It's not a fight, I said what I said and that's it.
I'm certainly not going to antagonize anyone further.
Nor do I expect anyone to follow suit.
If you don't like it, flag it.
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Morning all. I hope everyone is well and taking care of themselves. Having a good day and all that.Pittsburgh had several inches of snow, last night. Which makes going to work at 3:00 AM a bit less pleasant.
Travel safe, John, I hope your journey goes smoothly and the work day goes well.
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I've been floored with the flu for the past week, just recovering now. Work had plenty waiting for me when I returned this morning, which was a delight, as always. :P
I had even got the flu jab, but managed to pick up one of the strains not covered by it. Typical of my luck, honestly. :)
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But yes, I was stressed and angry about a lot of other shit and lashed out at Vidmaster, it was a bit harsh, I agree.
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Yeah, that blows. Do the pharmacies there sell Theraflu? I find that it works well for me. Especially when added to hot tea.I've been floored with the flu for the past week, just recovering now. Work had plenty waiting for me when I returned this morning, which was a delight, as always. :P
I had even got the flu jab, but managed to pick up one of the strains not covered by it. Typical of my luck, honestly. :)
Can't say I've ever heard of it, but that doesn't mean it's not. It might be under a different brand. What's the main ingredient?
What I find often is that, over-the-counter drugs in the states are prescription drugs here. Which always makes me curious about what the processes to decide which things are otc and which aren't, and why different processes give different results in different countries.
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Late last year, about thirty people were gathered near the Diplodocus statue at the main public library. Pokemon Go.
It's still pretty popular. Not as explosively popular as it was when it launched, and I wonder, if they had all the stuff they have now, at launch, would it have last longer? I spend too much time wondering, methinks. :P
Anyways, yes, still somewhat popular. I got a crew of 5 at work, my two flatmates play, a few other FaWtLers do as well. Even my ex plays, and joins me for raids in town, on occasion. She set up my little man with an account too, something for us to do as a family still.
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Acetaminophen, Diphenhydramine HCl, and Phenylephrine HCl.Yeah, that blows. Do the pharmacies there sell Theraflu? I find that it works well for me. Especially when added to hot tea.I've been floored with the flu for the past week, just recovering now. Work had plenty waiting for me when I returned this morning, which was a delight, as always. :P
I had even got the flu jab, but managed to pick up one of the strains not covered by it. Typical of my luck, honestly. :)
Can't say I've ever heard of it, but that doesn't mean it's not. It might be under a different brand. What's the main ingredient?
What I find often is that, over-the-counter drugs in the states are prescription drugs here. Which always makes me curious about what the processes to decide which things are otc and which aren't, and why different processes give different results in different countries.
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Ah-ha! Paracetamol, as it is known here, is an easily available otc drug. I was taking Lemsip, which contains 500mg or 1,000mg, depending on which strength version you take. I was taking the 1,000mg one, because I was really taken down by it. It's definitely good stuff alright.
The other two appear to be an antihistamine and a decongestant, respectively. Diphenhydramine is used in Benadryl, which is a cough syrup I often take when my throat is at me, though didn't go for this time. I'm not sure what Irish drugs Phenylephrine would be found in.
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First sign of spring?
Boss wants me and summer coworker to go to a class about sand tomorrow.
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First sign of spring?
Boss wants me and summer coworker to go to a class about sand tomorrow.
[Forrest Gump]...pounded sand, packed sand, sifted sand, glassy sand, rocky sand, beer can tab sand...[/Forrest Gump]
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Homunculus #1 loves Pokemon, which would make Go a perfect bonding game for him and I, but alas he's not old enough for a smart phone. :(
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Homunculus #1 loves Pokemon, which would make Go a perfect bonding game for him and I, but alas he's not old enough for a smart phone. :(
My little man's not old enough for a smartphone of his own either (6), but his mom has an old phone that she installed it on for him. It has no SIM card, works off my phone's internet hotspot (God bless unlimited data :P) and he only has it when we go out to play P Go.
Not saying that'd necessarily work in your situation, just how we worked it. :)
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Thoughts in ITland:
"The HTML does not render correctly when running Microsoft Outlook on an iPhone or iPad."
Responding, "No <manure>, Sherlock! What the <copulation> are you doing running Outlook on your iPhone?" is apparently not good for customer relations, even if it's good for the soul...
