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Woooo I got emailed back for a case worker job. I have a face to face coming up soon! I think I'm going to try and use all my vacation I've accrued just in case I get it. (no use wasting it amirite?)Don't you get paid out any unused vacation?
I know it's always a hard choice between paid time off and a bundle of cash, but I've always chosen the bundle of cash...
I do not in fact have that option. It is a use it or lose it type situation.
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Woooow... you learn something every day!
California is one of the states where they're required by law to pay it out, but Googling it only about half the states do that.
I'd say, "Move to California", but the cost of living would annihilate that extra cash in under a month...
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While coming up with ideas for replacing our aging couch, the General says "So, what are some 'outside the box' ideas? Do they make cat trees for humans?" Crookshanks gasps and says "I've always wanted to climb cat trees!".
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It turns out if we want a human cat tree we're going to have to make it ourselves.
So begins the summer weekend chore list.
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OK, OK, I get it! You like it!
As a matter of fact, I eat the rest of the shark. Have done so on multiple occasions.I will never understand why the rest of the shark is not eaten.I know the arguments against sharks fin soup. The problem is that its quite ingrained in Chinese tradition and I'm going to be looking quite cheap-skate if I don't get it (heck, my BF complained on not having enough fins...).
As it is we already opted for simplicity and said we were doing away with most of the marriage customs(pain in the arse to do them).
No. 1 is the cold dish(aka appetiser). Consists of jellyfish and sea weed salad, char siew pork, yam and pork fritters, crispy fried fish skin and roasted pork.
that's good. Because I LOVE shark. Mmt favorite seafood next to takoyaki.
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Yes.
Yes, shuttup Peter, we know.
What should have been a 45 minute journey back from Leeds turned into about three hours of multiple bus journeys, and I missed Jazz Record Requests as a result. WOE WOE WOE AND DESPAIR. I'll have to listen to it later on instead.
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Went to the offical Fantasy Flight keyforge tournament. It was a lot of fun! I became 64 or 212 so not too shabby :)
I earned a unique playmat for my efforts.
Due to the noise and sensory overload I have a pretty bad headache now. But it gets worse when I lie down. So I took a lot of pills and I'm distracting myself untill they kick in. I know the screen doesnt help, but distractions are good.
Went to the offical Fantasy Flight keyforge tournament. It was a lot of fun! I became 64 or 212 so not too shabby :)
I earned a unique playmat for my efforts.Due to the noise and sensory overload I have a pretty bad headache now. But it gets worse when I lie down. So I took a lot of pills and I'm distracting myself untill they kick in. I know the screen doesnt help, but distractions are good.
Is anyone else seeing Captain Yesterday favoriting my previous post 6 times?
OK, OK, I get it! You like it!
Whoa, weird
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W00t! Party was a colossal hit, Val says it was "the best day of his life", and the bottles of bubble solution inside the pinata DID NOT BREAK. Also, the cake and the pinata turned out so well that two different moms asked me where I bought them.
To go with the bacon theme, I made a yellow bundt cake with maple buttercream and crumbled bacon on top, to mimic a doughnut at a popular local doughnut shop. They call that combination the "Canadian Healthcare". The cake really looked like a giant doughnut.
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While coming up with ideas for replacing our aging couch, the General says "So, what are some 'outside the box' ideas? Do they make cat trees for humans?" Crookshanks gasps and says "I've always wanted to climb cat trees!".
If you could, I'm fairly certain that Impus Major would already have one.
Yes, Crookshanks literally climbs the walls.
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Weird AND absurd.
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Yes, Crookshanks literally climbs the walls.
Nice to see that ye olde 1e/2e Thieves' skills are still relevant.
I do not in fact have that option. It is a use it or lose it type situation.Woooo I got emailed back for a case worker job. I have a face to face coming up soon! I think I'm going to try and use all my vacation I've accrued just in case I get it. (no use wasting it amirite?)Don't you get paid out any unused vacation?
I know it's always a hard choice between paid time off and a bundle of cash, but I've always chosen the bundle of cash...
Yep, likewise, in ever job I've ever had.
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Woooow... you learn something every day!
California is one of the states where they're required by law to pay it out, but Googling it only about half the states do that.
I'd say, "Move to California", but the cost of living would annihilate that extra cash in under a month...
'Cause California is one of the few places not completely bought and paid for by the corporate machine.
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A plan is starting to form.
We're going to throw out the couch, and move the steps from the bunk bed (which was deconstructed last spring) out to the living room.
Steps to nowhere is a decent start towards a human cat tree.
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W00t! Party was a colossal hit, Val says it was "the best day of his life", and the bottles of bubble solution inside the pinata DID NOT BREAK. Also, the cake and the pinata turned out so well that two different moms asked me where I bought them.
To go with the bacon theme, I made a yellow bundt cake with maple buttercream and crumbled bacon on top, to mimic a doughnut at a popular local doughnut shop. They call that combination the "Canadian Healthcare". The cake really looked like a giant doughnut.
Yeah I'm glad everything went off without a hitch. Compliments on the food are always nice =)
Crumbled bacon, though? Isn't bacon more to a salty kind of thing?
W00t! Party was a colossal hit, Val says it was "the best day of his life", and the bottles of bubble solution inside the pinata DID NOT BREAK. Also, the cake and the pinata turned out so well that two different moms asked me where I bought them.
To go with the bacon theme, I made a yellow bundt cake with maple buttercream and crumbled bacon on top, to mimic a doughnut at a popular local doughnut shop. They call that combination the "Canadian Healthcare". The cake really looked like a giant doughnut.
