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It turns out that, once again, I will not be going home tonight. The morning guard for tomorrow called off. Which means that, once again, I will be sleeping in the garage office with a cold concrete wall as a pillow. All because my current employer doesn't have enough guards to cover an absence. Idiots.
Could you try talking to the SEIU? (You may have already done so)
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John, good luck and I don't blame you at all.
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Ooh, before I log off and go to work...
Best Hermione quote from Sunday's game.
The PC's kill the Boss Naga.
In addition to its other loot (which includes a Headband of Alluring Charisma +4, so it's not like the book is loot-poor), the naga is wearing a Hand of Glory around its neck.WW says, "WHOA. How much is that worth?"
Me: "No, you can't have that. You're the good guys. You burn it with the rest of the naga bodies."
WW: "But I could use it for GOOD."
Hermione: "Papa, that's what Boromir said about the ring, but it ended up driving him mad."
All the high fives to Hermione!
Just be glad it wasn't a maudlin, half-speed acoustic piano version, featuring Celine Dion and the man Bublé duetting over the top.Oh dear lord.
I was just in Walmart, which, at the holidays, is a circle of hell all to itself, and they were playing this terrible bubble gum pop cover of Wizzard's "I wizh it could be Christmas everyday," and I'm looking for a way to blame it on Limey, since without him, I wouldn't have recognized it for the horror it is and might have rolled a better saving throw to tune it out.
Not gonna lie, I would listen to a Dion/Buble duet.
Holy smackeral I wanna hear that so bad, now.
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It turns out that, once again, I will not be going home tonight. The morning guard for tomorrow called off. Which means that, once again, I will be sleeping in the garage office with a cold concrete wall as a pillow. All because my current employer doesn't have enough guards to cover an absence. Idiots.
Wow that sucks John.
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Day 2 of the arctic blast that is just now making headlines on the national news because it's heading east, where people live.
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Yep. We've got snow this morning. Just a dusting.
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Wait..."arctic blast"??? It's still over 20°F! That's just...normal...maybe slightly above...
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Wait..."arctic blast"??? It's still over 20°F! That's just...normal...maybe slightly above...
It was 1 degree this morning, -1 yesterday morning.
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With the ongoing rainstorms providing welcome precipitation and an insulating blanket, we're unlikely to drop into the 40s again until the weekend.
And the house is staying amazingly warm. Insulation + fireplace = awesomeness.
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Wait..."arctic blast"??? It's still over 20°F! That's just...normal...maybe slightly above...It was 1 degree this morning, -1 yesterday morning.
Ok, we're not getting that. We're only getting down around 15-17 at night/early morning, and up to the low-mid 20's by the afternoon.
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Just be glad it wasn't a maudlin, half-speed acoustic piano version, featuring Celine Dion and the man Bublé duetting over the top.Oh dear lord.
I was just in Walmart, which, at the holidays, is a circle of hell all to itself, and they were playing this terrible bubble gum pop cover of Wizzard's "I wizh it could be Christmas everyday," and I'm looking for a way to blame it on Limey, since without him, I wouldn't have recognized it for the horror it is and might have rolled a better saving throw to tune it out.Not gonna lie, I would listen to a Dion/Buble duet.
Holy smackeral I wanna hear that so bad, now.
Well, so long as what happens in Florida stays in Florida, fill yer boots, matee.
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We got rain and snowflakes mixed today. To listen to the weather forecast you would think we were getting weather that I would truly enjoy.
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*yawn* everyone
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On a scale of one to upset, how upset should a new mother be that the nanny poured out four ounces of breast milk that had just been pumped?
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Ok, we're not getting that. We're only getting down around 15-17 at night/early morning, and up to the low-mid 20's by the afternoon.Wait..."arctic blast"??? It's still over 20°F! That's just...normal...maybe slightly above...It was 1 degree this morning, -1 yesterday morning.
At least the sun is out, it got up to 18 yesterday and we should get up to 19 today.
After today we should get up to the mid 30s for a few days at least.
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On a scale of one to upset, how upset should a new mother be that the nanny poured out four ounces of breast milk that had just been pumped?
