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I always thought Dan Hedaya (Carla's husband on Cheers) would have been ideally cast as Wolverine as he originally was. Devito would have been interesting, though.
Thanks, Vany. You're a sweetheart. But, honestly, assuming I don't die on I-40 today, everything else will be OK.
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Deep breaths LM. It's rough now, but you are going to make it through. I know you're mainly just tired and frustrated, and schedule weighs heavy on the mind.
I don't have any more time I can take off work (I missed almost 3 straight weeks from Aiymi's hospitalization and me getting sick) or I would offer to drive down myself and help you out for a day or two (even as just a pair of hands to carry heavy items), since it's about 12.5 hours of driving from here to Dallas. Could probably get there at about the same time if I had the ability to leave now.
would that I could come along. And we'll bring captain yesterday too, I'll knock him out ba baracus style and he'll just wake up in the back seat.
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Except it isn't; that bit is squat and square, like Wolverine BEFORE Hugh Jackman made him ridiculously sexy. The point being, there is nothing about the Texas "Panhandle" that screams "grab me".Isn't it called the panhandle because its long and sticks out from the rest of the state??So we're in Holbrook, Arizona, and have thirteen hours of driving to do today, across New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle.
(WHICH DOESN'T LOOK REMOTELY LIKE A F***ING PANHANDLE, BUT THAT'S IT'S NAME. WTF, TEXAS?)
Yesterday was a brutal slog, and today will be, too, because we didn't end up leaving our old house until eleven Sunday night, seven hours after our target departure time, because it just took us that pong to get things done.
And we kept pushing through last night because I had stupidly pee-paid for a motel room at what I judged was the best stopping place to not make the final driving day even worse.
Because we're supposed to meet with the property manager to get our keys at nine tomorrow morning.
Because we have appointments to get the gas and power and water turned on tomorrow and we have to be there when it happens.
Because we have four people coming tomorrow to help us unload.
** spoiler omitted **I still wonder how life would be if Danny Devito was wolverine, as originally considered.
Also, Robin Williams was supposed to be Beast.
I could never accept Danny DeVito as Wolverine. I always see Penguin. Besides, I thought it was supposed to be Glen Danzig as Wolverine?
Robin Williams would merely have needed to be painted blue. He had enough body hair already.
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Except it isn't; that bit is squat and square, like Wolverine BEFORE Hugh Jackman made him ridiculously sexy. The point being, there is nothing about the Texas "Panhandle" that screams "grab me".Isn't it called the panhandle because its long and sticks out from the rest of the state??So we're in Holbrook, Arizona, and have thirteen hours of driving to do today, across New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle.
(WHICH DOESN'T LOOK REMOTELY LIKE A F***ING PANHANDLE, BUT THAT'S IT'S NAME. WTF, TEXAS?)
Yesterday was a brutal slog, and today will be, too, because we didn't end up leaving our old house until eleven Sunday night, seven hours after our target departure time, because it just took us that pong to get things done.
And we kept pushing through last night because I had stupidly pee-paid for a motel room at what I judged was the best stopping place to not make the final driving day even worse.
Because we're supposed to meet with the property manager to get our keys at nine tomorrow morning.
Because we have appointments to get the gas and power and water turned on tomorrow and we have to be there when it happens.
Because we have four people coming tomorrow to help us unload.
** spoiler omitted **I still wonder how life would be if Danny Devito was wolverine, as originally considered.
Also, Robin Williams was supposed to be Beast.
I could never accept Danny DeVito as Wolverine. I always see Penguin. Besides, I thought it was supposed to be Glen Danzig as Wolverine?
Robin Williams would merely have needed to be painted blue. He had enough body hair already.
well, keep in mind this was supposed to be a younger Danny devito. He has aged a bit. And he was supposed to work out for the role.
I dont recall Danzig being considered for Wolverine... I do remember hearing SOMETHING about Bob Hoskins, though. Miss him.
