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Urgh.
It might not be proper decorum, but I hope my fellow FaWtL's will grant me a small pseudo-soliloquy.So my grandfather (mothers side) just passed away (more precisely about three hours ago).
As the oldest (thus far) male member of my family he lived to the fine age of 90 years old.
He had slowly, but surely been racking up various health problems for quite some time, so in a sense, his death wasn't unexpected.He was a man of his time. Born in the 20's he'd lost touch with the speed with which society sped along, and struggled to make sense of rapid development of the world around him. As a staunch conservative, we often didn't se eye to eye politically, but as a jokester and a bit of a comedian he was always fun to be around, and that mischievousness is truly something I'll miss.
While "old" in outlook and right-wind in opinion (and voting) he was never truly unreasonable. Them foreigners got accused of a lot of things, and he was leery when an Iraqi family moved in next door. Though as with so many other things he blatantly claimed to dislike, the old coot still helped them get their first vegetable garden growing, and he would invite their children and grandchildren over for a cold drink and some fruit from the garden in summertime.
In short, his "Good" might not have been your "Good", but he did his best to make his time here a boon to those around him.You'll be missed Carl. I know that much cause I already do.
Rest in peace, good sir. It seems you already have those who will carry your memory forward.
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How does this overlap into any of what you experienced earlier?I found out at work today why the students have been complaining so much over the past year.
A little over a year ago, we started enforcing rules and guidelines for the kits they turn in. The students are unhappy there is more required of them and we're not accomplishing more. The amount required of them is only growing in response to their complaints, since some of it can only be fixed on their end.
It's a college environment. What makes you think logic or reason have any power over how anything is done?
Just today, I had to lecture a doctor forty years my senior on basic infection control protocol. This man has been cleaning teeth since before the age of computers and still doesn't understand the benefit of wearing gloves.
I had to lecture him in front of students he's in charge of teaching. And that's still far from the worst OSHA violation to happen today.
If OSHA ever investigates, the prison sentences will look like a chapter of Genesis. "And Paul was sentenced to 900 years. And Amanda was sentenced to 900 years. And Raul was sentenced to 900 years. And..."
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Whee, leveling up some NPCs.
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I'm a bad, bad person.
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Heheheheheheheheheheheh.... hahahahahahahahah... WAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH... AAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH!!
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I'm 9 day's late - https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/52652/paizo-announces-pathfinder-2e-mike -mearls-joining
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Did he get fired from Hasbro over the recent DnD controversy?
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Urgh.
It might not be proper decorum, but I hope my fellow FaWtL's will grant me a small pseudo-soliloquy.So my grandfather (mothers side) just passed away (more precisely about three hours ago).
As the oldest (thus far) male member of my family he lived to the fine age of 90 years old.
He had slowly, but surely been racking up various health problems for quite some time, so in a sense, his death wasn't unexpected.He was a man of his time. Born in the 20's he'd lost touch with the speed with which society sped along, and struggled to make sense of rapid development of the world around him. As a staunch conservative, we often didn't se eye to eye politically, but as a jokester and a bit of a comedian he was always fun to be around, and that mischievousness is truly something I'll miss.
While "old" in outlook and right-wind in opinion (and voting) he was never truly unreasonable. Them foreigners got accused of a lot of things, and he was leery when an Iraqi family moved in next door. Though as with so many other things he blatantly claimed to dislike, the old coot still helped them get their first vegetable garden growing, and he would invite their children and grandchildren over for a cold drink and some fruit from the garden in summertime.
In short, his "Good" might not have been your "Good", but he did his best to make his time here a boon to those around him.You'll be missed Carl. I know that much cause I already do.
May he find everlasting peace in the afterlife.
Or everlasting glory, if that is his preference.
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Whee, leveling up some NPCs.
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I'm a bad, bad person.
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Yes, you should. Have him leave behind a card taunting them. Make it utterly childish taunting.
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Oh I can certainly do THAT. Pick a card, any card!
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Did he get fired from Hasbro over the recent DnD controversy?I'm 9 day's late - https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/52652/paizo-announces-pathfinder-2e-mike -mearls-joining
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Look at the post date. It seems to be an April Fools joke two years ago - long before actual Pathfinder 2E was announced.
