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...the moment I'm not <snip> running 3 campaigns,
... but... but... how else will you get into politics? I was led to believe D&D and Pathfinder games were the method of gaining popularity and renown for eventual voting into office?
... have I been lied to all this time?!
ಠ_ಠ
EDIT: AND MY CLOTHES WERE STOLEN BY SOME UNKNOWN ENTITY~! Barg!
(also re-dressed)
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Wasn't me, I'm at work, and lemme tell you, they frown on those sorts of things.
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Tuesday, middle of January, freezing rain outside.
Yeah, pretty f~%*ing slow...
"Captain Yesterday, I'm glad you're here! These new people they hired this year don't do what you do" - My boss, as i was punching in.
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Damn, an hour left...
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Soon... in a little less then half an hour.
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Egads! Everyone has disappeared! I guess it's up to me to find out what... say! Is that Arrested Development on Hulu...
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I swear, "Family Game Night" with teenagers sure has changed...
"I don't remember Gloom being so sexual and inappropriate the last time we played it..."
Hilarious game, but Puritans would have beaten us to death had they been listening...
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If it helps Tacticslion, we have 75 cents in our bank account until the end of the week. :-)
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I love my four legged furbabies but f@@% they are expensive. $208 for shots and draining a hematoma and $391 for fixing the ear that the hematoma is on. ~grumbles~ I wondered why my cracked tooth hasn't been fixed yet. Now I know why. Pets.
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I love my four legged furbabies but f&#* they are expensive. $208 for shots and draining a hematoma and $391 for fixing the ear that the hematoma is on. ~grumbles~ I wondered why my cracked tooth hasn't been fixed yet. Now I know why. Pets.
Yeah, after two cancer treatments (one successful, one not), when NobodysWife started work at her current company, we looked into getting company-sponsored pet insurance.
In spite of a $2250 radiotherapy bill and a $3000 emergency bloodwork bill in the last 5 years, the insurance was still more expensive than paying out-of-pocket. Ouch.
And the band paid on...
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Sometimes, weird stuff just happens.
Note left on the windshield of our beat-up Prius: "Hi! I'm xxx and I want to buy your car, running or not, smogged or not." Hand-written, no less.
I figure it's got to be some fairly well-off dad looking for a beater for his teenaged son/daughter. NobodysWife figures it's the leopard-patterned duct tape holding together the front bumper.
Unfortunately, that's the purpose we've already set aside for it for OUR kids, so no deal!
It DID make me look into the new $35k Teslas, but after dangling the prospect of actually repairing our crappy bathroom and putting in a tub that an adult can actually, y'know, USE, NobodysWife feels our next two years are going to be sinking money into the house: New roof, upgraded bathroom, a kitchen that doesn't suck, etc.
One of her favorite things to point out is that we bought a stupid-nice stove (a 6-burner Thermador) that makes her totally ignore the fact that we could afford the stove, but not to repair the walls behind it, so it's basically a semi-pro stove sitting against what looks like a cardboard wall. She figures a really nice bathtub'll fix the bathroom right up...
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A nice tub washes away all other unsightly blemishes.
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Yeesh! Lots of negativity on the boards this morning! (not here, of course), myself included.
This should help.
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I swear, "Family Game Night" with teenagers sure has changed...
"I don't remember Gloom being so sexual and inappropriate the last time we played it..."
Hilarious game, but Puritans would have beaten us to death had they been listening...
Preparest thou the Number Nine Gatling-Spank, Jebediah. 'Twill be a busy night!
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Happy birthday Freehold! :)
Belated +1
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So, as I've mentioned, I am quite Lawful by nature, to the point of actually getting permits for all of my construction and whatnot. I even had business licenses for my rental property and for when NobodysWife worked at home.
However, being Lawful by nature, certain things incense and infuriate me beyond all reason, especially mindless bureaucracy.
I think I might have mentioned that Shiro's player moved recently, and during the course of the move, he left his motorcycles out for a single night and they were all stolen. It was obviously an "inside job" by one of the neighbors, but eventually two of the bikes were "recovered" having been totally dismantled, and one was "recovered" fully intact, with someone riding it.
