| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Maybe there will be more action if someone *cough*Freehold*cough* gets lisamarlene a mermaid tail.
then again...
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Come on folks. It's me.
OF COURSE I'm naked for this...
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
~laughter~ I knew I should have brought my stack of Dollar bills with me!
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Grans gonna be sad he was looking forward to that naked time.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
I'm already naked so it doesn't matter to I.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Hamsters are never naked.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Frankly, I think we could all use a little mermaid tail from time to time.
Do you mean to eat or where you swim around and release on their eggs?
| 4 people marked this as a favorite. |
Apparently, if you add "interesting" at the end of every post everyone will assume you're being antagonistic and get really pissed at you.
Interesting.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
That is...
Interesting...
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Did somebody say "Mermaid tails!"Oh. My. Goodness.
We got to Oregon an hour ago, and as soon as we got the car unloaded, the kids wanted to jump in Grandma's swimming pool.
And my sister's mermaid tail was just lying there, so I asked if I could try it out.I. NEED. ONE. This is the coolest thing EVER.
That's the place. My sister has one, and she got my daughter a set for her birthday. My daughter pretty much lives in her whenever she is up here at Grandma's.
No. Pretty boring, really. Also "evil" in pathfinder and possibly disease-ridden and/or prone to resulting in death by drowning.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Yes, Pea Bear and Tiny T-Rex are both saving up for the tails, monofins, and tail protectors.
There is also ill defined plans for a trip to California to have a family mermaid (apparently we're all supposed to get tails) Olympics to see who is the best mermaid.
I honestly can't fathom how those things work. It seems so... not physically possible to move? It's clearly possible, but it seems so counter-intuitive...
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Yes, Pea Bear and Tiny T-Rex are both saving up for the tails, monofins, and tail protectors.
There is also ill defined plans for a trip to California to have a family mermaid (apparently we're all supposed to get tails) Olympics to see who is the best mermaid.
Intereseting...
FIFY
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
...There is also ill defined plans for a trip to California...
Coming through the Bay Area on this trip is mandatory. Expect to be fed.
... to have a family mermaid (apparently we're all supposed to get tails) Olympics to see who is the best mermaid...
Oh, you actually want to be able to get into the water without a wetsuit? I guess we're out, then.
For those who don't know the infamy of San Francisco, there's an arctic current that contributes to our wonderfully-cool weather, but also keeps the ocean water at around 60 degrees in the summer. If the water breaks 65, everyone comments about how "warm" it is. Compare this to L.A. (68 in August) or Hawaii (82 in August), and you understand why all OUR surfers are in insulated wetsuits, as surfers should be.
So...challenge: Mermaid in a wetsuit?
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
...There is also ill defined plans for a trip to California...Coming through the Bay Area on this trip is mandatory. Expect to be fed.
FAWTLCon West Side Edition?
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
...There is also ill defined plans for a trip to California...Coming through the Bay Area on this trip is mandatory. Expect to be fed.
... to have a family mermaid (apparently we're all supposed to get tails) Olympics to see who is the best mermaid...Oh, you actually want to be able to get into the water without a wetsuit? I guess we're out, then.
For those who don't know the infamy of San Francisco, there's an arctic current that contributes to our wonderfully-cool weather, but also keeps the ocean water at around 60 degrees in the summer. If the water breaks 65, everyone comments about how "warm" it is. Compare this to L.A. (68 in August) or Hawaii (82 in August), and you understand why all OUR surfers are in insulated wetsuits, as surfers should be.
So...challenge: Mermaid in a wetsuit?
Atlantic is *worse*.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Can't be worse than Lake Superior.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Atlantic is *worse*....There is also ill defined plans for a trip to California...Coming through the Bay Area on this trip is mandatory. Expect to be fed.
... to have a family mermaid (apparently we're all supposed to get tails) Olympics to see who is the best mermaid...Oh, you actually want to be able to get into the water without a wetsuit? I guess we're out, then.
For those who don't know the infamy of San Francisco, there's an arctic current that contributes to our wonderfully-cool weather, but also keeps the ocean water at around 60 degrees in the summer. If the water breaks 65, everyone comments about how "warm" it is. Compare this to L.A. (68 in August) or Hawaii (82 in August), and you understand why all OUR surfers are in insulated wetsuits, as surfers should be.
