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When reading an old used book, I like seeing underlined marks. It's interesting to see what particular parts of the text were so important to the previous reader that warranted marking the pages.
Unless it is a text book, that really annoys me. Even text books being written in annoys me, but I understand, having done it more than once.
well, it is pronounced differently in Germna na d the german word ins not Ass but Arsch
My friend loaned me a bike for our 3-day ride around Hannover (Hannover to Kassel and back).
I promptly named it "AsrchBrecher".
When you're young, you forget that just because it sounds foreign to you, doesn't mean it sounds foreign to all the natives...
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~holds a text book over certain areas and backs away from the thread~
I bought an insanely-expensive sword set back in the day, and I have to say I *have* regretted it:
- The wakizachi arrived broken. After two years of back-and-forth phone calls, promising that he was "working on it", threats of legal action, etc., etc. the guy just changed phone numbers and vanished. Back in the 1980's this was possible, and I wasn't about to waste more money on an interstate manhunt
- The katana is beautiful, but so far has been used for nothing more than to discipline recalcitrant spaghetti squashes or particularly large watermelons
- The tonto's a nice blade, but my buck knife is better and sturdier for day-to-day camp use.
Ah, well, live and learn!
Then get old and die...
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~holds a text book over certain areas and backs away from the thread~
Is it your face? Silly Dragon you don't need to hide your face in embarrassment, we can see your name right there (among other things that only therapy or a life of crime will fix)
Fun fact, in Old English the word for arse was 'ærs', also spelled 'ears' or 'ars'
When reading an old used book, I like seeing underlined marks. It's interesting to see what particular parts of the text were so important to the previous reader that warranted marking the pages.Unless it is a text book, that really annoys me. Even text books being written in annoys me, but I understand, having done it more than once.
i guess for me it depends on the notes and how obstrusive they are
if it's just underlines, it doesn't really bother me and is actually kind of interesting to see the remains of a previous person's engagement with the text.
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I was invited to an online Pathfinder game, a Rise of the Runelords one in fact!
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Evening with old (i.e. 80s and 90s) Polish music. Sentimental mood mixed with annoying inability to recall the songs I'd like to find on YT.
Off to bed early. I wonder how tired I'll wake up...
I bought an insanely-expensive sword set back in the day, and I have to say I *have* regretted it:
- The wakizachi arrived broken. After two years of back-and-forth phone calls, promising that he was "working on it", threats of legal action, etc., etc. the guy just changed phone numbers and vanished. Back in the 1980's this was possible, and I wasn't about to waste more money on an interstate manhunt
- The katana is beautiful, but so far has been used for nothing more than to discipline recalcitrant spaghetti squashes or particularly large watermelons
- The tonto's a nice blade, but my buck knife is better and sturdier for day-to-day camp use.Ah, well, live and learn!
Then get old and die...
I really reall plan on getting into weapon making and general smithing....I just need a forge and a place to put one, and everything that goes with it....but one day damn it.
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The katana is beautiful, but so far has been used for nothing more than to discipline recalcitrant spaghetti squashes or particularly large watermelons
New manager in training (trying to look stern and managery): Captain Yesterday, you're 8 minutes late.
Captain Yesterday (who has heard this speech before): I guess that means I'm 5 minutes early :-)
Captain Yesterday's store manager (who has also heard this one before, and is super cool): if we're lucky!
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New manager in training (trying to look stern and managery): Captain Yesterday, you're 8 minutes late.
Captain Yesterday (who has heard this speech before): I guess that means I'm 5 minutes early :-)
Captain Yesterday's store manager (who has also heard this one before, and is super cool): if we're lucky!
I... Don't get it.
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He's almost always late and 8 minutes after his expected time is actually early for him, is what I took it as.
For some reason, one of those things doesn't seem to fit.We had a blast at the Ren Faire. There was jousting and cider and knife throwing and naughty nuns.
I did not buy a sword. They really are hella expensive.
They were awesome!
Those ladies are hilarious. Unless you hate puns, in which case they're kinda painful.
He's almost always late and 8 minutes after his expected time is actually early for him, is what I took it as.
Orthos got it :-)
In fairness tho my expected crime is more of a guideline as I have to wait to go to work until my wife gets home and I've been very upfront about that since interview 1 :-)
Also when you close they're happy you come in at all :-)
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For some reason, one of those things doesn't seem to fit.We had a blast at the Ren Faire. There was jousting and cider and knife throwing and naughty nuns.
