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Ebay? Mystery box of assorted toys (quality guaranteed).
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You're not donating toys. You're selling the kids and the toys go with as a package deal. It's not how much you'll make on the kids, it's more about the future savings. No college, no food, no more clothes for them to instantly grow out of, etc, etc, etc. And you get a lot of space back in the house.
My logic is flawless.
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Ebay? Mystery box of assorted toys (quality guaranteed).
This has a whole lot of other connotations now.
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Ebay? Mystery box of assorted toys (quality guaranteed).
Once again, income ≠ time spent. At this point of my life, if it doesn't earn me $20/hour, I'm not bothering. So either I find a "bulk toy donation" station where I can dump all the sorted-and-in-good-condition toys, or landfill ho!
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No daycares want the toys, either? I can see Goodwill and the like being wary re: bedbugs, but...
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Okay, but you'll have to bring a babysitter, because the General will definitely want to come with and a night on the town with Freehold, Captain Yesterday, and the General is no place for children.if I was closer, I would take you out for a nightcap. It sounds like you are under lots of stress.John is absolutely right, I do owe Vidmaster an apology.
Not only for being an a&#*++& today, but for all the times I've made fun of his grammar and spelling previously, it was a dick move and I'm sorry.
Alright man I'll accept that apology. I might still take a bit not responding to your posts to make sure I don't have any negativeness coming through. I didn't mind the jokes to much and I know its a flaw, but the last one felt more malicious then joking around. I appreciate the apology. I'll chalk it up to stress.
Hope your days get a stress reduction.
I don't blame you, I was an a$~$@!#, straight up.
Again, I'm sorry, I was fed up with s$@~ at home and lashed out at you instead of those which were frustrating me, it was a s*#+ty thing to do.
Oh, I'd definitely come up for that as well. Not sure about Aiymi, but Zelda would definitely be up for that too.
This still is not solving the babysitting issues though...
Maybe convince Zelda's Eldest that it would be in her best interests to keep an eye on all the kids.
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I might be in a bit of a mood today.
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NH, did you ever try the Oakland zoo? They used to accept used stuffies for enrichment for some of the animals.
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Capitalization rule #2
Use capitals for proper nouns. In other words, capitalize the names of people, specific places, and things.
Generally, yes. Except in case of proper names and nicknames, especially internet nicknames, the quirks of the individual name's spelling/pronunciation take priority over general rules.
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Tac, Tarpon Springs is a Greek community just north of Tampa. My paternal grandparents used to live in Dunedin, so we went fairly often.
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I've always been a scarf person myself.
Had to look up what a balaclava was, and then realized they're ski masks.
Most baklava in the Midwest that I've seen at least has chocolate lightly drizzled on top, is that wrong?
that is very wrong. But that might not be baklava, but something similar in texture and composition that has been locally misnamed.
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Okay, but you'll have to bring a babysitter, because the General will definitely want to come with and a night on the town with Freehold, Captain Yesterday, and the General is no place for children.if I was closer, I would take you out for a nightcap. It sounds like you are under lots of stress.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.
Alright man I'll accept that apology. I might still take a bit not responding to your posts to make sure I don't have any negativeness coming through. I didn't mind the jokes to much and I know its a flaw, but the last one felt more malicious then joking around. I appreciate the apology. I'll chalk it up to stress.
Hope your days get a stress reduction.
I don't blame you, I was an a$~$@!#, straight up.
Again, I'm sorry, I was fed up with s$@~ at home and lashed out at you instead of those which were frustrating me, it was a s*#+ty thing to do.
hopefully, it IS a place for milkmaids.
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This day is getting to me. International audit is going...and I don't think it is going so well. Hrmmmm....
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So this pretty much explains existence in the U.S. as you get older:
I own a small, comfortable house. It's 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, a 1-car garage, and something like 983 square feet.
That's like ×1.8 of my flat.
In the back yard is another 300 square foot studio with a 1/4 bath (just a toilet and a sink).
That's another ×0.55 of my space...
Space is at an absolute premium.
I weep a tears of compassion for you... Not. Four people lived here. Even six (including two small humans, me and my brother) for a short time before grandparents moved out.
<.<
>.>
Of course now, I have all that space for myself.
