Deep 6 FaWtL

[gran rey de los nekkid]

This is so stupid. They decided that everyone has to do food safety certification, something we haven't done in the 8 years I've been here or at any of the hotels I've worked at before, and signed us all up for online training. But they signed us up for Food Safety Management training, which is 8! FREAKING! HOURS! of online at-your-own-pace training, followed by a test during which someone will be watching through your webcam to ensure you aren't cheating. And the freaking training website uses G~# D$&NED FLASH!!! so Chrome keeps throwing up warnings about it. I'm like 30 minutes in, and already want to quit.

Sure, I'm nekkid. F&@& it. Why not.

[Vidmaster7]

for your application for your next job make sure you note down that you have had food safety training.

[gran rey de los mono]

Gotta love 8 hours of flash-enabled powerpoint slides. Yay.

[Vidmaster7]

Taking me back to the week long training session. We gt more turn over form those then anything and frankly they don't help that much.

[Capt. Gherk-Lick Picklard]

Vidmaster7 wrote:

for your application for your next job make sure you note down that you have had food safety training.

Agreed. It's surprising how many people wield pickles without proper trigger discipline, or who'll carelessly point the muzzle of a loaded baked potato.

And now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to disarm a large 7-layer burrito.

[Vidmaster7]

Capt. Gherk-Lick Picklard wrote:

Vidmaster7 wrote:

for your application for your next job make sure you note down that you have had food safety training.

Agreed. It's surprising how many people wield pickles without proper trigger discipline, or who'll carelessly point the muzzle of a loaded baked potato.

And now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to disarm a large 7-layer burrito.

"Sokath, his eyes uncovered

[Woran]

gran rey de los mono wrote:

Gotta love 8 hours of flash-enabled powerpoint slides. Yay.

I feel sick just thinking about it

[Sharoth]

Ok. Who is spoiling my dogs and cats? Woran is awake so I can blame her.

[lisamarlene]

Celestial Healer wrote:

So we went out to dinner for the first time since March (outdoor dining). Man, have I missed that.

Where did you go? What did you have?

Some of us need to experience it vicariously for a little bit.
(Our cases here are climbing again.)

[Sharoth]

Or is it lisa Marlene who is spoiling my furry four legged brats?

[Sharoth]

Georgia's covid19 cases are about to spike too.

[mildly annoyed Vidmaster7]

Joy... and you know they can't stay home... oh they are starting schools again aren't they?

[Sharoth]

Oh yes. School is starting back up. Uh oh. I need to talk to my brother about that and see if my nieces need some facemasks.

[Vidmaster7]

Is home schooling an option?

[lisamarlene]

Sharoth wrote:

Or is it lisa Marlene who is spoiling my furry four legged brats?

I only spoil dogs, not cats, so if the cats are spoiled, it's Woran's fault.

[Vidmaster7]

If they were rats it would probably be me.

[captain yesterday]

Madison is doing virtual learning at least through the end of October.

[Sharoth]

I have three dogs, five cats, and the wife's tree frog. We had some rats, but they died from old age. They were sweet too.

[Drejk]

Sharoth wrote:

Ok. Who is spoiling my dogs and cats? Woran is awake so I can blame her.

She does spoil cats. There is an extensive photo and video documentation for that. (on facebook)

[The Vagrant Erudite]

I see why people become hermits.

You cut a##~+@#s out of your life, one at a time, until you have nobody left to cut out and are living in a cabin in the mountains with a shotgun screaming get off my property.

[The Vagrant Erudite]

Sharoth wrote:

I have three dogs, five cats, and the wife's tree frog. We had some rats, but they died from old age. They were sweet too.

Yes, that covers breakfast, my draconic brother, but then what is left for lunch?

[Drejk]

Vidmaster7 wrote:

If they were rats it would probably be me.

Woran spoils rats too.

[lisamarlene]

I spent five hours in my classroom Saturday morning, prepping for the other 60% of my class to come back on Monday.