I did not buy a sword. They really are hella expensive.
They were awesome!
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He's almost always late and 8 minutes after his expected time is actually early for him, is what I took it as.Orthos got it :-)
In fairness tho my expected crime is more of a guideline as I have to wait to go to work until my wife gets home and I've been very upfront about that since interview 1 :-)
Also when you close they're happy you come in at all :-)
I've developed a reputation as a total stiff due to my habit of showing up to the job site ~10 minutes early every day. Apprentices usually show up exactly on time, foremen about 5 minutes late, and journeymen around 15 minutes late.
The uncomfortable realization that a few aspects of the poisonous pedagogy described in Alice Miller's "For your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence" still you were inclined to agree with, or for which you could think of no alternative.
To shed the influence of toxicity is an ongoing process.
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The katana is beautiful, but so far has been used for nothing more than to discipline recalcitrant spaghetti squashes or particularly large watermelons"It can slice a man in two... if you hit him hard enough."
I'm glad he only talks about the katana in that video instead of trying to use it. He holds it like a baseball bat.
Squashes and watermelons are serious offenders. Good to see someone is looking out for us. Bamboo and tatami wrapped around bamboo are the traditional miscreants. I have punished those many times myself.
Is anyone else listening to Tea & Jeopardy? (runner up for best podcast in this year's Hugos).
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Rosita used Summon Pizza Guy! It's super effective!
Also super expensive.
I was invited to an online Pathfinder game, a Rise of the Runelords one in fact!Awesome, you ever done PbP before
I've been in PbP games a few times. I am not sure if this RotL will be one or if we use Skype to chat and such.
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Heh, reminded me of the tradition we have with our GURPS group of watching silly TF2 videos before and after the game session.
I've developed a reputation as a total stiff due to my habit of showing up to the job site ~10 minutes early every day. Apprentices usually show up exactly on time, foremen about 5 minutes late, and journeymen around 15 minutes late.He's almost always late and 8 minutes after his expected time is actually early for him, is what I took it as.Orthos got it :-)
In fairness tho my expected crime is more of a guideline as I have to wait to go to work until my wife gets home and I've been very upfront about that since interview 1 :-)
Also when you close they're happy you come in at all :-)
I'm going all Office Space with this job, literally no incentive to do a great job or be there early or anything like that, so I'm enjoying the ride until Tiny T-Rex is off to kindergarten, then it's back to driving heavy machines, bossing college kids around, and building stuff :-)
And yes I was also at least 10 minutes early every day, I generally hate being late but with this job I've embraced the concept of casually late which wouldn't work in construction :-)
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Pea Bear's first day of Middle School today!
General Leapyear (my wife) took the day off work and walked her over, then hid in the bushes half a block away and watched her go inside, which is far more restrained then the rest of the hover parents that populate our area, they seriously make helicopter parents look hands off in comparison.
Anyway its only 6th graders today so shouldn't be too bad:-)
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I've developed a reputation as a total stiff due to my habit of showing up to the job site ~10 minutes early every day. Apprentices usually show up exactly on time, foremen about 5 minutes late, and journeymen around 15 minutes late.He's almost always late and 8 minutes after his expected time is actually early for him, is what I took it as.Orthos got it :-)
In fairness tho my expected crime is more of a guideline as I have to wait to go to work until my wife gets home and I've been very upfront about that since interview 1 :-)
Also when you close they're happy you come in at all :-)
I'm going all Office Space with this job, literally no incentive to do a great job or be there early or anything like that, so I'm enjoying the ride until Tiny T-Rex is off to kindergarten, then it's back to driving heavy machines, bossing college kids around, and building stuff :-)
And yes I was also at least 10 minutes early every day, I generally hate being late but with this job I've embraced the concept of casually late which wouldn't work in construction :-)
I've finally found a job where they don't care when I arrive.