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Except it isn't; that bit is squat and square, like Wolverine BEFORE Hugh Jackman made him ridiculously sexy. The point being, there is nothing about the Texas "Panhandle" that screams "grab me".Isn't it called the panhandle because its long and sticks out from the rest of the state??So we're in Holbrook, Arizona, and have thirteen hours of driving to do today, across New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle.
(WHICH DOESN'T LOOK REMOTELY LIKE A F***ING PANHANDLE, BUT THAT'S IT'S NAME. WTF, TEXAS?)
Yesterday was a brutal slog, and today will be, too, because we didn't end up leaving our old house until eleven Sunday night, seven hours after our target departure time, because it just took us that pong to get things done.
And we kept pushing through last night because I had stupidly pee-paid for a motel room at what I judged was the best stopping place to not make the final driving day even worse.
Because we're supposed to meet with the property manager to get our keys at nine tomorrow morning.
Because we have appointments to get the gas and power and water turned on tomorrow and we have to be there when it happens.
Because we have four people coming tomorrow to help us unload.
** spoiler omitted **I still wonder how life would be if Danny Devito was wolverine, as originally considered.
Also, Robin Williams was supposed to be Beast.
I could never accept Danny DeVito as Wolverine. I always see Penguin. Besides, I thought it was supposed to be Glen Danzig as Wolverine?
Robin Williams would merely have needed to be painted blue. He had enough body hair already.
I also agree with LM about the panhandle situation. Oklahoma has a panhandle. Florida has a panhandle. Even Maryland has something more resembling a panhandle than Texas. It has a brick.
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well, keep in mind this was supposed to be a younger Danny devito. He has aged a bit. And he was supposed to work out for the role.
I dont recall Danzig being considered for Wolverine... I do remember hearing SOMETHING about Bob Hoskins, though. Miss him.
Oh, I know DeVito in his younger days, but that's just it...he played The Penguin in Batman Returns and I can't put him in any other superhero movie role without seeing him as Pengy.
Yes, Danzig was approached/asked to audition for Wolverine. Google "danzig wolverine" and you'll see some of the stupid stuff that he's said about it.
Edit: fixed truncated quote blocks
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I am infuriated by people making double my yearly pay who refuse to read.
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I always thought Dan Hedaya (Carla's husband on Cheers) would have been ideally cast as Wolverine as he originally was. Devito would have been interesting, though.
Thanks, Vany. You're a sweetheart. But, honestly, assuming I don't die on I-40 today, everything else will be OK.
your move just became a lot more interesting. I'll stop by later on today.
I know it's a 20 plus hour drive, just leave some ice cold mexicoke for me on the back porch, I'll find your place.
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Apparently, I am not "Lawful Good", but rather "Lawful Nice", at least according to NobodysWife.
We went to the Royal Cafe for breakfast on Saturday and, as is fairly typical for me, left a $20 tip on a $90 breakfast. No big deal.
My credit card bill just came in, and someone mis-entered it as $2, stiffing the waitress something horrible.
So yes, I am actually going to drive to the restaurant to hand them the other $18 rather than accepting stiffing a waitress I will most likely never see again.
I am a sick person.
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The angles of this wall are proving difficult, which for me to say that shows you how difficult they're being.
It's a good thing they ordered way too much block, because I'm going to go through quite a bit figuring it out.
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Most of economics is based on the assumption that people will act rationally, while most advertising is predicated on the assumption that people won't.
In a very broad based nut-shell, yes.
Ah advertisement that thing I do my best to ignore and hide from for the rest of my life. If you think about it advertisement is like a relentless predator.
I tend to see the last/former advertisement paradigm as "pathologized aspiration".
("Buy this too so you can feel like a member of this exclusive club, group of people or what ever..." Bah!)
Maoooooooo! A Snow Leopard was caught in the trap and lost all her fur!
Don't you feel guilty about this,the Game Hamster?
*Gives the Game Hamster a pitiful look as she gets dressed*
*Snaps a picture*
Errr…
...ttooo document the injustice, of cause!