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Outlook? Isn't that e-mail management program anyway? Why bother with HTML on it in the first place?!
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Acetaminophen, Diphenhydramine HCl, and Phenylephrine HCl.Yeah, that blows. Do the pharmacies there sell Theraflu? I find that it works well for me. Especially when added to hot tea.I've been floored with the flu for the past week, just recovering now. Work had plenty waiting for me when I returned this morning, which was a delight, as always. :P
I had even got the flu jab, but managed to pick up one of the strains not covered by it. Typical of my luck, honestly. :)
Can't say I've ever heard of it, but that doesn't mean it's not. It might be under a different brand. What's the main ingredient?
What I find often is that, over-the-counter drugs in the states are prescription drugs here. Which always makes me curious about what the processes to decide which things are otc and which aren't, and why different processes give different results in different countries.
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Ah-ha! Paracetamol, as it is known here, is an easily available otc drug. I was taking Lemsip, which contains 500mg or 1,000mg, depending on which strength version you take. I was taking the 1,000mg one, because I was really taken down by it. It's definitely good stuff alright.
The other two appear to be an antihistamine and a decongestant, respectively. Diphenhydramine is used in Benadryl, which is a cough syrup I often take when my throat is at me, though didn't go for this time. I'm not sure what Irish drugs Phenylephrine would be found in.
if my job is any indication, you also use different names for things.
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While all our scheduled events aren't lined up, we at least know which cities we'll be in on which dates, in case any of the Western European FaWtLers want to meet up with us for an afternoon of tourism or dinner or some such. (And yes, Lord Synos gets the biggest gripe because we're in the U.K. for 9 days and don't make it to Ireland, and Drejk can go ahead and grouch that we don't even make eastern Germany, much less Poland):
July 9-11: London, England
July 12-13: Edinburgh, Scotland
July 14: Inverness, Scotland
July 15-16: Inverary, Scotland?
July 17: Edinburgh, Scotland
July 18-20: Paris, France
July 21-22: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
July 23-25: Copenhagen, Denmark
So yeah, it's pretty much a whirlwind tour where we wanted the kids and Shiro to see London and Scotland, then GothBard loves Paris (I could skip it), we've never actually stopped in Amsterdam, and GothBard has a former co-worker just outside of Copenhagen.
Should be exhausting, if nothing else!
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Outlook? Isn't that e-mail management program anyway? Why bother with HTML on it in the first place?!
As TOZ said, people like "pretty things", so most corporate email these days includes a ton of HTML to make it look nice.
Trouble is, the native Mail client on iPhones and iPads already integrates with Outlook Exchange servers, so this really is just a case of users saying, "I don't want to use something that WORKS!!! I want to use a cobbled-together piece of crapware Microsoft threw over the wall at Apple just to pretend they don't still hate each other. Because I use Outlook on my Windows machine, and I need it to look EXACTLY THE SAME!!!"
If you're going to shell out for an iPhone, use the native apps, people. In the other direction lies madness...
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John is absolutely right, I do owe Vidmaster an apology.
Not only for being an a&~~%$% today, but for all the times I've made fun of his grammar and spelling previously, it was a dick move and I'm sorry.
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Recruited two more people in work in Pokémon Go, so we're up to 5 now. Hoping to take on some 4* raids soon, maybe even a five, once the newer members have levelled up a bit. :)
I'm jealous. Nobody plays with me. Getting into a raid takes carefull planning with a few select friends :(
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The fun part of the sand class tomorrow will be sizing up people from other companies.
Or I guess having them trying to size us up, as I already know they can't touch us.
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While all our scheduled events aren't lined up, we at least know which cities we'll be in on which dates, in case any of the Western European FaWtLers want to meet up with us for an afternoon of tourism or dinner or some such. (And yes, Lord Synos gets the biggest gripe because we're in the U.K. for 9 days and don't make it to Ireland, and Drejk can go ahead and grouch that we don't even make eastern Germany, much less Poland):
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I'm going to check my availability tomorrow for this.
I can also give you *all* the tips of what to do in amsterdam.
