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Well I do like to sleep and eat...nekkid...
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Maybe split the difference and go with Hariyama?
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It's already 37 degrees!
Alas, with how wet and hazy it is, it doesn't feel very warm.
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*SIGH*.
That video TL linked is SO true. "If you let the whiner get away with his whining, he will never stop whining because it works."
Yes, another set of "day before the game" questions arrived.
I'm going to craft myself an out-of-office style template and just use it to respond to all his queries from now on.
"I'm sorry, but your GM has repeatedly informed you that any rules-related questions are out of line for the 48 hours before game time. Since you are clearly too dense for this to sink in, we are providing this helpful note to remind you. You have now been reminded xx times."
Yeah, a counter will ABSOLUTELY be necessary. The question is, what to do when it breaks 100...
EDIT: Did I mention I have 95 rooms to prepare before 1:00 pm tomorrow?
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At least it's warm enough for shorts.
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Sorry Vidmaster. You're too good natured to be a machoke.
I also got my hands on a packet of matcha powder. It may be time to make some of this...
Ooh! Tell me if it's good. I got a bag of matcha powder from a student for Christmas and I have no idea what to do with it.
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I see this too. I stress about being late to the point that I'm frequently 15-30 minutes early. I have an aunt and an uncle that are perpetually late. We used to tell them to be at Grandma's by 4pm just so that they would make it by 5 or 5:30 so we could eat the holiday dinner at a reasonable time.It's just one of those weird phenomenae I don't think I'll ever understand.
I have issues of people arriving 15 min early, then grumble why you are late when you arrived at 11am as per agreed. If you ended up waiting for me, because you were early after you asked to meet me at 11 am, it's not my fault is it?
In the time there was no IM, I'd give people 15 min to show up after appointed time, otherwise I'd just walk off in a huff.
Last night I typed up a long rambling response to this. Then I hit submit. Then my router said it couldn't find secure.paizo.com in DNS. Then I hung my head and went to bed.
I shall now try to recreate it...probably poorly.
No, I don't get upset at others for being late when they're simply on time because of my neurotic early arrival. And it's less of an issue for me if it's just meeting with friends. If it's an event or an appointment, that's when I get bad about it.
Let's pretend there's a concert in Indianapolis tonight at 7pm (1900). So this is what goes through my head: Indianapolis is about a 3.5 hour drive for me. But I have to add in time for parking. And walking from the parking to the seating, which is probably a mile and a half from where I can park. I really would like to be in my seat by 6:45. Just in case. So I probably need to get to the venue by 6:00, 6:15 at the latest to get through the crowds and security. Oh, but we'll want dinner. Somewhere. Need to get to Indy no later than 4:30 to find a nice place for dinner and have enough time to make it between...oh let us not forget Indy is in a different time zone! Another hour earlier. Ok, we need to leave at noon. But Aiymi isn't going to get home in time from work to leave by noon. She's always running later than I would like. I should tell her to be ready to be out the door by 11:30am. That way she'll be ready by noon. Wait, there's going to be construction...maybe 11:30 would be better anyway. Oh, and I have to get this other stuff done before we leave. Crap. It's 9am right now. I should just leave work at this point, even though I put in for a half day. By 11am I'm getting snippy with Aiymi because there's no way we're going to be able to leave "on time". Aiymi is silently plotting my murder while saying "Honey, it's fine. We have plenty of time."
Now understand that I go through this same mental mess just to go to a movie theater that's only 15 minutes away. I'll want to leave the house 45 minutes before showtime because I'm convinced there's 15 people standing in line for popcorn with only one person on duty on a Tuesday night and every one of those people is going to go to the same movie I am and they will take my favorite seats. And Aiymi comes up with yet another plan to get rid of my body in the woods behind our house while smiling at me and saying "Everything is fine. Leaving now means we're just going to be sitting there for half an hour. You should calm down."
I would not be surprised, and I would completely understand if she were poisoning me just a little bit every day.
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I'd probably prefer the result to be light and fluffier - but apparently the recipe states that if you use cake flour and vegetable oil(in their case grapeseed), you get a lighter and fluffier cake.
This one looks interesting too - but getting Azuki beans is a bit of a pain here. At least I don't want to buy the whole box just to find out the recipe doesn't taste good, and I'll need to buy white chocolate to melt in as well.
