Vanykrye |
Vanykrye wrote:Another day of waking up in a strange bed.Sounds like igther a very good or very bad night.
Spending the week in a hotel outside Cincinnati for a business trip. Kids are prank-calling my room. Thermostat doesn't work in my room (I haven't complained because the temp has been comfortable). Pool is over-chlorinated... because I can smell the pool when I get off the elevator.
It's the same hotel chain as when I get sent out to the DC suburbs, but it's $50-60/night lower here, and you can immediately tell why.
NobodysHome |
Vidmaster7 wrote:Vanykrye wrote:Another day of waking up in a strange bed.Sounds like igther a very good or very bad night.Spending the week in a hotel outside Cincinnati for a business trip. Kids are prank-calling my room. Thermostat doesn't work in my room (I haven't complained because the temp has been comfortable). Pool is over-chlorinated... because I can smell the pool when I get off the elevator.
It's the same hotel chain as when I get sent out to the DC suburbs, but it's $50-60/night lower here, and you can immediately tell why.
I thought that died way back with the advent of caller ID. I'd give the kids one chance, but the second time they called my room I'd call the front desk and say, "Yeah, kids in room xxx have prank called me twice now, once at 5:36 pm and the second time at 7:48 pm. I'd appreciate it if you'd tell them to stop, thanks."
I've never received a third call...
Freehold DM |
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Vidmaster7 wrote:Vanykrye wrote:Another day of waking up in a strange bed.Sounds like igther a very good or very bad night.Spending the week in a hotel outside Cincinnati for a business trip. Kids are prank-calling my room. Thermostat doesn't work in my room (I haven't complained because the temp has been comfortable). Pool is over-chlorinated... because I can smell the pool when I get off the elevator.
It's the same hotel chain as when I get sent out to the DC suburbs, but it's $50-60/night lower here, and you can immediately tell why.
they took your clothes?
Freehold DM |
Back from the first session of the new Legend Of Five Rings campaign, after switching to 5th edition. I have suspiciously good rolls... For now.
I spoke to Shahai, dark fortune of blood and Susumu, dark fortune of deception on your behalf. They have blessed you. FOR DAIGOTSU-SAMA! FOR THE SPIDER!
Drejk |
Drejk wrote:Back from the first session of the new Legend Of Five Rings campaign, after switching to 5th edition. I have suspiciously good rolls... For now.I spoke to Shahai, dark fortune of blood and Susumu, dark fortune of deception on your behalf. They have blessed you. FOR DAIGOTSU-SAMA! FOR THE SPIDER!
...
*stings the spider*
Full scorpion party. Six scorpions. Though one is a half-Lion and still uses father's surname, but it will change soon, and one is Crab-wannabe.
Freehold DM |
Freehold DM wrote:Drejk wrote:Back from the first session of the new Legend Of Five Rings campaign, after switching to 5th edition. I have suspiciously good rolls... For now.I spoke to Shahai, dark fortune of blood and Susumu, dark fortune of deception on your behalf. They have blessed you. FOR DAIGOTSU-SAMA! FOR THE SPIDER!...
*stings the spider*
Full scorpion party. Six scorpions. Though one is a half-Lion and still uses father's surname, but it will change soon, and one is Crab-wannabe.
scorpion! Pah! Treacherous swimmers!
NobodysHome |
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Speaking of ways in which the world has improved since my youth, parents' willingness to believe that their little "angels" might possibly be little hellions when out of their sight has refreshingly skyrocketed.
Oh, the multitude of stories I could tell, from getting chased down and watching my friend get beat up by bullies then having to listen to the bullies' parents insist that their little angels couldn't have had anything to do with it (and the adminstrators believing them, of course) to my favorite "prank call" incident, it was nothing but bad:
I had a pair of 12-year-old girls make one of the most obscene calls I have ever received to my home in Davis when I was in grad school. I knew the code to immediately call back the number that had just dialed you, and I got the dad. I very calmly explained what his "darling" daughter had just said to me, including all the obscenities. He screamed at me. He threatened me. He told me his daughter didn't know any of those words. He threatened to call the police. I suggested he do so. He threatened again. I told him, "Please do so."
Unfortunately for him, his wife was home. Instead of fuming or yelling, she simply went to their daughter's room, hit Redial on the phone, and got... me.
