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I hope your dad heals swiftly, Drejk.
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Keeping my pants on for this one.
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"Will you play music while we do Quizlet, Ms. Scint?"
"Sure, I'll put on some classical."
"Oh, that'll be relaxing!"
"...what kind of classical music have you been listening to?"
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^ youtubing is a valid English verb, just like googling!
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^ youtubing is a valid English verb, just like googling!
As is "inner tubing".
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Also, I love dubs. I need them to function.
(Because I can't afford the time to read subs when I'm trying to clean the house.)
Same, except replace "clean the house" with "listen to stuff while focusing on my job at work".
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Heal well, O' father of ye mighty dragon!
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This is the way.I love the Mandolorian.
"I have Spoken."
:)
(OR as it is also known, THE BABY YODA SHOW!)
THIS IS THE WAY!
-Get well Dragon's Dad!
-NH- OOF, yeah I'm OK with mistakes, (Heaven's knows i'm not perfect!) but claiming you didn't make one? That's just beggin' fer a whoopin'. ;)
-That cover of a Anime song I'd never heard before? Yep. Liked it. :P
-AND Happy almost-end-of-week to all!
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Concussions suck.
I have spoken.
This really better not be the way.
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They surely do suck.
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Concussions suck.
I have spoken.
This really better not be the way.
Heal up, man.
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They're making football helmets stronger and more fashionable than ever.
But yes, heal up quickly!
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Concussions suck.
I have spoken.
This really better not be the way.
UNLESS they are self-administered!
Then this IS the way!(Because if you go that far, there were reasons. At least in MY world)
;)
Heal up Van. :)
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I am far happier than I should be that I got my hands on the new Eberron sourcebook.
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So there was a really interesting article in my GetPocket this morning, but it vanished so I can't linky it.
But the summary was, "People who stay within their budget are happier than those who splurge." No surprise there.
But her example was, "I've set aside $400 for a new TV. I go to the store and look at the TVs. I can get a 40" TV for $400, or a 45" TV for $500. Research shows that the people who stay within their budgets and buy a 40" TV are happier and more satisfied with their purchase."
Except... that's not how we shop at all, and never has been, so I don't even understand it.
If we decide we need a big-ticket item such as a TV, fridge, piece of furniture, or whatnot, it goes:
(1) GothBard does extensive research on what's available: What brands are best? What size would best fit us? Would older tech or newer tech be better? After a couple of weeks of research, she says, "We need this specific item," or may give me a list of 2-3 items. Even when I was a teenager I remember poring through my parents' stack of Consumer Reports to determine what I should be buying before I even left the house for the store.
(2) We go to various stores and etailers to get an idea as to the price. We narrow the list down to a single item based on price.
(3) At that point, we decide whether or not it's within our budget, and, if it isn't, we start saving up for it.
Heck, we do that with TVs, computers, fridges, and even cars.
So this whole idea of going to a store with a dollar amount in mind instead of a specific item? It's totally alien to me. Without doing research beforehand, how do you know you're not buying an absolute piece of junk?
Ah, well, patience is a virtue and all that. I was just wondering whether anyone honestly decides, "I need a big-ticket item," and then just wanders into the store and buys one without doing any preliminary research...
EDIT: And before LM jumps all over me, I know darned well that if you're on a limited budget then you're most likely buying something secondhand and you really do have to pick the best items according to your budget, but the article was specifically about buying new things from retail stores.
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When I buy new electronics or what have you, I only buy it if I can find it somewhere other than Best Buy.
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I am far happier than I should be that I got my hands on the new Eberron sourcebook.
I will admit, I was tempted, but I didn't really like the layout.
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I am completely guilty of no research shopping for big ticket items.
Washer/dryer sets, stoves, refrigerators, furnaces, hot water heaters, etc.
I usually have an idea of what brand I want either based on friend's recommendation or past experience, but I will go to Lowe's and say, yep, this fridge has everything I want/need...we are getting it.
The only time I have truly been burned was on hiking boots. I grew up in Vasque sundowners. Loved em. Went through 3 pair hiking in NM and various other locales. Was getting ready for a trip to NM in 2017 and my last pair died (blew out sole) two months before trip. Vasque had been sold (unbeknownst to me) and slightly changed size/shape since my last pair. I thought I had them broken in, but the sangre de crista mountains proved it did not matter. Worst blisters ever.
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Just a bit more than six weeks until I meet my daughter.
My anxiety and excitement are currently involved in a brutal battle for supremacy.
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I am completely guilty of no research shopping for big ticket items.
Washer/dryer sets, stoves, refrigerators, furnaces, hot water heaters, etc.
I usually have an idea of what brand I want either based on friend's recommendation or past experience, but I will go to Lowe's and say, yep, this fridge has everything I want/need...we are getting it.
