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Mad Dog b!+@$es!!!
Warning! May give you the urge to buy a double wide, and/or cover everything in duct tape (or as they call it in Tennessee "chrome").
-_-
They do call it that here...
@Rysky -- Maybe it's just 'cause I'm on the other end of the state, but . . . . Where, exactly, do they call it "chrome"?
@cap'n -- Ha. Ha-haha. . . . . . Ha. :-|
lol
EDIT: It's about danged time I was at the top of the page!!! Haven't changed clothes since the last time I was here! Whew!
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Mad Dog b!+@$es!!!
Warning! May give you the urge to buy a double wide, and/or cover everything in duct tape (or as they call it in Tennessee "chrome").
-_-
They do call it that here...
@Rysky -- Maybe it's just 'cause I'm on the other end of the state, but . . . . Where, exactly, do they call it "chrome"?
@cap'n -- Ha. Ha-haha. . . . . . Ha. :-|
lol
EDIT: It's about danged time I was at the top of the page!!! Haven't changed clothes since the last time I was there! Whew!
Middle of Bumblef+%&ville.
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Is it just a byproduct of the reality- and thought-warping fields generated by Neyland?
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Hm. Well, disappointments never cease.
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Been here since my first day livin'. Stints in Nebraska and Alabama.
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It's 41 degrees here this morning and there was ice on my deck when I went to take out the bins to the street. Not a complaint, just a fact.
Do you know what this means, sportsfans?
Nobody's Home is now going to piss and moan about the cold.
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It was warmer here! Ha!
4-6 inches of snow expected tomorrow.
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Lucky bastard.
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Oooh... Mad Dog 20/20:
So, aaaanyway, while in grad school he discovered the joys of Midnight Train, Mad Dog Orange Jubilee, and other "fortified wines". He took great delight in grossing us out with his ability to drink such dreck.
Just to finish setting context, this was when NobodysWife and I were really starting to become wine snobs. Her family introduced us to Stag's Leap cabernet sauvignon, and the owner of our favorite restaurant of the time (Ah, Metropole, how we miss you!) cruelly introduced us to the 1985 Duck Horn merlot. It used to drive my father crazy that he'd do double blind taste tests on us and we would consistently pick out the "good" wines and label his favorite Gallo "undrinkable".
Fast forward to 1994. We're about to get married, and my wife's best friend decides fairly last-minute that she's going to throw NobodysWife a bachelorette party, complete with strippers, booze, and adult party games... at our house! So I got kicked out of my own house the night before my wedding so my wife could have a bachelorette party. I walked over to the local Motel 6 and got myself a room.
My groomsmen (my two brothers and my best friend at the time) heard of this atrocity and raced to my side. My older brother, being the conscientious sort, stopped by the liquor store and bought a couple of bottles of Cold Duck Sparkling Burgundy. Once they arrived, we wandered over to the corner Taco Bell and grabbed a ton of food to go.
So yep, my "bachelor party" was sitting around with my two brothers and my best friend in a Motel 6, eating Taco Bell food and watching whatever happened to be on HBO. Best of all, we opened the Cold Duck, all took sips, and all of us, even my brother, decided it was undrinkable and poured it all down the hotel sink.
And that was my worst bachelor party ever.
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It's 41 degrees here this morning and there was ice on my deck when I went to take out the bins to the street. Not a complaint, just a fact.
Do you know what this means, sportsfans?
Nobody's Home is now going to piss and moan about the cold.
LOL. I LOVE the cold. I just hate paying for my family to stay warm...
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I would like to state, for the record, that I've never had a bad bottle of Sake.
I've only ever had one good one. It was a gift from a former coworker.
But I can't find it, because, wow, when you try to do a google image search for "pink anime girl sake bottle" you get all sorts of not-terribly-relevant stuff.
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Turned on the radio this morning, and for once the news put me in an elated mood! WOOOOOOOO DEMOCRACY WINS THIS TODAY!!!