The fully-intact one happened to be Shiro's player's favorite, so he wanted it back.
Shiro's Player: That's great! You got my bike back! Thanks so much!
Insurance Company: Not so fast, sir! We already marked that bike as "totalled" and paid you out for it.
SP: No problem! I'll just give you your money back and you can give me the bike! We're even!
IC: It doesn't work that way, sir. We paid you. You can't give the money back.
SP: Whatever. I'll buy the bike from you. How much do you want for it?
IC: The bike was marked as totalled, sir, we can't legally sell it to you.
SP: So what you're telling me is, *YOU* decided to label the bike as "totalled" before you found it, *YOU* decided to cut me a check, *YOU* decided to notify the DMV, and now *I* can't have my bike back because of your precipitous actions?
IC: Yes, sir.
It's legal stupidity at its worst.
And in case it couldn't get any stupider, Shiro's player, a man of no small means, decided, "Whatever. I'll just buy a new one."
So of course the company no longer makes them in black.
Roadblock after roadblock after roadblock.
When all he wants is his old bike back.
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So, as I've mentioned, I am quite Lawful by nature, to the point of actually getting permits for all of my construction and whatnot. I even had business licenses for my rental property and for when NobodysWife worked at home.
However, being Lawful by nature, certain things incense and infuriate me beyond all reason, especially mindless bureaucracy.
I think I might have mentioned that Shiro's player moved recently, and during the course of the move, he left his motorcycles out for a single night and they were all stolen. It was obviously an "inside job" by one of the neighbors, but eventually two of the bikes were "recovered" having been totally dismantled, and one was "recovered" fully intact, with someone riding it.
The fully-intact one happened to be Shiro's player's favorite, so he wanted it back.
Shiro's Player: That's great! You got my bike back! Thanks so much!
Insurance Company: Not so fast, sir! We already marked that bike as "totalled" and paid you out for it.
SP: No problem! I'll just give you your money back and you can give me the bike! We're even!
IC: It doesn't work that way, sir. We paid you. You can't give the money back.
SP: Whatever. I'll buy the bike from you. How much do you want for it?
IC: The bike was marked as totalled, sir, we can't legally sell it to you.
SP: So what you're telling me is, *YOU* decided to label the bike as "totalled" before you found it, *YOU* decided to cut me a check, *YOU* decided to notify the DMV, and now *I* can't have my bike back because of your precipitous actions?
IC: Yes, sir.It's legal stupidity at its worst.
And in case it couldn't get any stupider, Shiro's player, a man of no small means, decided, "Whatever. I'll just buy a new one."
So of course the company no longer makes them in black.Roadblock after roadblock after roadblock.
When all he wants is his old bike back.
... what is the Insurance Co gonna do with the bike? Is the CEO using it as a paperweight?
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Yeesh! Lots of negativity on the boards this morning! (not here, of course), myself included.
This should help.
Oh, Captain Yesterday! Did you accidentally unhide the Rules forums again?
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...all he wants is his old bike back.... what is the Insurance Co gonna do with the bike? Is the CEO using it as a paperweight?
That totally sounds like a drunken party game.
"What is the CEO going to do with the bike?"
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I only hide political threads (which, in my cranky mood, I've almost missed. Almost.) everything else is a case by case basis.
But no, what got me this time was the 50th thread started or resurrected JUST THIS WEEK (and it's only Wednesday mind you) about Pathfinder 2.0 or whether it's fat.
It's okay, I'll just rampage through GTA 4 for a while, maybe watch some It's Always Sunny.
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So, as I've mentioned, I am quite Lawful by nature, to the point of actually getting permits for all of my construction and whatnot. I even had business licenses for my rental property and for when NobodysWife worked at home.
However, being Lawful by nature, certain things incense and infuriate me beyond all reason, especially mindless bureaucracy.
I think I might have mentioned that Shiro's player moved recently, and during the course of the move, he left his motorcycles out for a single night and they were all stolen. It was obviously an "inside job" by one of the neighbors, but eventually two of the bikes were "recovered" having been totally dismantled, and one was "recovered" fully intact, with someone riding it.