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Homunculus #1 loves Pokemon, which would make Go a perfect bonding game for him and I, but alas he's not old enough for a smart phone. :(My little man's not old enough for a smartphone of his own either (6), but his mom has an old phone that she installed it on for him. It has no SIM card, works off my phone's internet hotspot (God bless unlimited data :P) and he only has it when we go out to play P Go.
Not saying that'd necessarily work in your situation, just how we worked it. :)
Hm, that sounds workable the next time Mrs. Sunrise upgrades. Or I suppose I could upgrade...
(When she upgrades, I upgrade to her old phone, and in the past have either passed my phone on or exchanged it.)
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BLARGLEARG. My plumbing and septic has been an issue for the last five days (including today) because we didn't know what the issue is, and no one wanted to find out; but fortunately there is a light at the end of the tunnel. It seems it is the septic system itself (not covered by my HOI, of course... sigh) instead of a main line problem, so at least now I know how to proceed (probably). It costs a couple of hundred bucks we can't afford, granted, but at least we know what it needs. Feh.
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While all our scheduled events aren't lined up, we at least know which cities we'll be in on which dates, in case any of the Western European FaWtLers want to meet up with us for an afternoon of tourism or dinner or some such. (And yes, Lord Synos gets the biggest gripe because we're in the U.K. for 9 days and don't make it to Ireland, and Drejk can go ahead and grouch that we don't even make eastern Germany, much less Poland):
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I'm going to check my availability tomorrow for this.
I can also give you *all* the tips of what to do in amsterdam.
I read/interpreted this in the dirty way, and I apologize for doing so!
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I'm superstitious about this sort of thing, so I'm a bit hesitant to say this, but I can't focus on anything else for being on the edge of my seat:
I've been in hospital with a lung infection for the past two weeks, and today my lung numbers are very improved so I fully expect to be discharged today. *Knocks hard on wood* I'm just waiting for a doctor to give the official go-ahead, and they are taking their sweet-ass time about it...
Anyway, it's been a rough two weeks. I've been hospitalized for longer stretches (one month is my record), but due to really wanting to get home and my pulmonary doctor being on a totally different page than I, I was really gray and despondent for a few days last week. It was really great to know that FAWTL was here to provide a little distraction and interaction.
So thanks, all. :)
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I'm superstitious about this sort of thing, so I'm a bit hesitant to say this, but I can't focus on anything else for being on the edge of my seat:
I've been in hospital with a lung infection for the past two weeks, and today my lung numbers are very improved so I fully expect to be discharged today. *Knocks hard on wood* I'm just waiting for a doctor to give the official go-ahead, and they are taking their sweet-ass time about it...
Anyway, it's been a rough two weeks. I've been hospitalized for longer stretches (one month is my record), but due to really wanting to get home and my pulmonary doctor being on a totally different page than I, I was really gray and despondent for a few days last week. It was really great to know that FAWTL was here to provide a little distraction and interaction.
So thanks, all. :)
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I'm superstitious about this sort of thing, so I'm a bit hesitant to say this, but I can't focus on anything else for being on the edge of my seat:
I've been in hospital with a lung infection for the past two weeks, and today my lung numbers are very improved so I fully expect to be discharged today. *Knocks hard on wood* I'm just waiting for a doctor to give the official go-ahead, and they are taking their sweet-ass time about it...
Anyway, it's been a rough two weeks. I've been hospitalized for longer stretches (one month is my record), but due to really wanting to get home and my pulmonary doctor being on a totally different page than I, I was really gray and despondent for a few days last week. It was really great to know that FAWTL was here to provide a little distraction and interaction.
So thanks, all. :)
Everybody knows that that spell never works!
EDIT: Seriously. The CL check on Remove Disease and Neutralize Poison make you burn SO many 3rd and 4th level spells for something so minor. One of my HUGE aggravations among the PF spells...
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In Hearthstone news, I'm finding myself wishing for a format comparable to Magic's modern format -- everything allowed except the Hall of Famers.
Yes, there's nothing quite so irritating as whittling an opponent down to single digits using careful tactics, only to have them bounce back to 30 using Reno.
Another reason why I'm currently favouring MTG arena over Hearthstone currently…
It caters a bit better to my craving for quick and dirt play......After googling the Hall of Fame, why is Reno not in it?! He is obnoxious.
I'm an aggro player through and through. If I can't see the end of a game by "turn" 10 to 12 (be it hearthstone, magic or other "card game") then either I've miss-read/played the game, been out played or been royally screwed over by RNG.
