my second go round and my parents never paid a dime either time around. I was always expected to foot the bill myself....and then they got pissed when I dropped out the first time. Makes no sense to me.
I"m with you there. My parents wouldn't cosign on loans or anything. I was allowed to live at home rent free when I was older than 18 if I:
Was still attending high school OR
Was working full time over the summer while attending school OR
Was going to college full timethat was the sum total of what I was allowed.
Thank goodness for scholarships, or I wouldn't have been able to attend school at all, as I couldn't get loans without a co-signer. I did have to work through the summer to pay the taxes on my scholarship, or I couldn't have accepted that either.
Of course, I was one of those dorky kids that just adored school, so I wanted to do well.
I don't get the "Once you're over 18, you're on your own!" thing. Maybe it's because of my background/upbringing, but it just doesn't seem to make much sense from a fiscal viewpoint. What does kicking somoene out of the house at 18 with a high school diploma actually do for either you or them? I fear this is one of many things that makes more sense in rhetoric than in practice. Also, my experience might make this a little weird for me in that due to my birthday falling late in the year and when I started school, I was always a year behind everyone. IIRC, I was 16 going on 17 or 17 going on 18 when I started college.
I don't get the "Once you're over 18, you're on your own!" thing. Maybe it's because of my background/upbringing, but it just doesn't seem to make much sense from a fiscal viewpoint. What does kicking somoene out of the house at 18 with a high school diploma actually do for either you or them? I fear this is one of many things that makes more sense in rhetoric than in practice. Also, my experience might make this a little weird for me in that due to my birthday falling late in the year and when I started school, I was always a...
It gets better when you add in that parents don't stop treating you like a kid even when you have to be totally responsible for yourself. You should have heard the screaming when I told them I wasn't spending summers at home. And then when I dropped out. For health reasons, which they never believed me about, accusing me of it all being in my head. My dad actually did something very unethical and called my teachers, and they were even less responsible since they told him what my grades were even though I was 21, married, and hadn't been living with my parents for three years. :/ (My grades were impeccable. I was always a smart kid. I was just really, really sick, and no one knew why.)
I'll give credit where credit is due, though. My parents learned from their mistakes with me. They did provide financial and emotional assistance to both of my younger sisters while they were still in school. Who were both able to make it through college just fine, and with about half the debt I ended up with. Sometimes it really sucks to be the practice kid.
I don't get the "Once you're over 18, you're on your own!" thing. Maybe it's because of my background/upbringing, but it just doesn't seem to make much sense from a fiscal viewpoint. What does kicking somoene out of the house at 18 with a high school diploma actually do for either you or them? I fear this is one of many things that makes more sense in rhetoric than in practice. Also, my experience might make this a little weird for me in that due to my birthday falling late in the year and when I started school, I was always a...
It gets better when you add in that parents don't stop treating you like a kid even when you have to be totally responsible for yourself. You should have heard the screaming when I told them I wasn't spending summers at home. And then when I dropped out. For health reasons, which they never believed me about, accusing me of it all being in my head. My dad actually did something very unethical and called my teachers, and they were even less responsible since they told him what my grades were even though I was 21, married, and hadn't been living with my parents for three years. :/ (My grades were impeccable. I was always a smart kid. I was just really, really sick, and no one knew why.)
I'll give credit where credit is due, though. My parents learned from their mistakes with me. They did provide financial and emotional assistance to both of my younger sisters while they were still in school. Who were both able to make it through college just fine, and with about half the debt I ended up with. Sometimes it really sucks to be the practice kid.
I went through this when I moved out of my mom's house in 2004. I was either 25 going on 26 or 26...it was a bad scene, but a lot quieter than the "WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU CAN'T GET A JOB WITH A CRAP DEGREE" fights.
Alpharetta, GA, USA. About 2 hours northeast of Atlanta.
-- david
Papa.DRB
Where what?Ok I will bite what the frak is an Alpharetta??Thanks, Tordek! Enjoy your parents' visit.
I'm off to Alpharetta. I'll be back much later tonight.
You mean WHERE.
And if you haven't been there, you're not missing anything. [/yankee]
I went through this when I moved out of my mom's house in 2004. I was either 25 going on 26 or 26...it was a bad scene, but a lot quieter than the "WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU CAN'T GET A JOB WITH A CRAP DEGREE" fights.I don't get the "Once you're over 18, you're on your own!" thing. Maybe it's because of my background/upbringing, but it just doesn't seem to make much sense from a fiscal viewpoint. What does kicking somoene out of the house at 18 with a high school diploma actually do for either you or them? I fear this is one of many things that makes more sense in rhetoric than in practice. Also, my experience might make this a little weird for me in that due to my birthday falling late in the year and when I started school, I was always a...
It gets better when you add in that parents don't stop treating you like a kid even when you have to be totally responsible for yourself. You should have heard the screaming when I told them I wasn't spending summers at home. And then when I dropped out. For health reasons, which they never believed me about, accusing me of it all being in my head. My dad actually did something very unethical and called my teachers, and they were even less responsible since they told him what my grades were even though I was 21, married, and hadn't been living with my parents for three years. :/ (My grades were impeccable. I was always a smart kid. I was just really, really sick, and no one knew why.)