*internally: "Nailed it!" :P*
There was a month without rain once. Made me sad since I saw all the grass was turning brown. And the tree leaves were turning yellow too.
So basically Denmark right now…
We in our (almost) 12th week straight of 30+ degree weather and it has rained more the a few scattered drops, once during that time.So just about every plant is brown/yellow and losing leaves up here.
would that I could come along. And we'll bring captain yesterday too, I'll knock him out ba baracus style and he'll just wake up in the back seat.
"MMMM...Milk! Good for the bones! *Gulps down milk*"
*Gets knocked out by the spiked milk*
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Ok, I actually do want to comment on gran’s post. It’s an educational comment – or at least it was educational to me when I read a more comprehensive version of it; I’m sure to many, this will be News at 11. Anyway, it’s educational but I’m spoilering it for being…meta-political?
[Some] economists are not the only people who believe that people act rationally. STEM people, journalists, and those of us on the left side of the political spectrum tend to operate on a set of faulty assumptions from the Enlightenment Era:
- That ideas are ethereal things which can be accepted or banished at will,
- That people see facts as they are,
- That reason is self-evident and common sense is universal,
- That we make decisions based on enlightened self-interest
- And thus that if we give everyone the facts we will all ultimately arrive at the same conclusions.
But in fact these are all wrong. As neuro scientists, marketers, and conservative think tanks have discovered, the truth is very different:
- Ideas are physical neurons and synapses in our brains, and these mental connections can be physically weakened or strengthened by language;
- People see the world through metaphor and mental frames, and these mental structures dictate what is ‘common sense,’ and this ‘common sense’ overrides facts which contradict it;
- People make decisions based on the values and ‘common sense’ derived from those frames and metaphors;
- And thus, peoples’ very brains and worldviews can be changed by proper use of language.
- In short, fact and truth must be actively promoted using our own language and values.
So, we all think in metaphors. For example, nearly every culture on earth uses temperature as an emotional metaphor -- a cold person is standoffish, uncaring, or possessing of some other negative emotion; while a warm person is friendly, caring, or possessing of some other positive emotion. And there’s a reason for this -- when is the first time we experience love? In our parents’ arms! And when is the first time we experience abandonment? When we’re temporarily abandoned and undressed so that we can be changed, or so that our parents can do some other chore.
The metaphor relevant to politics is the family. Because when is the first time we experience governance? At home! Our parents govern us first within our family unit, and so we carry our family experiences and values to government. Family values are moral values are political values, and family values inform our position on important issues.
Further, we all think in frames as well. A frame is an underlying image, and all of the concepts we associate with that image. For example, the elephant frame calls to mind a big gray creature with a trumpeting trunk, tusks, and possibly other concepts like Dumbo, a long memory, or the Republican party. Importantly, just hearing the word that describes a frame calls it to mind, regardless of context. For example, when I say “Don’t think of an elephant,” what comes immediately to mind? An elephant, and all of the concepts associated with elephants in your mind!
To give a relevant example of framing, the issue of clean air and environmental conservation. Radical conservative think tanks, media, and elites talk about “productivity,” “the free market,” and “job creation.” Their underlying frame is that nobody owns the air, the seas, the flora, or the fauna in general, and thus anyone and everyone has the right to do whatever they will with our planet regardless of the consequences -- in fact in radically conservative Christian circles, environmental plunder is a divine commandment.
What remains unframed is our vision of environmental issues: Everyone owns the air, the water, and the overall biosphere. We want a comfortable, a healthy and a beautiful world for ourselves, and we want it sustained for our children and our children’s children’s, and on through the ages. We want job markets that last for hundreds of generations, and we want an enduring bond with our humble and primal past. In progressive Christianity, environmental stewardship is a human responsibility handed down from God.
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Apparently, I am not "Lawful Good", but rather "Lawful Nice", at least according to NobodysWife.
We went to the Royal Cafe for breakfast on Saturday and, as is fairly typical for me, left a $20 tip on a $90 breakfast. No big deal.
