I have no heard that term before igther but context clues make me think it's small flood maybe?
!!! Your all wrong! Urban dictionary refers to a "toad floater" as a thunder storm!
I am glad that you are feeling better John. Hopefully you have a better week.
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What is a toad-floater?What makes LM feel smug:
This morning, between 9:30 and 11, I mowed the front and side lawns.
Now we're having an honest-to-goodness toad-floater.
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A toad-floater is rural Texas terminology for a sudden, hard thunderstorm.
WW's granddaddy used to say it a lot.
Co-worker: I'm going to do this thing over here which absolutely does not need to be done until the very end while you build everything else
Me (to myself): Yup, it's Monday.
*grumble*
Monday...
A toad-floater is rural Texas terminology for a sudden, hard thunderstorm.
WW's granddaddy used to say it a lot.
huh. Weird.
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Scint is running a baking competition on our NWN server. Events connected to this may have accidentally a cult.
I figured running the quest about the ambrosia slaad would have been the more questionable event, but here we are.
Worshippers of the Great Old Buns?
Nope. Egg.
Ugh. I'm sorry, John.
Just got off phone with boss. Looks like we will be getting a schedule for when we are returning to work next week.
Just got off phone with boss. Looks like we will be getting a schedule for when we are returning to work next week.
Wooow...
...our latest update was, "Probably not in 2020."
The Bull will not be denied.
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We got a "maybe in September...depends on this second wave stuff"
And we are deemed, rightly or wrongly, essential...so we are open...just not allowed in the office.
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Just got off phone with boss. Looks like we will be getting a schedule for when we are returning to work next week.Wooow...
...our latest update was, "Probably not in 2020."
not sure if I love or hate you. Probably both.
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We got a "maybe in September...depends on this second wave stuff"
And we are deemed, rightly or wrongly, essential...so we are open...just not allowed in the office.
I'm concerned about the second wave here. People are starting to act as if this is podunk, not NY. I am genuinely concerned for public transportation, especially our subway.
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New Job will have me in the office for the 60-90 day training period, but after that will be eligible for work-from-home.
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New Job will have me in the office for the 60-90 day training period, but after that will be eligible for work-from-home.
be careful.
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Things are relatively calm in KS right now, and I'm not using public transit so my exposure to non-fellow employees is thankfully minimal. Masks will continue to need to be a thing, and keeping sanitizer on-hand, so basically just like Old Job more or less. If I can make it thru the training period on that, I'm home free.
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My technician in Arizona contracted COVID 19, as did his 2 yr old son. His wife and 4(?) month old daughter are thus far ok.
He didn't have a lot of PTO built back up because he used most/all of it when his daughter was born. He burned what he had available last week, but today he's lying in bed with his laptop and doing what he can because his wife doesn't work. He either works while fighting COVID...or they become homeless...
Great system we have here.
What's that? The President has asked the Supreme Court to strike down the law that forms the backbone of our entire existing health system? Our system sucks, but I don't think whole sale destruction of the existing system without a replacement in the middle of a pandemic is the brightest move.
Like...it's so bad even William Barr thinks it's a step too far...
Just added stuff for Technocracy Reloaded for Mage 20. Heres hoping we get Hunter 20!
I'm concerned about the second wave here. People are starting to act as if this is podunk, not NY. I am genuinely concerned for public transportation, especially our subway.We got a "maybe in September...depends on this second wave stuff"
And we are deemed, rightly or wrongly, essential...so we are open...just not allowed in the office.
As I said earlier, with that many people in one place, even 99% of people acting right leads to thousands of f$*# ups.
Just like biking on major roads: Be careful and assume everyone else is an idiot.
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I'm concerned about the second wave here. People are starting to act as if this is podunk, not NY. I am genuinely concerned for public transportation, especially our subway.We got a "maybe in September...depends on this second wave stuff"
And we are deemed, rightly or wrongly, essential...so we are open...just not allowed in the office.
As I said earlier, with that many people in one place, even 99% of people acting right leads to thousands of f+#~ ups.
