Good luck to your little guy!
EDIT: Time to get dressed for TKD anyway! *Clothes-on!*
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I think the main thing that settings get wrong about Egypt is that they decide to "fantasize" them, either turning the Egypt equivalent into an evil, sorcerous empire, or into the benevolent precursors, or into a technological powerhouse, and they lose what makes the Egyptians so unique in the first place. The Egyptians were a powerful empire, yes. But they weren't saints or demons. They were just people. They had more civil rights than most other places, but they had slaves. The Pharaohs were powerful, but so was the rest of the upper class. It was like any other nuanced culture, and trying to force Egypt to be more magical in any other way than just giving the clerics actual cleric or wizard levels just makes it feel... not Egypt. I dunno.
Rambling.
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Sorry about the lack of campaign updates or posts in general.
I have been suffering after a tooth removal. Three days of agony thus far.
Ugh. That sucks.
No painkillers? You probably can't drink alcohol either because it'll dissolve the clotting. Can you do some ASMR or meditate?
I had painkillers. It was still a week of misery, but I am better now. Feels weird with the gaping hole there now, but it'll heal with time.
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What's wrong with Egypt?
Nothing - it's just that, with Mulhorand (?) or Osirion, it's presented as:
With no context - just Bronze Age Kemet smack in the middle of your otherwise standard Medieval world. Mind you, that sort of thing happens a lot with other cultures, too...
If Greyhawk art is any indication the northern empire that was destroyed by the epic spell "invoked devastation" was the Egyptian one.
The Baklunish always struck me as being more Middle Eastern (Arab/Persian/Berber) in general rather than specifically Egyptian, but you may be right.
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Mulhorand actually bordered a region of vaguely Babylonish/Assyrian/Pheonician city-states...
It made a bit of sense, because those were descendants of Ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, and Phoenicians kidnapped thousands of years ago by Imaskari artificers to be their slaves. Apparently their progress was inhibited by ruling priestly class, and occasional presence of divine avatar, in addition to strong traditionalism...
I personally disliked that part, not because of Egyptian, but because of Faerun contacting our world. D&D and Earth exist in different unconnected metaverses. Period.
Yes, I don't like Golarion with its explicit placement in our time-space continuum either.
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Mmp.
Right shoulder aches a bit.
Oh well. TKD today anyway!
Went surprisingly well! I made all twenty push-ups and all sixty sit ups! (They were "back" sit-ups where you have your hands on the ground beside you and you lean back with your legs in the air stretching them forward; never seen those outside of martial arts classes.)
EDIT: This is not to say it wasn't tough. I'm super-exhausted and really, really thirsty. I was out of breath the whole class and had to finish my push-ups while the others got their (30-45 second) water break. But I did it!
But dang I'm short on electrolytes.
EDIT 2: hm; also shoulder hurts worse. I should proooobably be using aspirin. Whoops!
XD
Oh, body-o-mine: you so cray-cray. First my right shoulder. Now that's fine and it's my left. Oh well! TKD! TKD!
Let's hope I can move tomorrow when we take the actual belt tests!
EDIT: Very sure I'm going to regret class today. But hopefully a bath later will help. XD
Ow ow ow ow.
It went well! :D
Ow ow ow ow.
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Late night update is late.
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Mulhorand actually bordered a region of vaguely Babylonish/Assyrian/Pheonician city-states...
It made a bit of sense, because those were descendants of Ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, and Phoenicians kidnapped thousands of years ago by Imaskari artificers to be their slaves. Apparently their progress was inhibited by ruling priestly class, and occasional presence of divine avatar, in addition to strong traditionalism...
I personally disliked that part, not because of Egyptian, but because of Faerun contacting our world. D&D and Earth exist in different unconnected metaverses. Period.
Yes, I don't like Golarion with its explicit placement in our time-space continuum either.
but... But.... Golarion...
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If any of you actually do want to kill a couple gods and stop the Spellplague, I couldn't help myself.
Eeeeeh mythic.
No thank you.
I don't want to stop the spellplague, though...
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Eeeeeh mythic.
No thank you.
Well, I mean it culminates with deicide, so you know, that's pretty...mythic.
And now the return drive from Disney, until next time.
Hey.
If you swing by Ocala, I'll give you a food!
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He threw up a couple more times, but hopefully his fever has broken by now, tough little dude!