I speculate you can make matcha pudding too.
I'm more of a cake + desert person, as opposed to actually cooking, though yes, I can cook.
If I need to fix something up fast, it generally involves toasted salmon with butter, Italian herbs and some chilli powder on it.
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I used to be rather like you, Vanykyre, except when I watched movies more, I realized that the first 10-15 min were all advertisements. So late doesn't really matter overly much anyway...
What you need to do is to pre-book your movie tickets in advance(we can buy tickets online here) - so that you know you got your seating covered. But unfortunately it may not work for other things.
If you're worried food is going to be a problem, bring along energy bars, if you don't have time to eat, crunch them instead. Though the better recommendation is to smuggle a sub into the cinema. At our cinemas here, you can buy hot dogs, if you so choose. And since I usually get there before my BF does, if things are really too rushed, I ask him if he wants me to get some takeaway food/drinks for him.
But again I know I am better then most doing the mind over matter thing of convincing myself I'm not hungry, if I need to do so.
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I used to be early or on time for everything.
Then we had kids.
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I used to be rather like you, Vanykyre, except when I watched movies more, I realized that the first 10-15 min were all advertisements. So late doesn't really matter overly much anyway...
What you need to do is to pre-book your movie tickets in advance(we can buy tickets online here) - so that you know you got your seating covered. But unfortunately it may not work for other things.
If you're worried food is going to be a problem, bring along energy bars, if you don't have time to eat, crunch them instead. Though the better recommendation is to smuggle a sub into the cinema. At our cinemas here, you can buy hot dogs, if you so choose. And since I usually get there before my BF does, if things are really too rushed, I ask him if he wants me to get some takeaway food/drinks for him.
But again I know I am better then most doing the mind over matter thing of convincing myself I'm not hungry, if I need to do so.
I like watching the previews. Most theaters here don't have assigned seating even if you buy the tickets in advance. Some do, but the vast majority are general admission. And there is no line of people on a Tuesday night. I'm just convinced there will be a huge crowd because this movie is going to be awesome and Tuesday nights are cheaper ticket prices WHY ISN'T EVERYONE DOING THIS??
So the problem that NH brought up are people like me...except they go through all those mental gymnastics just to be perpetually late no matter when they set off. There isn't a real solution to this, because in our heads, something else will just take the place of whatever piece of the problem someone tries to solve for us.
Okay, yeah. That’s too real.
Edit: this was meant for the captain, but t works for vannyrie, too.
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I'm tired of trying to get a FtF game together, I give up. As a kid, I just didn't know enough kids in rural NY who played; as a student, getting a group together was herding cats; and now everyone I know has a job, a family, and no time, like me. I'm not a great DM anyway -- who am I kidding, I'm probably a solidly mediocre one -- but this feels a lot like giving up on a dream.
Maybe I'll DM a Roll20 game sometime, but with everything I'm taking on right now I'm really liking the thought of a zero-responsibility gaming hobby. So,
1. Playing more worker-placement and deck-building games. I already think in D&D-ese and TCG-ese, I want more gaming genres!
2. A MMO. I have WoW already but haven't played in 10+ years. I'm told that FFXIV is super-amazing.
3. I can work on my vaguely-D&D-like fantasy heartbreaker. I really am a game tinker at heart!
Choices, choices, choices...
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...No, I don't get upset at others for being late when they're simply on time because of my neurotic early arrival. And it's less of an issue for me if it's just meeting with friends. If it's an event or an appointment, that's when I get bad about it...
I think that's a big difference between the "eternally (over)punctual" and the "perpetually tardy": The punctual types add padding because 'stuff happens'.
Shiro's ex-girlfriend was always amazingly late for everything, because travel time did not exist. "Oh, I need to be at the Claremont in Oakland at 1:00 pm? It'll take me 5 minutes to walk from the car to the desk, so I'll leave at 12:55 pm." In spite of the fact that it was at least a 45-minute drive.
We're going to see Black Panther at the Cerrito tonight (we hope). They don't start the "official" line until an hour before showtime, so we should be there at 6:00 pm for a 7:00 pm show. Since a few people straggle in before that, Hi and I (and maybe an imp or two) plan on arriving at 5:45 pm. So I asked Hi to arrive at 5:30 pm so we can drive there immediately. It's only a 7-minute trip total, but the extra 8 minutes (more than doubling the trip time) is for "stuff".
