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I've never understood time switch hate, but that's just me. Even with the programming problems it engenders, I don't hate it. YMMV.After living for eight years in Arizona where it isn't observed at all, having to deal with it elsewhere seems like annoying and pointless wasted effort. Especially when you have to negotiate timezones and such for cross-country gaming.
Best part of living in Arizona is not having to change the clocks. Worst part is dealing with fluctuation time differences with my Roll20 crew. :/
At least this month I wasn't at drill when it happened. It happened in spring and despite Arizona not observing it, plenty of people had phones that weren't on Arizona time. So we all got woken up an hour early on the last day of training for no reason. >.<
I caught Hand-Foot-and -Mouth-Disease, the boy brought it from daycare, urgh
Ouch! Sorry to hear that. Get well soon.
+1!I caught Hand-Foot-and -Mouth-Disease, the boy brought it from daycare, urghOuch! Sorry to hear that. Get well soon.
Agreed!
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I tried sharing this post on Halloween, but something apparently happened to it. The Badger celebrated his third anniversary statting monsters for Mythopoeic Rambling by offering these:
Frightful monsters for your PF game.
Thanks, Mike! I hope everyone enjoys them, and if you do, we'd both appreciate it if you spread the link around and help boost the signal.
Yay! Thanks for posting this, Mairkurion.
I had a great time working on all these, and I look forward to continuing with the monster production.
The back of a streetcar with the windows down headed through Market and Embarcadero is truly the best place to be on a cool, overcast Sunday commute.
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Who the hell is Mairkurion?
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Who the hell is Mairkurion?
Man, I've been on these forums a long time...
Who the hell is Mairkurion?
One of the original FAWTLfolk.
Who the hell is Mairkurion?
A pretty cool guy, for a plant.
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A cheated blogpost about newest publication. Was too busy rereading recently bought Chronicles Of Merlin into the middle of night to write an actual blogpost.
Damn, I really need someone to resurrect Roger Zelazny to finish Amber... Ah, well, raising him as a ghost to dictate the next ten tomes will be good enough to me.
He's clearly the mad creation of a Merlin in grade school, notice the tastefully placed leaves on the paper plate, coupled with it's sentience and impeccable taste, clearly the work of a first rate wizard.
Professor sighting !!
on the couch with itching plisters on hand head and (thankfully few) on feet
watching documentaries on dieing out crafts, the show is from the 80s and Iove it.
At the moment: Der Blaupließter ( a special kind of knife sharpening onlyknown around the town of Solingen)
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Sort of. It was to honour the victims of the nazi school attack we had here in town the previous Thursday. I'm thinking about making a thread where I've translated the local paper's coverage of it into English.a swedish tradition ?What I did on SundayAnd another photo, from back in the part of the marching train I was in.
Edit: Now with the correct link.
oh, that
I have seen it on TV and recognize that it was your home town
I caught Hand-Foot-and -Mouth-Disease, the boy brought it from daycare, urgh
oh no....
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So... since we moved back to our house in 2013:
Halloween, 2013: Around 30 kids. Tons of extra candy.
Halloween, 2014: Word got out that we gave out full-sized bars. Around 250 kids. Virtually no extra candy
Halloween, 2015: Prepared for kidpocalypse. Got... 30 kids.Anyone interested in 20+ pounds of chocolate?
mail it to me!
There is a small group of people who are speculating that JJAbrams removal from Star Wars 8 and 9 was Disney firing him. And they have a new nickname for him: Jar Jar Abrams. I think it's cute. Just thought I would share.
...this is disturbing news. Please share it in the star wars thread.
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We have so much candy. We had, like, 8 kids come here before we had to close up to go to a party.
So. Much. Candy.
so. We are hanging out soon, then.
Curse you Daylight saving time! You got me again!
I hate daylight saving time!!
bless you daylight savings time! I am so well rested.
I love the end of daylight savings time!
Also it is hard to type with all these band-aids on my fingers. Carving the pumpkin yesterday was a bit more difficult than anticipated and I cut myself a few times. Thankfully nothing serious. But I had to tell the kidlet next year's design needs less teeth. It did look a bit cool though because my blood ended up dripping all over the teeth so it looked like the pumpkin bit me. :P
COOOOOOOOOL
I tried sharing this post on Halloween, but something apparently happened to it. The Badger celebrated his third anniversary statting monsters for Mythopoeic Rambling by offering these:
Frightful monsters for your PF game.