MUAHHAHAHAHA!
Though is Brexit goes terribly bad, my parents may come back... :(
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Donate it to Saint Vincent DePaul, we're regular donaters there.
And buyers, kids and all.
Plus the one on Willy street has the best book department of any thrift store (it was set up by a guy that spent 30 years working in book stores and the library).
In the Bay Area, you cannot donate used toys. Anywhere. Believe me, I've tried.
I think it was Freehold who pointed out that too many people have donated louse- or bedbug-infested stuffies, so donating them is no longer an option.
EDIT: I think it was last year that a helpful FaWtLer did some extensive Google searching to prove me wrong, and pointed me to a couple of charities that claimed to accept used toys. I followed up, and the most recent one said, "Yeah, we stopped accepting used stuff back in 2012."
There are serious environmental issues living in a high-disposable-income area. Nobody thinks twice about the repercussions of just throwing everything in the trash and buying new. *SIGH*.
I came to conclusion that all the waste the Western Civilization produces and cast away serves as offering to the divinities of trash, refuse, and dumpsters, and they bless us with continuous prosperity in return...
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I might have a light fever... *sigh*
I'd rather not skip tomorrow session. We finally have a group that is six people and can reliably shuffle players around as needed, but I'd lose the XP!
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Overheard from music league:
"I want to find my best friend. I know he goes here, but I don't know his name."
"If you let me move, you won't get to play piccolo."
"OH NO."
"This many people wearing black is either a music performance or a goth club."
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Well, my absolute favorite "trash story" is California's approach to waste: "Make it illegal to throw it in the trash, but don't make the garbage companies pick it up."
I have old paint, solvents, batteries, CFC bulbs, motor oil, electronics, and prescriptions, almost all of which are illegal to throw in the trash. (I learned that I am allowed to mix the prescriptions with used cat litter and throw them out, and I have PLENTY of that.)
The closest places to drop it off are at least 40 minute drives, and they are not open on weekends nor holidays for the most part, so the state expects me to take time off from work to throw away my trash.
Yes, I've managed to do a few hours of research and find places that accept weekend drop-offs for it all, but guess what California? If you make it illegal to dump all this stuff, but then make it next to impossible to dispose of it properly, all you're doing is turning all the residents of your state into lawbreakers.
Hopefully NOT their intended outcome...
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Our garbage disposal company's admission point is open on Saturday 'till noon (or maybe 2 pm, I don't remember). I have a lot of things that can't be thrown out into regular trash (old paints, old car grease, old tires, etc., some of which are stashed supplies from times of permanent shortages, some from later times when my father run a car service), but lacking car I can't get rid of them quickly and efficiently. I consider getting some friends to help clean the cellar (under the guise of running "Goblin scrapyard LARP"), though I do that (->consider) for years now...
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Oh, and here, many pharmacies have places to dispose of old drugs and many shops, especially supermarkets and malls have cans for disposal of old batteries and various kinds of lightbulbs. And if I need to get rid of big electronic devices and house appliances, the garbage company can send you a truck, free of charge (though they want to know how much things you will give them in advance so they can pick the right size of the truck before, for small amounts they obviously prefer you to bring it to them instead).
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I won a bag of cheeses as a door prize at the sand class I went to. Which, big surprise, was just a thing to get us to buy their sand (which we already had anyway).
Also, they had pizza.
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Well, my absolute favorite "trash story" is California's approach to waste: "Make it illegal to throw it in the trash, but don't make the garbage companies pick it up."
I have old paint, solvents, batteries, CFC bulbs, motor oil, electronics, and prescriptions, almost all of which are illegal to throw in the trash. (I learned that I am allowed to mix the prescriptions with used cat litter and throw them out, and I have PLENTY of that.)
The closest places to drop it off are at least 40 minute drives, and they are not open on weekends nor holidays for the most part, so the state expects me to take time off from work to throw away my trash.
Yes, I've managed to do a few hours of research and find places that accept weekend drop-offs for it all, but guess what California? If you make it illegal to dump all this stuff, but then make it next to impossible to dispose of it properly, all you're doing is turning all the residents of your state into lawbreakers.
Hopefully NOT their intended outcome...