The woman apologized to me, but it took her 2-3 minutes of browbeating the man to come onto the phone and apologize as well.
All because he found it more believable that an absolute stranger was calling for no reason other than to impugn his daughter, over the possibility that she was playing phone shenanigans.
25 years later it's the opposite -- you have to be VERY careful what you accuse kids of, because parents'll believe anything you tell 'em. For me, as a Lawful, truthful chaperone, it's a godsend.
I do not miss the old days of, "My child could not possibly have done that thing."
At all.
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I went to three different thrift shops today to score two different sets of plastic storage drawers. Now the kids and I are completely reorganizing all of the toys in their bedroom closet.
Bonus: At the Goodwill down the street, I found the Goldieblox Builder's Survival Kit, which used to be $60 and is now normally half that, for 1.99. So now Hermione has lots of extra axles, wheels, and connectors to add to her Goldie collection.
Because, you know, the whole point of the outing wasn't an emergency measure to try to deal with all the crap they already have, or anything like that.
But it was such a *deal*.
I'm ashamed.
Cover Turtle |
captain yesterday wrote:Several of my ancestors were pirates.Vidmaster7 wrote:I'm related to Vlad the Impaler.Cap'n Yesterday, FaWtL Tourism wrote:Should we declare today to be Talk Like You're Irish Day.The accent may be fake but I am Irish among a hodge podge of other things.
Also related to Charles Dickens. True story.
Mine were mostly farmers...though there were some exceptions here and there like a deacon, a parish clerk, a merchant seaman, a rural teacher, a few factory workers and a couple of petty criminals (aka swindlers/petty thieves).
Laundry's about done. Later.
*Waves Nighty Night to John*
The new job didn't work out.
Apparently educational settings are still a major anxiety trigger for me, and so transporting kids to a partial hospital program who have emotional issues is a bad idea. My eye is still twitching from almost having a major panic attack.
Long story short I left teaching because of kids like that. You hear emotional issues, you think depression and such, but operational defiance is on that list too. So I can't handle that anymore. Can't. Not after the snap I had in 2011.
I reay wanted to do this. The money wasn't great but it was something and a good company.
I hate myself sometimes.
*Pats VE on the shoulder*
You know yourself best. There's no shame in bowing out of a job, if you can feel the stress and anxiety symptoms clawing at the back of your head.
Freehold DM wrote:Drejk wrote:Back from the first session of the new Legend Of Five Rings campaign, after switching to 5th edition. I have suspiciously good rolls... For now.I spoke to Shahai, dark fortune of blood and Susumu, dark fortune of deception on your behalf. They have blessed you. FOR DAIGOTSU-SAMA! FOR THE SPIDER!...
*stings the spider*
Full scorpion party. Six scorpions. Though one is a half-Lion and still uses father's surname, but it will change soon, and one is Crab-wannabe.
*Makes a stinging motion with his turtle foot, before settling into a thoughtful pose*
Life is not fair. That doesn't mean you cannot win
Yes this turtle is a scorpion in disguise...or is he?
Drejk |
Drejk wrote:scorpion! Pah! Treacherous swimmers!Freehold DM wrote:Drejk wrote:Back from the first session of the new Legend Of Five Rings campaign, after switching to 5th edition. I have suspiciously good rolls... For now.I spoke to Shahai, dark fortune of blood and Susumu, dark fortune of deception on your behalf. They have blessed you. FOR DAIGOTSU-SAMA! FOR THE SPIDER!...
*stings the spider*
Full scorpion party. Six scorpions. Though one is a half-Lion and still uses father's surname, but it will change soon, and one is Crab-wannabe.
Well, a significant river on the Scorpion/Lion border plays a role in the plot of the scenario...
NobodysHome |
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Moments that make you proud as a parent.
Crookshanks blocked Boyd's number on her phone.
Can't favorite that one enough. The moment they make the mature decision on their own is SOOOOOO precious!
EDIT: Although I'll admit some sadness that it didn't come down to sending the phone to us and letting the Impii and their friends generate responses by committee.
Some of them are... vicious...
Just a Mort |
Good Parenting 101
(Long, drawn-out lecture from NobodysHome to Impus Minor about our family's history of addiction, and how I'm seeing warning signs in him, and I'm trying to give him the tools now he'll need to deal with such things in the future...)