Longer trips are much harder. I've been more than an hour early to a job interview before. I just settled down on a bench in a nearby park and enjoyed the day, then went in about 10 minutes early, getting brownie points for being punctual. Being late to a job interview is... not wise.
So it's just, "OK, how long would it typically take? Now add some padding for the crap that inevitably happens. Now add padding because the people you're traveling with won't be ready. OK, let's go!"
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And yeah, we have TWO theaters in the entire area that do pre-booked seats: One in San Francisco, and the other in Santa Clara. So each one is an hour or more of driving. But if a movie's not at the Cerrito, guess where we go?
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We have an abundance of movie theaters, just as every other snow trapped Midwestern city.
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I want a really nice rolling pin.
The place to go for that in Madison is West Towne Mall.
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And yeah, we have TWO theaters in the entire area that do pre-booked seats: One in San Francisco, and the other in Santa Clara. So each one is an hour or more of driving. But if a movie's not at the Cerrito, guess where we go?
The Sundance Kabuki in Japantown is *really* nice.
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On the other hand, it doesn't hurt to shop around.
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On the one hand, dressing in layers is great protection against the cold.
On the other hand, all the shop owners in the mall give you weird looks because who knows what you might be able to stuff in there.
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And yeah, we have TWO theaters in the entire area that do pre-booked seats: One in San Francisco, and the other in Santa Clara. So each one is an hour or more of driving. But if a movie's not at the Cerrito, guess where we go?
The Sundance Kabuki in Japantown is *really* nice.
I've only been there once, for a Neil Gaiman reading, but I liked it.
For pre-booked seats we have to go to the Marcus in Bloomington, which is 35 miles away. No theaters in the Peoria metro area (300k population) do pre-booked seats. Granted, those have the oversized padded power reclining seats that are really comfy...and they do $5 tickets on Tuesdays, so it's kinda worth the drive.
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*SIGH*
This says a lot about both me and my social life.
- Shiro doesn't want to come up because he needs to prep for our Sunday game
- Since Shiro can't come, we're canceling the whole thing
- Once again, I'd already purchased tickets because NobodysWife was worried that they would sell out really early
- Since I pulled this EXACT stunt just earlier this month, I don't want to go in and refund the tickets AGAIN. I know they'd do it, but I don't want to be 'that guy' who buys first weekend tickets to big openings and then cancels every week
- So yeah, I'm giving away 4 tickets because I don't want to return them because I consider it morally grey
Such is my nature.
On the bright side, I get to make 4 random strangers very happy.
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Well, thanks NH! Black Panther is good, but I don't know that it's fly to San Fran/Oakland good...on really short notice...I think I'll let you hand them off to someone else. :D
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I just bought myself Bombshell The Deluxe Edition and... It's unplayable. It seems to be a two or three second lag once the first enemy appears, despite switching the settings to very low...
Ah, well, it costed $3.62, and I got OST with it.
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The soundtrack costs $9.99 on iTunes...
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OK. I am just fundamentally Evil sometimes.
As the technical lead for my department, I get told a lot of stuff.
And yes, I basically sit there cleaning the house, folding laundry, doing dishes, occasionally saying, "Yeah. Is that assigned to me? No? OK," and tuning out again. So yesterday in meeting I got asked about something and I said, "Never heard of it." My manager said, "But you tiraded about key values being hard-coded?" "Oh, yeah. THAT piece of garbage! Has it broken yet? Does someone need help?"
I'm sure I sound like a drunken, grizzled old uncle with a shotgun. Because there's just SO much crap they feel the need to tell me, whether or not it's ever an action for me.
Then they say, "Oh, NobodysHome, can you research this new feature on this technical topic and get us some information on it within the next week or two?"
The next day they get a full presentation and lab that's ready for publication.
I'm scaring my lead. A lot.
It's fun.
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In a hotel in Surrey (South East England), as the Grate Big Sidesword Convention is tomorrow and Sunday. The difference in the cost of living between here and where I live, in the North, is very striking indeed, except so far as 2nd hand fantasy novels are concerned - they'll happily sell you five for £2.50 and give you a lovely little jute bag for free as well.