So...challenge: Mermaid in a wetsuit?
Not according to Google, showing 71 degrees as far north as Boston, 72 in New York, and already up to 77 in Norfolk, VA.
And today is a delightful "tourist day" in August. 65 degrees and overcast with a breeze (62 in San Francisco).
My favorite quotes:
NOT Twain: "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." Since we don't bother heating our buildings, I believe it.
Q: How do you recognize a tourist in San Francisco in July?
A: They're the ones in shorts!
And yes, I know many people who wear shorts in far colder temperatures, but none of them are locals. We shun shorts anyway, and especially in summer.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Atlantic is *worse*....There is also ill defined plans for a trip to California...Coming through the Bay Area on this trip is mandatory. Expect to be fed.
... to have a family mermaid (apparently we're all supposed to get tails) Olympics to see who is the best mermaid...Oh, you actually want to be able to get into the water without a wetsuit? I guess we're out, then.
For those who don't know the infamy of San Francisco, there's an arctic current that contributes to our wonderfully-cool weather, but also keeps the ocean water at around 60 degrees in the summer. If the water breaks 65, everyone comments about how "warm" it is. Compare this to L.A. (68 in August) or Hawaii (82 in August), and you understand why all OUR surfers are in insulated wetsuits, as surfers should be.
So...challenge: Mermaid in a wetsuit?
Not according to Google, showing 71 degrees as far north as Boston, 72 in New York, and already up to 77 in Norfolk, VA.
And today is a delightful "tourist day" in August. 65 degrees and overcast with a breeze (62 in San Francisco).
My favorite quotes:
NOT Twain: "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." Since we don't bother heating our buildings, I believe it.
Q: How do you recognize a tourist in San Francisco in July?
A: They're the ones in shorts!And yes, I know many people who wear shorts in far colder temperatures, but none of them are locals. We shun shorts anyway, and especially in summer.
If only it were not on the wrong coast.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
The last time I was in Maine, the air temperature was 98 and the water temperature was 58.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
And there are warm places to swim. Crown Beach in Alameda is positively balmy compared to Ocean Beach in SF.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Plus, while you're there, you can look for the NUUU-CLEE-AR WESS-ELS.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
*sigh* Time to bed... After three days of going to bed late (Friday, Saturday, Sunday), I need to get up early again. It's already an hour later than I should finish the day.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Last week I received the orientation e-mail from Impus Major's rock-climbing camp, and it said in big bold letters, "Please be sure to arrive 20 minutes early on the first day to fill out the required paperwork."
So I left the house at 12:20 pm, traffic was unusually light and I got there at 12:30 pm, and they were just starting to put up the signs. So I found the sign-in desk, said, "Here's Impus Major", and she opened the binder and put a checkmark by his name.
I said, "Is that it?"
She said, "Uh huh."
"Isn't there some optional paperwork or anything? The instructions said, 'Show up 20 minutes early'."
"Nope. You're all done."
I could have lived with an apology, or even an, "Oh, that's weird."
But failing to even acknowledge that I was there ALMOST THIRTY MINUTES EARLY because their instructions TOLD ME TO BE EARLY, and then having it be, "Yeah, I check a checkbox" was a pisser. And Impus Major didn't bring any way to entertain himself because he didn't want to risk his electronics rock climbing.
So I am always incensed by the more and more common approach of, "Punish the Lawful because they don't complain."
I'm sure they were having issues with getting the bus loaded and off to the rock climbing area on time. But instead of, "The bus will leave without you," they just put a ludicrously-early arrival time. Thus, those of us who follow the rules are screwed, and those who let such things slide are golden.
And it happens so frequently as to be a running theme around here. "Oh, we know that most people are flakes, so we go ahead and pad our times by 20-30 minutes, never enforce our cancellation policies, and otherwise bend over backwards to avoid conflict when our behavior strongly encourages exactly the misbehavior we're trying to compensate for."
/rant
EDIT: Well I'll be darned!
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
** spoiler omitted **
/rant
EDIT:...