He threw up a couple more times, but hopefully his fever has broken by now, tough little dude!
:(
Poor little guy!
He sure is feeling tired*! Hope he feels better soon!
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Glad you guys are having fun. Still no power and my guess is that it will be Friday at earliest that we get power. We cleared out our refrigerator earlier today. That hurt loosing all of that food. I am also not enjoying working on two hours sleep, but I had to get stuff done. Tomorrow and the day after I begin to work on my yard. I just wish I could get those trees out of the yard, but I do not have the money. The insurance company will not remove them until they fall. WTF about preventive maintenance? Oh well. My deductible is $2060, so I think I will be better off anyway by paying for the tree removal myself. ~sighs~ 3 to 5 trees to get removed. yay?
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He threw up a couple more times, but hopefully his fever has broken by now, tough little dude!
I hope that your son feels better soon.
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Note - I am not mad about how long it is taking to get power restored. The power and tree people are working their asses off to restore power and I so appreciate all of their efforts. I am just tired and a little frustrated at life is all.
Sharoth, I understand entirely. We love you, brother. We're praying for you!
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Sharoth, I understand entirely. We love you, brother. We're praying for you!
Oh, it could be so much worse. GRANTED, I am not liking the money that I am shelling out because of this. BUT we are all ok, so I can't complain too much.
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Redneck engineering at it's best. One of our stop lights is being powered by a portable generator.
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D'oh moment of the day. Telling your wife that we do not have hot water because we do not have power and then accidentally moving the faucet to the hot position and realizing that we have a gas water heater. It was not a fun moment telling the wife "Honey, we do have hot water and this is why."
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May the T-Rex annihilate his foes soon.
May the hurricaned dragon rebuild, recharge, and resnark with ease quickly!!
May all our FaWtL fellowship have good days!!
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He threw up a couple more times, but hopefully his fever has broken by now, tough little dude!
I thought you were talking about TOZ here. Think about it. It gets funnier and funnier...
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Ultra Grandis
Lux Lucis
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In other news...
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Yahoo still exists?!
I never used it anyway...
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177th Tempus edax rerum
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Hm. May have to look up Black Mirror on Netflix. Don't know. Maybe later.
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Note - I am not mad about how long it is taking to get power restored. The power and tree people are working their asses off to restore power and I so appreciate all of their efforts. I am just tired and a little frustrated at life is all.
Been there, done that, screamed in a rage until I nearly passed out, bought the t-shirt.
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In other news...
Yes, we're worried about a big quake mainly because we'd lose electricity, and we're now on a VoIP phone and our water heater has an electric ignition. So no power = no communication and no hot water. Inconvenient and annoying, so I can imagine Sharoth's pain.
This week Blue Apron is back in form with panko-crusted cod and fried rice. Their fried rice was perfectly palatable (mine is better, but I've been cooking Chinese for 30+ years, so I'm not going to rake them over the coals on that one), the kids had all kinds of fun crusting the cod (and again, they didn't do it 'formally', but took shortcuts that I think the kids appreciated), and all in all dinner came out quite good. I really don't mind if I can make the food better; it was easy to prepare, the kids participated in all phases, and they both cleaned their plates.
I'm finally abandoning Yahoo! The "we lost all your passwords 2 years ago and finally decided to 'fess up" was bad. The, "Oh, and by the way, we've been assisting the Feds in reading all your e-mails" was an eye-roller. But, "And now we're disabling automated forwarding so you CAN'T leave us" is more like a psychotic stalky ex-girlfriend than an e-mail provider.
Serpent's Skull will be a challenge tomorrow night. The kids know where ALL the vaults are, PLUS they haven't dealt with half the tribes of Saventh-Yhi. They could any up ANYWHERE. *sigh*. I'll throw wyverns at them to slow them down. Everybody loves wyverns.
Oh I abandoned Yahoo! ages ago. I dropped them because they turned up linked to at least 3 different malware attacks on one of my old systems. Either they were complicit in the attacks or their security is so massively pathetic that malware writers can use their site freely. I suspect it is the second case but you never know.
iZombie is... getting intense.
INSTA-NON-EDIT: Yes. Yes, she is. Wow. :/
Right. Wow.
Also: Drejk er, Drake. Hm.
Dang it, Major. :I
EDIT: D-dang it, Ravi. (Though your reaction is both reasonable and sensible.)