My credit card bill just came in, and someone mis-entered it as $2, stiffing the waitress something horrible.So yes, I am actually going to drive to the restaurant to hand them the other $18 rather than accepting stiffing a waitress I will most likely never see again.
I am a sick person.
huzzah!
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Apparently, I am not "Lawful Good", but rather "Lawful Nice", at least according to NobodysWife.
We went to the Royal Cafe for breakfast on Saturday and, as is fairly typical for me, left a $20 tip on a $90 breakfast. No big deal.
My credit card bill just came in, and someone mis-entered it as $2, stiffing the waitress something horrible.So yes, I am actually going to drive to the restaurant to hand them the other $18 rather than accepting stiffing a waitress I will most likely never see again.
I am a sick person.
Admitting you have a problem is the first step towards recovery. :p
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Got it figured out! Only wasted one block figuring it out.
Coworker told me I had to repeat it 8 times, but he didn't say they had to be exactly the same.
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Day Two, back at the stable.
Co-worker is still lazy…
So I went around doing more hoof-care, washing (and reparering) feeding troughs + horse-drinkers, oiling sadles, bridles and harness', feeding and grooming and some general stable cleaning.
Two problems have cropped up though:
1. During cleaning, I moved a lot of stuff around (crates, barrels, old feed-bags etc) I meet mister/misses Rattus norvegicus (aka a huge brown rat), so we might have a rat-problem.
We've set some traps, and are keeping an eye out to see if we can get a feeling for the scale of the problem. If multiple rats are confirmed, we'll probably have to get an exterminator to look things over...
2. We have 3 foals from this year (came to this world in April-May this year). These small suckers though, still have their foal coats, and for some reason all three of them have very little fur covering their faces, so they are getting quite noticeable sunburns all over their cute little faces…(stupid heat-wave *shakes fist at sky*).
Thus I was tasked with smearing their faces with sun-cream (only I could do so as I'm the resident master of salve-smearing apparently *slight eye-roll*)…
Yea cooperative they were not (neither were the mommies in fact), though it did succeed with liberal use of patience, feed and a bit of playful interaction.
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Hey John.
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Man, y’all talk too much.
>.>
<.<
cough
(My people!)
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Two problems have cropped up though:
1. During cleaning, I moved a lot of stuff around (crates, barrels, old feed-bags etc) I meet mister/misses Rattus norvegicus (aka a huge brown rat), so we might have a rat-problem.
We've set some traps, and are keeping an eye out to see if we can get a feeling for the scale of the problem. If multiple rats are confirmed, we'll probably have to get an exterminator to look things over...
You need barn cats!
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"Up" is the direction diametrically opposed by gravity in an objective gravity field. In a subjective gravity field, "up" is whatever direction you decide it is. In a subjective gravity field, everyone can fly simply through their belief that "down" is now "over that direction", and can change their minds at will.
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Oh...were you just looking for the standard human greeting? ;)
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I love the creamy chicken Maruchan ramen, and I don't know why it's so difficult to find -- is it unpopular and thus inconsistently stocked, or is it super popular and thus taken before I do my shopping? Ah, the great mysteries of life.
I've been having heartburn lately too. Not real bad, but much more often than I ever have before.
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Hello, everyone.
Hello, John.
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You need barn cats!Two problems have cropped up though:
1. During cleaning, I moved a lot of stuff around (crates, barrels, old feed-bags etc) I meet mister/misses Rattus norvegicus (aka a huge brown rat), so we might have a rat-problem.
We've set some traps, and are keeping an eye out to see if we can get a feeling for the scale of the problem. If multiple rats are confirmed, we'll probably have to get an exterminator to look things over...
Cannot second this enough.
Cats and horses get along splendidly (usually), and hoo, boy, a hungry mama cat with rats in the area?
No matter how big nor vicious you think your rats are, a hungry mama cat will have them dead within days and be begging for scraps because her rat supply has all gone up and died.
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"Up" is the direction diametrically opposed by gravity in an objective gravity field. In a subjective gravity field, "up" is whatever direction you decide it is. In a subjective gravity field, everyone can fly simply through their belief that "down" is now "over that direction", and can change their minds at will.
