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my wife goes the kill them with kindness route, she's like the Pele of killing them with kindness :-)promise me you are calm as can be when you say this.I was more referring to co-workers:p
Customers aren't so bad as long as you don't listen to them, if someone is rude to me, I just walk away, end of encounter
When I worked at Subway back in the days of dinosaurs and pagers this lady got a sub with pickles, ate almost the whole thing, then demanded her money back because as she said "I ordered pickles not Cucumbers" I didn't give her the money back :-)
See, my problem is that I try to be reasonable with EVERYBODY.
NH: "I'm sorry, ma'am, but I can't give you a refund on a sandwich you've already eaten."
Customer: "But I didn't finish it!"
NH: "Well, you've eaten more than half of it. If you noticed something was wrong, you should have notified us right away."
Customer: "But I was hungry!"
NH: "Then the sandwich served its purpose, Ma'am."
Customer: "But I didn't enjoy it!"
NH: "Enjoying your food isn't part of Subway's corporate policy, Ma'am."
It sounds like your wife and I share similar philosophies. I learned it from my mom. My husband gets a kick out of the confused expressions on people's faces as they are trying to figure out what they just agreed to on those rare occasions when I decide that something is worth making a bit of a fuss over. :)
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Well that was an awkward post to be naked for.... Not the kind of persuasion I had in mind! :P
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Well that was an awkward post to be naked for.... Not the kind of persuasion I had in mind! :P
I am hereby convinced of the veracity of your argument or statement.
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Yay!
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While the above is a positive development, it's not the end to all ills I was hoping for.
Me: So should I start trying to regain my flexibility in the hand?
Doc: Absolutely not. For the next few weeks, this could still open up again if you don't go easy.
Me: So... Still no piano playing?
Doc: 3 to 4 weeks more at least.
:(
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So, I got my stitches out today!
Tell me you have a badass scar!
While the above is a positive development, it's not the end to all ills I was hoping for.
Me: So should I start trying to regain my flexibility in the hand?
Doc: Absolutely not. For the next few weeks, this could still open up again if you don't go easy.
Me: So... Still no piano playing?
Doc: 3 to 4 weeks more at least.:(
awww....
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I'm sure there will be something. But apparently just because they remove the stitches doesn't mean it's healed. We shall see.So, I got my stitches out today!Tell me you have a badass scar!
no libations until it is more healed. The last thing I need is to injure your mass effect hand by accident.
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no libations until it is more healed. The last thing I need is to injure your mass effect hand by accident.I'm sure there will be something. But apparently just because they remove the stitches doesn't mean it's healed. We shall see.So, I got my stitches out today!Tell me you have a badass scar!
Oh... Too late. I got pretty hammered on Friday.
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3-4 weeks, ouch that's rough! My daughter fractured her arm (go ahead tell her she broke it:-p) that was the longest two weeks of my life, can I get the cast off and go on the monkey bars today? No dear, *angry 6 year old girl two week pout*
The timing worked great in the end she got her cast off the last day of a truly miserable school year, and she went on to have a spectacular summer :-)
Well that was an awkward post to be naked for.... Not the kind of persuasion I had in mind! :PI am hereby convinced of the veracity of your argument or statement.
Hey! Hey, now!
There are other threads for that kind of chicanery!
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It's true. It's quite confusing before you understand how people work.
Tell me 'bout it! I was doin' it wrong the whole time!
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Yay! Vacation started this morning. Got on the road immediately after getting off work at 7. Made it from Huron, SD, to Salina, KS. The baby did very well for such a long trip in the car, and is now bumpering her way around the hotel room in her walker. In the morning we start the second half of the trip to Texas.
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I'm sure there will be something. But apparently just because they remove the stitches doesn't mean it's healed. We shall see.So, I got my stitches out today!Tell me you have a badass scar!
Best of wishes to a speedy recovery! And a personal tale, because I talk too much!
I fractured my wrist over a decade ago. As I went in for re-taping every two weeks, both the doctors and the therapists marveled at how fast I was healing.
Drs: "We've never seen anyone recover from a fractured wrist so quickly! What are you doing?"