I'll give credit where credit is due, though. My parents learned from their mistakes with me. They did provide financial and emotional assistance to both of my younger sisters while they were still in school. Who were both able to make it through college just fine, and with about half the debt I ended up with. Sometimes it really sucks to be the practice kid.
Oh, those are fun. :/
Although, reverse that for me. I seem to recall saying almost the same thing when my parents were trying to convince me to finish my creative writing degree. :)
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If you walked into an interview slipped fell and broke you leg, would you be more or less likely to get the job?Break a leg at your interview. And if that doesn't work, maul 'em.Hello from Gaffney, South Carolina!
And goodbye again. Back to I-85.
I don't think she was talking about Taig breaking one of his own legs...
I don't think she was talking about Taig breaking one of his own legs...If you walked into an interview slipped fell and broke you leg, would you be more or less likely to get the job?Break a leg at your interview. And if that doesn't work, maul 'em.Hello from Gaffney, South Carolina!
And goodbye again. Back to I-85.
Well no, but the question still remains, are you more less likely to get the job if you suffer a major injury when you arrive for the interview?
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Well no, but the question still remains, are you more less likely to get the job if you suffer a major injury when you arrive for the interview?I don't think she was talking about Taig breaking one of his own legs...If you walked into an interview slipped fell and broke you leg, would you be more or less likely to get the job?Break a leg at your interview. And if that doesn't work, maul 'em.Hello from Gaffney, South Carolina!
And goodbye again. Back to I-85.
"The applicant's clumsiness could result in lost productivity and a spike in our liability insurance rates. Not an ideal candidate."
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Alpharetta, GA, USA. About 2 hours northeast of Atlanta.
-- david
Papa.DRBWhere what?Ok I will bite what the frak is an Alpharetta??Thanks, Tordek! Enjoy your parents' visit.
I'm off to Alpharetta. I'll be back much later tonight.
You mean WHERE.
And if you haven't been there, you're not missing anything. [/yankee]
Yeah I googled it.
I went through this when I moved out of my mom's house in 2004. I was either 25 going on 26 or 26...it was a bad scene, but a lot quieter than the "WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU CAN'T GET A JOB WITH A CRAP DEGREE" fights.I don't get the "Once you're over 18, you're on your own!" thing. Maybe it's because of my background/upbringing, but it just doesn't seem to make much sense from a fiscal viewpoint. What does kicking somoene out of the house at 18 with a high school diploma actually do for either you or them? I fear this is one of many things that makes more sense in rhetoric than in practice. Also, my experience might make this a little weird for me in that due to my birthday falling late in the year and when I started school, I was always a...
It gets better when you add in that parents don't stop treating you like a kid even when you have to be totally responsible for yourself. You should have heard the screaming when I told them I wasn't spending summers at home. And then when I dropped out. For health reasons, which they never believed me about, accusing me of it all being in my head. My dad actually did something very unethical and called my teachers, and they were even less responsible since they told him what my grades were even though I was 21, married, and hadn't been living with my parents for three years. :/ (My grades were impeccable. I was always a smart kid. I was just really, really sick, and no one knew why.)
I'll give credit where credit is due, though. My parents learned from their mistakes with me. They did provide financial and emotional assistance to both of my younger sisters while they were still in school. Who were both able to make it through college just fine, and with about half the debt I ended up with. Sometimes it really sucks to be the practice kid.Oh, those are fun. :/
Although, reverse that for me. I seem to recall saying almost the same thing when...
WOW. Life can be interesting sometimes. I would have LOVED to have my mom support me in my creative writing endeavors and for my dad to tell me something other than variations on "Her roof/money, her rules". She has always wanted me to be a teacher from when I was a kid, and if she had kept silent at the very least I probably(read: definitely with this economy) be an english teacher by now. Add to this the fact that my mom didn't want me getting a private job(she "allowed" me to keep my "little" job tutoring at an afterschool for a few years which I enjoyed until my bag was stolen and I lost all my schoolbooks[including the base storyline for the comic I had been working on], after that I worked at the school newspaper on a stipend, which wasn't so bad in retrospect, although I never got the chance to make a lot of money until I interned for a summer at Unilever/Lipton in New Jersey in a food lab- a fascinating experience that taught me that I was NOT meant to go into that type of science) and you have one incredibly frustrated young man almost forever denied true liquid financial freedom that could not wait to get out of the house.
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"The applicant's clumsiness could result in lost productivity and a spike in our liability insurance rates. Not an ideal candidate."Well no, but the question still remains, are you more less likely to get the job if you suffer a major injury when you arrive for the interview?I don't think she was talking about Taig breaking one of his own legs...If you walked into an interview slipped fell and broke you leg, would you be more or less likely to get the job?Break a leg at your interview. And if that doesn't work, maul 'em.Hello from Gaffney, South Carolina!
And goodbye again. Back to I-85.