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In a hotel in Surrey (South East England), as the Grate Big Sidesword Convention is tomorrow and Sunday. The difference in the cost of living between here and where I live, in the North, is very striking indeed, except so far as 2nd hand fantasy novels are concerned - they'll happily sell you five for £2.50 and give you a lovely little jute bag for free as well.
Wow, that's cheap. Here you'd be lucky to get one for the price.
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Is there such a thing as "Lazy Evil"?
Definitely Chaotic Good. He never has any concept of what he's doing, but as long as it makes people feel better, it's fine.
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At Vinnies on Willy Street you can get paperbacks for 50 cents each.
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Nah, because his secret purpose is really to make the rest of us ashamed that we're not better people, and to try to do just a bit more to make ourselves worthy.
That's not sarcastic, btw. Straight up.
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Honest-to-goodness discussion I just had with my manager:
NobodysHome: Well, good news and bad news: I'm researching that tool that we've never included in our courses because I think it's what the other department was using. But it breaks in the demo environment. So leaving it out of the course was a good call.
Manager: That sounds vaguely familiar.
NH: Y'know, if, "It breaks in the demo environment" didn't sound familiar to you, I'd be worried about brain damage.
Manager: ...
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Is there such a thing as "Lazy Evil"?
Yeah, for villains fighting Lawful Stupid or Wiseass Good heroes.
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In a hotel in Surrey (South East England), as the Grate Big Sidesword Convention is tomorrow and Sunday. The difference in the cost of living between here and where I live, in the North, is very striking indeed, except so far as 2nd hand fantasy novels are concerned - they'll happily sell you five for £2.50 and give you a lovely little jute bag for free as well.Wow, that's cheap. Here you'd be lucky to get one for the price.
It certainly is - normally I'd expect to pay between £1.50 to £3 minimum.
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My husband is having a truly craptastic day today. It started this morning when he had to fire a guy who took it badly and started screaming insults at him. (Like he doesn’t get enough of that from his boss. Sheesh.) And then his boss called him to tell him that they’ve hired his replacement. Not exactly a shock. It’s amazing to last a year working for this guy. He drove the last guy to drink. Like, serious drink. And my husband suspected something was up when the screaming phone calls stopped. Still an emotional blow. (Even if for the best in the long run) Anyway, then he left to drive to Chicago for the joint funeral service for his uncle and his grandma. (His uncle died last month. His grandma died almost two weeks ago. Nobody told him until Sunday. He also found out that the reason letters to his grandma had been getting returned was because they had her moved to a different facility without telling him. The second time they did that too. I mean, her dementia meant that she wouldn’t have known who he was anyways, but still.) So right about now he should be meeting with his extended family for dinner and a few hours of insensitive remarks about how he looks so much like his mom, etc. (To quote Miracle Max: why don’t you just give me a nice papercut and pour lemon juice on it while you’re at it) So, yeah, it’s beyond a bad day at this point. :(
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Should I pretend that I am doing something productive this late evening or should I simply go to bed after whole week of going to sleep late and getting up early (*according to my standards)?
I think I'll wash my head and go to bed.
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..unhappiness...
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Hugs, lynora! I’m so sorry! Bro hugs for your husband! Let him know he can PM me - yeah, I’m a random stranger and terrible at response time, but I’m here to listen!
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I'm so sorry, Lynora.
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My husband is having a truly craptastic day today. It started this morning when he had to fire a guy who took it badly and started screaming insults at him. (Like he doesn’t get enough of that from his boss. Sheesh.) And then his boss called him to tell him that they’ve hired his replacement. Not exactly a shock. It’s amazing to last a year working for this guy. He drove the last guy to drink. Like, serious drink. And my husband suspected something was up when the screaming phone calls stopped. Still an emotional blow. (Even if for the best in the long run) Anyway, then he left to drive to Chicago for the joint funeral service for his uncle and his grandma. (His uncle died last month. His grandma died almost two weeks ago. Nobody told him until Sunday. He also found out that the reason letters to his grandma had been getting returned was because they had her moved to a different facility without telling him. The second time they did that too. I mean, her dementia meant that she wouldn’t have known who he was anyways, but still.) So right about now he should be meeting with his extended family for dinner and a few hours of insensitive remarks about how he looks so much like his mom, etc. (To quote Miracle Max: why don’t you just give me a nice papercut and pour lemon juice on it while you’re at it) So, yeah, it’s beyond a bad day at this point. :(
Really sorry to hear that Lynora. As for his boss - he doesn't deserve someone like your husband working for him. So for your husband, it's an opportunity to get a better job, and a place where he's appreciated.
