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Apparently I'm not allowed to complain about being tired at work if I stay up drinking until 2AM before a morning shift.
Madness, I say.
Hmm. Rum certainly has a way of making my clothes disappear.
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Apparently I'm not allowed to complain about being tired at work if I stay up drinking until 2AM before a morning shift.
Madness, I say.
I think it wasn't the complaining they were commenting on...
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And wow... 19 pounds of ribs just doesn't seem as big after they've been roasting for 2 1/2 hours...
EDIT: I'm a firm believer in "slow roast and baste often" for pretty much everything except beef and seafood. So the ribs go for 3 1/2 hours at 300°, getting basted every 15 minutes. Chicken goes for 1 1/2 hours at 350°, basting every 8 minutes.
Unless a certain person's landlord comes in and harasses me about what a terrible cook I am every 5 minutes, in which case everything goes out the window. (And I only say that because I know that lisamarlene knows he really annoyed me...)
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I think it wasn't the complaining they were commenting on...Apparently I'm not allowed to complain about being tired at work if I stay up drinking until 2AM before a morning shift.
Madness, I say.
Eh, just good natured ribbing. If I seriously couldn't function on 5 hours sleep and a hangover, or actually meant it when I whinged about it, I wouldn't have survived retail as long as I have.
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How bad were those things?
They sounded strange, but I never tried one...... bad.
I delight in Lucky Charms cereal, enjoy Fruit Loops cereal, and love vanilla milkshakes.
Blending vanilla milkshakes with either of those two things is just... awful.
You know how those cereals can be unpleasantly overwhelming when either they're too sugary, or they're stale? Or that overwhelming effect when milkshakes get a little "off" either with milk or other stuff?
Both of those milkshakes have all of the above problems at the same time. It's so overbearingly heavy and painfully sweet and disturbingly stale and blech.
There are mildly pleasant flavors associated - it's not the worst experience of my life, by any means; and, fortunately, it's not saccharine. But it's a hard experience to get through. It's just so much harshness for so little enjoyment. Like, two sips, and I was done. And then left with this huge cup. Even my kids didn't enjoy too much of it. Even now, just thinking about getting one is... not pleasant.
Some may well like it. It's just... not great.
...which is why Shiro needs one.
It's what he gets for saying, "Hey, let's go see Troy!"
I liked troy.
It made about as much historical sense as 300. which is to say you got to watch cute boys swing swords and "swords" around.
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I envy you. I can't drink as much as I used to when I was younger.Apparently I'm not allowed to complain about being tired at work if I stay up drinking until 2AM before a morning shift.
Madness, I say.
Well, I'm 26, so I'll probably have to slow down sooner moreso than later.
At least I finally established the potency of that 109 proof navy rum I brought back from England. It's potent, all right.
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Eh, just good natured ribbing. If I seriously couldn't function on 5 hours sleep and a hangover, or actually meant it when I whinged about it, I wouldn't have survived retail as long as I have.I think it wasn't the complaining they were commenting on...Apparently I'm not allowed to complain about being tired at work if I stay up drinking until 2AM before a morning shift.
Madness, I say.
You misunderstand. You were at the top of the page...
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You misunderstand. You were at the top of the page...Eh, just good natured ribbing. If I seriously couldn't function on 5 hours sleep and a hangover, or actually meant it when I whinged about it, I wouldn't have survived retail as long as I have.I think it wasn't the complaining they were commenting on...Apparently I'm not allowed to complain about being tired at work if I stay up drinking until 2AM before a morning shift.
Madness, I say.
If tequila makes my clothes fall off, overproof rum has to be just as good.
Anything more than 32 ounces of beer, or its equivalent, and I run the risk of severe migraine-like hangovers. And that includes the nausea.
I can drink beer and spirits all night long and wake up functional, but sparkling wines tear me inside out. 2 glasses of champagne and I'm done the next morning. Red wine isn't quite as bad, but I must approach it with caution. Which is unfortunate, because I'm rather fond of red wine.
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And here I am, apologizing to my manager for taking another team to task for writing incomprehensible gibberish, instead of just "lifting anything useful".
And yet I continue to do it.
Because no one taking bad work to task is what gets bad work put in front of customers.
And I'm not talking nitpicky, "You need to make sure the wine labels are all facing the right direction."
I'm talking (verbatim):
That's a real instruction in the document they're trying to release.
If I'm not allowed to add a "WTF?" comment at the end of THAT, where CAN I add a WTF comment?
EDIT: Oooh! Another complete sentence they provide us!
I feel like I'm reading a doc from an "English as a third language" writer....
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How bad were those things?
They sounded strange, but I never tried one...... bad.
I delight in Lucky Charms cereal, enjoy Fruit Loops cereal, and love vanilla milkshakes.