The only time I have truly been burned was on hiking boots. I grew up in Vasque sundowners. Loved em. Went through 3 pair hiking in NM and various other locales. Was getting ready for a trip to NM in 2017 and my last pair died (blew out sole) two months before trip. Vasque had been sold (unbeknownst to me) and slightly changed size/shape since my last pair. I thought I had them broken in, but the sangre de crista mountains proved it did not matter. Worst blisters ever.
See, we did that twice with laptops: One for GothBard and one for Impus Minor. In both cases we went with supposedly reliable, well-established brands (at least one was an HP). In both cases, the laptops were paperweights in under 18 months.
Really, really bad choices.
So now if it hasn't been researched, I won't buy it.
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I guess I did have one bad laptop experience. I NEEDED something on a trip. My geriatric IBM laptop of many years had a dicey screen (when docked, side screen worked fine, but no a portable device at that point), so I got a low dollar Dell fully leavened with spamware to keep the cost down.
It lasted the trip and a few more months, but was just overall so kludgey it went into closet to not be used thereafter. Replaced with MacBook on friend's recommendation and it has been fine.
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Big Money Items
1) Yes, budget dictates what one can get and still be able to feed the family. Stipulation accepted and acknowledged. Been there.
2) It's a mix for us. If it's a car, I've already done a metric crap-ton of research, but I still want the test drive of multiple models. I know what my "on paper" sense is going to be, but the test drive brings out surprises. For instance, in 2013 Aiymi found out the Honda Fit was too noisy for a daily 110 mile round trip commute, plus the windshield joined the roof too far back...more time and more angles for direct sunlight to hit her in the eyes on such a drive. But on paper the Fit was exactly what she wanted. And thus we ended up moving on down the list.
Major household appliances and furniture...we *gasp* go into a brick and mortar store, preferably a local place. Looking at options online is good, but having the hands-on experience is really important for us. And with smartphones it's easy enough to have the online comparisons and research at the same time. However, with small local retailers, you can get additional perks (free installation, for one) and the benefit of looking someone in the eye.
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I'm going up to San Francisco so I can buy Scottish shoes, buy several hundred Euros, and do some fieldwork for grad school.
I really want to move back to San Francisco.
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I'm going up to San Francisco so I can buy Scottish shoes, buy several hundred Euros, and do some fieldwork for grad school.
I really want to move back to San Francisco.
Geez, I'd tell you to come up the east side and I'd sell you the Euros for a better price... except with the whole fireplace thing they're buried deep, deep somewhere I can't find them.
Plus I don't think I have any Scottish shoes lying around the house...
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I'm going up to San Francisco so I can buy Scottish shoes, buy several hundred Euros, and do some fieldwork for grad school.
I really want to move back to San Francisco.
Geez, I'd tell you to come up the east side and I'd sell you the Euros for a better price... except with the whole fireplace thing they're buried deep, deep somewhere I can't find them.
Plus I don't think I have any Scottish shoes lying around the house...
I'd still have to do my fieldwork, though.
You have that many Euros lying around? I think all I've got at home is a couple dollars worth of small Canadian coins, maybe 6 or 7 bucks in Mexican coins, a similar amount in Japanese coins, and a 1000 Yen note.
Also I have big feet.
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I wonder if I'm going to get harassed by Italian immigration officials at some point. I am legally allowed a total of 90 days in the European Union in any 180 day period. I though I'd have to work over Spring Break this year, so I booked a 10 day trip to Germany over my birthday in late April (except now I'm spending a third of it in France, because ending up in France is apparently just what I do, now). Then I got Spring Break off, and I can't reschedule the Germany trip, so whatever. So I'll go to Italy over Spring Break. 6 full days of All Ancient Ruins, All The Time between Rome, Paestum, and Naples. But then I got into that super interesting Summer study abroad that starts in Italy but is mostly in Greece, so that's another three weeks.
All told, if travel time counts against visa, I'm looking at about 45 days within 3 months, and I don't have any other trips to Europe in a 180 day period before or after, so I'm within the rules as written. I will, however, only have 3 weeks between each trip. I'm wondering if, by the third time, immigration will be like "What is this?"
Oh, and on the way back from Greece, I'm gonna chill in Scotland for a while. Decompress from study abroad and cool off from the Mediterranean head. See some castles, do various Scottish things, pop down to York for the British National Railroad Museum, which is supposed to even be better than the two amazing ones I went to in Japan. Who knows what Brexit is gonna do with that immigration procedure? I made sure my layover in Heathrow on the way in is, like, 4 hours in case it's all sorts of jacked up.
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I got Gods and Magic today.
They now have pocket knives in Pathfinder.