I'd kill them, but I might be biased.
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On a scale of one to upset, how upset should a new mother be that the nanny poured out four ounces of breast milk that had just been pumped?
My big question would be, "Was there still enough breast milk available in some form that the baby did not have to go hungry?"
If the answer is, "Yes," then I'd say a stern talking-to is in order.
If the answer is, "No," then I'd say, "If you ever do that again, you're fired on the spot, no ifs, ands, or buts."
Pumping breast milk is a PITA, but it's usually not that hard to set time aside to do it. But if mom was at work, it got thrown out, and baby had to go hungry, I'd be massively pissed.
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So, of all my complaints about "bad" teachers, I think my greatest is a refusal to respect finals week.
Yet again, Impus Major's English teacher assigned a major essay at the end of dead week, due at the end of finals week.
So, yeah. Studying for finals? Too bad! You need to come up with at least 20 references for this research paper I could have assigned two weeks ago before finals week, but I figured ruining your study time would be better.
Impus Major's history teacher is nearly as bad: Most of the grade depends on memorizing dates, rather than names or events. An answer of, "Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas during his first term as president," gets less credit than, "Kennedy Assassination: November 22, 1963."
And oh, yeah. The history teacher assigned a massive amount of additional homework during Dead Week, because she figured no other teachers would be doing it so the kids would have more time to do it, then complained to them when they weren't prepared with the eight assignments she gave them that week.
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But...but the whole point of learning history is cause and effect of connected events...
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On a scale of one to upset, how upset should a new mother be that the nanny poured out four ounces of breast milk that had just been pumped?
mildly upset, depending on how easy pumping has gone.
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So, of all my complaints about "bad" teachers, I think my greatest is a refusal to respect finals week.
Yet again, Impus Major's English teacher assigned a major essay at the end of dead week, due at the end of finals week.
So, yeah. Studying for finals? Too bad! You need to come up with at least 20 references for this research paper I could have assigned two weeks ago before finals week, but I figured ruining your study time would be better.
Impus Major's history teacher is nearly as bad: Most of the grade depends on memorizing dates, rather than names or events. An answer of, "Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas during his first term as president," gets less credit than, "Kennedy Assassination: November 22, 1963."
And oh, yeah. The history teacher assigned a massive amount of additional homework during Dead Week, because she figured no other teachers would be doing it so the kids would have more time to do it, then complained to them when they weren't prepared with the eight assignments she gave them that week.
yikes. Are they still making individual departments fight each other over who is important?
What. That teacher is just. What.
Are their weird legal (or other authoritative) necessities and compulsions said educator is under?
I have never known a teacher to want to grade more essays than less without some sort of real apparent "need" to do so.
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Sometimes it's "we need to make them practice writing more." I say this as someone who just threw out a 3 page essay in favor of "pick a character, make a poster and write one paragraph that explains how that character is a symbol that supports a theme from the novel" because we don't have much time left in the year, and I don't want to spend the entirety of next week grading.
I learned the hard way last year that you do NOT want to have a writing assignment due the last day of school.
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Hello,
Siting in my theater, waiting for the singing nuns to arrive, so I can set up their tech for the show tonight.
Yes. That was NOT a typo. I have Singing Nuns coming in to do a Christmas show today.
All very 'Sister Act', except these are ALL real nuns doing the singing and dancing.
Happy Hump day!
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...I already hate myself. Not even halfway through the year, and I'm considering redoing the junior curriculum again. It's not even going badly. I just keep getting Ideas.
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On a related note, does anyone have any recommendations for novels set in/around the 1970s-2000s?
I'm trying to compile a list of historical (or historical-adjacent) fiction to have the kids pick from for independent reading projects. I have some ideas for right up until the 1960s, and then I got nothin'.
Sometimes it's "we need to make them practice writing more." I say this as someone who just threw out a 3 page essay in favor of "pick a character, make a poster and write one paragraph that explains how that character is a symbol that supports a theme from the novel" because we don't have much time left in the year, and I don't want to spend the entirety of next week grading.
I learned the hard way last year that you do NOT want to have a writing assignment due the last day of school.