Yes but then are you more or less likely to go and try to find the pointied headed one and butcher him?
Alpharetta, GA, USA. About 2 hours northeast of Atlanta.
-- david
Papa.DRBWhere what?Ok I will bite what the frak is an Alpharetta??Thanks, Tordek! Enjoy your parents' visit.
I'm off to Alpharetta. I'll be back much later tonight.
You mean WHERE.
And if you haven't been there, you're not missing anything. [/yankee]
I'm trying to work out what DRB stands for. Deacon Red Beard? Deacon Righteous Bastard? Deacon Real Buff? Deacon Ringo Beatle? Deacons Roll, Baby? Deacons Role Better?
*pulls leaf over nest*
Go away! I don't want to go to school today!
Hey, has anybody seen my boxers?
I'm trying to work out what DRB stands for. Deacon Red Beard? Deacon Righteous Bastard? Deacon Real Buff? Deacon Ringo Beatle? Deacons Roll, Baby? Deacons Role Better?Alpharetta, GA, USA. About 2 hours northeast of Atlanta.
-- david
Papa.DRBWhere what?Ok I will bite what the frak is an Alpharetta??Thanks, Tordek! Enjoy your parents' visit.
I'm off to Alpharetta. I'll be back much later tonight.
You mean WHERE.
And if you haven't been there, you're not missing anything. [/yankee]
Dice Rollin Bastrd ;P
Hey, has anybody seen my boxers?*pulls leaf over nest*
Go away! I don't want to go to school today!
Yes, yes I have. They're adorable!
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...I went through this when I moved out of my mom's house in 2004. I was either 25 going on 26 or 26...it was a bad scene, but a lot quieter than the "WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU CAN'T GET A JOB WITH A CRAP DEGREE" fights.I don't get the "Once you're over 18, you're on your own!" thing.
Sometimes it really sucks to be the practice kid.
Oh, those are fun. :/
Although, reverse that for me. I seem to recall saying almost the
'nother practice kid. My parents, I think, just didn't understand what it was to start out without a job or credit history. Mom worked while I was in junior high and high school, so I was "mom" until the parents got home from work. Then I was a kid again. I wasn't allowed to get a job because I had to watch my brothers and "school is your work". I got a $10 / wk allowance for watching my brothers...and I had to buy all my clothing and anything other than basic school supplies with that money.
So at 18 I have no work history, no money, no credit history, and parents unwilling to even cosign a loan or lease.
I went to Manpower and got a factory job pretty quickly - I started work the day we graduated, as the ceremony was late that evening and I got a first shift position at the LifeSavers factory (did you know you can SMELL sugar if it's around in large enough quantities?). Thank goodness for my scholarship, or I couldn't have afforded school at all. I had to cry and beg to get my dad to fill out the FAFSA form because he didn't want to put his financial information down on it...
Thank goodness I'd found out that you get changed taxes on non-tuition portions of scholarships BEFORE tax time came around that first year - so I had enough saved from summer work to pay the couple thousand in income taxes. >.<
My middle brother got the same scholarship (went to the same school for the same major, even!), which is good because like me, they wouldn't cosign anything. But he was allowed to work outside the home in high school.
The youngest brother went to a private school with a scholarship that covered enough of his tuition that it was marginally cheaper to go there than to a public state university...but the parents bought him a car, and cosigned all of his student loans. I'm glad they learned. I also learned for what I'll do for my kids.
I'm not so big on paying for their schooling - but allowing them to build up a work and credit history is huge to me now.
Yes, yes I have. They're adorable!Hey, has anybody seen my boxers?*pulls leaf over nest*
Go away! I don't want to go to school today!
Teehee
No.
Dice Rollin Bastrd ;PI'm trying to work out what DRB stands for. Deacon Red Beard? Deacon Righteous Bastard? Deacon Real Buff? Deacon Ringo Beatle? Deacons Roll, Baby? Deacons Role Better?Alpharetta, GA, USA. About 2 hours northeast of Atlanta.
-- david
Papa.DRBWhere what?Ok I will bite what the frak is an Alpharetta??Thanks, Tordek! Enjoy your parents' visit.
I'm off to Alpharetta. I'll be back much later tonight.
You mean WHERE.
And if you haven't been there, you're not missing anything. [/yankee]
Do you know Papa.DRB? I figured D had to be deacon.
Do you know Papa.DRB? I figured D had to be deacon.Dice Rollin Bastrd ;PI'm trying to work out what DRB stands for. Deacon Red Beard? Deacon Righteous Bastard? Deacon Real Buff? Deacon Ringo Beatle? Deacons Roll, Baby? Deacons Role Better?Alpharetta, GA, USA. About 2 hours northeast of Atlanta.
-- david
Papa.DRBWhere what?Ok I will bite what the frak is an Alpharetta??Thanks, Tordek! Enjoy your parents' visit.
I'm off to Alpharetta. I'll be back much later tonight.
You mean WHERE.
And if you haven't been there, you're not missing anything. [/yankee]
Nah, just figured we were all dice rollers.