NH: "Nothing, really. I'm just doing those exercises you told me to do."
Drs: "You're DOING them?"
NH: "Well, yeah. You told me to."
Drs: "Well, we've never seen anyone do them before! That must explain the recovery time!"
Short version: Listen to your docs! They know what they're doing!
EDIT: On the other hand, my mother had a big chunk removed from her arm to excise a melanoma. They forbade her from cross-country skiing, or from using the arm at all. So she went snow-shoeing instead. *SIGH*. Crazy old biddy!
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My wife's vacation has started! I'm walking the dog, Beagles are funny, they never look up, just follow the nose :-)
Rabbit once ran right behind him, like not even 5 feet away! Nothing! However five minutes later, when he found that scent trail, holy s*@+! It. Was. On!!!
Nope, he's never caught anything, tho not from lack of trying
If I work late I take him out racoon stalking, chases them into one storm drain, then they poke out of the one across the street and laugh at the dog trying to figure out how to fit in the drain :-)
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Well he saw that rabbit, I didn't.
Nearly took my hand off when he ran after it, so much for my sprained wrist being on the mend, it's all good, I'm left handed anyway:-)
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Off work, so one more LOOOONG post before prepping the kids' game.
We were the proud owners of the smartest cat I've ever had the privilege to know. Her name was Calypso. Every evening, we'd say, "Go get Sekhmet" (our other cat) and she'd trot out, returning 10-15 minutes later with her "sister". Many more examples deleted. Unfortunately, Sekhmet passed away long before Calypso did.
Along came Sama, a stupid, stupid cat. Not in the realms of legend of some cats I've known, but really quite a dimwit. So, of course, she was death on four paws. Doves, robins, sparrows, mice, and especially rats were her prey. She gained several pounds when all the neighbors learned she was a ratter and left treats by their wood piles to lure her around to their place for rat obliteration.
Finally, Calliope. A giant "bear cat" of sweet disposition.
So, the stage is set...
I was working on my computer in the living room and heard a ruckus at the back door. I knew I'd left it tied open just a cat width because Sama was out hunting. (I TRIED to keep my cats in at night, but Sama was... dim...)
On walking into the kitchen, I saw a racoon trying to force its way through the narrow back door. Calypso was sitting there, patiently watching it. The *moment* it got its shoulder blade through the door (and was hence immobilized), Calypso pounced on its face with great fury. Calliope, attracted by the noise, came trotting in from the bedrooms.
So here's this poor raccoon, just looking for some quick scrounging, and this ornery old cuss of a cat is scratching up its face, a human's at one side of the kitchen, and a cat the size of a basset hound is in the other. Being an intelligent creature, it yanked itself loose, tumbling down the stairs into our garden...
...unfortunately, Sama was coming home. And there was a furry, exposed back. Being a cat of very little brain, Sama landed on the raccoon's back with all four claws AND her teeth. The raccoon Did Not Approve.
Fortunately, raccoons are robust creatures, and also fairly large, so it survived Sama's attempt to eat it, shook her off, and fled through the fence into the neighbor's yard.
Now, this was a fine tactical plan 364 nights a year. The neighbors kept their golden labrador retriever indoors at night. Except... he had a friend over, and they had both been too rambunctious so the neighbors had thrown them both out into the back yard.
If you've never seen "Over the Hedge", look up the "Dog Play" scene. It was pretty much that. The raccoon tumbled into, "Two bored eighty-pound dogs looking for something to do"-land.
I did hear it get away over the back fence over the barking, so I know it survived.
It never returned to my back yard. I just can't imagine why...
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~smirks~ The wife asked me for a few games to take with her when she goes to NO. I handed her my D & D set that has Baldur's Gate I & II, Icewind Dale I & II, and Planescape Torment, then I handed her Knights of the Old Repubilc I (I have II and will be playing it). After a while I handed her Fallout 3 followed by the hardbound guidebook. ~grins~ I may not hear from her for a while.