So, to recap:
July 7th - those of us who were "early start" opened the school with advanced precautions. The idea was, if there was a shutdown, early start kids would not have to do home learning, because they would have enough days logged by the end of the year. We stayed open for 9 days before Gov. Abbott shut down all schools in the state until my birthday.

Four days later, on Monday, we reopened the school only for essential worker kids. Which includes my class. We also found out that my entire grade level (pre-K/Kinder mixed ages) could reopen entirely with our precautions, because our grade level is licensed by the state as "childcare".

This past week, we've had a scheduled closure for beginning-of-year teacher inservice, for the rest of the teachers to get their classrooms ready, because the reduced ratio has meant the building of new rooms in odd spaces and everything is different.

On Monday, all four classrooms in my grade level fully reopen, and all the other classrooms reopen on-campus for essentials and home learning for non-essentials, with total reopening slated for the 8th, unless the Gov. rolls the date back.

So far, we've had two day-long shutdowns (one of the whole school, one of just my classroom) for potential cases that turned out to be negative.

I just donated blood a few days ago (peer pressure from my church; we're hosting ARC blood drives twice a month), and the Red Cross is now giving you a free Covid Antibody test if you give, so I'm curious to see what shows up.

[lisamarlene]

The Vagrant Erudite wrote:

I see why people become hermits.

You cut a&#*++!s out of your life, one at a time, until you have nobody left to cut out and are living in a cabin in the mountains with a shotgun screaming get off my property.

Well that's how *I* plan to retire.

[captain yesterday]

I'm just going to build a castle. I already know a guy that built a trebuchet, so as soon as I get him to build me one I'll be set.

[Nylarthotep]

My wife and i did brunch at our stumble bar patio. Eggs bacon toast grits and bloody maries. 830 am. We were only ones on patio. Pleasant

[NobodysHome]

captain yesterday wrote:

Madison is doing virtual learning at least through the end of October.

Ditto around here.

[NobodysHome]

The Bay Area can't even do thunderstorms right.

So, sudden heat wave raises the daily high temperature by 30°F in a single day, the next day is similar, then the onshore flow comes in and mixes some cold air in there and you get a sudden summer downpour (I'm sure you're all familiar with them as you live in places with real weather). Always accompanied by an amazing lightning storm.

These things even have a name: "Thunder showers".

So, we got the high winds. We got the sudden downpour with raindrops as big as grapes.

And we got...
...two claps of thunder over the 5 hours the storm lasted.

I am unimpressed, Bay Area weather. Unimpressed, I say.

(We were 99°F on Friday and 93°F on Saturday, which is already a "heat wave" around here, but it looks like this storm broke the back of the high pressure system, and suddenly Weather Underground says we're not going to break 90°F again. I'll believe it when I see it.)

[Freehold DM]

lisamarlene wrote:

Sharoth wrote:

Or is it lisa Marlene who is spoiling my furry four legged brats?

I only spoil dogs, not cats, so if the cats are spoiled, it's Woran's fault.

sends lisamarlene more cats

[Freehold DM]

Nylarthotep wrote:

My wife and i did brunch at our stumble bar patio. Eggs bacon toast grits and bloody maries. 830 am. We were only ones on patio. UnPleasant

FIFY

[Freehold DM]

lisamarlene wrote:

The Vagrant Erudite wrote:

I see why people become hermits.

You cut a&#*++!s out of your life, one at a time, until you have nobody left to cut out and are living in a cabin in the mountains with a shotgun screaming get off my property.

Well that's how *I* plan to retire.

absconding with you will be somewhat more difficult, then.

Me, I plan to live in the abscondi-cave full time, and game and party until the end of days.

[Drejk]

Zirk'kth The Feybane, a fey-eating dragon.

[Woran]

Sharoth wrote:

Ok. Who is spoiling my dogs and cats? Woran is awake so I can blame her.

Sure. I'll give them all the scratches and scritches they want.

[Woran]

Sharoth wrote:

I have three dogs, five cats, and the wife's tree frog. We had some rats, but they died from old age. They were sweet too.

Yeah. My sweet men are getting old too. And the heat is really taxing for them.

