the commas always throw me off.It's $11.09. In the US you'd be charged about $150 minimum, and possibly as high as $400.is that a lot of money?So, on tuesday I had some dental work done. I had a little bit of left over brace behind my bottom teeth to help them stay in place. But it was had already lost half its wire, and when the left over wire poked me, I pulled it out. I was left with the glue on my teeth.
I had the glue removed. A procedure not covered by insurance.
I now got the bill.
9,80 euro.
Same.
EDIT: not that far off! *gets dressed*
We are now learning calendar years.
I mean, we already know them, but they appear to have been quite confusing, so we are now gaining understanding of how dates and years work.
... so we can watch Sign of Zorro and actually know what's going on, and when.
I'm a good parent! You don't know!
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I always do very mild curries that even a toddler could love.that curry better be spicy.I'll do a lamb curry.
And I'm not afraid of any of the "normal" phobias: Public speaking, death, animals of all sorts, so I can run. Except it'll be core Ponyfinder rules.
Well, I was expecting LM to snark and point out that this was a flagrant lie, but... yeah...
The last time I made curry for the dojo most of them got angry at me and thought I was playing a practical joke because the curry was obviously too hot for any human being to eat.
10 habaneros per pound of meat seems utterly reasonable to me...
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So, it turns out there's a new Pixar movie coming out, couldn't tell you what it's about as I haven't watched a Pixar movie since Up.As far as I can tell, Bob and Doug Mackenzie as teenagers play d&d.
It's pretty frightening when the previews make you actively want to avoid having anything to do with the movie.
These are your best scenes?
Channeling Freehold: Bah!
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Sweet desna I am not looking forward to going back to work.
I'm mostly slime free, but still very tired.
I only realised today that I'd failed to make any 'Lamentations of the Phlegm Princess' jokes.
Poor show. Very poor.
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Well, it's going to be a LOOOOOOOOOOOONG day...
I handed off my project yesterday morning, took care of a bunch of administrative work, and, when I tried going for a walk over lunch and got unusually tired, lay down for a moment...
...and slept for 45 minutes.
So, since my manager was already out sick, I took the afternoon off as a "just in case" measure. (No real symptoms other than, "I got tired on a short walk and fell asleep almost instantly when I lay down.")
Thus, today I could start working on my other projects, and I really should, but it's Friday, my manager's out sick again, and none of them are due until April.
So it's the whole, "Work now so you don't feel like an idiot later," motivator...
We are now learning calendar years.
I mean, we already know them, but they appear to have been quite confusing, so we are now gaining understanding of how dates and years work.
... so we can watch Sign of Zorro and actually know what's going on, and when.
I'm a good parent! You don't know!
Okay, so now we are doing a brief - and I mean "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" brief - overview of Revolutionary politics in both US and France.
Look, sometimes these things happen.
We're gonna watch that movie eventually, dang it.
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We are now learning calendar years.
I mean, we already know them, but they appear to have been quite confusing, so we are now gaining understanding of how dates and years work.
... so we can watch Sign of Zorro and actually know what's going on, and when.
I'm a good parent! You don't know!
Okay, so now we are doing a brief - and I mean "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" brief - overview of Revolutionary politics in both US and France.
Look, sometimes these things happen.
We're gonna watch that movie eventually, dang it.
I highly recommend watching the Oversimplified YouTube videos on both. He's actually quite good.
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On a final note, my choir director, being an optimist, noted that she's already going to lose 50% of the hotel money and doesn't lose the bus money until the 23rd, so she's going to gamble.
My issue is that there's "not giving in to irrational fear" (we have customers seriously asking what will happen if 100% of our employees are quarantined and have to work from home), and there's, "Making rational plans based on the current situation."
We're seeing quarantines go up and schools being closed; I don't think it's irrational to avoid risking $40,000 on the probably-around-10% chance that everything's going to be closed due to quarantines at the start of April.
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So, it turns out there's a new Pixar movie coming out, couldn't tell you what it's about as I haven't watched a Pixar movie since Up.As far as I can tell, Bob and Doug Mackenzie as teenagers play d&d.It's pretty frightening when the previews make you actively want to avoid having anything to do with the movie.
These are your best scenes?
?????
IF you are talking about the same movie that I THINK you are talking about,... I am actually looking forward to it.
Maybe it is the never-changing child in me, (or my old friends and I playing D&D flashbacks) but it seems to be right up my alley. :)
Which movie? I’m out of the loop in general.
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I always do very mild curries that even a toddler could love.that curry better be spicy.I'll do a lamb curry.
And I'm not afraid of any of the "normal" phobias: Public speaking, death, animals of all sorts, so I can run. Except it'll be core Ponyfinder rules.
Well, I was expecting LM to snark and point out that this was a flagrant lie, but... yeah...
The last time I made curry for the dojo most of them got angry at me and thought I was playing a practical joke because the curry was obviously too hot for any human being to eat.
10 habaneros per pound of meat seems utterly reasonable to me...
EXCELLENT
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Which movie? I’m out of the loop in general.
