Yeah I was a big Hogan and Macho man fan. (ultimate warrior was just psychotic just saying) Later one I liked Goldberg but stopped watching shortly after.
I was a big fan of the Undertaker, but I also lost interest when it become a soap opera. I just watched Wrestlemania highlists because of him. Now he has retired, so no more wrestling for me.
[after catching up on six pages of bad jokes, innuendo, and... wrestling? oh, yeah, guess that fits, huh.]
[slurps coffee, listens to birds, creek, etc.]
It's the calm before the deluge. I don't go to "work" today, but I'm cooking a mess of food because we've got a crapton of Whingey Wizzard's friends coming over tonight to burn meat on the grill and watch fireworks from our deck.
(The beauty of alternative living arrangements: I make less than minimum wage, but the west deck of our house has a panoramic view of the Bay and Mount Tam. The east deck is over the gully and the creek and faces a ridge of eucalyptus, and sometimes there are hawks. The north deck is covered with construction supplies and the south deck isn't finished yet.)
Because it's July in the Bay Area, everyone know that (a) they need to bring parkas or blankets, and (b) there will likely be so much damned fog that we won't see anything. But we'll *hear* them.
Be safe, my wealthy friend with the incredibly hot wife.
So, unforeseen circumstances: Both kids are sick today, with Impus Majoe throwing up about once an hour. It's why NobodysHome hates short-but-ludicrously-expensive trips: Losing a day can feel like a vacation-breaker. You just have to sit back and say, "Oh, well, at least I'm saving money on food."
Yes, PCGen is my new favorite toy. Just got done making my first character, "Hunts in Twilight," a male Pseudodragon Monk. :) And the printable character sheets are just like handmade, and absolutely beautiful.
Oh! I just had a thought. I'll use PCGen to make character sheets for the players in my RPG Sessions at Tekko, then have them printed before the convention, so my players will have fresh sheets each year. :) :) :) !
Yes, PCGen is my new favorite toy. Just got done making my first character, "Hunts in Twilight," a male Pseudodragon Monk. :) And the printable character sheets are just like handmade, and absolutely beautiful.
Hawaii's purity is unquestionable (darned missionaries, ruining a good thing!), so it's more likely an airplane-borne virus. Crossing our fingers for tomrrow!
She's doing better, temp is down, but not gone. But she's getting up and interacting, so that's something. Her Drunk History marathon helped, laughter is the best medicine and all. :-)
She's doing better, temp is down, but not gone. But she's getting up and interacting, so that's something. Her Drunk History marathon helped, laughter is the best medicine and all. :-)
Hawaii's purity is unquestionable (darned missionaries, ruining a good thing!), so it's more likely an airplane-borne virus. Crossing our fingers for tomrrow!
...as long as you stay off Molokai, that is...
But, hey, what's a little leprosy when you live in paradise?
Still fever, but much better, indeed.
I remember having 42°C once while I was at school (I was about 9-10 years old) and I even had hallucinations.
I managed to stay for the whole time at class, but I cannot remember how I got home. I just know I walked there (10 minutes walk) by my own feet because I was told I did. Then I went to bed without having lunch (again, I cannot remember that).
I woke up 5 hours later remembering only the hallucinations.
Yet again, being nice to staff pays off. I really have no idea what people are thinking when they walk up to a counter with a belligerant attitude. What's it going to accomplish, beyond ensuring the poor service person will have a bad attitude towards you?
So, the kids were supposed to have surf lessons at 9:30 this morning, but obviously couldn't. There's a clearly-stated 24-hour cancellation policy. So, being Lawful, I went downstairs and started in. "So I know the tickets are non-refundable, but my kids are sick and aren't going to make it. So can you make a note or something that there are two open spots, in case any last-minute family shows up?"
"Don't you want to try to reschedule?"
"Well, the tickets are non-refundable..."
She gave up on "Mr. Too Polite" right then and there, called her co-worker on the phone, asked for a favor, and the kids are rescheduled to Friday, free of charge. The other worker noticed this, and when we showed up later asking to schedule a luau, it miraculously just "happened".
I think I told this once before, but it was pre-Kileanna, so why not? I was in upper-division electromagnetism at U.C. Berkeley, but the day of the 3-hour final I had a 103.8 (39.9) fever. Feeling half-dead, I went in anyway. I looked at the first problem. Lots of math. I skipped it. I looked at the second. Did my eyes deceive me, or was it a balanced system with an answer of 0? I knew the professor had strongly encouraged us to check for cancellations before doing any math, so I pointed out the symmetry, wrote 0 for my answer, and moved on. Problem 3? 0. Problem 4? 0. I went back to problem 1. 0.
Of the 6 problems on the test, I got answers of 0 on the first 5. I worked on the one problem that wasn't obviously 0 for around 20 minutes, then felt too tired to continue and dejectedly turned in my exam, 25 minutes in to a 3-hour test.
Turns out in my deluded state I was one of only 2 students to notice the symmetries. No one else left until the 90-minute mark (I had friends who told me), but I ended up with the second-highest score in the class, more than 10% higher than #3.