Thanks, Mike! I hope everyone enjoys them, and if you do, we'd both appreciate it if you spread the link around and help boost the signal.
aaaah! Unknown tree-man!
Hoo dat?
I dont know...
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Freehold, Freehold, wherefore art thou, Freehold?
at the time of this posting, I was handing out Halloween candy.
Where were YOU?
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Happy Sneezerday.
We prepared for Halloween as usual, (Meaning, the wife buys too much D@#% candy) ;P
But here in South Lousy-Anna, it was raining, and is STILL raining.
We figured that at least some of the usual throng would brave the rain, (it wasn't a downpour at trick or treat time, just,... rain) But we had ONE group of 3 kids show up.
Fortunately, my kids like candy.
Unfortunately, the Daughter doesn't like brushing her teeth, and I have to pay the dental bills,... ;P
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We bought exactly zero Halloween candy. If you have too much, I can give you a mailing address for the excess via PM. :P
LOL,
That depends, do you want the leftovers from THIS year? Or from the last 3 years?
(Yes we bag what's left and save it. Many times I have provided Halloween treats from last years leftovers.) :)
Well, NobodysWife came up with a brilliant idea for the unopened stuff: We're going to donate it to the local school music fund for their bake sales so they can, y'know, raise money to actually pay for music teachers and such.
Yes, only in California. We pay administrators half a million dollars a year, and, in the same school district, hold bake sales so that our children can have a music program at all...
EDIT: And as for the 10 or so pounds of open stuff, we DO have a kids' game...
My daughter's school had a renowned music program, too bad the renowned music teacher had a mental meltdown, the school district has a shortage of music teachers due to mass retirement (so our union busting governor wouldn't rob them any more than he already has) and the district put a moratorium on hiring new music teachers, now Pea Bear's renowned music program has been reduced to free form jam sessions.
So, you know if you know anyone send them to spring harbor, the principal already admitted it (in fact she said exactly that at parent teacher night :-)
Paizo's been pretty temperamental today, hasn't it?
Here in the California State University system, we pay administrators a good 2-4 hundred thousand a year, while giving faculty an average of 40 thousand. The board offered a 2% raise for everybody, but 2% of 200 K is nice while 2% of 40 still isn't a living wage. Which is why the union just held a strike vote. We find out Wednesday if it's gonna happen.
Is it just me or are these kids starting earlier for halloween, I had folks showing up and the sun had not fully sunk. I remember starting at like 7 or 7:30 at night
Apparently this is the norm now, people are less comfortable letting the kids be out roaming about after dark.
I likewise don't remember ever starting trick-or-treating until like 6 or 7 PM, well after both parents were home from work, but that was back in the 90s.
Poor pup.
Those look like 3 different dogs to me. The collar, the size, the color - all different. I think this is a made-up story.
Yeah again a lot of people are not okay with kids being out in the dark at all.
Trick or treating in Madison went from 4-8 we got out by 5 and got heckled for being early, things picked up considerably after 5:30 and the people from the badger game got home and started really drinking :-)
Not that anybody would make up stories on the Internet.
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Trick or treating in Madison went from 4-8 we got out by 5 and got heckled for being early, things picked up considerably after 5:30 and the people from the badger game got home and started really drinking :-)
What is 'the badger game' ?
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Another germ of an idea has developed for the Freehold Campaign Setting, this time regarding orcs.
As I am going for a non eurocentric world, i was thinking my orcs would have occasional flashes of India in them, with a great reverence for wresting as a form of expression, art, and near religious violence, and an everyday fighting style that revolves around bludgeoning weapons, which often have stories carved into them, usually telling a tale of the wielder's prowess in battle or the history of the weapon itself. Orcs will use knives and other cutting tools necessary for daily life and such but have a distinct aversion to swords and spears, as these are draconic weapons- not bad per se, but too reminiscent of the hated gods and their lies.
As before, just a thought.