[Woran]

Stupid heat.
I'm so tired.

[NobodysHome]

(1) Proof to LM that lightning DOES occasionally strike in the Bay Area.

(2) Proof to the rest of FaWtL that the media engages in some small amount of hyperbole. "Nonstop continuous lightning" was apparently 500 strikes across the entire region (roughly 30 miles x 100 miles for just those cities that actually touch the bay) over a couple of hours.

I've heard about 15 claps of thunder in the last 4 hours. I do not consider that "nonstop continuous lightning", but maybe that's just me...

[Freehold DM]

Woran wrote:

Stupid heat.

I'm so tired.

im so sorry. It seems I cannot control weather in your area.

[NobodysHome]

So, I admit that there are serious real-world ramifications to be considered, but

today's political musings just plain amuse me:

Many years ago, some of you old-timers might remember a time when presidents actually tried to hide their illegal activities. I know, I know, it's hard to believe, but way back in the Reagan days when Iran-Contra was in full bloom the excuse was, "Oh, yes, yes! That's definitely illegal! But we don't remember approving any of that! It must be Oliver North's fault!"
So they got a scapegoat, let him get convicted, and he was later rewarded with a solid run for a Senate seat and presidency of the NRA. Because... OK. Not going there.

Anyhoo, along came Bush Jr. who found out that if he could get a single lawyer to say that what he was doing was legal, a sympathetic Congress would go ahead and let it slide. (The infamous "torture memos".)

So, Trump's been enjoying that kind of power throughout his presidency: Making appointments while bypassing the Senate, overruling Congress by executive order, flagrantly violating every ethics, emoluments, and nepotism clause ever written, and so forth.

Hilariously, he tried it with the U.N. "Hey, we pulled out of this treaty 2 years ago, but now we're invoking this clause and we have every right to do so because I had a lawyer write this 6-page memo as to why we still have standing!"

And the U.N. is pretty much, "Are you high?"

It's just really delightful seeing what passes as corrupt business-as-usual in the U.S. simply hit a brick wall of incredulity when attempted with other foreign powers.

It's like someone didn't tell them how the game is played or something.

The whole thing just tickles me pink.

[NobodysHome]

Woran wrote:

Sharoth wrote:

I have three dogs, five cats, and the wife's tree frog. We had some rats, but they died from old age. They were sweet too.

Yeah. My sweet men are getting old too. And the heat is really taxing for them.

Aw! You've never called me your "sweet man" before!

[Celestial Healer]

lisamarlene wrote:

Celestial Healer wrote:

So we went out to dinner for the first time since March (outdoor dining). Man, have I missed that.

Where did you go? What did you have?

Some of us need to experience it vicariously for a little bit.
(Our cases here are climbing again.)

We had a gift card to a nearby steakhouse. We shared the porterhouse, with roast potatoes and creamed spinach.

We had to do it up for our first outing in so long.

They’ve actually opened some indoor dining around here, but I’m not planning on doing that anytime soon.

[Infernal Healer]

NobodysHome wrote:

(1) Proof to LM that lightning DOES occasionally strike in the Bay Area.

(2) Proof to the rest of FaWtL that the media engages in some small amount of hyperbole. "Nonstop continuous lightning" was apparently 500 strikes across the entire region (roughly 30 miles x 100 miles for just those cities that actually touch the bay) over a couple of hours.

I've heard about 15 claps of thunder in the last 4 hours. I do not consider that "nonstop continuous lightning", but maybe that's just me...

That is a wimpy storm. I have conjured worse just by eating Taco Bell.

[Freehold DM]

Celestial Healer wrote:

lisamarlene wrote:

Celestial Healer wrote:

So we went out to dinner for the first time since March (outdoor dining). Man, have I missed that.

Where did you go? What did you have?

Some of us need to experience it vicariously for a little bit.
(Our cases here are climbing again.)

We had a gift card to a nearby steakhouse. We shared the porterhouse, with roast potatoes and creamed spinach.

We had to do it up for our first outing in so long.

They’ve actually opened some indoor dining around here, but I’m not planning on doing that anytime soon.