The fully-intact one happened to be Shiro's player's favorite, so he wanted it back.
Shiro's Player: That's great! You got my bike back! Thanks so much!
Insurance Company: Not so fast, sir! We already marked that bike as "totalled" and paid you out for it.
SP: No problem! I'll just give you your money back and you can give me the bike! We're even!
IC: It doesn't work that way, sir. We paid you. You can't give the money back.
SP: Whatever. I'll buy the bike from you. How much do you want for it?
IC: The bike was marked as totalled, sir, we can't legally sell it to you.
SP: So what you're telling me is, *YOU* decided to label the bike as "totalled" before you found it, *YOU* decided to cut me a check, *YOU* decided to notify the DMV, and now *I* can't have my bike back because of your precipitous actions?
IC: Yes, sir.It's legal stupidity at its worst.
And in case it couldn't get any stupider, Shiro's player, a man of no small means, decided, "Whatever. I'll just buy a new one."
So of course the company no longer makes them in black.Roadblock after roadblock after roadblock.
When all he wants is his old bike back.
I doubt it's the case case in California, but some states have a fairly simple salvage title process.
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So, we had school the other day when everyone else had ice day. The new school superintendent (from Illinois even) said "when I called the streets department at four a.m. they said it was safe out!" The streets department then released every communication they had during the storm, and after the storm, including the email they sent out 45 minutes after she supposedly emailed them warning every department that everyone should stay off the roads. On account that the Sheriff's department closed every major artery into Madison due to over 80 slide offs in two hours.
Hilarious!
I personally didn't think it was icy enough to cancel school, but I only drive Tiny T-Rex 8 blocks, so.
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Happy birthday Freehold! :)Belated +1
just what I wanted for my birthday wooooooooooooo
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Well, THAT was a mistake...
As I mentioned, with NobodysWife finally gainfully employed, we had a rather serendipitous Christmas, including building a new PC for Impus Minor and a Bose SoundTouch for Impus Major, since he's suddenly VERY into music.
Needless to say, it asked him to name it, and he promptly named it the "Swagbox 3000".
I do loves me some Impus Major.
Well, while I'm rebuilding the garage, Impus Major is sleeping in the living room, and the Swagbox 3000 is on a bookshelf in the dining room, meaning I can use it to play *my* music during work.
So I casually mentioned to NobodysWife that I would most likely want a Swagbox 3000 of my own for my 50th birthday.
Cue the panic and astonishment -- she'd totally forgotten I'm turning 50 this year.
Come June, I am going to have to flee to the mountains to avoid my well-wishing friends.
Eek.
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We don't have mountains, but i doubt anyone could find you out here, especially if you have any clothes that are white with black spots.
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Or even green and yellow, or as the natives refer to it green and "gold"
But then, they also pronounce Oregon "Or-A-gone"
The best though, is to find someone with a crazy thick accent and have them pronounce "Paoli" the results are absolutely hilarious!
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We don't have mountains, but i doubt anyone could find you out here, especially if you have any clothes that are white with black spots.
True story: My mother and I used to do Sierra Club trips for which we were grossly overqualified just because it was hard for a 60-year-old to convince the "hardcore" leaders that she would have no trouble whatsoever keeping up with them on the more advanced trips.
The mid-level trips always had East Coasters saying, "Oh, yeah! I'm totally used to the altitude! To prep for this trip I jogged 10 miles a day on the highest trail in my area!"
"And how high was that?"
"At some points, it broke 1000 feet!"
"..."
"You do realize that our second camp is at 11,500 feet, right?"
"Oh, yeah! It'll be no problem!"
There was just something about the East Coast folks. Midwesterners understood that they had no mountains. East Coasters considered the Appalachians "mountains" rather than "foothills". And always showed up absolutely cocksure the altitude wouldn't affect them at all.
So on virtually every trip we had to ship some East Coaster home because he'd "pushed himself to the max" on Day 1, not realizing that climbing from the roadhead at 6000' to the first camp at 9500' might, just might, require a small bit of discretion as to the amount of energy you expended getting there...
Anyway, as you can tell, I'm distracted today, but a handoff then an interview, so I should go behave myself and crank out some "work" stuff...
