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...I just ended up on a 40 minute tangent about the drafting of the Constitution, the Spanish Influenza pandemic, the outbreak of WWI, its direct influence on the Great Depression and WWII, and several other tangentially related issues because most of my kiddos had a free period. I do not remember the question that kickstarted this, but they at least seemed interested.
in my youth, I asked my considerably older father about those topics but he never really shared too much information.
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It could have been because I was naked, yes.
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OK. Now I'm losing my mind.
$2.4 million for a 2,751 sq. ft. (255 sq. m.) house.
Two million dollars. For a house just slightly larger than the U.S. average (2687 sq. ft.)
I live in stupidness.
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...I just ended up on a 40 minute tangent about the drafting of the Constitution, the Spanish Influenza pandemic, the outbreak of WWI, its direct influence on the Great Depression and WWII, and several other tangentially related issues because most of my kiddos had a free period. I do not remember the question that kickstarted this, but they at least seemed interested.in my youth, I asked my considerably older father about those topics but he never really shared too much information.
I'm just a disgruntled English teacher who'd rather be teaching history, so I retain a lot of historical connection trivia.
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OK. Now I'm losing my mind.
$2.4 million for a 2,751 sq. ft. (255 sq. m.) house.
Two million dollars. For a house just slightly larger than the U.S. average (2687 sq. ft.)
I live in stupidness.
is the house awesome?
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OK. Now I'm losing my mind.
$2.4 million for a 2,751 sq. ft. (255 sq. m.) house.
Two million dollars. For a house just slightly larger than the U.S. average (2687 sq. ft.)
I live in stupidness.
255 square meters is stupid big here. Usually you're looking at old homes. Altough you can get them for 600.00 in villages. In cities you're pretty much looking at a million or more for that size.
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Time to start re-painting the windows.
Still annoyed that in this day and age that they choose wood for the windows instead of plastic....how can you see through wooden windows?
Moreover, why are you painting the windows over and over again.
It's a really f#~#ing enormous window. Once you've finished painting it, the paint you put on at the beginning has worn off and you have to start again.
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It really is impressive to see just how well marketers have ingrained themselves into the American mindset.
Last night Talky McTalktalk was over for the family game. He's the son of a nurse. The Fluffernutter came in, wandered into the living room, and, as she does, threw up on the hardwood floor. It's what she does.
Talky very generously offered to clean it up for us. He got some paper towels and got the worst of it, then asked, "Where are your disinfecting wipes?"
I asked, "Why do you need them?"
"So I can properly clean the floor."
"Were you planning on eating off of the floor? Do you think our cat was carrying some horrific disease? Help me out here. Why, exactly, do you need to disinfect our floor?"
"Well, it's what my family does..."
So yep. Just force of habit. Can't clean a spill without disinfecting wipes. Why? Because it's what he's been taught to do.
I'll admit, a nurse has probably been thoroughly trained in disinfecting every possible surface of every possible spill because hospitals are like that. But cat vomit on the floor of my house? I'll take my chances with plain old soap and water, thanks.
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Install a patio with villagio pavers without having a ton of cutting? (a nearly impossible task).
Challenge accepted!
Challenge complete! No cuts! Which is pretty good considering there are 4 different sizes and I had to work around a step.
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We truly live in the Freeholdverse.
Impus Major is watching The Thing and was interested in reading up on the SCP article on it, "The Flesh That Hates".
Google autocorrected his search to "The Flesh that Mates" and presented him with a bundle of NSFW top hits.
Er... thanks, Freehold?
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is the house awesome?OK. Now I'm losing my mind.
$2.4 million for a 2,751 sq. ft. (255 sq. m.) house.
Two million dollars. For a house just slightly larger than the U.S. average (2687 sq. ft.)
I live in stupidness.
Both GothBard and Shiro looked at all the details and declared it extremely "vanilla".
Add to that that it takes up most of the 3750 sq. ft. lot and the rest of the lot is plain white concrete and that pathetic little "lawn" and it's pretty depressing.