NobodysHome: So I guess all in all I just want you to know that you're a good kid, I'm sorry you're going to have to deal with all of this, but I don't regret having you.
Impus Minor: I'm so confused...
NH: That's good! I've done my job, then. I'm glad we had this talk.
I'm confused too. Is Impus Minor addicted to anything?
Just a Mort |
I left teaching, never looked back. VE - I think you might need to pick up a job that has lesser interaction with people - can you work as a farm hand or maybe even go into construction like CY.
If you do admin, office politics (I mean my office is a calm, happy place but I can't say for others) may possibly also trigger it unless you can work remotely etc. Are there things like Web design etc you do fully online?
NobodysHome |
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NobodysHome wrote:I'm confused too. Is Impus Minor addicted to anything?Good Parenting 101
(Long, drawn-out lecture from NobodysHome to Impus Minor about our family's history of addiction, and how I'm seeing warning signs in him, and I'm trying to give him the tools now he'll need to deal with such things in the future...)
NobodysHome: So I guess all in all I just want you to know that you're a good kid, I'm sorry you're going to have to deal with all of this, but I don't regret having you.
Impus Minor: I'm so confused...
NH: That's good! I've done my job, then. I'm glad we had this talk.
(1) It's just the early warning signs -- I bring home a box of granola bars, he decides he likes them, and promptly wolfs down half a dozen at a sitting. Same thing with bottled waters, or video games. He finds something he likes, and very rapidly overindulges. That's a big red flag for later issues, so getting him to recognize it in himself at 14 and practice self-restraint will do wonders for him in the future, even if it's no fun now.
(2) The rest is a running joke in the family. The greatest compliment the kids can receive is, "Sometimes we don't regret having you."
It just suits our twisted senses of humor.
NobodysHome |
In spite of the long hours and terrible pay, I loved teaching, and managed the relative miracle of building a rapport with my kids every single class, every single year.
Then, the administration got involved, and the sheer reality of their abuse pushed me over the edge.
I left teaching for a decent-paying job without mindless, arbitrary brutal administrators.
And I work for a global megacorporation, which can only give you some inkling as to how bad school administrations are.
EDIT: And yes, if I won the lottery tomorrow, I'd go back to teaching in a hot second, but only as a volunteer, so I would not be beholden to the administrators in any way, shape, or form. They really are THAT bad...
Vanykrye |
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Vanykrye wrote:Vidmaster7 wrote:Vanykrye wrote:Another day of waking up in a strange bed.Sounds like igther a very good or very bad night.Spending the week in a hotel outside Cincinnati for a business trip. Kids are prank-calling my room. Thermostat doesn't work in my room (I haven't complained because the temp has been comfortable). Pool is over-chlorinated... because I can smell the pool when I get off the elevator.
It's the same hotel chain as when I get sent out to the DC suburbs, but it's $50-60/night lower here, and you can immediately tell why.
I thought that died way back with the advent of caller ID. I'd give the kids one chance, but the second time they called my room I'd call the front desk and say, "Yeah, kids in room xxx have prank called me twice now, once at 5:36 pm and the second time at 7:48 pm. I'd appreciate it if you'd tell them to stop, thanks."
I've never received a third call...
I would have gone that route, except that the hotel room phones don't actually have caller ID.
Yeah, I know.
Close your mouth.
Vanykrye |
Vanykrye wrote:they took your clothes?Vidmaster7 wrote:Vanykrye wrote:Another day of waking up in a strange bed.Sounds like igther a very good or very bad night.Spending the week in a hotel outside Cincinnati for a business trip. Kids are prank-calling my room. Thermostat doesn't work in my room (I haven't complained because the temp has been comfortable). Pool is over-chlorinated... because I can smell the pool when I get off the elevator.
It's the same hotel chain as when I get sent out to the DC suburbs, but it's $50-60/night lower here, and you can immediately tell why.
Possibly. I haven't bothered looking for them.
Rosita the Riveter |
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In spite of the long hours and terrible pay, I loved teaching, and managed the relative miracle of building a rapport with my kids every single class, every single year.
Then, the administration got involved, and the sheer reality of their abuse pushed me over the edge.
I left teaching for a decent-paying job without mindless, arbitrary brutal administrators.