Exactly what I meant about feeling compelled. But, uh. Hard timing, to be sure.
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My relief is here. I finally get to go home.
Huzzah! Rest well!
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Hm. Trying to make a crude “old high Orc” quasi-pictographic written language. Gotta make it simplistic enough for ancient orca, but sophisticated enough to communicate specific information (like how to dance, to be specific).
I may be waaaaayyyyyyy overworking this.
(Spoiler: I am.)
((Spoiler2: I don’t think I’m going to succeed.))
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Titanfall 2 was free on PlayStation Plus, I wonder if it will be any good.
I'm guessing not.
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Also working on the 100 floor dungeon of trials for our Legend-of-Zelda fan TTRPG game I’m running. I... may have made a mistake.
But! I’ve gotten to 80! Woo!
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Of course before I do anything of the sort I have to pick up Tiny T-Rex from school and make myself do the dishes.
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Twelve minutes to get there (walking), not too shabby.
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Twelve minutes to get there (walking), not too shabby.
So it was 1200 yards away?
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Also working on the 100 floor dungeon of trials for our Legend-of-Zelda fan TTRPG game I’m running. I... may have made a mistake.
But! I’ve gotten to 80! Woo!
Is this going to be in person, PbP, or other? I want to know my chances of getting to try it =D
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A few (depending on your definition of few :P) pages back, TL wishes me congratulations. I finally have time to post here and say it was on the birth on my new son, born 27th of November, 10:44am. :)
Congratulations!
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Reason for lateness of congratulatory post: I had a bad reaction to my Dilaudid on Monday. Nothing to force me back to the hospital but enough that I felt worse than I ever have in my life. Like that weird sickly state you feel when you first come out of an anesthetic, but continually without getting better. At least not for more than twenty-four hours. Sweating, mild nausea, other effects...
Opiates. They may do some good, but they are pretty much bad news.
:p
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On a scale of one to upset, how upset should a new mother be that the nanny poured out four ounces of breast milk that had just been pumped?
I'd say somewhere along the "Rasputin got off too easy" scale of capital punishment.
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On a scale of one to upset, how upset should a new mother be that the nanny poured out four ounces of breast milk that had just been pumped?I'd say somewhere along the "Rasputin got off too easy" scale of capital punishment.
*gulp*
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Twelve minutes to get there (walking), not too shabby.So it was 1200 yards away?
Are you saying I walk slow?
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On a related note, does anyone have any recommendations for novels set in/around the 1970s-2000s?
I'm trying to compile a list of historical (or historical-adjacent) fiction to have the kids pick from for independent reading projects. I have some ideas for right up until the 1960s, and then I got nothin'.
Harry Potter...
Bourne's Identity (I think) and maybe some other Ludlum's books...
EDIT: American Gods?
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After thirteen months of commuting an hour each way to flip crepes for minimum wage, WW just got a full-time office job with the Census for $20/hour. It will cut his commute in half, and he won't have to drive for Lyft anymore. Or miss seeing the kids on the weekends. He starts in January.
Yes, it's only temporary, and he's still looking for a permanent job, but wow, are we happy.
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Back from Legend Of Five Rings.
We have rescued Bayushi Shoju from the hands of his wife's servants and returned him into the hands of his brother (who doesn't want to be the Scorpion Champion, preferring to act from shadows)...
Now we only need to survive to the Emperor's burial, ascension of a new Emperor, learn information about my (half)-sister mother from Shoju's brother in return for pretending the whole operation was his...
Regretfully, we won't be able to gather before January... And it might have been my last session this year - I am not sure if the other group manages to gather on Monday for D&D... We hadn't managed to do that for a long time.
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G+!~&%n.
I f#@%ing LOVE Dragon Force 2.
I will never forgive Sega for not releasing it here. Ever.
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On a related note, does anyone have any recommendations for novels set in/around the 1970s-2000s?
I'm trying to compile a list of historical (or historical-adjacent) fiction to have the kids pick from for independent reading projects. I have some ideas for right up until the 1960s, and then I got nothin'.
Everything I can come up with is in dutch :(