Blending vanilla milkshakes with either of those two things is just... awful.
You know how those cereals can be unpleasantly overwhelming when either they're too sugary, or they're stale? Or that overwhelming effect when milkshakes get a little "off" either with milk or other stuff?
Both of those milkshakes have all of the above problems at the same time. It's so overbearingly heavy and painfully sweet and disturbingly stale and blech.
There are mildly pleasant flavors associated - it's not the worst experience of my life, by any means; and, fortunately, it's not saccharine. But it's a hard experience to get through. It's just so much harshness for so little enjoyment. Like, two sips, and I was done. And then left with this huge cup. Even my kids didn't enjoy too much of it. Even now, just thinking about getting one is... not pleasant.
Some may well like it. It's just... not great.
...which is why Shiro needs one.
It's what he gets for saying, "Hey, let's go see Troy!"I liked troy.
It made about as much historical sense as 300. which is to say you got to watch cute boys swing swords and "swords" around.
And leap up in the air, displaying taut, toned thighs in little leather skirts, and miraculously not getting stabbed somewhere very inconvenient.
On another note, when are they going to make 'Nicki Minaj: Warrior Princess', eh?
Dang it, forums! Why you gone all day?!
(So much for the PbP update I was making. One "preview post" + look away/copy/paste a link later, and I'm out an update and out of time.)
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How bad were those things?
They sounded strange, but I never tried one...... bad.
I delight in Lucky Charms cereal, enjoy Fruit Loops cereal, and love vanilla milkshakes.
Blending vanilla milkshakes with either of those two things is just... awful.
You know how those cereals can be unpleasantly overwhelming when either they're too sugary, or they're stale? Or that overwhelming effect when milkshakes get a little "off" either with milk or other stuff?
Both of those milkshakes have all of the above problems at the same time. It's so overbearingly heavy and painfully sweet and disturbingly stale and blech.
There are mildly pleasant flavors associated - it's not the worst experience of my life, by any means; and, fortunately, it's not saccharine. But it's a hard experience to get through. It's just so much harshness for so little enjoyment. Like, two sips, and I was done. And then left with this huge cup. Even my kids didn't enjoy too much of it. Even now, just thinking about getting one is... not pleasant.
Some may well like it. It's just... not great.
...which is why Shiro needs one.
It's what he gets for saying, "Hey, let's go see Troy!"I liked troy.
It made about as much historical sense as 300. which is to say you got to watch cute boys swing swords and "swords" around.
And leap up in the air, displaying taut, toned thighs in little leather skirts, and miraculously not getting stabbed somewhere very inconvenient.
On another note, when are they going to make 'Nicki Minaj: Warrior Princess', eh?
hitting someone in the air with a sword is surprisingly difficult. A longstick or spear serves soooooooo much better.
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So, I'm posting a lot because I'm sitting here cleaning up 130 e-mails' worth of "action items", and I'm taking the actions, and they're either boring or annoying.
But I learned that my company now offers pet insurance for "just" $49.90 a month, with a $250 annual deductible.
So, let's see, assuming the annual physical eats up the deductible, that's $850/year for the 16-year lifespan of my cat, or around $13,600. Subtract the deductible since I'd be spending it anyway and we're at $9600.
I've had two cats with cancer. One of whom (the calico) had a tumor removed from one leg, then her thyroid removed, then radiation treatment.
Yet no cat I have ever owned has cost me $9600.
I'm still amazed that pet insurance is SOOOOO much more than just taking care of your pets. (Of course, health insurance is the same -- I'm sure that even with NobodysWife's $94,000 gall bladder, lifetime we've spent hundreds of thousands more than we've used. But one major treatment can run into the millions, so at least I don't feel TOO terrible about that one...)
I can't even buy Starfinder through my B&N even if I wanted to.
Anything more than 32 ounces of beer, or its equivalent, and I run the risk of severe migraine-like hangovers. And that includes the nausea.
Ounces of beer O.o
America is weird. Why not measure it in like a classic measure of liquid?
I'm so confused now.
I'm going to have to google ounces to pounds and pounds to kilograms to work out how many liters of beer 32 ounces is just so that I can be nosy.
Jeez minding my own business never seemed like less work.
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About 33.8 fluid ounces is equivalent to a liter. Or so I'm convinced based upon evaluations of the synthetic oil bottles I was cleaning and labeling today.
EDIT: Ack!! The Napier-ninja!!
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*A pile of cover sneaks in the thread. A head pokes out to snif the air and empty Rum bottles in the thread.*
*Produces his own bottle of Rum, from beneath his covers*
Cheers! *takes a hearty swig*
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Ack!! The Napier-ninja!!Swift and silent as a shadow, am I.