Yeah I'm glad everything went off without a hitch. Compliments on the food are always nice =)
Crumbled bacon, though? Isn't bacon more to a salty kind of thing?
I use uncured, applewood-smoked bacon... less salty when it's uncured, and the meat is sweeter. And salty and sweet go well together anyhow... like sea salt chocolates or caramel.
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Little tip FAWTLers If you use Google to make a reservation double check the date. The default search it goes for is the cheapest night. not the current night.
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WTF?
'Cause California is one of the few places not completely bought and paid for by the corporate machine.Woooow... you learn something every day!
California is one of the states where they're required by law to pay it out, but Googling it only about half the states do that.
I'd say, "Move to California", but the cost of living would annihilate that extra cash in under a month...
And yet, in Illinois, we get the vacation paid out. Unless that was just company policy when I quit my last job. If I quit this one (which I would love to do) I would get almost a full months pay from saved up vacation time.
I should probably use more of it.
I wish mine at least rolled over.
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I use uncured, applewood-smoked bacon... less salty when it's uncured, and the meat is sweeter. And salty and sweet go well together anyhow... like sea salt chocolates or caramel.W00t! Party was a colossal hit, Val says it was "the best day of his life", and the bottles of bubble solution inside the pinata DID NOT BREAK. Also, the cake and the pinata turned out so well that two different moms asked me where I bought them.
To go with the bacon theme, I made a yellow bundt cake with maple buttercream and crumbled bacon on top, to mimic a doughnut at a popular local doughnut shop. They call that combination the "Canadian Healthcare". The cake really looked like a giant doughnut.
Yeah I'm glad everything went off without a hitch. Compliments on the food are always nice =)
Crumbled bacon, though? Isn't bacon more to a salty kind of thing?
OK I understand sea salt caramel. It makes the sweetness less cloying. My brother and my aunt are great fans of it.
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Just made myself whole grain spaghetti with pork, bacon bits, yellow capsicum, egg and Cheddar cheese. 11 slices of Cheddar in the fridge left. Expiry date is end April.
My flour is expiring on the 31 of March 2019,so probably best to bake it up.
Note to self, adding actual milk, rather then water and full cream milk powder seems to make cakes rise up more. From yesterday's chocolate cake experiment.
Also I need to get to prepping Strange Aeons Book 2 and Ironfang Invasion book 5.
Probably trying to rip you off.
We had some water issues ourselves All the flooding made our septic tank back up. The first set of plumbers said it wasn't a clog and we"d have to have it pumped. After watching videos and doing the work myself turns out it was a clog. Some people are idiots and some are greedy. Probably doesn't matter which in the long run.
Little tip FAWTLers If you use Google to make a reservation double check the date. The default search it goes for is the cheapest night. not the current night.Don't know if he used Google for it or not, but I had a guy check in a few minutes ago who had made reservation for next Saturday instead of tonight. Got him straightened out easily enough, but he sure was embarrassed.
The lady we had was more angry then embarrassed. We were all sold out. 2nd shift was dealing with her as I was coming in. Its not like its our fault she booked on the wrong night plus there isn't anything we can do about it.
So worked on it for like 6 hours but got Baldur's Gate 2 to work, I shouldn't leave such a fan favorite unplayed. Any advice for someone just beginning the game for the first time?
All I remember from that game is Mensk and his miniature giant space hamster.
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Minsk and Boo, Vidmaster7. How could you spell their names wrong? =(
Build a front line character so you need to take less rest breaks(Shadows of Amn). Because resting is for wimps. And when you customise your own character you can be more leet then given characters.
Anymore then that and I'm spoiling the story.
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So worked on it for like 6 hours but got Baldur's Gate 2 to work, I shouldn't leave such a fan favorite unplayed. Any advice for someone just beginning the game for the first time?
My brother played a berserker which worked out pretty well. I played a paladin which was pretty underpowered until I got my hands on
..*name redacted uber holy weapon*. Then I was literally mage bane cause all spells bounced off me.But I find their front line NPCs quite lacking. Minsc is fine but other then that you either have a holier then thou paladin or some ebul dwarf, which might not sit well with how you want to play. Also, I always believe in having a spare front liner.
Oh yeah Paladin's with their "consecrated marvel-movie" were great at killing casters since 1st yo!
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Hmm If we could just have that in some sort of Shark form.
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You see there's only so much paladin preaching I can take before it drives me bonkers. If you're doing a good run I think paladins are okay, but if you're more to the chaotic side, I don't see how it's going to turn out well. I find that the general FAWTL dude seems to be leaning towards CG. Sure, there are pockets of law around, like me and Orthos, but mostly FAWTL seems to be about personal freedoms.
Minsc is da best, and if you don't do an evil run, I don't see him causing too many problems with your party. And frankly I find Baldur's Gate evil characters eh...a little shallow. I dunno but somehow computer RPG evil mode has always seemed petty and shallow to me. Like you go around kicking kittens and puppies and betraying your best buds.
Or maybe its that inherent dropped out of pally skool part of me talking.
I think its just gonna vary. I agree it does seem a lot of Fawtls do seem to lean to the Chaotic side. Mort you're probably the most lawful I've noticed on this thread.
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Went to the offical Fantasy Flight keyforge tournament. It was a lot of fun! I became 64 or 212 so not too shabby :)
I earned a unique playmat for my efforts.Due to the noise and sensory overload I have a pretty bad headache now. But it gets worse when I lie down. So I took a lot of pills and I'm distracting myself untill they kick in. I know the screen doesnt help, but distractions are good.
That is a distraction all right.