And I work for a global megacorporation, which can only give you some inkling as to how bad school administrations are.
EDIT: And yes, if I won the lottery tomorrow, I'd go back to teaching in a hot second, but only as a volunteer, so I would not be beholden to the administrators in any way, shape, or form. They really are THAT bad...
I work at a university right now, and our experience in that university presidents who come from the faculty suck, and ones that come from administration can be either good or bad. Being a professor anr administrating a university? Not similar skill sets at all.
Honestly, as an administrator, I find professors to be more annoying than students. Professors harp on their students about always turning work in on time, doing work well ahead of time instead of procrastinating, and reading the goddamn syllabus. Yet professors never read my department's rules and regulations and then throw fits about the rules, professors turn stuff in late constantly, and they're always waiting until the last minute if they actually do it on time. Students do all these things, too, but professors do it more often and throw more memorable fits over policies.
If there's anything I couldn't be paid to deal with, it's K-12 education. Kids are fine, but there isn't enough money in the world to make me deal with parents.
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Anyway, what's going on here? I've increasingly been gone. Can't really play Pathfinder because my school is all 5e, all the time, so Paizo's fallen to the wayside. I'm more active on rpg.net.
Lots of stuff going on. I live in San Jose now. I left San Francisco for my grandmother's house in Los Altos after getting into grad school. Then my grandmother passed away during the holidays, so I had to move to San Jose. Also I work for my university's administration and as a TA.
I'm getting ready to work on a major D&D worldbuilding project based on the Mediterranean, in which the fantasy counterpart of the Med is literally the center of the entire setting, with all of the parts of the setting that are actually mapped existing along the sea. Every land is defined by it's relationship to the sea, and seafaring adventures are not so much an option as they are openly encouraged.
Just a Mort |
I think my parents advice on don’t date until you finish your studies is the right thing to do and I’d probably give it to my kittens as well.
Addictions…eh I used to be some cat that spends the whole day in front of the computer but my shoulder gives trouble when I sit in front of a computer screen too long so…meh. Can’t do that these days. It’s also the reason why I’m not into lifting weights. About trying to do something about it? Have tried, to no result.
Alcohol, I like getting buzzed but as it is now, thinking of the 7 calories per gram is making me feel urk. I’m sort of more concerned now if I’m getting enough nutrition since I’ve been doing a massive calorie cut. I think I should be fine since I’m very diligent in getting that cup of milk every morning, and whenever possible I try to eat an egg, or get some fish/chicken.
I used to be quite the greedy guts but I guess I’m using my iron discipline to keep it in check at the moment so I haven’t gone on any kind of eating sprees at the moment. If I see something I like, I take one piece, every day. Not more then a single piece. It’s like I do eat junk food…maybe just one marshmallow per day? I figure that if I stick to one piece, it shouldn’t be all too bad. I don't believe in full abstinence since I don't think the calories for a single piece is really that much and besides if you fully abstain, you'll probably get to deal with more cravings.
If I really want to indulge in something rather over the top(like a bowl of glutinous rice balls), then its on to me to squeeze another workout session (flips open youtube and loads up a Billy Blanks Tae Bo Session).
Tequila Sunrise |
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Rewatched Infinity War, with Mrs. Sunrise this time, and I thought of VE's plot-hole claim about Thanos just creating more resources instead of wiping out half the universe. Initially my thought was "Well duh he's gonna wipe out half the universe anyway, he's a pscyho, he enjoys killing people!" But he really doesn't, at least not that we can see on screen. His enemies are just obstacles in the way of his goal.
So yeah, major plot hole. Unless maybe the Stones can only create temporary effects, rather than truly changing the universe? Doubt it.
Freehold DM |
I made a video for my NWN plot.
either my hatred of the realms has blinded me or that was purely psychedelic.
Orthos |
GM Umbral Ultimatum wrote:I made a video for my NWN plot.either my hatred of the realms has blinded me or that was purely psychedelic.
It's a Far Realm plot, so.... Yeah psychedelic fits.
The Vagrant Erudite |
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If you want to do something right, you gotta GM it yourself.
Since I couldn't find a group running anything but Pathfinder (more or less) on a VTT, I decided to start one my own. I'm doing a Legend of the Five Rings campaign, and I managed to poach away one player from my PF group on Fridays to play Saturdays. Along with my girlfriend, that's two players.
