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I must be mad.
I GMd last sunday (overseer for special).
GMd home campaign monday evening.
Tuesday - prep for wednesday (last minute switch scenarios)
Wednesday - gm
Thursday (today) - manically prep the house
Friday/saturday - play pathfinder
Sunday - demo pathfinder at game day
Monday - play kingmaker campaign
Wednesday - play pathfinder
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*Retreats into his shell*
Evil Kjeldorn's been loobing incendiary posts again…
*Looks around for the approaching mob*
Don't know which one I'll regret most. The "ogling at Mort one", or the "comparing paladin debating to the protestant reformation one"
^^'
>_>
<_<
>_<'
*Rolls out of sight*
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Coworker has retreated to his air conditioned truck.
I'm taking my lunch break in the sun so I don't end up a mosquito buffet in the shade.
Planks are turning out looking way nicer than I thought they would.
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Coworker has retreated to his air conditioned truck.
I'm taking my lunch break in the sun so I don't end up a mosquito buffet in the shade.
Planks are turning out looking way nicer than I thought they would.
I do know that concrete that's marked with the wood from the forms can look really nice.
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And they're easy to cut.
Even though I'm going to have dreams with "14 and 7/8ths" rattling around for the next week, at least.
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So, I can't log into my Paizo account on my laptop since Sunday. Only now I have discovered that I am still logged in on my phone.
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I'd rather starve and stop socializing entirely than attend another potluck.That sounds awful.
I'm not a particular fan of potlucks -- why does someone always bring some sort of cold carby 'salad'? -- but I've never had a horror experience like you describe. The worst that happens is inevitably one or two people go home bummed that nobody ate the dish they brought. Or not, often those are the dishes picked up from the supermarket on the way.
Pretty much this.
In my experience, potlucks are guaranteed to bring the following:
> Someone stops at KFC and brings a bucket of fried chicken
> Someone grabs a platter from Walmart's deli section
> Someone brings a pizza or three, usually from Little Caesar's or Papa John's
> At least two people bring deviled eggs (YUM!)
> At least three people bring salads that barely get touched
> At least one person brings a tuna-based dish
> There's either almost no desserts or far, far too many, never anything inbetweenBut the one thing I have NEVER seen at any potluck I've been to is open scorn of anyone's offering. At worst, people get a bit disappointed looking when they have to take home a full or mostly-full dish that no one touched. But there is most certainly nothing like the open, in-your-face dressing-down that NH described.
Pretty much spot on.
Little Caesar'sYay!
Papa John'sUgh.
There's either almost no desserts or far, far too many, never anything inbetweenSo... many... store-bought... chocolate... chip... cookies... :(
(For clarity: I love chocolate chip cookies. But people flock to purchasing the cheap and kind of make-you-feel-sad-inside premade store-bought kind en masse, and it's always such a daggum shame.)
Most everything elseYay!
you wot m8?
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If it's a nekkid party, then there is a good chance that something will get blown. Possibly not knees, though.OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOL OLD SCHOOLTwo pages?!?
That was one night!!I remember when the FAWtL collective would kill two pages in under half an hour, back when we would try and break the boards just for kicks.
Ahhh, the good old days.
Top of page? Nekkid party dance!
There's no school like old school!
(As long as we don't blow our knees out trying show off)
This is why I like you.
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I'd rather starve and stop socializing entirely than attend another potluck.That sounds awful.
I'm not a particular fan of potlucks -- why does someone always bring some sort of cold carby 'salad'? -- but I've never had a horror experience like you describe. The worst that happens is inevitably one or two people go home bummed that nobody ate the dish they brought. Or not, often those are the dishes picked up from the supermarket on the way.
Pretty much this.
In my experience, potlucks are guaranteed to bring the following:
> Someone stops at KFC and brings a bucket of fried chicken
> Someone grabs a platter from Walmart's deli section
> Someone brings a pizza or three, usually from Little Caesar's or Papa John's
> At least two people bring deviled eggs (YUM!)
