That's a lot of effort for a Monday.
Nudity takes less effort, it seems.
Depends on the context.
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So this is fun.
We were originally scheduled to pick up our moving truck this morning, about two miles from our house.
Yesterday afternoon, U-Haul sent us a text message to say our pick-up location had been changed to Concord, which is thirty miles away, and not a lot of fun in rush hour.
So we called, and they said "just come now, we'll give you the extra day so you don't have to deal with Monday morning traffic".
Which was great! We threw the kids in the car and raced out to get there before they closed.
Except for there's this little problem that our tiny local bank (which in every other area of service is fantastic) has this quirk about big debit card transactions. And even though there was far more than enough money in our account to cover it, because the transaction amount was more than the fraud alert limit, it was declined. (They've done this with airline reservations, too. Twice.)
And of course the bank wasn't answering the phone on Sunday to handle it.
So we have to go back this morning and try again.
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That bank is *totally* fired. And not just because you're moving.
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Blerg.
That sucks.
So this is fun.
We were originally scheduled to pick up our moving truck this morning, about two miles from our house.
Yesterday afternoon, U-Haul sent us a text message to say our pick-up location had been changed to Concord, which is thirty miles away, and not a lot of fun in rush hour.
So we called, and they said "just come now, we'll give you the extra day so you don't have to deal with Monday morning traffic".
Which was great! We threw the kids in the car and raced out to get there before they closed.
Except for there's this little problem that our tiny local bank (which in every other area of service is fantastic) has this quirk about big debit card transactions. And even though there was far more than enough money in our account to cover it, because the transaction amount was more than the fraud alert limit, it was declined. (They've done this with airline reservations, too. Twice.)
And of course the bank wasn't answering the phone on Sunday to handle it.
So we have to go back this morning and try again.
I know that feeling, had that happen before with my bank when I was upstate for a con and made two large purchases on the same day in two drastically different areas. So sorry you are going through this...
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I mean Like I get the facebook hate its mostly politics and meme re-runs but it does make it easy to keep in contact with friends. Maybe if it had a home page for each person that played music you liked while they were looking at it...
So, here's a completely different take on why I despise Facebook.
Imagine that a significant portion of your friends and family said, "Yeah, we're not going to call you, write you, or contact you in any way any more. Instead, we're going to post what we're doing on the Paizo forums. So if you want to stay in touch with us, it's YOUR job to go to Paizo, check in on us, find out what we're doing, and decide whether or not you want to join us.
And oh, yeah. If you DON'T go to Paizo and follow what we're doing, then we're going to get upset with you and talk about what a horrible/stubborn/not-with-the-times person you are for having the gall to expect your friends to contact you directly for important life events."
NobodysWife nearly missed her stepbrother's wedding because the *only* place he announced it was on Facebook, and another attendee happened to ask, "Why aren't you going to your own stepbrother's wedding?" When she'd heard nothing about it.
EDIT: NobodysWife wanted me to add: And then you have to consider that even if you wanted to sign up for an account so you could keep track of your friends and family, you'd have to do so knowing that your personal information was going to be exploited ruthlessly for all kinds of well-documented, horrific purposes...
So this is fun.
We were originally scheduled to pick up our moving truck this morning, about two miles from our house.
Yesterday afternoon, U-Haul sent us a text message to say our pick-up location had been changed to Concord, which is thirty miles away, and not a lot of fun in rush hour.
So we called, and they said "just come now, we'll give you the extra day so you don't have to deal with Monday morning traffic".
Which was great! We threw the kids in the car and raced out to get there before they closed.
Except for there's this little problem that our tiny local bank (which in every other area of service is fantastic) has this quirk about big debit card transactions. And even though there was far more than enough money in our account to cover it, because the transaction amount was more than the fraud alert limit, it was declined. (They've done this with airline reservations, too. Twice.)
And of course the bank wasn't answering the phone on Sunday to handle it.
So we have to go back this morning and try again.
Oh, geez, that SUUUUUUCKS!
Fortunately, it's an anti-commute on the way out and it's not hard from where you are to sneak out to 4 and get there.
But then you have to get the truck back to your house. THAT will not be fun.
Yeah, I hates me some U-Haul. But for interstate transportation, it's hard to find a decent alternative around here. I love Doherty's, and once you break around 100 miles it's cheaper than U-Haul because U-Haul gives you a dirt cheap daily rate and then higher mileage charges than any other company, but Doherty's is local...