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Tiny T-Rex still isn't feeling well, and he closed the tip of his finger in the car door, and I still haven't gotten my book despite it being scanned into the city post office on Friday, and I have to work tonight.
Overall, a stressful, no good, unpleasant day. >:-(
Ooooohhhhhhhh wow.
iZombie is... wow.
Ep. 18 is excellent - intense, even.
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25 days and 15 hours until N7 day...
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Headache coming on, can't tell if it's from a stress buildup or if I'm coming down with something.
I guess I'll find out after I meditate. :-)
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N7 day... the anticipation is making me very hopeful.
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As yet again the stupid plastic nut pops off the stupid plastic stem of the toilet lever because plastic was never designed to withstand the kind of stress a toilet lever puts on its materials I am left wondering, "Why the **** can't I buy steel parts any more?"
One of the HUUUUUGE frustrations of being an obsessive-compulsive, "Do it right with high-quality parts so it lasts 20 years" person is that I seem to be in such a minority that stores no longer cater to me. Whether I go to Home Depot, Lowe's, Orchard, or my local hardware store, all toilet parts are made of plastic. And break within 6 months of installing them. As is true for everything else they stock at hardware stores.
As a middle-class citizen in the Bay Area (aka feelthy stinkin' rich anywhere else in the country), I'd be happy to pay $100 for parts that last me for the rest of my life. Instead, the highest-priced $30 kit is no better than the lowest-priced $8 kit, and I have to replace it on an annual basis.
So I am reduced to trying to find decent mail-order parts that I have to purchase sight unseen and hope they fit and hope that they're better than the local stuff, or buying local and seething with frustration as the latest part I purchased falls apart when you do something strenuous, like, say, actually USE it!
What has happened in our country that such a majority of shoppers are willing to sacrifice quality for price that I, a man who will pay almost any price for quality, can no longer even find the parts I'm looking for?
Favorite story: I was at a hardware store and there were two utterly identical pry bars: One made in China for $7.99, and one made in the U.S.A. for $22.99. I bought the one made in the U.S.A. 12 years later, it's still one of the best tools I own, and has endured abuse I'm sure it was never designed for.
Why can't I find simple toilet parts that are similarly over-engineered?
Grrrr....
>:(
:I
Welp. Episode 19 was pretty amazing.
I'm not totally happy, but... wow. It's... really good?
Fwew. I'm sorry for some of the people, but iZombie is definitely a amazing series - definitely improved over Season 1 (which I already enjoyed).
'Dat season 2 cliffhanger, though.
As an aside, the record for how many poopy diapers I've changed in an iZombie episode maintains itself at three. I know you've all been dying to know.
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Of course they don't cater to you NH. It's harder to make consistent profits off of single sales. You're an uninteresting customer. You boring (awesome!) guy, you.
;D
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25 days and 15 hours until N7 day...
N7 day... the anticipation is making me very hopeful.
Plenty of room in the back of my Mako, ladies...
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sounds stressful. I have an injection for you that will make your stress levels decrease considerably.
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I had an issue at my former home where the furnace would break every winter. EVERY YEAR. I am a bit of a Winry so I took the thing apart myself and figured out the faulty switch. But the switch was the cheapest construction available in the known world. Fortunately it was on warranty. So they sent a guy out every year to replace the same switch until eventually the company that makes the furnace got sick of paying for thousands of service calls a year and built a heavy duty replacement part which I installed myself since it was no longer on warranty by then.
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Would it be at all practical to buy a 2nd hand lathe and what have you and make them yourself? I can't imagine that they're hugely complex.
I've got a friend who does that for Landrover parts, and yes, I realise that they're not reeeaaaally the same thing...
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Usually no. Production of things comes with a pretty steep investment because you need to get the machines before you can begin. If you hire them, you can't afford it. Simple things come with a very small profit margin.
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I had an issue at my former home where the furnace would break every winter. EVERY YEAR. I am a bit of a Winry so I took the thing apart myself and figured out the faulty switch. But the switch was the cheapest construction available in the known world. Fortunately it was on warranty. So they sent a guy out every year to replace the same switch until eventually the company that makes the furnace got sick of paying for thousands of service calls a year and built a heavy duty replacement part which I installed myself since it was no longer on warranty by then.
have you ever cosplayed winry?