You know, that one movie!
I highly recommend watching the Oversimplified YouTube videos on both. He's actually quite good.We are now learning calendar years.
I mean, we already know them, but they appear to have been quite confusing, so we are now gaining understanding of how dates and years work.
... so we can watch Sign of Zorro and actually know what's going on, and when.
I'm a good parent! You don't know!
Okay, so now we are doing a brief - and I mean "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" brief - overview of Revolutionary politics in both US and France.
Look, sometimes these things happen.
We're gonna watch that movie eventually, dang it.
I've enjoyed his stuff, before!
In this case, we just pointed out:
- how our dating system works
- dates for the revolutionary war
- dates for our independence
- who owned what at the Treaty of Paris
- how that changed within 20 years
- when we got the Louisiana Purchase, from France, despite it belonging to Spain when we gained independence, and the gist of why and how that happened
- that one time Spain ceded Florida (this was basically an aside)
- and then how the US was expanding west, that Spanish rule collapsed into Mexican rule in the year 1820, and that California et. al. were all part of Mexico instead of in 1820 (which is when the actual Sign of Zorro film takes place)
... and that's really it (though with more information, but not too much).
EXCELLENTI always do very mild curries that even a toddler could love.that curry better be spicy.I'll do a lamb curry.
And I'm not afraid of any of the "normal" phobias: Public speaking, death, animals of all sorts, so I can run. Except it'll be core Ponyfinder rules.
Well, I was expecting LM to snark and point out that this was a flagrant lie, but... yeah...
The last time I made curry for the dojo most of them got angry at me and thought I was playing a practical joke because the curry was obviously too hot for any human being to eat.
10 habaneros per pound of meat seems utterly reasonable to me...
PAH! HUMGUG!
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I'm riding the bus downtown, it reeks of hand sanitizer, and I have a terrible sense of smell so if I can smell it, it must really smell.
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I'm riding the bus downtown, it reeks of hand sanitizer, and I have a terrible sense of smell so if I can smell it, it must really smell.
I would likely be dead.
(Figuratively - is just be so daggum dizzy from the smell.)
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I'm riding the bus downtown, it reeks of hand sanitizer, and I have a terrible sense of smell so if I can smell it, it must really smell.I would likely be dead.
Which would justify the use of the sanitizer...
Which would justify the use of the sanitizer...I'm riding the bus downtown, it reeks of hand sanitizer, and I have a terrible sense of smell so if I can smell it, it must really smell.I would likely be dead.
Hey! It’s the sanitizer that would do the killing!
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Signs that your AP author might, just might, have deviated from the campaign outline a wee bit
Unless the PCs see this as a sign of trouble, the next section is a running fight with their next major contact having a morale block of, "She fights to the death."
I won't go on too horrific of a tangent other than to say:
(1) Friendly NPCs' bodyguards are well-known and very publicly in the employ of Friendly NPC. Major Contact welcomes them with open arms and believes every word they say. Yet if the PCs mention they're working with Friendly NPC, they are immediately in a fight to the death.
(2) Major Contact is written to be incredibly paranoid, but keeps detailed written notes of all her dealings, just so when the PCs kill her they don't derail the AP.
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Cue the start of Book 5, and a full page-and-a-half detailing of, "Here were all the possible diplomatic outcomes from the PCs' interactions with Major Contact from Book 4. Here are the various encounters you should run based on the level of Diplomacy they achieved," with a single clause of, "If the PCs killed Major Contact, then of course none of this applies and they're on their own, so you'll have to work something out."
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In short, end of Book 4 = You must kill this NPC. Beginning of Book 5 = Based on your Diplomacy results with this NPC, this is how to proceed. You'd best not have killed her.
Oops. Someone missed the memo. Considering how unhappy I was with Book 4 overall, I'm guessing I know who it was.
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And finally,
NobodysHome's Pet Peeve of the Day:
Since we're constantly going over our data limit with Verizon, I downloaded all my Spotify playlists to my phone.
And of course, yes, even with all of the songs downloaded, if cellular data is enabled then Spotify re-downloads the songs to stream them live. If I were less of a cynic I'd call it a simple programming error, or a licensing issue with the artists.
But we all know that's a lie. They're getting paid by cellular companies to set that preference, and it incenses me.
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I always do very mild curries that even a toddler could love.that curry better be spicy.I'll do a lamb curry.
And I'm not afraid of any of the "normal" phobias: Public speaking, death, animals of all sorts, so I can run. Except it'll be core Ponyfinder rules.
Well, I was expecting LM to snark and point out that this was a flagrant lie, but... yeah...
The last time I made curry for the dojo most of them got angry at me and thought I was playing a practical joke because the curry was obviously too hot for any human being to eat.
10 habaneros per pound of meat seems utterly reasonable to me...
Believe it or not, I didn't say anything because I'm trying to avoid the "Yeah, but I know NH BEST" thing. And I figured if you said that, you may have had a reason. Even if it was just deadpan humor.
But that being said, your Bitey Curry is best curry.
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Freehold hungers.