> At least three people bring salads that barely get touched
> At least one person brings a tuna-based dish
> There's either almost no desserts or far, far too many, never anything inbetweenBut the one thing I have NEVER seen at any potluck I've been to is open scorn of anyone's offering. At worst, people get a bit disappointed looking when they have to take home a full or mostly-full dish that no one touched. But there is most certainly nothing like the open, in-your-face dressing-down that NH described.
Potlucks are a rarity here. We usually order out.
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If you think muscle memory isn't really a big deal, try brushing your teeth with your other hand.Or wiping after going potty. Sigh. That was... painful.
EDIT: I'm really glad I was ambidexterous, but the experience made me realize exactly how thoroughly trained I was for certain things by society's collective presumption of how they worked. There were so many little, tiny, seemingly inconsequential things that were just... wrong, when trying to do them with the other hand. It's made me intentionally branch out and experiment more with both hands and, while I'm pretty far from "competent" (I'm much, much better at certain jobs with one hand than the other, from sheer experience/training), I've gotten much better at using both of them.
did you replace your non dominant hand with a claw again?
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shut up, the two of you.
Master Freehold, you continue to weigh 230-something, and-
I SAID SHUT UP!
Try closer to 240-260 range (I'm not really sure where, in that range, I am at the moment, but I'm somewhere around there, I'm certain - I always am).
And at 5'6"... I'm fat.
I haaaaaaaaaaaaate the jogging and push-up parts of TKD, at present. Situps are a pain, but awesome, but the jogging and/or pushups just leaves me spent and in agony, later.
(My Sabonmim is kind of trapped between telling me not to overdo myself, and helping me lose weight... which I'm not really losing, regardless of changes to diet and exercise. Getting certain types of sick that I hope I avoid helps shed weight, fast, but it comes back thereafter. Periodic fasting on M/W/F helped lower me by about 10 lbs., and just... stay right there. That's it.)
i wish we could work together. Maybe some of the things that worked for me could work for you. Stretching REALLY helped me get over my issues with running, although I remain flat-footed(damn rogues). Would that I lived closer.
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How to have FAWTL explode with posts? Lock Drejk out of his account... Five pages since yesterday?!
I am reading posts on laptop and posting from the phone BTW, argh.
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Duh, of course there are multiple posts I would like to comment on but quoting on the phone is pain in the undertail...
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*rudely threadbombs the cool kids' clubhouse to recruit pirates*
Wait, are we supposed to be cool?
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Caught up with posts... For a definition of caught that includes skimming over a lot of them...
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*rudely threadbombs the cool kids' clubhouse to recruit pirates*Wait, are we supposed to be cool?
Is this worse or better than productive?
I don't know. I can't figure out if DeathQuaker means "cool", or "cool", or even, you know, "cool".
Could be temperature.
Could be temperament.
Could be related to cucumbers.
I just have no idea.
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Duh, of course there are multiple posts I would like to comment on but quoting on the phone is pain in the undertail...
I do the computer and the phone.
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Why it sucks to have a curriculum developer take your training:
(2) Overall, I felt the course was a collection of random topics on Python that familiarized me with the language, but that I could have easily studied on my own using free text-based training. When I take an online course, I expect the added value of having an experienced instructor provide me with real-world examples, best practices, and so forth. Instead, I saw sloppy coding (just how many servers have crashed thanks to the assumption that "1 year from today = Today's date + 365), inexplicable variation (just count how many different ways the instructor uses an import statement in his small number of examples), and really no idea what good Python code looks like, because I don't feel like I saw any.
And yeah, that was only 1 of 3 complaints I listed.
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*rudely threadbombs the cool kids' clubhouse to recruit pirates*Wait, are we supposed to be cool?
Is this worse or better than productive?I don't know. I can't figure out if DeathQuaker means "cool", or "cool", or even, you know, "cool".
Could be temperature.
Could be temperament.
Could be related to cucumbers.I just have no idea.
Yes.