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I've finally found a job where they don't care when I arrive.I've developed a reputation as a total stiff due to my habit of showing up to the job site ~10 minutes early every day. Apprentices usually show up exactly on time, foremen about 5 minutes late, and journeymen around 15 minutes late.He's almost always late and 8 minutes after his expected time is actually early for him, is what I took it as.Orthos got it :-)
In fairness tho my expected crime is more of a guideline as I have to wait to go to work until my wife gets home and I've been very upfront about that since interview 1 :-)
Also when you close they're happy you come in at all :-)
I'm going all Office Space with this job, literally no incentive to do a great job or be there early or anything like that, so I'm enjoying the ride until Tiny T-Rex is off to kindergarten, then it's back to driving heavy machines, bossing college kids around, and building stuff :-)
And yes I was also at least 10 minutes early every day, I generally hate being late but with this job I've embraced the concept of casually late which wouldn't work in construction :-)
live the dream...
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paizo is an online community that is fun, full of good people, and manages to not monopolize hours of my time at once.
Thanks for being that community, paizo.
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I've finally found a job where they don't care when I arrive.
So much envy.
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paizo is an online community that is fun, full of good people, and manages to not monopolize hours of my time at once.
Thanks for being that community, paizo.
Paizo?! When we have let in Paizo to FAWTL?! Why no one told me about that?!
You know, I honestly would not mind a job where my main duty is to go around to people's offices talking to them about stuff. I seem to be good at it.
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Lissa has been known to drop by on occasion, not to mention whatever Gary tests occasionally that gets him one step closer to perfecting (another) dooms day device :-)
Damn hot out today!
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I used to work at a hotel that had a coroner's training conference every year, whoever refreshed the water during the seminars got the most tips, I saw things, gross, terrible things!
I've finally found a job where they don't care when I arrive.I've developed a reputation as a total stiff due to my habit of showing up to the job site ~10 minutes early every day. Apprentices usually show up exactly on time, foremen about 5 minutes late, and journeymen around 15 minutes late.He's almost always late and 8 minutes after his expected time is actually early for him, is what I took it as.Orthos got it :-)
In fairness tho my expected crime is more of a guideline as I have to wait to go to work until my wife gets home and I've been very upfront about that since interview 1 :-)
Also when you close they're happy you come in at all :-)
I'm going all Office Space with this job, literally no incentive to do a great job or be there early or anything like that, so I'm enjoying the ride until Tiny T-Rex is off to kindergarten, then it's back to driving heavy machines, bossing college kids around, and building stuff :-)
And yes I was also at least 10 minutes early every day, I generally hate being late but with this job I've embraced the concept of casually late which wouldn't work in construction :-)
like almost everyone who does not work in shifts or in a retail, I have flextime
I can come and go as I please between 6 in the morning and 8 in the evening (of course there a re meetings and stuff that needs you in a certain time at work)
I just have to keep my time account between -37.5 hours and 37.5 hours
edit: and you can't work longer than 11 hours in a row
When i was doing snow removal i worked 33 hours in one shift. another time when we got 26 inches i worked 42 of 48 hours (20 hours worked, 6 off then another 22 working after that) that was the year we got 126 inches of snow tho, and you wouldn't believe the money i made! got my Xbox360 that year and i got my wife the diamond wedding ring she always deserved but never asked for.
edit: We also paid off our car early so it didn't all go to frivolities:-)
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My grandmother's body is going to the oven in a day or two. My stepdad decided to send a picture of her and my mom and uncle and a couple of her favorite things to the fires with her. Substantially better send off than she deserves. My stepdad agrees, but decided we might as well show some basic decency, deserved or not.
We found some letters where my grandmother shared her side of the story of my mother's childhood. I wish I hadn't read them, because my grandmother admitted to everything she did in detail, which includes a ton of stuff I severely doubt my mother ever wanted me to know about. It hits new levels of straight up horrible. Yet, after explaining everything she did in a manner that makes it abundantly clear she was a monster, she still went on to say why everything was my mother's fault. It's like she had no self awareness at all. She couldn't even see that her own words make it abundantly clear just how evil she was.
The death itself doesn't have me all that upset, but the emotional fallout of this and some other drama it's stirring up that isn't my place to talk about isn't pretty. What a way to start off my university studies.
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You know, I honestly would not mind a job where my main duty is to go around to people's offices talking to them about stuff. I seem to be good at it.
That's pretty much what I do. The "stuff" is advising companies' employees on how much they should be saving for retirement and how they should invest it.
This job site is going to be the death of me.
I got to the office at 10:00 today.I've finally found a job where they don't care when I arrive.So much envy.
I got to the office at 1039.
So ha.
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I'm sorry rosita. It sounds like a lot of the weight doesn't hit until the funeral time.