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Try six years in Crystal River, both geographically and metaphorically the armpit of the state. We would get pro-kkk graffiti spray-painted on the walls of my high school, the guidance counselors and a few of the teachers were pretty free-handed with girls bodies, the place was hell.
What.
The actual.
F+!%?!?!
Yeah, crossing that place off my list of places to visit.
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Keeping my clothes on for this one.
I am not down with the klan, or groping women(unless they are friends and I am REALLY REALLY drunk).
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Next I suppose you'll tell me Freehold doesn't actually want me to visit, Tacticslion has been giving me wrong addresses on purpose, and that's not really Sharoth camping out on our couch. :-(Wait...aren't I supposed to be visiting you? Milkmaids? Hot wives? That kinda thing? Or am i getting you confused with Tacticslion?
Nope, that's the place. :-)
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So, I just found out that there is a board game based off Jim Henson's Labyrinth, as well as a Goblin expansion. I almost want to buy them just for the figures, and if the game is any good consider it a bonus.Now that looks like a board game my kids would love. Too bad that I stink at painting minis. The only person I have actually met who is good at it is Nobody's Wife.
(Yet another reason for me to be jealous of Nobody's Wife. She's married to a man who can COOK, she has flawless style, her cosplay skills are fabulous, she can do perfect eyeliner where mine always makes me look like a sad raccoon, she can paint perfect minis...)
Great. I'm gonna go slink back into my cave and eat worms.
I can cook, and like raccoons, be they happy or sad.
I also like mermaid raccoons.
Just throwing that in there.
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NNNAAAAOOOO!!!Teen Titans Go! is now on Hulu.
Yay!
YYYYYEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!
I find the show hilarious, once it found its footing.
40/40/20 is the best episode I have seen to date. The special did it no justice.
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Nope, that's the place. :-)Next I suppose you'll tell me Freehold doesn't actually want me to visit, Tacticslion has been giving me wrong addresses on purpose, and that's not really Sharoth camping out on our couch. :-(Wait...aren't I supposed to be visiting you? Milkmaids? Hot wives? That kinda thing? Or am i getting you confused with Tacticslion?
Okay, thank god. I was worried for a moment there.
I need to have a hard list of who I am visiting, and for what purpose.
I mean they are all salacious purposes, but still. Organization wouldn't hurt.
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It's move in weekend for the UW. :-)
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Yep, we're in for a ride, kids!
06:15 am: 64° F
08:30 am: 70° F
10:00 am: 80° F
11:30 am: 90° F
While I'm well aware of the non-linear nature of daily heat curves, the linear forecast of a high of 115° F is... impressive.
As it is, the hottest day I can ever remember in Albany was 106° F when I was in elementary school. I seem to recall someone saying it once hit 108°, but I don't think I was in town. (And yes, I just learned to use the ° sign, so I'm having a lot of fun.)
And, in a sign that our school district has at least ONE priority straight, once it hit 90° they sent out a notification that football practice was cancelled for the day. Whew!
EDIT: OK, I found a really cool site that gives me all the "official" records. Looks like 107° is the "official" all-time high. And since the 91° on my thermometer right now exactly matches the stated temperature at weather.com, and the forecast is only for 100°, it must be slowing down... I hope...
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We're up to 67 degrees, that's almost swimming weather.
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Hey, everyone. I've got some very good news! After talking to the office staff of the neurosurgeon in charge of my case, Dr. Senter has cleared me to return to duty provided I continue to wear the eye patch.
Woot! Congratulations!
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Hey, everyone. I've got some very good news! After talking to the office staff of the neurosurgeon in charge of my case, Dr. Senter has cleared me to return to duty provided I continue to wear the eye patch.
Huzzah!
Would it be inappropriate to offer a cool picture of Corum Jhaelen Irsei in tribute?
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Well, we did it! 101° outside my window right now. The "official" weather is still at 97°, but it usually catches up with my window by the time the day is done.
I think this'll be the kids' first 100°+ day in Albany. Something tells me I'm going to get calls for rides home...
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*leaves for Freehold*
That is DEFINITELY "Chaotic Evil"!
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Well, we did it! 101° outside my window right now. The "official" weather is still at 97°, but it usually catches up with my window by the time the day is done.
I think this'll be the kids' first 100°+ day in Albany. Something tells me I'm going to get calls for rides home...
101 here in western San Francisco, too. City's acting like it's the apocalypse. Felt like I was back home in San Jose until I got within a mile of the Pacific Ocean and a breeze came in. It was also hot in Tiburon when I was at the SFSU research center, but not so much on the bay during the ferry ride home. Did have a long ride, though, because we lost two out of four engines.