GO TEAM CHAOS
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
GO TEAM CHAOS** spoiler omitted **
/rant
EDIT:...
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
So my kid sister and I have a new game.
We keep a running back-and-forth commentary going in our best Northern Wisconsin accents until either one of us breaks down laughing, or our mom starts screaming.
It would be one thing if we were kids, but after forty, doing it until Mom starts yelling at us just takes on a whole new magic.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
So my kid sister and I have a new game.
We keep a running back-and-forth commentary going in our best Northern Wisconsin accents until either one of us breaks down laughing, or our mom starts screaming.
It would be one thing if we were kids, but after forty, doing it until Mom starts yelling at us just takes on a whole new magic.
I have got to hear this game .
Please tell me you will do it while wearing mermaid tails.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
I just won the last round with,
"Yeah, you go down to the volunteer fire hall Friday night... DEY got COLEslaw."
It was funnier in context.
| 5 people marked this as a favorite. |
So, you all know I'm playing a tiefling Life Oracle in Skull & Shackles.
NobodysWife was searching for images for her new PC for her Wednesday game (they're starting Mummy's Mask, apparently), and she came running in saying, "I found Del! I found Del!"
Apparently, this epitomizes how I play tiefling life oracles. And I had to agree with her.
Go figure.
EDIT: And in case you're wondering, I get a "feel" for a character concept and background, and choose a gender I feel most appropriate to that background. Of the PCs I've had in the last 10 years, it's 5 males, 3 females. Of the GMNPCs it's 3 males, 2 females. So I seem to run a pretty even distribution. I have to go get Impus Major or I'd double-check my math.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Sorry I haven't been posting very much the past several days, guys. I've just been very busy doing this, that, and other things.
You said I was the only one!!!
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Aw geez.
Things got so bad during dinner tonight that Mom went and got the spray bottle she uses on the evil macaw and kept spraying us whenever we tried to play the game.
By the end of dinner, we were all crying from laughing so hard.
I am no longer permitted to say the words "live well".
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Aw geez.
Things got so bad during dinner tonight that Mom went and got the spray bottle she uses on the evil macaw and kept spraying us whenever we tried to play the game.
By the end of dinner, we were all crying from laughing so hard.I am no longer permitted to say the words "live well".
I now seethe with jealousy.
And I know a tour bus driver on Hawaii she would just love!
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Oh gosh dare, dat sounds like a pickle, you betcha!
Didja tell Ethel down dare at da market, oh ya!
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Oh gosh dare, dat sounds like a pickle, you betcha!
Didja tell Ethel down dare at da market, oh ya!
You laugh, but our hometown was, in the late seventies and early eighties, cartoonishly rural.
It was a quintessential ice fishing and deer hunting town. And we had a Kringle bakery *and* an Arctic Cat dealership.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
*yawn*
Early morning again...
At least after Sunday/Monday rains (which of course caught me when I was returning from dentist) it's much cooler than the last week.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
That sounds like our wedding.
My dad was even the pastor.
Or whatever the equivalent is for Quakers, maybe it is a pastor. :-)
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Oh gosh dare, dat sounds like a pickle, you betcha!
Didja tell Ethel down dare at da market, oh ya!
You laugh, but our hometown was, in the late seventies and early eighties, cartoonishly rural.
It was a quintessential ice fishing and deer hunting town. And we had a Kringle bakery *and* an Arctic Cat dealership.
We had the only stop light.
In the county.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Can't say "live well"? Not even you add on "and prosper"?Aw geez.
Things got so bad during dinner tonight that Mom went and got the spray bottle she uses on the evil macaw and kept spraying us whenever we tried to play the game.
By the end of dinner, we were all crying from laughing so hard.I am no longer permitted to say the words "live well".
It's a fish tank, on a boat, with continuously circulating water to keep your catch alive and fresh.
EDIT: Not usually big enough to stow a mermaid in. Walleye, yes.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
How many other offspring of rural clerics (of one sort or another) do we have other than Gran Rey, the Captain and (possibly) Tacticslion?
(NB: Not me)
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Mmmm... I probably count.
My Dad is a full-time minister, and we have lived out on a ridge in west virginia.