It's political, so I'll put it in the most boring phrase possible: Arizona SB 1142
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Cheap-ass wine can be fun, btw.
The best party I ever went to in college, you couldn't get in without one bottle of Boone's Farm and one bag of "classy chocolate".
And we played the *old* version of the Illuminati card game (not the slick Steve Jackson games version) until about three a.m.
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I once drank two litres of Bulgarian red wine and was sick on someone's doormat. They were very worried, as they thought I was puking up blood, but no - just kakky wine.
I was the guy at parties that would drink whatever hard liquor was available.
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Behold! A dog picture so adorable it'll make cats vomit in jealousy!
that's not cute. The dog looks horribly bored.
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It's 41 degrees here this morning and there was ice on my deck when I went to take out the bins to the street. Not a complaint, just a fact.
Do you know what this means, sportsfans?
Nobody's Home is now going to piss and moan about the cold.
the highlight of my day.
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It was warmer here! Ha!
4-6 inches of snow expected tomorrow.
excellent.
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Ah, the wonders of working with "Product Evangelists":
PE: We would really like to understand why everyone uses workarounds instead of using our product. Why is there a disconnect here? Don't people understand how our product works?
NH: Well, here's a good example: If I want to do a simple core implementation of the product, I need to complete 12 tasks. I've personally done it before. 12 tasks. That's it! If I use your product to give me a set of "recommended tasks", it lists 323 tasks, ALL of which have convoluted prerequisites. It took me TWO DAYS to configure the product as I needed it using the basic tasks. It would take me weeks or even months to implement the tasks your tool recommends.
PE: Our tool lists ALL of the recommended tasks, and ONLY the recommended tasks. You OBVIOUSLY did something wrong! You need to do all 323 tasks!!!
NH: If that is your requirement, then everyone will consider our product useless and too complicated to be worth even considering for purchase. I won't do it. Your product is a piece of c**p.
PE: OUR PRODUCT is the *ONLY* way to ensure a successful deployment! If you do anything else, you will FAIL!
NH: Tell that to my completely-successful 12-step deployment.
PE: You're WRONG! It CAN'T be working! You will have issues.
NH: Er... it's working, and has been working fine for 3 months now.
PE: You're STILL wrong!
*SIGH*
Y'know, if you want everyone in the org to use your tool, then maybe, just maybe, your tool should actually WORK!
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Well, I thought it was adorable.
Hound dogs always look bored.
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Oh, my goodness! Do you know how NICE it is to work with a competent health insurance company again?
NH: Hi! I had my doctor fax in all my prescriptions, and all of them were rejected. What's up?
Rep (in under 60 seconds): Oh! You had an old account with us back in 2004. Since it's under your name and the new one is under your wife's name, the system tried to fill all the prescriptions on your old account, which is expired. Let me get someone who can fix that for you...
Rep 2: Yep. I see the problem. Give me 2 minutes. OK. All fixed! You're set! You can expect your prescriptions to arrive within 3-5 days.
This is... a WEE bit different from dealing with UHC...
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Okay, folks, answer a question for me, because I've just had to deal with a school parent who is pissing me off.
I work in a private school, 3 months through elementary.
Most of the parents are rich. They pay in tuition more than I make in a year.
Our policy for the 3-6 year olds and clothing changes is this:
Everyone keeps 2 changes (3 if they have frequent accidents) in their individual labeled clothing box in the bathroom. If for some reason they run out, we keep a few spares of *everything*, including underpants, in a separate box.
We have a new child who is potty-shy, so he wets a lot. And because his mother insists on sending him to school in a diaper (he's 3), sometimes he runs out of his own extra underpants, and we have to put him in spares because we take him into the bathroom and change him into real undies as soon as he gets to school.
Twice in the last month, the mom has sent a foam-at-the-mouth email to the head-of-school because her son is uncircumcised, she doesn't know how anyone else does their laundry, and she's certain he will catch some horrible disease from wearing (laundered) spare pants.