Just like biking on major roads: Be careful and assume everyone else is an idiot.
I assume that even on the smallest and inconsequential side streets. Ride free or die.
Sounds less like a stomach bug and more like a bit of spoiled food taking the express route. Either way, glad you are feeling better and hope you remain so.
Quitting caffeine sucks. 70 hours and headache in full force. Another day and that should abate somewhat. Only 3 more weeks for drinking water and la croix to become a "habit."
La Croix is awful. I'd rather have unflavored seltzer than that nasty stuff.
Tastes like someone accidentally spilled medicine into a carbonator.
I keep a case of seltzer in the fridge for when I need bubbles, personally.
I feel you on caffeine. I still haven't been able to quit, but I did switch to black coffee. It's a step.
Never drank much coffee. Was a tea drinker. But it is time to quit. My schedule is pretty flexible right now, so sleepy issues are not a big deal. Likewise, all my triathlons are canceled, so my training can take the hit associated with shortness of breath from quitting.
Irritability is an issue, but there is an ancillary stressor already, so I might as well double down on that part of withdrawal and just be a grumpy old fart for a week or so.
I really only drink plain water when backpacking or exercising. I almost have to have some flavor, even if it from a badger's anal gland.
So, I'll chime in and swear by SodaStream machines. Instead of buying 3-5 cases of Crystal Geyser every Costco trip to support my and Impus Minor's addictions to carbonated water and dealing with the inevitable guilt of throwing out all that plastic, we go through a single canister a month, which we can then turn in to get refilled while we start in on a new one.
Massively cheaper, less waste, and we can make the water as bubbly (or not) as we please.
I've never bought any of the flavor packets, so I can't comment on those.
Yeah, I'm a "plain water, nonfat milk" kind of guy.
Whee?
Flavored green tea is my current drug of choice. I think some of the teas I order are caffeine free, some are not.
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Still looking for a new flavored seltzer. We used to always buy the Kroger house brand, but we don't shop at Kroger anymore, La Croix tastes stale and too alkaline to me (I *think* that's what I'm tasting, I could be talking completely out of my backside), and WW won't let me buy anything bottled by the Coca Cola company for reasons I don't understand, nor are we allowed to get a Soda Stream because politics. Waterloo is too sweet and too expensive and WW doesn't like the Sprouts house brand.
It's almost enough to make me start drinking tap water, but honestly, I'd rather dehydrate.
Meanwhile, the kids decided entirely of their own accord to start cleaning up the breakfast room this morning in preparation for the big "turning the entire house upside down" project. And the turtle goes back to my classroom tomorrow afternoon after three and a half months.
The Kirkland house brand is not terrible. Not great, but not terrible. If you have a costco nearby. Bubly is a bit stronger flavor. I can tolerate almost any of theirs except cherry. I really only happen to say la croix, because that is what is at my elbow as I am working today. Along with a yeti of ice water.
Yeah, I'll never give up morning coffee.
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I always understood a 'floater' to be a bowel movement that stubbornly refused to be flushed away, so the term 'toad-floater' made me Wonder for an instant, but then I Googled the term, and everything was OK.
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Good to know! Altough I like captain yesterdays answer as well :)A toad-floater is rural Texas terminology for a sudden, hard thunderstorm.
WW's granddaddy used to say it a lot.
They are a lot of fun!
In related news, Crookshanks rescued her first toad at work today.
In terms of things to drink (that aren't beer), I have approx. six cups of black tea per day (possibly that's too much), but never drink it past 6pm, after which I have tea (mint/sage/fennel) or cordial (elderberry or lovage) made from various herbs/fruits growing in the garden, or sometimes Vimto.
The Kirkland house brand is not terrible. Not great, but not terrible. If you have a costco nearby. Bubly is a bit stronger flavor. I can tolerate almost any of theirs except cherry. I really only happen to say la croix, because that is what is at my elbow as I am working today. Along with a yeti of ice water.
Cherry Bubly is pretty much robutussin with bubbles.