Somebody's been reading too much Planescape.
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You know you've been working too hard on your vacation when it's barely after noon, you look at your next task and it reads, "Screw in conduit", and you're wondering whether it's construction or carnal advice...
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Been a bit of a s#!+ sandwich today. All sorts of problems ranging from "You have two choices: call your ISP or come into the office...I realize those are not pleasant options, but if you want to keep working from home you're going to have to get better internet service," to "Yeah, the time clock software isn't working in IE for everyone company-wide, but it worked fine this morning. It's working in Chrome and Firefox, but since it uses an IE-specific plug in, you won't have full functionality. It will work fine for clocking in/out....no, we have no idea....no, we have no ETA....because it's not ours...yes, we've called them to complain....they're looking into it...no I don't know when it's going to be fixed...please stop talking."
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Howdy, John!
For me, it's Maruchan's Roast Beef. But I rarely eat ramen anymore . . . .
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Been a bit of a s#!+ sandwich today. All sorts of problems ranging from "You have two choices: call your ISP or come into the office...I realize those are not pleasant options, but if you want to keep working from home you're going to have to get better internet service," to "Yeah, the time clock software isn't working in IE for everyone company-wide, but it worked fine this morning. It's working in Chrome and Firefox, but since it uses an IE-specific plug in, you won't have full functionality. It will work fine for clocking in/out....no, we have no idea....no, we have no ETA....because it's not ours...yes, we've called them to complain....they're looking into it...no I don't know when it's going to be fixed...please stop talking."
People who still use IE make <insert appropriate irreverent reference here> cry.
I swear...
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So, LM, a couple of casual, out-of-the-blue, random questions that I'm asking for no reason whatsoever:
(1) How much space do you anticipate having in the new house? Like, furniture space. Just 'cause that's a casual question that friends always ask each other...
(2) Just how over-the-top would I have to go before you'd personally fly back and kill me for having something delivered there?
Just asking. No reason...
EDIT: And NO, Shiro is NOT involved! I wouldn't do THAT to my worst enemy! Inflatable Japanese Monstrosities R Us indeed!
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Every time I drive through New Mexico I get a mad hankering to go camping on Horseback through this part of the country. Just not when it's 90° out.
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...please stop talking."
Never!
Now, as I was saying, all you people talk to much. I mean, it’s all good to gab and whatnot, but it’s just ramble, ramble, ramble as you go on, and on, and on, and on about things that don’t matter, pulling quotes no out of context for silly jokes, making religious points, often multiple times, and sometimes more than that, and the vagueness of such talk is simply nonsensical to the point of being excessive along with, pour, Grammy, and schpieling and an excessive use of conjunctions to make Rubin sentences that are far too large, rambling, lacking in purpose other than mild entertainment and/or self-referential humors, and short-term call-Becks, from, liek, earlier that same post (and Rubin sentence), not to mention all the sudden shifts in tone and topic and/or problematic within phones autocorrect functionality which just fills in the welp world according to whatever machine logic it uses, and, in short, I’m saying that the Forums are Way to Long.
I suggest cutting it down to about ten or so...
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But isn't it *always* 90 out there?? lol
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Now, in my preemptive defense, that post seems pretty long when I was filing it on the phone in the mall at a Chick-fil-A with two boys leaping over top of me.
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Been a bit of a s#!+ sandwich today. All sorts of problems ranging from "You have two choices: call your ISP or come into the office...I realize those are not pleasant options, but if you want to keep working from home you're going to have to get better internet service," to "Yeah, the time clock software isn't working in IE for everyone company-wide, but it worked fine this morning. It's working in Chrome and Firefox, but since it uses an IE-specific plug in, you won't have full functionality. It will work fine for clocking in/out....no, we have no idea....no, we have no ETA....because it's not ours...yes, we've called them to complain....they're looking into it...no I don't know when it's going to be fixed...please stop talking."People who still use IE make <insert appropriate irreverent reference here> cry.