Am I wrong to think she's a loony?
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Working on a Tuesday again.
With Lundberg manager.
I'm starting to notice a pattern...
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Tonight's first mystery!
Where exactly does Fart In A Can go, and how much time do I waste looking for it before giving up and putting it somewhere in the dollar shop.
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Break time! Got Doctor Strange.
Which will be nice to watch tomorrow when it's snowing.
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Twice in the last month, the mom has sent a foam-at-the-mouth email to the head-of-school because her son is uncircumcised, she doesn't know how anyone else does their laundry, and she's certain he will catch some horrible disease from wearing (laundered) spare pants.
Am I wrong to think she's a loony?
Nope.
Have her send her kids to a public school, where she can enjoy the "louse infestation of the week."
I know we always loved getting those e-mails.
Yet in 9 years of my kids going to that school, we had ONE louse infection, ever. And it was ludicrously easy to clear up. And we neither frothed at the mouth nor swore at the principal.
The correct response is, "If you would like us not to use other people's clothes, then your job is to dress him properly, and provide us enough spares."
Actually having to be, y'know, responsible for her own issues might make them less of an issue.
Well, yeah, no; that's a pipe dream. But at least it gives you one more thing to complain about.
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It's the Midwest, you can bottle cow piss, call it beer, put an affordable price on it and make millions (see: Milwaukee's Best).
You mean MilSpec, the Beer Brewed to Military Specifications?
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And we played the *old* version of the Illuminati card game (not the slick Steve Jackson games version) until about three a.m.
Did you have the plastic boxes and the small faction cards?
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Did you have the plastic boxes and the small faction cards?
And we played the *old* version of the Illuminati card game (not the slick Steve Jackson games version) until about three a.m.
I don't remember. It was over twenty years ago and the set belonged to my boyfriend, not to me. They were hidden in the same closet as his collection of Fletch novels. I wasn't allowed in there.
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Ah, Paizo! I know I've found a good AP when you make my players sob!
First, you let me play out Myriana's story in the Hook Mountain Massacre. There wasn't a dry eye in the room, and when they reached the perpetrators... let's just say the paladin of Sarenrae was all about being the sword of retribution that day.
And now in BOOK FRIGGING 1 of Strange Aeons we get Branton and Debis.
Well done, Paizo! Well done!
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Behold! A dog picture so adorable it'll make cats vomit in jealousy!
Ahh, the old love story of a dog and his bear. Better than Romeo and Juliet.
Tonight's first mystery!
Where exactly does Fart In A Can go, and how much time do I waste looking for it before giving up and putting it somewhere in the dollar shop.
Is Fart In A Can some sort of horrific 'five beers in and still going strong' Midwestern drinking game?
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No, a good Midwestern drinking game is, "Yes, I know the ice is getting too thin, but it's late and I'm no longer capable of solid decision-making, so I am going to take my snowmobile home across the lake rather than go around it and cross my fingers."
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yeah we get those things stolen all the time where I work.
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Nintendo Switch is out Friday.
Our store has ten of them.
Supposedly we'll get another couple dozen for Sunday's circular sale, but we'll see.
And so, it begins to snow.
Also known as my time to shine. :-)
Do they polish you specially?
Of course! If you have a better way of achieving maximum aerodynamics, I'd like to hear it!
I'm seriously asking.
So, here at work we have a computer and printer for guest use. Yesterday, some a~+%!~~ decided that they would take the USB cable that connects them. So, now no-one can use the printer until the manager gets to the store to buy a new one.
Some people are real jackholes.
In the one-upsmanship game, we have a dedicated file server that we used to keep in a locked room, where only half a dozen people had access.
The network cable was stolen twice in two months, forcing me to drive out there to diagnose the problem: Some people are real jackholes.
(We now keep it in our director's office, with instructions to fire anyone other than me who touches it. It has been remarkably stable for over a year now...)