I just wish I didn't have to wear slacks for my job interview. Really not helping.
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*leaves for Freehold*That is DEFINITELY "Chaotic Evil"!
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssss.
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W00t! Freehold is back on the thread!
W00t! John's got a helpful MD!
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W00t! Freehold is back on the thread!
W00t! John's got a helpful MD!
I left? But this is where the girls are! Mermaids! Lulu! Miniature Lynoras! Racoons!
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Well, you've been uncharacteristically quiet.
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Always nice to see college students driving moving trucks, completely lost.
Our neighborhood is where GPS sends you to make you cry.
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*leaves for Freehold*
This bounty hunter is my kind of scum.
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Homunculus #1 suddenly wants to watch the Lord of the Rings for the first time!!!
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In public: congratulations, John! Woo~!
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Homunculus #1 suddenly wants to watch the Lord of the Rings for the first time!!!
Hah! Hope he likes it! (If you let him. If not, I hope you have a good day! (I don't know his relative age/maturity/etc.))
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*leaves for Freehold*Dear God
Alton Brown is from Marietta? Neat.
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Ah, the little frustrations of life!
There's a woman who's calling me with a different scam every morning. It's kind of amazing; she's using a number randomizer to bypass call blocking, but she's got the same voice and the same cheerful refusal to be interrupted.
So, it turns out my router doesn't have incoming IP logging, so if I wanted to track her down I'd have to install a packet sniffer, wait for her to call, read the packets, and do a reverse IP lookup. And I could get her general location, her specific IP address, and turn that over to the FCC and the police...
...and it would accomplish exactly diddly-squat, because such scams are so ubiquitous that they don't even bother prosecuting any more.SOOOOOOOOOOOOO annoying!
I mean yeah, I can ignore her. But the fact that she has the time to call me every single morning in person means that she's scamming somebody, and the fact that I can't nail her to the wall for it just frustrates me no end.
I shoulda been an IT cop!
Do what I do:
Or just start chatting to her in Spanish, and use the opportunity to brush up, or (should she not speak Spanish) insist, in Spanish, that she need to use it in order to attempt her communications with you. You may feel free to choose a language other than Spanish. Basically, you get free linguistic practice!
A final option is to allow her to speak, put the phone on speaker and mute, and just do your thing while she yammers at you. After all, time she wastes telling you about stuff or encouraging you to do stuff is time she doesn't spending harming those who don't know any better! So many good options for self-improvement!
EDIT:
Next I suppose you'll tell me Freehold doesn't actually want me to visit, Tacticslion has been giving me wrong addresses on purpose, and that's not really Sharoth camping out on our couch. :-(
Wait...aren't I supposed to be visiting you? Milkmaids? Hot wives? That kinda thing? Or am i getting you confused with Tacticslion?
Nope, that's the place. :-)
Okay, thank god. I was worried for a moment there.
I need to have a hard list of who I am visiting, and for what purpose.
I mean they are all salacious purposes, but still. Organization wouldn't hurt.
We don't have any milkmaids.
Well... actually... this is Ocala... never-mind, we definitely have milkmaids. Lots of 'em. Milkmen, too (the kind that milk the cows, not the delivery guys). I just never see 'em out and about. But we have way too many cows not to have people milking them.
Speaking of: does anyone know why we have, like, a metric ton of Brahman cows, all of a sudden? It's like this year they just kind of exploded in population everywhere, instead of the more "normal" (for here) black or brown cows. Anyone know?
Yep, we're in for a ride, kids!
06:15 am: 64° F
08:30 am: 70° F
10:00 am: 80° F
11:30 am: 90° FWhile I'm well aware of the non-linear nature of daily heat curves, the linear forecast of a high of 115° F is... impressive.
As it is, the hottest day I can ever remember in Albany was 106° F when I was in elementary school. I seem to recall someone saying it once hit 108°, but I don't think I was in town. (And yes, I just learned to use the ° sign, so I'm having a lot of fun.)
And, in a sign that our school district has at least ONE priority straight, once it hit 90° they sent out a notification that football practice was cancelled for the day. Whew!
EDIT: OK, I found a really cool site that gives me all the "official" records. Looks like 107° is the "official" all-time high. And since the 91° on my thermometer right now exactly matches the stated temperature at weather.com, and the forecast is only for 100°, it must be slowing down... I hope...
Yeah, today was that day for us.