I honestly wouldn't trade my current house for it, even though it's twice the size and only a few blocks away. I like having a yard, even a teensy one.
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It really is impressive to see just how well marketers have ingrained themselves into the American mindset.
Last night Talky McTalktalk was over for the family game. He's the son of a nurse. The Fluffernutter came in, wandered into the living room, and, as she does, threw up on the hardwood floor. It's what she does.
Talky very generously offered to clean it up for us. He got some paper towels and got the worst of it, then asked, "Where are your disinfecting wipes?"
I asked, "Why do you need them?"
"So I can properly clean the floor."
"Were you planning on eating off of the floor? Do you think our cat was carrying some horrific disease? Help me out here. Why, exactly, do you need to disinfect our floor?"
"Well, it's what my family does..."So yep. Just force of habit. Can't clean a spill without disinfecting wipes. Why? Because it's what he's been taught to do.
I'll admit, a nurse has probably been thoroughly trained in disinfecting every possible surface of every possible spill because hospitals are like that. But cat vomit on the floor of my house? I'll take my chances with plain old soap and water, thanks.
Raised by nurses. Any type of animal anything equals disinfectant.
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It's a really f&~*ing enormous window. Once you've finished painting it, the paint you put on at the beginning has worn off and you have to start again.Time to start re-painting the windows.
Still annoyed that in this day and age that they choose wood for the windows instead of plastic....how can you see through wooden windows?
Moreover, why are you painting the windows over and over again.
This.
Absolutely this.
Has nothing to do with me forgetting the word windowsill.
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We truly live in the Freeholdverse.
Impus Major is watching The Thing and was interested in reading up on the SCP article on it, "The Flesh That Hates".
Google autocorrected his search to "The Flesh that Mates" and presented him with a bundle of NSFW top hits.
Er... thanks, Freehold?
If we lived in the Freeholdverse, the wrong coast would be full of clean, fresh air, joggers would be waving to one another friendily without using their hands, and the forest-desert would be excellent for cycling.
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We truly live in the Freeholdverse.
Impus Major is watching The Thing and was interested in reading up on the SCP article on it, "The Flesh That Hates".
Google autocorrected his search to "The Flesh that Mates" and presented him with a bundle of NSFW top hits.
Er... thanks, Freehold?
I bet freehold is so proud.
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is the house awesome?OK. Now I'm losing my mind.
$2.4 million for a 2,751 sq. ft. (255 sq. m.) house.
Two million dollars. For a house just slightly larger than the U.S. average (2687 sq. ft.)
I live in stupidness.
Both GothBard and Shiro looked at all the details and declared it extremely "vanilla".
Add to that that it takes up most of the 3750 sq. ft. lot and the rest of the lot is plain white concrete and that pathetic little "lawn" and it's pretty depressing.
I honestly wouldn't trade my current house for it, even though it's twice the size and only a few blocks away. I like having a yard, even a teensy one.
But you would be missing the opportunity to get more money out of your house before leaving America...
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It really is impressive to see just how well marketers have ingrained themselves into the American mindset.
Last night Talky McTalktalk was over for the family game. He's the son of a nurse. The Fluffernutter came in, wandered into the living room, and, as she does, threw up on the hardwood floor. It's what she does.
Talky very generously offered to clean it up for us. He got some paper towels and got the worst of it, then asked, "Where are your disinfecting wipes?"
I asked, "Why do you need them?"
"So I can properly clean the floor."
"Were you planning on eating off of the floor? Do you think our cat was carrying some horrific disease? Help me out here. Why, exactly, do you need to disinfect our floor?"
"Well, it's what my family does..."So yep. Just force of habit. Can't clean a spill without disinfecting wipes. Why? Because it's what he's been taught to do.
I'll admit, a nurse has probably been thoroughly trained in disinfecting every possible surface of every possible spill because hospitals are like that. But cat vomit on the floor of my house? I'll take my chances with plain old soap and water, thanks.
Standard Precautions for health care settings in California is to "treat every body fluid as if it is contaminated".