Our problem in Illinois...in the moderate-sized cities like Peoria, Bloomington-Normal, Champaign-Urbana where the population is about 100k to 300k metro area, you have plenty of options to take those kinds of wastes, but places are starting to charge more for low volume or for things that are a low rate of return, or alternatively they just won't take them at all. My contracted electronics recycler at work stopped taking toner cartridges a couple years ago. They were taking a loss on those items because there's not enough electronic hardware on them to make a profit.
And in the smaller towns and rural areas? There's just nowhere. Nobody is set up to take that kind of waste. You have to pack it all in your car and take it to one of the aforementioned small/moderate-sized cities. My 71-yr-old mother is not going to pack her car and drive the 40-45 miles to Champaign or the 50 miles to Bloomington to, as NH said, take out the garbage. Just not happening.
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Yeah, I am living in 750k city, that helps. I suspect that situation is worse in many smaller towns.
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The big door prize was a bag of sand.
Co-worker said if he won it he'd take it back to the shop and but it with all the other bags of sand.
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"Yes?"
"Hi."
"Hi."
"We're playing truth or dare, so-"
"You don't tell the person it's a dare!"
...I'm not really sure how to feel about the fact that saying "Hi" to me merits a dare.
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"Yes?"
"Hi."
"Hi."
"We're playing truth or dare, so-"
"You don't tell the person it's a dare!"...I'm not really sure how to feel about the fact that saying "Hi" to me merits a dare.
Personally, I'd wear that as a badge of honor.
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And speaking of poor managers (as we always are), GothBard's director sent out the usual survey of, "Who made the most difference to you over the last 2 weeks?"
GothBard's been spending most of her time working with a remote team in Poland, so of course she was the *only* person who DIDN'T get listed. And the director had a big meeting and congratulated everyone who did.
Nice, Mr. Director. Way to make people who work with remote teams feel unappreciated. Works well for employee morale, I tell you what.
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And speaking of poor managers (as we always are), GothBard's director sent out the usual survey of, "Who made the most difference to you over the last 2 weeks?"
Positive or negative?
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Hello John
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Ajahs are a social clubs/groups that are tied by shared ideology/philosophy/purpose, that's why their individual themes vary wildly. You can have a crime fiction club, you can have a lesbian BDSM club, you can have licensed MD club, you can have stamp-collectors club.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?
Do they really have shared purposes or ideologies though?
I think Red comes closest, with the clearest purpose of 'still all male channelers before they go mad and kill a bunch of people'...and also 'hate men generally because we generally hate men.'
Blue is the social club of having an individual cause. Which doesn't imply any common purpose or ideology, and in fact different blues might easily have conflicting causes.
Green is the battle ajah, so kind of a professional/hobbiest club, but it's also the ajah of free love, which makes it a social/personality club at the same time. Which is weird.
Yellow is all about healing, so another professional club. It'd be easy to fan-make a Yellow ideology, but Jordan never introduces one; yellows just like or are good at healing for whatever reason.
White is all about 'logic,' which again doesn't unify anyone.
Grays are another professional club, they mediate because...they like to? They're good at it? Again, Jordan never gives them any purpose or ideology as far as I recall.
Browns are...I was going to say 'about learning or history,' but it's really that they're all bookworm personality types. Like Red, it's an ajah unified by a cliched personality type, except lacking Red's common purpose.
I think that's it, half the ajahs are personality types rather than institutions. Which is weird IMO.
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Donate it to Saint Vincent DePaul, we're regular donaters there.
And buyers, kids and all.
Plus the one on Willy street has the best book department of any thrift store (it was set up by a guy that spent 30 years working in book stores and the library).
In the Bay Area, you cannot donate used toys. Anywhere. Believe me, I've tried.
I think it was Freehold who pointed out that too many people have donated louse- or bedbug-infested stuffies, so donating them is no longer an option.
EDIT: I think it was last year that a helpful FaWtLer did some extensive Google searching to prove me wrong, and pointed me to a couple of charities that claimed to accept used toys. I followed up, and the most recent one said, "Yeah, we stopped accepting used stuff back in 2012."
There are serious environmental issues living in a high-disposable-income area. Nobody thinks twice about the repercussions of just throwing everything in the trash and buying new. *SIGH*.