You all know how priority is always given to my FaWtL friends when I decide to run a game. And this time, it's not PbP, because I decided I officially don't like that. (But Virtual Tabletop has been fun!)
The more I talked about it with the player I snagged, the more excited I got. Damn I love this setting!
The Vagrant Erudite |
Freehold DM wrote:It's a Far Realm plot, so.... Yeah psychedelic fits.GM Umbral Ultimatum wrote:I made a video for my NWN plot.either my hatred of the realms has blinded me or that was purely psychedelic.
I got 10 seconds of a trippy video with eyes and then it ended...
YAAR! I BE A PIRATE! |
Woran wrote:I'll believe you when you give me a good Yaaarrrr.captain yesterday wrote:Several of my ancestors were pirates.Vidmaster7 wrote:I'm related to Vlad the Impaler.Cap'n Yesterday, FaWtL Tourism wrote:Should we declare today to be Talk Like You're Irish Day.The accent may be fake but I am Irish among a hodge podge of other things.
Also related to Charles Dickens. True story.
YAAR, mebbe I be one o' Woran's ancestors.
gran rey de los mono |
Vanykrye wrote:Vidmaster7 wrote:Vanykrye wrote:Another day of waking up in a strange bed.Sounds like igther a very good or very bad night.Spending the week in a hotel outside Cincinnati for a business trip. Kids are prank-calling my room. Thermostat doesn't work in my room (I haven't complained because the temp has been comfortable). Pool is over-chlorinated... because I can smell the pool when I get off the elevator.
It's the same hotel chain as when I get sent out to the DC suburbs, but it's $50-60/night lower here, and you can immediately tell why.
I thought that died way back with the advent of caller ID. I'd give the kids one chance, but the second time they called my room I'd call the front desk and say, "Yeah, kids in room xxx have prank called me twice now, once at 5:36 pm and the second time at 7:48 pm. I'd appreciate it if you'd tell them to stop, thanks."
I've never received a third call...
Sure, that works if the phone in the room tells you who's calling. I've worked at 5 different hotels and none of them had that. I can't even tell you who called your room because it's not on any report anywhere. So if someone is prank calling you, all I can suggest is "Leave the phone off the hook." Which has it's own issues, but at least stops them from calling.
gran rey de los mono |
Speaking of ways in which the world has improved since my youth, parents' willingness to believe that their little "angels" might possibly be little hellions when out of their sight has refreshingly skyrocketed.
Oh, the multitude of stories I could tell, from getting chased down and watching my friend get beat up by bullies then having to listen to the bullies' parents insist that their little angels couldn't have had anything to do with it (and the adminstrators believing them, of course) to my favorite "prank call" incident, it was nothing but bad:
I had a pair of 12-year-old girls make one of the most obscene calls I have ever received to my home in Davis when I was in grad school. I knew the code to immediately call back the number that had just dialed you, and I got the dad. I very calmly explained what his "darling" daughter had just said to me, including all the obscenities. He screamed at me. He threatened me. He told me his daughter didn't know any of those words. He threatened to call the police. I suggested he do so. He threatened again. I told him, "Please do so."Unfortunately for him, his wife was home. Instead of fuming or yelling, she simply went to their daughter's room, hit Redial on the phone, and got... me.
The woman apologized to me, but it took her 2-3 minutes of browbeating the man to come onto the phone and apologize as well.All because he found it more believable that an absolute stranger was calling for no reason other than to impugn his daughter, over the possibility that she was playing phone shenanigans.
25 years later it's the opposite -- you have to be VERY careful what you accuse kids of, because parents'll believe anything you tell 'em. For me, as a Lawful, truthful chaperone, it's a godsend.
I do not miss the old days of, "My child could not possibly have done that thing."
At all.
You haven't met the people who stay at my hotel. They will WATCH their kids do stuff and then say "Nope. My kids didn't do that. Must have been someone else."
Orthos |
Orthos wrote:I got 10 seconds of a trippy video with eyes and then it ended...Freehold DM wrote:It's a Far Realm plot, so.... Yeah psychedelic fits.GM Umbral Ultimatum wrote:I made a video for my NWN plot.either my hatred of the realms has blinded me or that was purely psychedelic.
That's the full thing. Not a long video.