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~smirks~ The wife asked me for a few games to take with her when she goes to NO. I handed her my D & D set that has Baldur's Gate I & II, Icewind Dale I & II, and Planescape Torment, then I handed her Knights of the Old Repubilc I (I have II and will be playing it). After a while I handed her Fallout 3 followed by the hardbound guidebook. ~grins~ I may not hear from her for a while.
Er... is she actually supposed to *DO* anything in New Orleans? I think you just guaranteed a long stay in a hotel room...
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Off work, so one more LOOOONG post before prepping the kids' game.
** spoiler omitted **...
~LAUGHTER~
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~smirks~ The wife asked me for a few games to take with her when she goes to NO. I handed her my D & D set that has Baldur's Gate I & II, Icewind Dale I & II, and Planescape Torment, then I handed her Knights of the Old Repubilc I (I have II and will be playing it). After a while I handed her Fallout 3 followed by the hardbound guidebook. ~grins~ I may not hear from her for a while.Er... is she actually supposed to *DO* anything in New Orleans? I think you just guaranteed a long stay in a hotel room...
She is helping out with her 90 year old Grandmother. Her cousins will be out of town for two weeks so she will be there in her Grandmother's house.
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My parents once decided to leave for the weekend right after getting a s~+~load of baby chicks, so my wife and i decided it would be fun to hang out at the farm all weekend with our then 3 year old daughter.
right before leaving my Dad says "oh before i forget, the Raccoons have been trying to get into the Incubator shed" (which was an old smoke house, that was literally next to the house) "if the raccoons give you any trouble fire off my .22 and they'll run off" *sigh* Captain Yesterday doesn't use firearms never have never will, also the raccoons had gotten wise to the fact they hadn't been shot, so my nights that weekend were spent in pitched battle with the besieging Raccoons, it haunts me still, the eyes especially.... staring.... waiting.... so.... patient....
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Plus the wife makes and designs jewlery. She can do that there or at the house. Sadly, most of the relatives down there will be out of town so she will be alone. Thus the request for some games.
my wife loves making jewelry as well, right on!
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~grins~ Nice. The wife stumbled into it. GRANTED, she fixs into the "starving artist" catagory, but she can make a (slight) profit. Lucky for us I work for a living.
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You may appreciate this: it's a split 7" record with a band called The Nudes, whose tracks (the B side) are titled "Hey Girl, You Got A Nice Body" and "Trunk Full Of Zima."Is that "trunk" a trunk as in booty, trunk as in tree, trunk as in car, or trunk as in elephant?
The main lyrics in the song are "waiting on a Dodge Neon with a trunk full of Zima."
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ROTFL THE MOST RECENT EPISODE OF STEVEN UNIVERSE IS MY LOVE LIFE IN FIFTEEN MINUTES!
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ROTFL THE MOST RECENT EPISODE OF STEVEN UNIVERSE IS MY LOVE LIFE IN FIFTEEN MINUTES!
Steven Universe? What is that?
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~thinks~ It worked on Hastur, so let's see if this works. ~draws a VERY complex summoning circle~ Sebastian, Sebastian, Sebastian.
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The main lyrics in the song are "waiting on a Dodge Neon with a trunk full of Zima."You may appreciate this: it's a split 7" record with a band called The Nudes, whose tracks (the B side) are titled "Hey Girl, You Got A Nice Body" and "Trunk Full Of Zima."Is that "trunk" a trunk as in booty, trunk as in tree, trunk as in car, or trunk as in elephant?
That's the least evil "full of Zima" of the four possibilities. However, it is a Dodge Neon's trunk, which is easily in the Top 5 Incompetently-Built Evil Cars ever. My mom bought one new, and she would have had less headaches if she just sat home thumping a hammer on her head than owning that car.
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Also, an totally unexpected awesome opportunity just presented itself to me 20 minutes ago, and all I can think to do is panic.
{flails arms like Kermit Constantine the frog, panics mostly quietly off in a corner}
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Also, an totally unexpected awesome opportunity just presented itself to me 20 minutes ago, and all I can think to do is panic.
{flails arms like
KermitConstantine the frog, panics mostly quietly off in a corner}
Good luck!