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Back at work for the first time in a couple weeks. Only had about 12,000 missed emails, since I wasn't keeping up with my work emails on my phone while I was out. My birthday was last week, and I spent it with my dear old friend, NyQuil.
Aiymi update:
She is walking without a cane again. She still tires fairly easily. She cannot look in a different direction than she is moving without getting dizzy. She still can't track a finger with just her eyes without getting dizzy either. Hence, still no driving.
So this is fun.
We were originally scheduled to pick up our moving truck this morning, about two miles from our house.
Yesterday afternoon, U-Haul sent us a text message to say our pick-up location had been changed to Concord, which is thirty miles away, and not a lot of fun in rush hour.
So we called, and they said "just come now, we'll give you the extra day so you don't have to deal with Monday morning traffic".
Which was great! We threw the kids in the car and raced out to get there before they closed.
Except for there's this little problem that our tiny local bank (which in every other area of service is fantastic) has this quirk about big debit card transactions. And even though there was far more than enough money in our account to cover it, because the transaction amount was more than the fraud alert limit, it was declined. (They've done this with airline reservations, too. Twice.)
And of course the bank wasn't answering the phone on Sunday to handle it.
So we have to go back this morning and try again.
Sucks to hear LM...hope you find a solution quickly!
*Offers cold beverage*
Back at work for the first time in a couple weeks. Only had about 12,000 missed emails, since I wasn't keeping up with my work emails on my phone while I was out. My birthday was last week, and I spent it with my dear old friend, NyQuil.
Aiymi update:
She is walking without a cane again. She still tires fairly easily. She cannot look in a different direction than she is moving without getting dizzy. She still can't track a finger with just her eyes without getting dizzy either. Hence, still no driving.
Kind of betaled happy b-day Vany!
Sorry to hear that Aiymis still struggling with the after-effects of her flu-high blood pressure-ministroke-thing...I hope she (and you) get better in a hurry
*Offers cold beverages and hugs to Vany and Aiymi*
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Happy belated Bdae, Vany, and also hope the Aiymi makes a speedy recovery!
NH - I hate facebook because people expect me to check all their pics and stuff and I don't like people telling me what I should do with my net surf time. Besides, I'm a busy body. As in body that is busy.
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Facebook. I have hated Facebook, and all the forms of it before it, since the beginning. I hated them before they were popular. I'm just that hipster.
See, the reason, before all the political bruhaha took over, was simple. I don't care. I just don't f(*^)*&$ care. I don't care that your baby went boom-boom in the potty, and I really didn't need the picture as proof. I don't care that you're at the grocery store. I don't care that your 3rd cousin Erica went to the doctor in Belize to get a cyst removed. I don't care what achievement your friend reached in Farmville. Or whatever.
Aiymi is on Facebook to keep up with a few members of her family because, as NH mentioned, they don't use anything else to keep in contact. I, on the other hand, am much happier not spending the time to keep up with it.
Am I a horrible human being for not caring about people's daily minutia? I don't think so. There are many, many other reasons that are higher up the list than that. Call me old, but I'm just fine with a phone, email, or text. I shouldn't have to log into an application (that tracks everything you do and sells your information and yada yada yada) to keep up with the people I care about.
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I signed on to facebook for the first time, because there was someone I wanted to keep in touch with, on a daily basis, in a foreign country...(Skype had proved a bit too temperamental for us...).
Since those days are over I barely ever check the damn page anymore.
*Sigh*
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Facebook. I have hated Facebook, and all the forms of it before it, since the beginning. I hated them before they were popular. I'm just that hipster.
See, the reason, before all the political bruhaha took over, was simple. I don't care. I just don't f(*^)*&$ care. I don't care that your baby went boom-boom in the potty, and I really didn't need the picture as proof. I don't care that you're at the grocery store. I don't care that your 3rd cousin Erica went to the doctor in Belize to get a cyst removed. I don't care what achievement your friend reached in Farmville. Or whatever.
Yeah, that's pretty much dead-on why NobodysWife stopped logging on at all. She started an account just to try to keep up with friends who'd abandoned all other forms of communication.
And every single day, DOZENS of pictures of, "Here's Timmy eating breakfast! Here's Timmy eating lunch! Here's Timmy on the potty! Here's Timmy napping! Here's Timmy eating dinner!"
From every. Single. User.
So hundreds of "updates" a day, which were nothing but pictures of toddlers, cats, dogs, or medical stuff that really shouldn't be photographed.