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*rudely threadbombs the cool kids' clubhouse to recruit pirates*
Shouldn't that be rudely threadbroadsiding (as opposed to when you fire your cannons into someone else's ship and then say sorry afterwards)?
In other news, we lost the World Sportsball game to TintinLand, apparently, so that (and who has been snogging who on 'Love Island') is all I'm going to hear about at work tomorrow.
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Yes.*rudely threadbombs the cool kids' clubhouse to recruit pirates*Wait, are we supposed to be cool?
Is this worse or better than productive?I don't know. I can't figure out if DeathQuaker means "cool", or "cool", or even, you know, "cool".
Could be temperature.
Could be temperament.
Could be related to cucumbers.I just have no idea.
Deathquaker!
I'd say more but if I do someone (yo) will lose a finger.
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Potlucks are a rarity here. We usually order out.I'd rather starve and stop socializing entirely than attend another potluck.That sounds awful.
I'm not a particular fan of potlucks -- why does someone always bring some sort of cold carby 'salad'? -- but I've never had a horror experience like you describe. The worst that happens is inevitably one or two people go home bummed that nobody ate the dish they brought. Or not, often those are the dishes picked up from the supermarket on the way.
Pretty much this.
In my experience, potlucks are guaranteed to bring the following:
> Someone stops at KFC and brings a bucket of fried chicken
> Someone grabs a platter from Walmart's deli section
> Someone brings a pizza or three, usually from Little Caesar's or Papa John's
> At least two people bring deviled eggs (YUM!)
> At least three people bring salads that barely get touched
> At least one person brings a tuna-based dish
> There's either almost no desserts or far, far too many, never anything inbetweenBut the one thing I have NEVER seen at any potluck I've been to is open scorn of anyone's offering. At worst, people get a bit disappointed looking when they have to take home a full or mostly-full dish that no one touched. But there is most certainly nothing like the open, in-your-face dressing-down that NH described.
Should invite more LARPers. There is usually more home made brownies then you can shake a stick at.
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Yay! No fingers chopped off today.
Today is a good day.
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I figure if I celebrate it every day I cut I won't get comfortable and lose focus.
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Please don't insert anything into gran. Thank you.
To say I mislike potlucks is akin to saying .
I was going to insert fun into you. I swear. Nothing but fun.
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The "ueue" in "queue" is silent.
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If you play any children's song slowly enough, it becomes really creepy.
Silent Hill did that a few times, methinks.
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There are people who will willingly text and drive, knowing that they could potentially kill someone, yet would not risk it if they thought the police might confiscate their phone if they are caught.
my best friend has a list of things to do should I die suddenly, cleaning my search history and phone logs among them.
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There are people who will read "#1" as "hastag 1" rather than "number 1"/#Reallife #numbers #showerthoughts.
i told you math was evil.
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...Ah, the inevitable "week before the event" nonsense:
After going around the Fake Russian to his wife to get a confirmation, then confirming with the restaurant, the Fake Russian had a sudden (and very legitimate) need to bow out. Now I'm waiting on his wife to find out whether to call the restaurant and drop one or two. (Honestly, 14 to 13 doesn't need a call, but 14 to 12 usually means they can slip in a table for 2 somewhere else.)
Similarly, choir director texted with, "I forget. Is my husband invited?"
Very amusing. I wanted to text back. "Nope. Nor is he welcome at the 1-on-1 after-dinner hot tub party," but I felt that might have been mildly inappropriate.
Still having issues with the whole, "NobodysHome is paying for dinner. Stop arguing," thing.
NobodysWife put it really well: You want to have a big get-together with your friends. Your choices are:
(1) Choose a restaurant everyone can readily afford. Which, when you're dealing with teachers, writers, and teenagers boils down to $15-$20 a plate, which around here is basically fast food or Chinese.
(2) Cook a giant meal at home. Kind of removing the entire fun of the situation, since you're working 6-8 hours just before the gathering.
(3) Have the home meal catered. Costs just as much as a restaurant, plus your house gets trashed.