I swear...
Believe me, I know. HR decided, all on their own without any input from IT, on a web-based time clock application that requires Silverlight to function. Take a guess at just how many browsers still support Silverlight.
>:(
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You're a good person NH. I'm not sure I would have been able to do the same. (Mostly because I don't tend to check my CC statements that closely, admittedly....)
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Hello, everyone.
Hello John.
...Didn't bring any sliced Ginger today, so I ate a box of Oatmeal Creme Cookies. Seems to have worked, somewhat...
*Looks in fridge for ginger, just to remember he ate the last of it tonight*
*Sighs*
*Offers a cold IPA , a glass of Old Pulteney or another beverage of choice*
You need barn cats!
Yea, that was my first suggestion too, but the owners seem quite adamant about not getting any barn cats for some reason (Did not really inquire why...maybe they just do not like them?)
So our options right are seem to be either traps, exterminator or a small but vicious dog (Yes, I do know someone with an experienced Danish/Swedish Farmdog, which is avid a rathunter).
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"Up" is the direction diametrically opposed by gravity in an objective gravity field. In a subjective gravity field, "up" is whatever direction you decide it is. In a subjective gravity field, everyone can fly simply through their belief that "down" is now "over that direction", and can change their minds at will.Somebody's been reading too much Planescape.
** spoiler omitted **
mmm. Still a bit leery of planescape...
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Been a bit of a s#!+ sandwich today. All sorts of problems ranging from "You have two choices: call your ISP or come into the office...I realize those are not pleasant options, but if you want to keep working from home you're going to have to get better internet service," to "Yeah, the time clock software isn't working in IE for everyone company-wide, but it worked fine this morning. It's working in Chrome and Firefox, but since it uses an IE-specific plug in, you won't have full functionality. It will work fine for clocking in/out....no, we have no idea....no, we have no ETA....because it's not ours...yes, we've called them to complain....they're looking into it...no I don't know when it's going to be fixed...please stop talking."
hm. Sounds pretty awful.
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mmm. Still a bit leery of planescape..."Up" is the direction diametrically opposed by gravity in an objective gravity field. In a subjective gravity field, "up" is whatever direction you decide it is. In a subjective gravity field, everyone can fly simply through their belief that "down" is now "over that direction", and can change their minds at will.Somebody's been reading too much Planescape.
** spoiler omitted **
But why?
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Hello, everyone.Hello John.
...Didn't bring any sliced Ginger today, so I ate a box of Oatmeal Creme Cookies. Seems to have worked, somewhat...*Looks in fridge for ginger, just to remember he ate the last of it tonight*
*Sighs*
*Offers a cold IPA , a glass of Old Pulteney or another beverage of choice*
You need barn cats!Yea, that was my first suggestion too, but the owners seem quite adamant about not getting any barn cats for some reason (Did not really inquire why...maybe they just do not like them?)
So our options right are seem to be either traps, exterminator or a small but vicious dog (Yes, I do know someone with an experienced Danish/Swedish Farmdog, which is avid a rathunter).
Ferrets!
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Hello, everyone.Hello John.
...Didn't bring any sliced Ginger today, so I ate a box of Oatmeal Creme Cookies. Seems to have worked, somewhat...*Looks in fridge for ginger, just to remember he ate the last of it tonight*
*Sighs*
*Offers a cold IPA , a glass of Old Pulteney or another beverage of choice*
You need barn cats!Yea, that was my first suggestion too, but the owners seem quite adamant about not getting any barn cats for some reason (Did not really inquire why...maybe they just do not like them?)
So our options right are seem to be either traps, exterminator or a small but vicious dog (Yes, I do know someone with an experienced Danish/Swedish Farmdog, which is avid a rathunter).
As someone who is allergic to cats, I can understand that. I was actually going to recommend a trained rathunter dog as a strong secondary contender, but foxes and ferrets (if well trained) might do as well - as I lack experience with those I can’t comment on them for sure, only on hearsay.