I am not doing outdoor or indoor dining anytime soon. Not until this is all over.

[lisamarlene]

NobodysHome wrote:

(1) Proof to LM that lightning DOES occasionally strike in the Bay Area.

(2) Proof to the rest of FaWtL that the media engages in some small amount of hyperbole. "Nonstop continuous lightning" was apparently 500 strikes across the entire region (roughly 30 miles x 100 miles for just those cities that actually touch the bay) over a couple of hours.

I've heard about 15 claps of thunder in the last 4 hours. I do not consider that "nonstop continuous lightning", but maybe that's just me...

Wow. Sure. AFTER I move away.

grumble grumble grumble

[lisamarlene]

Freehold DM wrote:

lisamarlene wrote:

Sharoth wrote:

Or is it lisa Marlene who is spoiling my furry four legged brats?

I only spoil dogs, not cats, so if the cats are spoiled, it's Woran's fault.

sends lisamarlene more cats

Send me cats, I'll send you grits.

I can escalate with the best of them.

Seriously. No cats. All they do is make me miserable, and if I get bitten, the hallucinations are *horrible*. I don't need that right now. Not this year.

[Vanykrye]

Infernal Healer wrote:

NobodysHome wrote:

(1) Proof to LM that lightning DOES occasionally strike in the Bay Area.

(2) Proof to the rest of FaWtL that the media engages in some small amount of hyperbole. "Nonstop continuous lightning" was apparently 500 strikes across the entire region (roughly 30 miles x 100 miles for just those cities that actually touch the bay) over a couple of hours.

I've heard about 15 claps of thunder in the last 4 hours. I do not consider that "nonstop continuous lightning", but maybe that's just me...

That is a wimpy storm. I have conjured worse just by eating Taco Bell.

But it is a really nice picture for the story...actually, given NH's descriptions...I'm semi-convinced that's all they get. Pictures of weather.

[NobodysHome]

Vanykrye wrote:

Infernal Healer wrote:

NobodysHome wrote:

(1) Proof to LM that lightning DOES occasionally strike in the Bay Area.

(2) Proof to the rest of FaWtL that the media engages in some small amount of hyperbole. "Nonstop continuous lightning" was apparently 500 strikes across the entire region (roughly 30 miles x 100 miles for just those cities that actually touch the bay) over a couple of hours.

I've heard about 15 claps of thunder in the last 4 hours. I do not consider that "nonstop continuous lightning", but maybe that's just me...

That is a wimpy storm. I have conjured worse just by eating Taco Bell.

But it is a really nice picture for the story...actually, given NH's descriptions...I'm semi-convinced that's all they get. Pictures of weather.

That's pretty much it. Our "storms" are when we hold up a picture and turn on the shower and the fan at the same time...

[Woran]

FINALLY RAIN AND THUNDER AND RELIEF

[Woran]

NobodysHome wrote:

Woran wrote:

Sharoth wrote:

I have three dogs, five cats, and the wife's tree frog. We had some rats, but they died from old age. They were sweet too.

Yeah. My sweet men are getting old too. And the heat is really taxing for them.

Aw! You've never called me your "sweet man" before!

You are.

Also want your belly rubbed?

[NobodysHome]

Woran wrote:

NobodysHome wrote:

Woran wrote:

Sharoth wrote:

I have three dogs, five cats, and the wife's tree frog. We had some rats, but they died from old age. They were sweet too.

Yeah. My sweet men are getting old too. And the heat is really taxing for them.

Aw! You've never called me your "sweet man" before!

You are.

Also want your belly rubbed?

Absolutely.

[Woran]

NobodysHome wrote:

Woran wrote:

NobodysHome wrote:

Woran wrote:

Sharoth wrote:

I have three dogs, five cats, and the wife's tree frog. We had some rats, but they died from old age. They were sweet too.

Yeah. My sweet men are getting old too. And the heat is really taxing for them.

Aw! You've never called me your "sweet man" before!

You are.

Also want your belly rubbed?

Absolutely.

*gently rubs tummy*