And his extended family sound like jerks of the first order too.
*Huggles Lynora*
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I'm sorry he is going through this, Lynora.
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Oh, LM, if you're still online, did you find baby-sitters?
(Yeah, Shiro asks, "Don't you have a PHONE?", but FaWtL is MUCH better for personal conversations.)
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Of course it's almost two hours later and I just finished a few more turns of Endless Space 2...
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My husband is having a truly craptastic day today. It started this morning when he had to fire a guy who took it badly and started screaming insults at him. (Like he doesn’t get enough of that from his boss. Sheesh.) And then his boss called him to tell him that they’ve hired his replacement. Not exactly a shock. It’s amazing to last a year working for this guy. He drove the last guy to drink. Like, serious drink. And my husband suspected something was up when the screaming phone calls stopped. Still an emotional blow. (Even if for the best in the long run) Anyway, then he left to drive to Chicago for the joint funeral service for his uncle and his grandma. (His uncle died last month. His grandma died almost two weeks ago. Nobody told him until Sunday. He also found out that the reason letters to his grandma had been getting returned was because they had her moved to a different facility without telling him. The second time they did that too. I mean, her dementia meant that she wouldn’t have known who he was anyways, but still.) So right about now he should be meeting with his extended family for dinner and a few hours of insensitive remarks about how he looks so much like his mom, etc. (To quote Miracle Max: why don’t you just give me a nice papercut and pour lemon juice on it while you’re at it) So, yeah, it’s beyond a bad day at this point. :(
*Offers turtle-hug for husband*
*Prepares tray with tea, butter-cookies and mint chocolate chips ice-cream for Lyn and husband, when he gets back*
*Mulls a bit*
*Adds a feel-good movie of choice to the tray and a redeemable coupon for 5 additional turtle-hugs*
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Oh I just got a pay rise, I'm going running with my BF despite it looking rather gloomy(but there doesn't seem to be too much cloud cover in the direction of his house), so life's good.
If it happens to be raining we'll probably sit around playing Slay the spire. He wanted to gift me the game but apparently steam only allows you to unlock the friends function(and allow people to gift you stuff) after you've spent 5 USD on their products.
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Vanykyre - my BF works in IT support like NH. I accept that sometimes when he's about to get off work, he gets a last minute call and can be late. That is fine, tell me, we can work around it. I also know that usually I'm the earlier of the two to show up at the theater, so whatever I can do to help him be ready for the movie faster, I will do. Like get drinks, finger food, etc.
On the other hand, he knows I am a grumpy cat if I am not fed so if I'm early and he won't have the time for a proper dinner, he tells me to get my own dinner first. Then I'll get finger food for him.
So even if he's late, 10-15 min? We didn't catch the whole movie, but works work, he did what he had to do. If our positions were reversed, I would have done the same. Though realistically if I have to stay back late(it rarely happens), it means it's an emergency and I'm dealing with people not of my timezone and the movie will have to be canceled as my work stuff is not something that can be fixed fast. The good news is usually by lunch time I will know if something is brewing in the backdrop and about to explode.
Is it worth it getting frustrated over the 10-15 min you didn't catch as opposed to the 1h 45 min you did catch? My opinion is no, so I'm actually quite chill about it.
Also another incident - he didn't tell me he had to work late at night and we were running the next day. So as per earlier arranged, I popped up at his house and kicked him out of bed(literally) at 9am. His dad gave me a sorrowful look like, he was working late last night. So after I woke my BF up, I was like, eh-why didn't you tell me you were working late last night? We could call the morning run thing off. He said the morning run was fine.
Second situation - I felt it was his choice by not informing me about the changed circumstances.
But anyway being on the dot.. Well if you have to wake someone who's still sleeping up... You do feel a little bad.