*Cough* Crossbow range *Cough*
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The General: I'll walk the dogs tonight if you make supper
Me: Chinese food it is!
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I dont like this.
I dont like how one of the people auditing us came in already not liking her hotel/experience in Brooklyn.
I dont like how she was visibly upset that we were taking the bus to a place off site.
I dont like how she was terrified of the off site place.
I dont like how she went into standardized "this-is-how-you-do-it" mode and spoke to us like we weren't doing any of the things she told us to do in the evening meeting, in some cases ignoring what she saw earlier that day.
I dont like this.
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Playing Pathfinder, a hag witch casts Baleful Polymorph on Crookshanks so she blurts out "That b@+$@!" Tiny T-Rex looks at the stat block and says "No, it says here she's a witch".
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I dont like this.
I dont like how one of the people auditing us came in already not liking her hotel/experience in Brooklyn.
I dont like how she was visibly upset that we were taking the bus to a place off site.
I dont like how she was terrified of the off site place.
I dont like how she went into standardized "this-is-how-you-do-it" mode and spoke to us like we weren't doing any of the things she told us to do in the evening meeting, in some cases ignoring what she saw earlier that day.
I dont like this.
Yeah.
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My manager, on the other hand:
NobodysHome: OK, full disclosure: The choir doesn't need me on Friday after all. But I'm thinking of taking the day off anyway, because it sounds nice. What do you think?
Manager: Whatever you think is best.
NH: Well, here's the list of work I've done already, so I'm well ahead of schedule on all our upcoming projects.
M: OK.
So just a plain and simple (albeit indirect), "Is your work done?" "Yep." "OK, go for it."
Nice to work for a reasonable human being.
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One of the reasons why Tiny T-Rex's class is so special, how they settle disagreements, is by dance off.
Of course, it's hard to tell if they're having a dance off or just showing off their dance moves, in fact for the last ten minutes of the day they just dance.
It's pretty amazing to see a group of 23 kids getting along and dancing together.
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Tac, Tarpon Springs is a Greek community just north of Tampa. My paternal grandparents used to live in Dunedin, so we went fairly often.
Huuuuuuuungry. I need baklava, now.
The General: I'll walk the dogs tonight if you make supper
Me: Chinese food it is!
Ugh, I need Chinese, now.
Chinese food and chocolate-y baklava. Life sounds so very good, right now.
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I thought I was the only one here playing pokemon go (I just caught a celibai btw!) I'm gonna have to add you folks to my friend list I only have like 5 friends on it atm.My brother is currently doing Final Fantasy XIV at the moment because they’re offering free play. I don’t think I’ll join him since I’m rather busy trying to find time to work out. Pokemon Go was one of the ways where couch potatoes all over the world were going out to parks and getting some sunshine. Because they were trying to catch their legendary pokemon there. I think getting couch potatoes out of the house is already a great feat in itself.
No getting me nekkid isn't a feat.
*gets dressed as she glares at the thread*
Tacticslion, LordSynos, and I all play regularly, and Scint less often mostly because the weather in her area is wretched. Please share friend codes =D
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The wonderful thing about being a former teacher is being able to go to a college web site, look up some old colleagues, and say, "Hi! Haven't seen you in 18 years! I now have a son who's looking to go to a local community college! Got any recommendations?" and not feel like a jerk.
Of course, the guy I wrote is one of our favorite friends from way-back-when, so I'm hoping to try finagle him and any partner he might have out for dinner and some catch-up as well.
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I noticed one of the ladies at the sand class checking me out.
Probably because I look like rustic Fabio.
Also, a lot of people were curious if we were adding more to our crew.
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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):
** spoiler omitted ***gripe gripe gripe*
I may just have to organise a day trip to our closest neighbour some time in July so. :P
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I dont like this.
I dont like how one of the people auditing us came in already not liking her hotel/experience in Brooklyn.
I dont like how she was visibly upset that we were taking the bus to a place off site.
I dont like how she was terrified of the off site place.
I dont like how she went into standardized "this-is-how-you-do-it" mode and spoke to us like we weren't doing any of the things she told us to do in the evening meeting, in some cases ignoring what she saw earlier that day.
I dont like this.
I might almost chalk up that she has had bad experiences before on her previous audit runs...