After blocking all her friends' feeds, it got better, but at that point, if you've blocked your friends' feeds and the entire point was to keep track of your friends, you're doing, er, what now?
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Personally, I quite like Facebook. It's a handy way to keep up with bands/events I'm interested in and groups I am or might want to be involved with.
There's a lot of stuff I don't need or want at all, of course, but that's l'internèt for you. At least some of it's funny.
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Back at work for the first time in a couple weeks. Only had about 12,000 missed emails, since I wasn't keeping up with my work emails on my phone while I was out. My birthday was last week, and I spent it with my dear old friend, NyQuil.
Aiymi update:
She is walking without a cane again. She still tires fairly easily. She cannot look in a different direction than she is moving without getting dizzy. She still can't track a finger with just her eyes without getting dizzy either. Hence, still no driving.
DOOD WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME IT WAS YOUR BIRTHDAY?!
I would have gotten you stuff!!! Well, MORE stuff, at any rate. Hello Kitty Nyquil could have been included. Or their MLP based rival, Therapony.
Glad to hear Aiymi is improving- leaving the cane behind is HUGE. Is the coloring book helping?
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I signed on to facebook for the first time, because there was someone I wanted to keep in touch with, on a daily basis, in a foreign country...(Skype had proved a bit too temperamental for us...).
Since those days are over I barely ever check the damn page anymore.*Sigh*
I'm sorry, man.
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Back at work for the first time in a couple weeks. Only had about 12,000 missed emails, since I wasn't keeping up with my work emails on my phone while I was out. My birthday was last week, and I spent it with my dear old friend, NyQuil.
Aiymi update:
She is walking without a cane again. She still tires fairly easily. She cannot look in a different direction than she is moving without getting dizzy. She still can't track a finger with just her eyes without getting dizzy either. Hence, still no driving.DOOD WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME IT WAS YOUR BIRTHDAY?!
I would have gotten you stuff!!! Well, MORE stuff, at any rate. Hello Kitty Nyquil could have been included. Or their MLP based rival, Therapony.
Glad to hear Aiymi is improving- leaving the cane behind is HUGE. Is the coloring book helping?
Yes, it's helping, and it's very appreciated. It's helping her right hand regain accuracy, and it's helping her to relax.
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Facebook. I have hated Facebook, and all the forms of it before it, since the beginning. I hated them before they were popular. I'm just that hipster.
See, the reason, before all the political bruhaha took over, was simple. I don't care. I just don't f(*^)*&$ care. I don't care that your baby went boom-boom in the potty, and I really didn't need the picture as proof. I don't care that you're at the grocery store. I don't care that your 3rd cousin Erica went to the doctor in Belize to get a cyst removed. I don't care what achievement your friend reached in Farmville. Or whatever.
Aiymi is on Facebook to keep up with a few members of her family because, as NH mentioned, they don't use anything else to keep in contact. I, on the other hand, am much happier not spending the time to keep up with it.
Am I a horrible human being for not caring about people's daily minutia? I don't think so. There are many, many other reasons that are higher up the list than that. Call me old, but I'm just fine with a phone, email, or text. I shouldn't have to log into an application (that tracks everything you do and sells your information and yada yada yada) to keep up with the people I care about.
I hate Facebook for what it did to the internet. I used to be able to find people educated enough to hold a civilized discussion about things I was into without a problem, in forums dedicated to those subjects. Facebook turned everything into scream sheet aggressions where data on what you bought and who you spoke to was for sale to unsavory customers and everyone was literally in your business and crossing over into things that you would rather not have them crossing into(not everyone is an open book like me, and even I would prefer moderated questions posed out of polite curiosity, not gawking idiocy)- and no, privacy options do not help as they are laughably defeated.
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Yes, it's helping, and it's very appreciated. It's helping her right hand regain accuracy, and it's helping her to relax.Back at work for the first time in a couple weeks. Only had about 12,000 missed emails, since I wasn't keeping up with my work emails on my phone while I was out. My birthday was last week, and I spent it with my dear old friend, NyQuil.
Aiymi update:
She is walking without a cane again. She still tires fairly easily. She cannot look in a different direction than she is moving without getting dizzy. She still can't track a finger with just her eyes without getting dizzy either. Hence, still no driving.DOOD WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME IT WAS YOUR BIRTHDAY?!
I would have gotten you stuff!!! Well, MORE stuff, at any rate. Hello Kitty Nyquil could have been included. Or their MLP based rival, Therapony.