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Sorry I just missed you in Fallout 76 CH, I was just stopping for the night when you walked in. This year I've been starting work at 6:30 which means I'm waking up by 4 or 4:30 which means I'm going to bed pretty early during the week.
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Uh, whatever other post I made in FaWtL relatively recently (like, two days, now?) vanished entirely.
OH WELL DOESN'T MATTER 'CAUSE
HOLY CARP
HOLY CARP
ssssSSNIFFF
I have not been this excited about a mainline Final Fantasy from ads alone since the 90s.
(Okay, I mean, FF12, or whatever, but, guys, then I actually got to see what it looked like.)
GUYS
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Sorry I just missed you in Fallout 76 CH, I was just stopping for the night when you walked in. This year I've been starting work at 6:30 which means I'm waking up by 4 or 4:30 which means I'm going to bed pretty early during the week.
Fair enough! I saw you were on your way out.
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Sorry I just missed you in Fallout 76 CH, I was just stopping for the night when you walked in. This year I've been starting work at 6:30 which means I'm waking up by 4 or 4:30 which means I'm going to bed pretty early during the week.Fair enough! I saw you were on your way out.
Yes, I love Rose, she is my spirit animal.
My favorite mission so far is when she had me "make friends with a Deathclaw".
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Uh, whatever other post I made in FaWtL relatively recently (like, two days, now?) vanished entirely.
OH WELL DOESN'T MATTER 'CAUSE
HOLY CARP
HOLY CARP
ssssSSNIFFF
I have not been this excited about a mainline Final Fantasy from ads alone since the 90s.
(Okay, I mean, FF12, or whatever, but, guys, then I actually got to see what it looked like.)
GUYS
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Take a deep breath TL
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Another favorite mission that Rose sent me on was to retrieve an AI holotape which was of course guarded by a Deathclaw matriarch.
So I sneak up and climb on top of this rock outcropping next to her nest and start chucking Molotov cocktails at her until she's good and pissed and runs around to the back to climb up the rocks and maul the s#+$ out of me, which is my cue to jump off the rocks grab the holotape and then climb/run down the rocks on the other side of her nest.
Worked like a charm!
The Deathclaw I made friends with was on Deathclaw Island. Unfortunately that Deathclaw didn't want to be friends ("Oh, wow! I didn't actually think you'd do it!" Rose exclaimed).
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We've been without a dishwasher for 2 months now, and the repair guys are finally supposed to show up today. I've kind of fallen into the groove of washing dishes by hand, so these guys have to watch out -- if they take too long to respond, people might realize that they don't really need dishwashers, and they'll be out of a job.
(Admittedly, doing dishes by hand is a huge PITA solely because my family generates so many. I generate 5-7 dishes a day. The rest of my family generates 45-50 between the three of them. Every. Single. Day. I think actually having to do the dishes teaches you to be more conservative in what needs a dish.)
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They head to work, change clothes; come home, change clothes;
Why are you still doing their laundry? Anyone who can hold down a job can also run a washer and dryer.
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Take a deep breath TL
Take a deep breath.
But, I did?!
Didn't you see the,
ssssSSNIFFF
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We've been without a dishwasher for 2 months now, and the repair guys are finally supposed to show up today. I've kind of fallen into the groove of washing dishes by hand, so these guys have to watch out -- if they take too long to respond, people might realize that they don't really need dishwashers, and they'll be out of a job.
(Admittedly, doing dishes by hand is a huge PITA solely because my family generates so many. I generate 5-7 dishes a day. The rest of my family generates 45-50 between the three of them. Every. Single. Day. I think actually having to do the dishes teaches you to be more conservative in what needs a dish.)
HOW
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Just after covid became a big deal our water system kind of started to break down for unrelated reasons (it still works, but limited) and, as a result (and I'm a person with terrible laziness issues that I work on overcoming; also distractions) I accidentally let the dishes pile up.
So just the other day, I took my kids outside, let them enjoy a picnic, then put all the dishes out there and the three of us washed dishes by hand with dish soap and a water hose until they were all done.