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So Minas Morgul hit the in-game store yesterday. Today I can't log in. Yay?
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Apparently, today is a twofer:
On Slack, in spite of multiple requests that they *NOT* do so, a bunch of the sales reps still preface ALL of their posts with, "Hi, @channel!" or "Hi, @here!", which generates an email, a pop-up notification, and a red dot on your Slack icon to let you know you've been direct messaged.
So, for all our sanity, we turned off notifications and ignore the red dot.
So of course with my manager out today, a senior director tried to get in touch with me via Slack.
Irritation #1 is that I ignored the red dot for half an hour.
Irritation #2 is that his entire communication was, "Hi, NobodysHome!"
I know it's a method that the Indian teams use all the time; they consider it common courtesy to not ask for anything until you've exchanged proper greetings. But for asynchronous communication, it's maddening: I have no idea what the director wanted, whether it was important or not, or anything, because all I've got is a "Hi!" from an hour ago.
Have I mentioned how much I hate Slack?
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Discord works basically the same way. And it's annoying as hell that some people will @name anyone they're talking to every sentence and refuse to stop when asked.
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A new Humble Choice set popped up today. Including a number of games that I was interested in them. Damn them and their "ten games for $12" scheme! *click*
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I came back from lunch to find a packet of stapled papers on my desk with the title "Protecting Workers from Coronavirus."
Predictably, it's all the same general "stay at home of you feel unwell or have x symptoms" stuff we all know. And absolutely nothing about how we're supposed to afford an extended period of time off work without pay.
Business as usual.
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Huh? Payment issues on Humble Bundle?
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So, no LOTRO, and no new games for me for now... Yay?
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I came back from lunch to find a packet of stapled papers on my desk with the title "Protecting Workers from Coronavirus."
Predictably, it's all the same general "stay at home of you feel unwell or have x symptoms" stuff we all know. And absolutely nothing about how we're supposed to afford an extended period of time off work without pay.
Business as usual.
I'd say this is a fine time to show your boss how much you respect him. Seek him out. Shake his hand. As he's walking away and just in earshot...cough.
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Good news: Superintendent told us he's "bringing DST early," meaning we're allowed to leave a little ahead of schedule for break.
Bad news: we're having rehearsal, which means I ain't goin' nowhere.
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I'd say this is a fine time to show your boss how much you respect him. Seek him out. Shake his hand. As he's walking away and just in earshot...cough.I came back from lunch to find a packet of stapled papers on my desk with the title "Protecting Workers from Coronavirus."
Predictably, it's all the same general "stay at home of you feel unwell or have x symptoms" stuff we all know. And absolutely nothing about how we're supposed to afford an extended period of time off work without pay.
Business as usual.
Justified.
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Hmmm. So the payment finally processed...
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Freehold HUNGERS.
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I came back from lunch to find a packet of stapled papers on my desk with the title "Protecting Workers from Coronavirus."
Predictably, it's all the same general "stay at home of you feel unwell or have x symptoms" stuff we all know. And absolutely nothing about how we're supposed to afford an extended period of time off work without pay.
Business as usual.
Yeah, it's really pathetic when <politics deleted>.
I've been really impressed at how well the tech companies are dealing with it. Shiro's company already mandated a work-from-home week next week, and GothBard's company made her work from home on Tuesday to test their work-from-home capabilities.
While most people don't have the luxury of working from home (CY's quips are a good example), it's nice to see the companies that *can* let their workers from home actually consider doing it, instead of sticking to the whole, "All our employees are cheating lazy scumbags" attitude of most corporations.
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Who's got two thumbs and squeaked out two cents short of going over-budget for classroom supplies? This lady!
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Only nine tiers left before we get Meowcles in Fortnite.
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Who's got two thumbs and squeaked out two cents short of going over-budget for classroom supplies? This lady!
Nice! Well done!
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I'd say this is a fine time to show your boss how much you respect him. Seek him out. Shake his hand. As he's walking away and just in earshot...cough.I came back from lunch to find a packet of stapled papers on my desk with the title "Protecting Workers from Coronavirus."
Predictably, it's all the same general "stay at home of you feel unwell or have x symptoms" stuff we all know. And absolutely nothing about how we're supposed to afford an extended period of time off work without pay.
Business as usual.
You. I like you.
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(Not so) Small fire in my building. Noone hurt although an apartment on 3rd floor is heavily damaged/potentially lost. Wife has some smoke inhalation and is healing up. I was not at home and am unharmed.
(Not so) Small fire in my building. Noone hurt although an apartment on 3rd floor is heavily damaged/potentially lost. Wife has some smoke inhalation and is healing up. I was not at home and am unharmed.
This is awful! Is everyone else mostly alright? Do they know what started it? Is your apartment generally safe for living?
Praying for you, your wife, and all those involved!
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About to be discharged from the hospital as soon as her bloodwork comes back. She is literally coughing up what she inhaled. Ready to go home now.
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Watch japanese men taste dutch snacks and horrible mispronounce the names
Better than us, or worse than us?
EDIT: OK, these guys are delightful!