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Look at the post date. It seems to be an April Fools joke two years ago long before actual Pathfinder 2E was announced.Did he get fired from Hasbro over the recent DnD controversy?I'm 9 day's late - https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/52652/paizo-announces-pathfinder-2e-mike -mearls-joining
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Wasn't the latest DnD controversy some minor thing over an Unearthed Arcana article? I thought there was one in February.
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What controversy now?
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^ What he said ^
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And I actually believed it. I'm such a gullible cat =(
Don't feel bad about that; I actually asked David Tennant about an article I'd read last week about a Doctor Who/Broadchurch crossover episode, and it turns out that it was just an April Fools hoax, and he hadn't even heard about it.
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I'm sorry for your loss, Kjel.
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What controversy now?
I think some people were getting snippy about a subclass or something. I stopped paying attention when the complaints didn't even attempt to make sense.
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Sorry to hear about your Granddad, Kjeldorn.
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What controversy now?I think some people were getting snippy about a subclass or something. I stopped paying attention when the complaints didn't even attempt to make sense.
I'm gonna need more then that.
Details man, I need details!
(I hate Hasbro and love gossip about those I hate, so any kind of scuttlebutt about them is alright with me).
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Hey Drejk, think you could turn this guy into a monster?
More?
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(1) A missing kid
(2) My phone mysteriously stopped being able to send to the group chat, so as I kept typing, "I'm in California Adventure at the missing persons office. Please send me a description and/or a photo," I was completely ignored. It was... stressful.
So, it turns out the kid is a borderline-functional autistic and his parents hadn't seen fit to, oh, mention this to the chaperones. So once he got into the park, all the other kids ditched him, he had no idea what he was supposed to do, so he curled up with a book in the shade and just sat there. For 4 hours. His chaperone finally found him and started taking him on rides and he loved them, but
(a) He'd already lost 4 hours, and
(b) After we'd already contacted his parents once about him being missing, we weren't about to let him be alone again.
So for the 5:00 - 7:00 pm chaperone dinner we handed him off to a group of seniors and I gave them a couple of my antique gift cards to help them buy dinner (I bought the cards maybe 5 years ago for Impus Major and Impus Minor and they'd never used them, so I ended up paying for the seniors' entire dinner, but meh, I wasn't using the cards anyway).
At 7:00 pm the other male chaperone and I were scheduled to go back to the hotel, and we had to take the kid with us. He was very unhappy about it, but:
(a) He'd violated the check-in policy, and the result is a clear, "You have to return to the hotel with your chaperone for the day," and
(b) His other choice was to be with another chaperone for the evening, and none of them volunteered. (I was a bit peeved about that one.)
So, mostly-uneventful, and one unhappy kid out of 130 isn't a bad track record. At the end of the night I saw the buses off and went to bed.
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Yeah, that's the sort of thing that really needs to be communicated very clearly. I speak from the experience of The Adult Child, who has sensory processing disorder (SPD, and it is a form of autism) as well as a couple other mental illnesses. She's doing a lot better now, but when she was in high school, that sort of experience would have sent her into a full-blown panic attack.
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And Kjel - Sorry about your granddad.
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And we go through another round of "why do we have to do so much history research stuff for English class, blaaaah" to which the answer is, of course, "so I don't have to keep stopping our reading in class to explain what a bootlegger is (and also mini-research projects like this get you more experienced with those pesky research/speaking and listening standards)."
They've been pretty good so far.
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Highlights from Current Events.
"Trying to decide which of these two articles to discuss tomorrow. One's got a lot of pictures and graphs, and the other's about drugs."
"Let's do drugs." "...I know what I said, Miss."
"See you guys tomorrow! Don't start any rallies!"
"Awwwwww!"
"Can we continue a rally we started earlier?"
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Thank you everyone.
I don't really know what to say...
I'm not good at expressing my feelings, so I can come across as curt, sparse, silent or just weird.