Wait, that's how you're supposed to do it.
I have brought great shame on my whoopee cushion.
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Hey, Kjel! Glad to see you!*A pile of cover sneaks in the thread. A head pokes out to snif the air and empty Rum bottles in the thread.*
*Produces his own bottle of Rum, from beneath his covers*Cheers! *takes a hearty swig*
*Perks up an ear*
Hey, john.
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*Turtle looks after the flattened rolling coyote, then first to his right, then to his left. Pulls down his costume zipper to reveal the Road Runner!!*
"Meep Meep!"
*Races off in a puff of dust*
For the dead-weight players, there are lots of possible options. Are you establishing anything in particular to help?
I want to mention: this is not to suggest you're bad and should feel bad.
Mostly, I'm trying to figure out what your group dynamic is, and what (if anything) you are currently doing or thinking about doing for your group. I don't want to give you advice that won't work for you, nor do I wish to be redundant with anything else that you're going to be doing.
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Everything I know about Lovecraft I learned from Pathfinder.
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Everything I know about Lovecraft is a letdown, because gamer culture and the internet hyped him way too much.
Except that one about the painter, that one got me.
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Impus Major, in a deadpan voice: Dad, you know you could tell me when you plan on filling the bathtub with meat.
I just loved that he treated it like such a common, everyday occurrence. I'm proud.
...so he could set loose a Roomba armed with robot arms and daggers and film the results?
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236 this time.
You have to keep in mind how long ago lovecraft was written and yet some of his stories still have a creepy scary air to them. Some of the tricks he wrote are over used so much that its probably lost a lot of its effects on you.
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I've read bits and pieces of Lovecraft but I know fragments from all over places like pathfinder.
I didn't enjoy it that much honestly, kinda found myself frustrated by Cthulhu fanboys before I even came to read it.
I preferred The great god pan. It's a short story/novella about pan but it achieves a lot of them same feel I think lovecraft goes for and is a lot less played out.
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I went into the climate change conspiracy thread. I've been avoiding it for fear of what I might see and what it might do to my opinions of some people.
Eventually curiosity got the better of me.
I am now full of regret.
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My extended family are all environmental and political activists so wading into threads about politics and climate change is like visiting family for holidays, I try not to do it unless I want to be reminded why I'm thankful holidays only happen once a year.
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I liked Troy. Eregon on the other hand... *shudders* Good book, bad movie.Troy was a fine movie if you've never read the Iliad.
Honestly, I think it bore about as much resemblance to the text that Braveheart did to, oh, history.
Yes, I have taken an Odyssey through the Iliad. But it was still a good action flick "based" of the Iliad.
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What I learned about our dog this morning.
If you make kissy faces and sounds towards him he'll hide his face so you can't kiss him.
Interesting...
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Yes, I have taken an Odyssey through the Iliad. But it was still a good action flick "based" of the Iliad.I liked Troy. Eregon on the other hand... *shudders* Good book, bad movie.Troy was a fine movie if you've never read the Iliad.
Honestly, I think it bore about as much resemblance to the text that Braveheart did to, oh, history.
I tried to watch A Space Odyssey, once.
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I've read the Odyssey but not the Iliad :/
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I've read the Odyssey but not the Iliad :/
I went to a university where they thought "Greek Life" meant plunging first-years head-first into Greek verse, Greek drama, and Greek philosophy, regardless of major, and making us read every damned page.
There was rather a lot of stabbing.
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And wow... 19 pounds of ribs just doesn't seem as big after they've been roasting for 2 1/2 hours...
EDIT: I'm a firm believer in "slow roast and baste often" for pretty much everything except beef and seafood. So the ribs go for 3 1/2 hours at 300°, getting basted every 15 minutes. Chicken goes for 1 1/2 hours at 350°, basting every 8 minutes.
Unless a certain person's landlord comes in and harasses me about what a terrible cook I am every 5 minutes, in which case everything goes out the window. (And I only say that because I know that lisamarlene knows he really annoyed me...)
He did that to my mom, too. Which is a shame, because he's got a bit of a crush on her, and she thinks he's an ass.
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And, I forgot to mention that I've read the HP Lovecraft Anthology. Sorry, Cap.
I feel the same way about Lovecraft that I do about Abba.
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I've read the Odyssey but not the Iliad :/I went to a university where they thought "Greek Life" meant plunging first-years head-first into Greek verse, Greek drama, and Greek philosophy, regardless of major, and making us read every damned page.
There was rather a lot of stabbing.
Reminds me of my favorite round of Cards Against Humanity. It was a double-point round.
"We never did find ______ on our journey, but we learned a whole lot about ________."
I won it with "my soul" and "multiple stab wounds", respectively.
}:>
yay!!