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I think Crookshanks plans on playing a champion in Extinction Curse, who's goal is to rid the world of clowns.
I said "Don't you mean evil clowns?"
"No, ALL clowns"
The General is making a goblin fire starter, I asked "don't you mean fire breather" "no, fire starter"
Our circus will only last one show, but it will be a memorable one.
Especially if someone uses the "send in the clowns" action.
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"I have a warrant for your wife."
"Yep, Elizabeth, you're under arrest."
"What?! Why?"
"Script says so. Follow along."
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"I need a name for my fiend-pact warlock."
"Abigail Williams."
I love getting teenagers into D&D.
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Well, I have to fight a duel on Monday.
I do, but it's definitely not a life & death affair. I challenged one of my HEMA pals to a fight because of certain insulting remarks he made about brown sauce.
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Just a bit more than six weeks until I meet my daughter.
My anxiety and excitement are currently involved in a brutal battle for supremacy.
Rock it, my dude! Been there!
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Well, I have to fight a duel on Monday.
** spoiler omitted **
He was getting saucy with you. Quite warranted, this challenge.
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*sheeshh*
So my mother called that dad is in hospital. He struck himself on the head at work on Tuesday evening (protective head gear for the win) and because he had a moment of dizziness and incoherence afterwards the supervisor did their job and called ambulance because safety (thank the cthonic deities that Brits hadn't dismantled public health... yet). And the medic guys noted he has suspiciously increased heart rate (I might have mentioned before he was diagnosed with heart failure and was given treatment and meds to take) and took him to hospital.
So now he is waiting for angiography, and possibly angioplasty and getting a stent if need be. (apparently he stopped taking his medicine some time ago *grar*)
Gee. Great timing. Tomorrow is mom's birthday...
Also, it will mean issues with driving for a month and unspecified period of being unable to work.
NH, are you sure you can't convince Shiro to get that Scottish castle? Groundkeeper work would really be a nice change of pace for my parents.
All the hugs Djerk
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Im an in-between shopper.
I do research, as in, price comparison, and if something is WAY cheaper than something similar, I do quality research before I get too excited, because if it SOUNDS too good to be true, it is. ;P
But to be honest, I WANT to do a C#@% ton of extensive research, I just dont have that kind of time. So I make sure I do enough.
(Noticing so many 'Lenovo' brand laptops in the 'used/returned/selling at a reduced rate' bin at Best Buy, I will NOT buy any of those for example.) :)
Sadly, i'm finding out through experience (bought a washer/dryer combo, it lasted TWO years and died, various reasons, maybe could have made them last longer, but,...) that stuff aint made like it used ta be!
Even the old, traditional "GOOD, NAME-BRAND" companies have been bought by their formerly lower-quality competitors. So you have TWO names on items made by the same company and the 'name brand' stuff is now being made with inferior components, because the new owners can't have any of 'That' stuff being better than theirs!
>_<
</rant>
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Crookshanks and the General have both had the flu for about a week now, they've both reached the point where they have short tempers.
Needless to say, I've been "quarantining" myself in the laundry room/office.
Tomorrow I get to build Crookshanks' new canopy bed, which I'm looking forward to.
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I got myself Gods and Magic as a reward for taking care of everyone for the last two weeks (Tiny T-Rex got it last week.
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I'm going up to San Francisco so I can buy Scottish shoes, buy several hundred Euros, and do some fieldwork for grad school.
I really want to move back to San Francisco.
Geez, I'd tell you to come up the east side and I'd sell you the Euros for a better price... except with the whole fireplace thing they're buried deep, deep somewhere I can't find them.
Plus I don't think I have any Scottish shoes lying around the house...
I'd still have to do my fieldwork, though.
You have that many Euros lying around? I think all I've got at home is a couple dollars worth of small Canadian coins, maybe 6 or 7 bucks in Mexican coins, a similar amount in Japanese coins, and a 1000 Yen note.
Also I have big feet.
Shiro and I split the purchases, including cash purchases, and at the end of the trip I missed a big wad of Euros we'd misplaced so I have 200-300 lying around the house. More money in Euros than in U.S. Dollars, since I don't like to deal in cash...
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Hope they get well soon, Cap.Crookshanks and the General have both had the flu for about a week now, they've both reached the point where they have short tempers.
Needless to say, I've been "quarantining" myself in the laundry room/office.
Tomorrow I get to build Crookshanks' new canopy bed, which I'm looking forward to.
Thank you, it's been a long couple of weeks.
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What peasants ateWe've come a long way.
I honestly don't think I could eat anything in that video.
Looks fine to me. Maybe except the ale.
Which reminds me that I haven't eaten a sorrel soup in ages...
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Now I am getting hungry...