My youngest has been asking if we can do that today every day since. XD
@ NH - my kids are the same, except replace dishes with clothing. I have 2 daughters who have utterly shattered every old-fashioned stereotype I had of girls except one. They change their clothes all day. They head to work, change clothes; come home, change clothes; jumping online for a class, change clothes; meeting a friend at the park, change clothes; going to bed, change clothes.
Last week I waited until Saturday to do laundry. For 3 people I ran SIX loads. That's just silly.
I do require my kids to shower and change when they get home, and their Mommy does as well. So while it's not quite that intense on our end, I'm definitely at fault in adding to the whole... weight of how much laundry I do.
(But we get sick enough around here all the time anyway, I'm not adding to that mess.)
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@ NH - my kids are the same, except replace dishes with clothing. I have 2 daughters who have utterly shattered every old-fashioned stereotype I had of girls except one. They change their clothes all day. They head to work, change clothes; come home, change clothes; jumping online for a class, change clothes; meeting a friend at the park, change clothes; going to bed, change clothes.
Last week I waited until Saturday to do laundry. For 3 people I ran SIX loads. That's just silly.
I do require my kids to shower and change when they get home, and their Mommy does as well. So while it's not quite that intense on our end, I'm definitely at fault in adding to the whole... weight of how much laundry I do.
(But we get sick enough around here all the time anyway, I'm not adding to that mess.)
Florida is different. Heat and humidity are HUGE.
When I was doing an onsite in Houston it was 85°F and 90% humidity. It wasn't unpleasant, but walking from building to building I soaked both my shirt and undershirt through to the skin. I know the two nights I went out with my friend after work I changed just to be presentable to her and the general public, then changed again into my pajamas.
Around here an 80°F day is unusual (under 30 per year) and the humidity doesn't break 50% unless it's raining, so a single set of clothes per day should be all anyone needs. But yes, if GothBard goes out after work, she absolutely has to change before she does so.
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We've been without a dishwasher for 2 months now, and the repair guys are finally supposed to show up today. I've kind of fallen into the groove of washing dishes by hand, so these guys have to watch out -- if they take too long to respond, people might realize that they don't really need dishwashers, and they'll be out of a job.
(Admittedly, doing dishes by hand is a huge PITA solely because my family generates so many. I generate 5-7 dishes a day. The rest of my family generates 45-50 between the three of them. Every. Single. Day. I think actually having to do the dishes teaches you to be more conservative in what needs a dish.)
Brown coffee filters work great for this.
Uh, whatever other post I made in FaWtL relatively recently (like, two days, now?) vanished entirely.
OH WELL DOESN'T MATTER 'CAUSE
HOLY CARP
HOLY CARP
ssssSSNIFFF
I have not been this excited about a mainline Final Fantasy from ads alone since the 90s.
(Okay, I mean, FF12, or whatever, but, guys, then I actually got to see what it looked like.)
GUYS
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I stopped after 6.
I only played Final Fantasy 7 and Tactics (which is a ton of fun!).
The Final Fantasy 7 Remake is a lot of fun so far (admittedly I'm not far at all (chapter 3 I think).
Considering I just got Ghost of Tsushima I probably won't get back to it for awhile.
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Another favorite mission that Rose sent me on was to retrieve an AI holotape which was of course guarded by a Deathclaw matriarch.
So I sneak up and climb on top of this rock outcropping next to her nest and start chucking Molotov cocktails at her until she's good and pissed and runs around to the back to climb up the rocks and maul the s&@@ out of me, which is my cue to jump off the rocks grab the holotape and then climb/run down the rocks on the other side of her nest.
Worked like a charm!
The Deathclaw I made friends with was on Deathclaw Island. Unfortunately that Deathclaw didn't want to be friends ("Oh, wow! I didn't actually think you'd do it!" Rose exclaimed).
How are you finding the One Wasteland changes since Tuesday? I have heard people say the enemy scaling is a nightmare for lower level players. Have you noticed things being particularly difficult now?