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So are bullets going to be easier to find in this game, my NONE use of firearms isn't entirely because of hippy s$*&, it's more for the safety of others, like Cyril Figgis level incompetence:-p
But yeah just wanna know if police baton clubbing is going to be my look for awhile :-)
Of course it wouldn't be an issue if the GOP was in power when society fell (gun control will doom the human race in a post apocalyptic wasteland should be the NRA's rallying cry, if it isn't already that is:-p)
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So are bullets going to be easier to find in this game, my NONE use of firearms isn't entirely because of hippy s**&, it's more for the safety of others, like Cyril Figgis level incompetence:-p
But yeah just wanna know if police baton clubbing is going to be my look for awhile :-)
Of course it wouldn't be an issue if the GOP was in power when society fell (gun control will doom the human race in a post apocalyptic wasteland should be the NRA's rallying cry, if it isn't already that is:-p)
Fallout 3 right? Yes, bullets do becaome easier to find... sort of. It takes a while and you will have to buy them when you find them.
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Having said that, you will be hurting for bullets for the first 15 levels or so.
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May I present, why and how it makes sense for a 112-man mercenary company to work together to hunt UNHOLY TERROR-, er, a shark.
Yep Fallout 3, thanks I suspected as much, got killed by MEGA zombies in a subway, that I stupidly opened the door for, oops :-)
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7 seconds separating our posts Tacticslion, pretty sweet :-)
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If you go around the right of Megaton, there is a hollowed out rock that has a sniper rifle and some ammo. You will be near it when 3 mole rats attack you.
Also, do Operation Anchorage when you can. You get some sweet equipment. Just be careful. Super mutants are in the area. Lots and lots of them.
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First Season.
Second Season.
Red Star.
Kickstart!
Thought y'all might enjoy it.
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7 seconds separating our posts Tacticslion, pretty sweet :-)
This post marks the second time I've posted simultaneously with someone else. The posts keeps switching which one is "first", as we posted at the exact same second.
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Also, an totally unexpected awesome opportunity just presented itself to me 20 minutes ago, and all I can think to do is panic.
{flails arms like
KermitConstantine the frog, panics mostly quietly off in a corner}
I favorite'd to agree, but just in case it wasn't clear: good luck!
"I just want to tell you both, good luck, and we're all counting on you."
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If you go around the right of Megaton, there is a hollowed out rock that has a sniper rifle and some ammo. You will be near it when 3 mole rats attack you.
Also, do Operation Anchorage when you can. You get some sweet equipment. Just be careful. Super mutants are in the area. Lots and lots of them.
Scrounger perk helps a lot, which I think you can get at level... 6? 8?
I'm playing a sneaky saint in Fallout 3, which is what I always do. Maybe next time I'll do a super evil run...
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Second Season.
Red Star.
Kickstart!Thought y'all might enjoy it.
Love that show, though I've only watched the first season so far.
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So are bullets going to be easier to find in this game, my NONE use of firearms isn't entirely because of hippy s*~%, it's more for the safety of others, like Cyril Figgis level incompetence:-p
But yeah just wanna know if police baton clubbing is going to be my look for awhile :-)
Of course it wouldn't be an issue if the GOP was in power when society fell (gun control will doom the human race in a post apocalyptic wasteland should be the NRA's rallying cry, if it isn't already that is:-p)
surpressing fire works!
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Also, an totally unexpected awesome opportunity just presented itself to me 20 minutes ago, and all I can think to do is panic.
{flails arms like
KermitConstantine the frog, panics mostly quietly off in a corner}
DO EET AMBY
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It's going to be 74 degrees tofay.
SEVENTY FOUR DEGREES.
I may hit my summer hibernation early this year.
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That's.... weird, certainly I have nothing to do with that, I wouldn't have the faintest idea on how to build a summer Collider;-) Mwahahahahaha.... crap! Did I say that last part aloud, also probably shouldn't have winked... wow this cartoon super villain s#$* is harder then I thought, maybe I should get tips from uncle Doctor Doom... Also why am I still talking out loud...