Glad to hear Aiymi is improving- leaving the cane behind is HUGE. Is the coloring book helping?
encourage her to sharpen her pencils regularly with the little sharpener I included- it will work wonders for her fine motor control.
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Am I a horrible human being for not caring about people's daily minutia? I don't think so. There are many, many other reasons that are higher up the list than that. Call me old, but I'm just fine with a phone, email, or text. I shouldn't have to log into an application (that tracks everything you do and sells your information and yada yada yada) to keep up with the people I care about.
You’re not managing your friends well then. The baby posters go on “unfollow but stay friends” which leaves more room for the friends that post memes.
Totally get the privacy concerns however.
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Three weeks till school starts. Went in to get a little more work done before panic sets in. I got my entire course vocabulary typed up and printed out for one class and wrote two unit project choice boards written for another as well as getting some reorganization and decoration done.
Fairly productive day!
Need any help?
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LM: I'm so very sorry.
Vanakyre: I'm glad she's slowly working her way off the cane.
Facebook: I ignore it, but I also ignore email, so. Also, my wife luuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrves it.
And now for minutia of my daily life!
And it's a (mostly) copy/paste from DaWtL~!
I figure here's a good place to mention my game (sorry, Orthos, I got tapped to GM). It's a 5e variant of Wrath of the Righteous set in ( modified) Forgotten Realms. It's turned out pretty good, so far!
Mild spoilers:
- the AP starts off in a good place, as most do
- the PCs experience a thing and DRAMA!
- flashback occur to explain how they got here
So far so good.
Except a villain from the very end of the game (not the final boss, but someone important, later) shows up at the very beginning.
And, in the flashback, I'm encouraged to let the players act as they would (within the limits of time constraints to get them to the place we started - after the flashback begins).
That really isn't a major problem. After all, the PCs honestly can't do anything to affect the outcome of the battles - they're too small, and would be even ten levels from now.
Except... in 5e, there's a paladin oath (like a mandated archetype) called "Oath of Redemption." This particular character happens to have an ability that allows them to forcibly tank a baddy - that is, if the bad guy attacks anyone else, they take damage equal to the damage they deal to another. There was a biiiiig battle that had just occurred, but the bad guy was far enough that the ability didn't come into play. The big bad guy, however, fought another big thingy, and during that time, landed a killing blow.
So, of course, one of may players as I was typing up the killing blow, being tremendously foolish (and playing her character to the hilt - low wisdom, high charisma paladin of redemption) asked if she could use an ability of hers on the bad guy. I had been very lax on where things were, and she'd asked if she could before I had typed the full details of what had happened, so that's fine. I said, "Sure." She activated her class ability.
Now, of course, the bad guy gets a save for half damage.
... which it failed by one. Still. Still, still, still. See, the PC couldn't possibly have done enough damage to matter, in the end. Even with this one titanic blow, the PC couldn't have done more damage than... the... battle...
... waaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
So I then had to start rolling and figuring stuff out.
And, no, the PC, as it turned out, couldn't do anything. Then another PC, without that ability, asked if, while he was falling down a hole, he could fling a weapon at the bad guy. It couldn't possibly do that much damage, so that's fine. Sure. It was an awesome, heroic moment for him. The last PC declined to do anything, which made sense.
... and the one attacking PC somehow left the bad guy nearly teetering on the edge.
Now, as a GM, I'm trapped.
While I don't want to go, "Hey! Ruin the narrative!" I do feel it's valid to inform a PC who makes a decision based on a mistake. And the one who'd opted not to do anything had forgotten they'd had a ranged weapon sitting in their inventory (it was really last/early, after all). So I mentioned this fact.
The PC went, "Oh! Yeah!" and, as the Hamster guessed, that was all that was needed.
Literally passed the baddy death threshold by two points of damage.
Literally nothing can challenge my 5th level PCs in the region they find themselves in, but that's fine - it was an epic moment, and they gained both the weapons the baddy had, and a significant piece of it that I altered to make possible - and each has latched on to one of those things. So they're enjoying super-powered weapons, massive ups, and a strong feeling of awesome. Teeeeeeeeechnically, they don't know that they succeeded. They kind of think they managed, but it's unclear. That said, they do have reason to believe they won - he pulled a bit of a Sauron-at-first-death thingy from the movies.
It's interesting, as well, because I, personally, don't quite know what the full ramifications on the story are, at present; I... haven't read that far in advance.