Oven-oven-bigger oven-even bigger oven-mackerel of cow oven-what the actual oven-DOWNPOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUURRRRRR~!-normal day-slightly less than max oven-oven-cooling oven-normal day.
The sad thing was that I was sunning my TKD gear to help it air out, and it got soaked before I could get it back in... >.<
(I wore a soaking wet "dried" chest-guard today, that had all the moister draining out of a single spot dipped toward the middle front, just below my waist... >.>)
Ok, if you were able to pick up a Mario-style star that makes you invincible for a short time, what song do you want playing as you run around?
My first thought is the Trololo song, but I think we can come up with better.
I wouldn't mind the actual Mario music, but I could enjoy others, too.
Given that it doesn't last very long, it needs to be short, but recognizable (otherwise, what's the point?).
Unless the invincibility has a duration based on song, in which case, I'd shoot for "In The Garden" or something. ("In The Garden" seems pretty chill, so it'd be pretty cool to have as I'm invincible.)
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Well, you've been uncharacteristically quiet.
work has been a bit worky lately...
I'm glad I'm able to access Paizo - when I first signed in, the entire thing went blank and decided to attempt to load for minutes at a time.
Also: the Netflix Deathnote is not a great film, but it's not as horrible as you might expect (as I expected).
It is painfully Americanized, and it's not really good. It's pretty standard middle-of-the-road made-for-tv fair. Not boring enough to hate everything, but not entertaining enough to really recommend. If you are interested, feel free. If you're a fan of Deathnote, you'll hate most everything.
The girl he falls in with is a vapid cheerleader.
The way he gets the book is by finding it in his stuff, not by accidental drop and him finding it.
There are a metric ton of rules (that are not well explained in either origin or nature, but are endlessly discussed). They seem different from the original rules.
There are plot holes and weaknesses (such as suggesting that it always has to have a human carrier - yet none have, to date, used it like Light).
Though L and Light have a final confrontation which sorts itself out in a manner similar (vaguely) to the manga/anime, the specific outcomes are substantially different.
Multiple non-Japanese people.
No real insight into Ryuk's character.
EDIT:
L is very different, and his relationship with Watari is odd, to say the least - I don't think it's the same as the original.
Also, was there a thing in the original about a maximum of two days, or only being able to "save" one name (ever) by burning the page on which it is written?
Go figure.
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The older Teen Titans show was where its at.
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Goodnight, John!
Yep: the older show was better, in my opinion.
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Totes older show was better!
...
Though that is not that hard considering what teen titans go is...
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Yeah I can't watch Go its to shallow I guess is the word.
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Speaking of: does anyone know why we have, like, a metric ton of Brahman cows, all of a sudden? It's like this year they just kind of exploded in population everywhere, instead of the more "normal" (for here) black or brown cows. Anyone know?
Probably to improve the stock or something. I.e genetics.
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Three more shrines until master sword!!!!
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All right.
Good night.
Sleep tight.
I rhymed it!!
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A final option is to allow her to speak, put the phone on speaker and mute, and just do your thing while she yammers at you. After all, time she wastes telling you about stuff or encouraging you to do stuff is time she doesn't spending harming those who don't know any better! So many good options for self-improvement!
So... the religious or Spanish thing won't work because she's highly-trained to NOT stop talking, not let you talk over her, and to NEVER respond to anything you say that's not on-topic. It's pretty impressive, actually. I'd call her a 'bot but she's too good at recognizing my tone of voice for that.
But she called again this afternoon, got to the, "Can I tell you about it?" pause, and I said, "Sure!"
...then I put the phone down and went back to playing Final Fantasy Online.
She yammered on for a good 2-3 minutes before realizing that I was gone.
It was very satisfying.
And as many people have said, the only real way to get back at such people (short of dedicating an inordinate amount of time to IP tracing) is to waste as much of their time as possible.
So I'm going to cheerfully offer to listen to her, every single time. And I'll put the phone down. Every single time.
I look forward to seeing how long she keeps calling after that.
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My nose has decided that 4 am is the best time to drain.
A&@@+@#!
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And I officially give up on going back to sleep, every time I'd turn over my nose would fill up and start draining out.
The final straw was when I turned over and there's the dog, staring at me, tail wagging, as if to say "since you're not using that space correctly, how about getting up so I can take over"
Dogs can say a lot with one or two huffs.
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You don't get actual people in the Midwest anymore, it's all robocall telemarketing. I just hang up, as I've seen entirely too many sitcoms of people recording phone calls for various schemes or plots.