I'm superstitious about this sort of thing, so I'm a bit hesitant to say this, but I can't focus on anything else for being on the edge of my seat:
I've been in hospital with a lung infection for the past two weeks, and today my lung numbers are very improved so I fully expect to be discharged today. *Knocks hard on wood* I'm just waiting for a doctor to give the official go-ahead, and they are taking their sweet-ass time about it...
Anyway, it's been a rough two weeks. I've been hospitalized for longer stretches (one month is my record), but due to really wanting to get home and my pulmonary doctor being on a totally different page than I, I was really gray and despondent for a few days last week. It was really great to know that FAWTL was here to provide a little distraction and interaction.
So thanks, all. :)
Just try focus on recouping and try to keep your chin up TS!
…I might be a bit of a grouch, not really that good a talking with other and heck even somewhat emotionally stunted, but if you really feel like talking, just drop me a PM and I'll answer as quickly as I can.
Nope, I don't have any super powers that I know off...except the one that lets me eat almost anything edible known to mankind.
And they call her...the Cat with the Iron Stomach!
…Eh its a work in progress ^^'
:p
I'm a lazy bugger. I dont work out at all.
*Nods*
Me too ^^'
Zelda's vehicle only has to last one more drive...
The engine has a hole in it that I can see through.
She just replaced a wheel bearing.
The driver's side window won't roll up/down. It will fall down quite nicely, so there's a lot of tape holding it up. Replacing the actuator might take care of it, but we did that on the passenger side and it's such a pain. And it still doesn't work *well*.
The suspension is shot. Seriously shot - it just hasn't collapsed yet. I fully expect the next pothole to be the killing blow.
Replaced the thermostat.
Need to replace a sensor on the rear passenger door - the car thinks the rear door is open, randomly. When the vehicle is off it turns on the car alarm. The car alarm has since been removed.
The entire brake system is needing to be replaced.
When she took her dear vehicle to get the wheel bearing replaced she was told "Ok, so you want the price on just replacing the bearing, or to make the truck actually safe to drive?"
This is all just in the last year.
So on Saturday we went out armed with her tax return to look at decent used vehicles. She picks up her new used vehicle (in remarkably good shape, honestly) tonight.
She's very excited, but sad to see her old beast go. Even in as bad of shape as it's in, it still has not stranded her anywhere. Somehow.
I'm excited because now I won't be concerned for her safety when she drives to her mom's or even with her 35 mile work commute.
Probably for the best that Zeldas beast gets sent to the scrap yard...
It'll give you some piece of mind whenever she goes on the road.While all our scheduled events aren't lined up, we at least know which cities we'll be in on which dates, in case any of the Western European FaWtLers want to meet up with us for an afternoon of tourism or dinner or some such. (And yes, Lord Synos gets the biggest gripe because we're in the U.K. for 9 days and don't make it to Ireland, and Drejk can go ahead and grouch that we don't even make eastern Germany, much less Poland):
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As I said before, I'm trying to work out a way of being there…
Just hope I can make it all fit together.Also…
In other news...
Its an exciting time for me, as I'm starting on the temp job.
Unfortunately, when I get excited...I'm emotionally unstable. I'm feeling, well touchy.
And...
Around the same time last year, some really personal and emotionally charged stuff happened, and I'm feeling the returning echoes somewhat easily, for some reason, currently.
I guess, I'm saying that if I suddenly start pouring my heart out in some long winded post...please don't be too surprised.
I'll try and put up spoilers out of respect for those involved, as I really don't want to call out anyone (other then myself) for anything...its just I'm not good at this kind of stuff, and well, I don't want to purposefully hurt or inconvenience anyone past or present.
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Sorry I'm rambling ^^'
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Tonight, we fought with messers, god help us
The messers broke.
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So, it just turned to March, which means the boss has been hyping us on Facebook, buying supplies, and scheduling certification classes for us so as soon as the snow melts we're ready to roll.
Other companies, they've been wasting time at trade shows and complaining to the newspapers about how all their plants are buried under snow and their bulbs might be rotting.