In general I don't do (whom very familiar and comfortable with) people well. I'm socially awkward and being a diagnosed high functioning autist, bending my mind into other peoples places have been a skill developed (and still developing) through in numeral social Faux pas and hard experience (some of which I shouldn't really have gotten away with).
I just wanted to say I'm grateful, even if I'm not good at expressing it, for your thoughts and condolences.
*Attempts to hug every FaWtL'er in one giant group hug*
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And boy, my mother.
State Farm sent duplicate copies of the insurance renewal to me and the property manager. The property manager e-mailed my mother to ask her what it was about.
She panicked, sent questions and confusion everywhere, so I said, "Well, if you're going to do that kind of s***, then now YOU can be in charge."
And she panicked again, and now she's not talking to me.
It's like, "What part of leaving property management to the property managers is SO hard for you?"
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Don't do drugs, kids.*Drinks tea and starts eating donuts in front of John* ;)
You do know caffeine and sugar are drugs, right? =)
My most-hated ones are "all natural" and "ingredients I can't pronounce".
#1 is, "I love belladonna, nightshade, arsenic, cyanide, and asbestos." (and many more)
#2 is, "I'm on the stupid diet."
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*huga kjeldorn*
Autism is a challenge even at the best of times..my best friend is probably autistic, and i know others who definitely are. For the most part, I let their beautiful minds function as they normally do, and am aware that social failings on their part are likely not personal, although I do speak up when things are going wrong for me or others in the vicinity.
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Don't do drugs, kids.*Drinks tea and starts eating donuts in front of John* ;)
You do know caffeine and sugar are drugs, right? =)
My most-hated ones are "all natural" and "ingredients I can't pronounce".
#1 is, "I love belladonna, nightshade, arsenic, cyanide, and asbestos." (and many more)
#2 is, "I'm on the stupid diet."
I love my nightshade veggies. You likely do as well.
I think we already covered issues with pronunciation way upthread, but the priesthood mystique in general is a bad thing.
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** spoiler omitted **...Yeah, that's the sort of thing that really needs to be communicated very clearly. I speak from the experience of The Adult Child, who has sensory processing disorder (SPD, and it is a form of autism) as well as a couple other mental illnesses. She's doing a lot better now, but when she was in high school, that sort of experience would have sent her into a full-blown panic attack.
I can’t even imagine not telling the people in charge something that important. Hell, I can’t imagine letting the kidlet go on an overnight school trip without one of us chaperoning. And he’s high functioning. Amusement parks are often not so amusing for kids with autism.
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Thank you everyone.
I don't really know what to say...
I'm not good at expressing my feelings, so I can come across as curt, sparse, silent or just weird.
In general I don't do (whom very familiar and comfortable with) people well. I'm socially awkward and being a diagnosed high functioning autist, bending my mind into other peoples places have been a skill developed (and still developing) through in numeral social Faux pas and hard experience (some of which I shouldn't really have gotten away with).
I just wanted to say I'm grateful, even if I'm not good at expressing it, for your thoughts and condolences.*Attempts to hug every FaWtL'er in one giant group hug*
*hugs for kjel*
Grief is hard for everyone. It’s extra hard when you’re not good at processing your own emotions. Be gentle on yourself. You’re doing just fine.
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I always like, "Oh, don't eat THAT! It's chock full of dihydrogen monoxide!
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"How long does our presentation need to be?"
"About 5-10 minutes. Shoot for 5. I'll take off a few points if it's way too short or way too long."
"...how long is too long?"
"Oh, say, 15 or so minutes. But don't worry, no one's done that yet."
And the very next presentation clocked in at 16 and change.
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You mean tomatoes, right?Don't do drugs, kids.*Drinks tea and starts eating donuts in front of John* ;)
You do know caffeine and sugar are drugs, right? =)
My most-hated ones are "all natural" and "ingredients I can't pronounce".
#1 is, "I love belladonna, nightshade, arsenic, cyanide, and asbestos." (and many more)
#2 is, "I'm on the stupid diet."
I love my nightshade veggies. You likely do as well.
I think we already covered issues with pronunciation way upthread, but the priesthood mystique in general is a bad thing.
and others, eggplant and the like. Maybe onions too?