(4) Have a potluck and have everybody hate you.People are just SOOOOO obsessed with money and fairness, when we all know that money isn't fair. All I want is to have a really nice dinner with all my friends and have nobody even think about what it costs. Instead, the whole weeklong debate leading up to dinner is, "Are you SURE you can afford it?"
If I couldn't afford it, I wouldn't be doing it.
And I'll shout out Lisamarlene as being a champ in NOT doing this. She listened to my arguments and said, "Good enough for me," and let it go. Thank you, Lisamarlene!
Anyway, should be a fun dinner anyway...EDIT: And I'll openly admit, Shiro gets that impish
Lisamarlene, you are making my heart explode and melt simultaneously. Either that or I really shouldn't have ordered the special.
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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.Originality is an illusion.
LIES
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You should never interrupt your opponent while they are making a mistake.
love that one.
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If four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing it is probably because they just robbed a bank.
nonsense.
It is because they are sharing an uber or lyft.
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If four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing it is probably because they just robbed a bank.nonsense.
It is because they are sharing an uber or lyft.
After robbing the bank?
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Oh TL, really late but it's blasphemy to say microwaves are life! There shouldnt be a microwave in the kitchen!
Why I don't like microwaves is sure you can try to cook food in it but without the oven char, it just doesn't taste good. I suppose for reheating you can, but you could also steam stuff in a pot for that purpose.
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I must be mad.
I GMd last sunday (overseer for special).
GMd home campaign monday evening.
Tuesday - prep for wednesday (last minute switch scenarios)
Wednesday - gm
Thursday (today) - manically prep the house
Friday/saturday - play pathfinder
Sunday - demo pathfinder at game day
Monday - play kingmaker campaign
Wednesday - play pathfinder
I used to try to catch as many games as possible in a week, back then, but not so now.
Again I'm quite the busy body so there are a lot of things eating my time, and on a PBP you're literally playing everyday.
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Deep Fried ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING!mmmmmm... deep-fried Mars bars. :DMy chicken was roasted when everyone knows chicken should only ever be fried.
Heresy. D:
We roast everything in Ireland. Roast veg, roast potatoes, roast meats. It's delicious, done right.
Stereotypically, all food in Scotland is deep-fried, and all food in England is boiled.
Neither of those things are true, he says, chowing down on his freshly boiled hamburger & 'fries'
Blasphemy! Begone spawn of darkness!
Fats(aka oil) are 9 calories per gram. So if you deep fried everything, imagine how many extra calories you'd be adding to your meals...
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Oh TL, really late but it's blasphemy to say microwaves are life! There shouldnt be a microwave in the kitchen!
Well where else would you put it?
Why I don't like microwaves is sure you can try to cook food in it but without the oven char, it just doesn't taste good. I suppose for reheating you can, but you could also steam stuff in a pot for that purpose.
Yeah Microwaves are for reheating, not for actual food preparation, at least for anything more complex than a hot dog.
Steaming in a pot takes too long. That's the whole point of a microwave - to get already-prepared food back to "warm enough to eat pleasantly" more quickly.
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I'm also a snob about instant noodles. Gimme my toasted salmon and baguette or go home! No instant noodles for me!
Even when making ramen, sure, I use their soup base and noodles but I add my own fresh ingredients, like egg, shabu shabu, enoki mushrooms, spring onions and wood ear fungus.
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I hate microwaves.
The only reason we have one is Crookshanks bought one at a garage sale.
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I'm too lazy and impatient to live without one. I have better things to do than wait longer than two minutes for a quick dinner or a reheated slice of pizza.
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Salmon is icky.
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I would wait 15 min for dinner happily. Even reheating a pizza in an oven, flavor >microwave.
In those 15 min you can go hearthstone/slay the spire. I was famous for putting my salmon to toast, getting back to my pathfinder game on roll20. Oven dings, afk pull it out, eat by comp table continue gaming.
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I pack a lunch, my job is too physical for trail rations.