(It doesn't really come up in this adventure, except for a minor aside about certain things the PCs might have cause to be somewhat interested in, but doesn't affect the story.)
It's been a blast, so far!
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Tac - They didn't kill the baddie that shows up later. They killed the baddie's sibling instead. So now they can have Bialar Crais (Farscape) chasing after them, as certainly no insignificant gnats such as the PCs could have possibly killed such a great person as the sibling of Bialar Crais!
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Hey John
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Facebook: I ignore it, but I also ignore email, so. Also, my wife luuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrves it.
Yeah, you don't even have "add friend" button...
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Wrath of The Righteous in Forgotten Realms? Where have you placed the Worldwound and how does it work there (if differently than the original Golarion Worldwound)?
My first thought was somewhere near old Narfell, because of the old demon-binder wars against there.
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Narfell would be the wisest choice.
No wait, Golarion would be the wisest choice.
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Got the truck this morning with no trouble after a call to the bank to explain things.
Bonus: it has a big dinosaur on the side, so Val loves it.
Val's godparents took the kids to the zoo for the day to get them out of the way and make them happy.
WW and I have been working on loading everything from our storage unit into it today.
Tomorrow we start loading boxes from the house.
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I'm back from Iowa county, where I have to hike a half mile through barbwire infested woods just to get texts.
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Narfell would be the wisest choice.
No wait, Golarion would be the wisest choice.
Freehold does seem to know Forgotten Realms quite well...
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Freehold does seem to know Forgotten Realms quite well...Narfell would be the wisest choice.
No wait, Golarion would be the wisest choice.
when your favorite authors write for the setting until they get their own world, you learn a lot. Also FR is f#%$ing omnipresent.
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Cemeteries would be more interesting if the gravestones explained how each person died.
Amusingly, this is exactly what the memorial slabs in Dwarf Fortress do. List the birth and death dates, cause of death, parents, spouse, and children, major achievements and creations, and any deaths the deceased caused (as "slayer of ____").
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One of my favorite episodes of the twilight zone. I never miss an opportunity to quote it. Only the astronauts and the monsters are coming to maple street outrank it.
I'm partial to the one about the old man reading a book in a bank vault, myself, I think it's called "Time Enough Yet". Oh and also "A Small Talent for War".
And the one about the crazy man with the bomb shelter. I forget the name of that one.
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How about Thay. Isn't there supposed to be a Demon imprisoned underneath one of it's mountains?
Yep. Eltab, exiled Demon Prince of Spite.
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Is that the one where the guy is the last Human on Earth and can't read any books because he broke his only pair of reading glasses?One of my favorite episodes of the twilight zone. I never miss an opportunity to quote it. Only the astronauts and the monsters are coming to maple street outrank it.I'm partial to the one about the old man reading a book in a bank vault, myself, I think it's called "Time Enough Yet". Oh and also "A Small Talent for War".
And the one about the crazy man with the bomb shelter. I forget the name of that one.
That's the one.
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I most remember the one where the lady has to stop time to prevent a nuclear holocaust.
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Starfinder Armory is pretty sweet!
Freehold does seem to know Forgotten Realms quite well...Narfell would be the wisest choice.
No wait, Golarion would be the wisest choice.
Heh: I put it in the Anauroch. I suggested the Spellplague when combined with the eradication of the Sharnwall and phaeramm life drain magics was the cause of a horrendous power surge and break reality and WHAT THE HECK AUTOCORRECT LET ME TYPE; anyway, I applied the World Wound effect to the Anauroch. The Shadovar survived and maintained a small empire; they were, in fact, instrumental in sealing the desert with wyrdstones - shadowy black obylisks and dolmens that cause bad things to happen to fiends that get near them or pass through the (rather hazy) border they represent. That, elven high magic, and a major sacrifice by good folk sealed the desert. A crusade has been going on for 200 years ever since.
The Zhents have kept a viable trade road through the place (not with the fiends, of course, but just collecting stuff going through), and have this become kind of critical allies. The desert opens up to hell, the abyss, and any fiendish realm in between. Hi goblins thrive and we’ve devios, while others serve demons. Etc.
when your favorite authors write for the setting until they get their own world, you learn a lot. Also FR is f~**ing omnipresent.Freehold does seem to know Forgotten Realms quite well...Narfell would be the wisest choice.
No wait, Golarion would be the wisest choice.
Which author?