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While all our scheduled events aren't lined up, we at least know which cities we'll be in on which dates, in case any of the Western European FaWtLers want to meet up with us for an afternoon of tourism or dinner or some such. (And yes, Lord Synos gets the biggest gripe because we're in the U.K. for 9 days and don't make it to Ireland, and Drejk can go ahead and grouch that we don't even make eastern Germany, much less Poland):
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By the time you will be there, UK won't even be Europe anymore...
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If you're going to shell out for an iPhone, use the native apps, people. In the other direction lies madness...
*cough*
As long as someone else would be paying. Well, unless I would won a lottery and could throw a few millions around just because.
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By the time you will be there, UK won't even be Europe anymore...
Which as an American, I can only interpret as "Parliament can't agree on whether to brexit or not or how hard, and at the same time all the politicians are happy to watch Teresa get blamed for everyone voting no to all her deals."
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Well I am being discharged, but it is six hours later and they haven't quite booted me out the door yet...sigh.
So in the meantime, some thoughts about the Wheel of Time:
The Ajahs are kinda inconsistent, a lot like schools of magic. Like some of them kinda make sense, Yellow is about healing, grays are negotiators. But some ajahs are kind of a whole other class of thing, like reds are basically stereotypical lesbian man-haters and greens are free-lovin' free spirits (and also the battle ajah). And blues are all about...'causes', as if that's a distinct and unified thing?
Perrin and Faile irritate the shit out of me. Like I get their marriage fits perfectly into Jordan's men are from mars, women are from venus thing, but ugh. Grow up and talk it out.
Rand is definitely kind of a dick. Nine aes sedai from Salidar help save him from literal torture and captivity at Dumai's Wells, at great personal risk, and in return he forces them to literally kneel before him. Granted there was a prior history between them, but c'mon dude these ones are on your side.
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Also it didn't really strike me the first time reading the Dumai's Wells battle how it must have been like people witnessing industrial warfare for the first time. In a medieval-esque world where Aes Sedai are constrained from using the Power as a weapon, seeing Asha'man literally blowing people to bits must have been like renaissance people seeing a fusillade of canons shred enemy ranks for the first time.
Or in modern times, like me if I ever see actual warfare in person. Probably awesome, in a horrible gut-churning kind of way.
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Also it didn't really strike me the first time reading the Dumai's Wells battle how it must have been like people witnessing industrial warfare for the first time. In a medieval-esque world where Aes Sedai are constrained from using the Power as a weapon, seeing Asha'man literally blowing people to bits must have been like renaissance people seeing a fusillade of canons shred enemy ranks for the first time.
Or in modern times, like me if I ever see actual warfare in person. Probably awesome, in a horrible gut-churning kind of way.
indeed it was one of the most amazing scenes in the entire series under Jordan.
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Zelda's vehicle only has to last one more drive...
The engine has a hole in it that I can see through.
She just replaced a wheel bearing.
The driver's side window won't roll up/down. It will fall down quite nicely, so there's a lot of tape holding it up. Replacing the actuator might take care of it, but we did that on the passenger side and it's such a pain. And it still doesn't work *well*.
The suspension is shot. Seriously shot - it just hasn't collapsed yet. I fully expect the next pothole to be the killing blow.
Replaced the thermostat.
Need to replace a sensor on the rear passenger door - the car thinks the rear door is open, randomly. When the vehicle is off it turns on the car alarm. The car alarm has since been removed.
The entire brake system is needing to be replaced.
When she took her dear vehicle to get the wheel bearing replaced she was told "Ok, so you want the price on just replacing the bearing, or to make the truck actually safe to drive?"
This is all just in the last year.
So on Saturday we went out armed with her tax return to look at decent used vehicles. She picks up her new used vehicle (in remarkably good shape, honestly) tonight.
She's very excited, but sad to see her old beast go. Even in as bad of shape as it's in, it still has not stranded her anywhere. Somehow.
I'm excited because now I won't be concerned for her safety when she drives to her mom's or even with her 35 mile work commute.
Down here you get to pay higher road tax the moment your vehicle passes 10 years, so we usually have them sold for scrap after 10 years. The reason is that we don’t want our vehicles breaking down in the middle of the road and causing traffic congestion. So the government has deliberately increased road tax a LOT for older vehicles. We definitely don’t get that kind of problems that you described Zelda in having, but looking at the damage, I think it would be cheaper to get a second hand vehicle then actually try to repair it.