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if I'll ever join a party, though, so I doubt I'll ever get beyond Albany.Wait? You're in New York?
Different Albany. Last time I checked, there are 4 Albanys in the U.S., though Albany, Georgia seems to have fallen off Google Maps' radar... ah! You have to search for it. Man, how podunk can you be if you're smaller than Albany, California?
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Albany, Wisconsin is the incest capital of southern Wisconsin. :-)
Edit: Or at least it was twenty years ago.
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Speaking of Peanuts, "Aaaaaaaargh!"
We *finally* had a really GREAT candidate. The kind you start drooling over and saying, "OK, you've got the job! When can you start?"
Of course, everything in his background says he'll move on in 2-3 years, but heck, at the rate things have been going, we'll happily take 2-3 years of great productivity over the middling-to-poor candidates we've had so far.
But of course the VP took one look at his resume, said, "This man is obviously overqualified, you can't hire him," and then followed up with, 'Oh, but I DO have a friend in QA who's been looking to move. You should interview her!"
Yeah, we've all been down THAT road before. The whole team is plotting together to make the job as unattractive as possible.
*SIGH*
EDIT: For those who don't know my history, the *one* time I was ever laid off was because of nepotism -- a niece of one of the board members drove our department into the ground in 6 months flat and got the whole place shut down. So yeah, I'm a teensy bit anti-nepotism.
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I was promised a storm today. Thus far, I've been disappointed. And I'm running low on tequila.
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I was promised a storm today. Thus far, I've been disappointed. And I'm running low on tequila.
How the heck are you missing the storm? We've been getting hammered, and we're right downwind of you!
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I was promised a storm today. Thus far, I've been disappointed. And I'm running low on tequila.How the heck are you missing the storm? We've been getting hammered, and we're right downwind of you!
In The Sunset. See a bit of rain, but nothing stormy. Most vexed. Dad in Silicon Valley said it's windy like the mountains in San Jose, but I don't see it in San Francisco.
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Well, THAT was a mistake...
As I mentioned, with NobodysWife finally gainfully employed, we had a rather serendipitous Christmas, including building a new PC for Impus Minor and a Bose SoundTouch for Impus Major, since he's suddenly VERY into music.
Needless to say, it asked him to name it, and he promptly named it the "Swagbox 3000".
I do loves me some Impus Major.
Well, while I'm rebuilding the garage, Impus Major is sleeping in the living room, and the Swagbox 3000 is on a bookshelf in the dining room, meaning I can use it to play *my* music during work.
So I casually mentioned to NobodysWife that I would most likely want a Swagbox 3000 of my own for my 50th birthday.
Cue the panic and astonishment -- she'd totally forgotten I'm turning 50 this year.
Come June, I am going to have to flee to the mountains to avoid my well-wishing friends.
Eek.
wait a minute.
You're turning 50?
And your wife is LULU?
Yeah.. Uh... I'm gonna need to go with you on your mountain trips. I may be an east coaster, but I'm sure we'll get along fine at those high elevations... I'll be sure to push you to listen to your instructions to better avoid accidents that would result in me having to " console " your wife should anything happen to you...
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Almost in position with the eagle shaped bike now boss!
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Almost in position with the eagle shaped bike now boss!
Maybe it's the tequila speaking, but I can't figure who said what to warrant such aggression.
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That's odd, I've been walking the dog for something like twenty minutes now and my hands haven't gone numb and I can still feel my face.
Almost like it's not as cold.
This must be one of those mythical January thaws i've heard the elders talk about.
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I was promised a storm today. Thus far, I've been disappointed. And I'm running low on tequila.
Should've gone to northern Sweden, apparently trucks are being blown onto their sides.
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Almost in position with the eagle shaped bike now boss!
Maybe it's the tequila speaking, but I can't figure who said what to warrant such aggression.
(My guess is that it was something about "candidate" and "VP" without actually having the whole of the post - either that, or Fritzy just is feeling uppity today. Hey: we all have those days.)
EDIT: Woop! Bad coding, TL, bad!
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Get away guys! Boss said it had to look like an accident.
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Happy Birthday, Freehold DM!!!