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Well, so much for dinner.
I know that Muir Glen is carefully organic, so they probably do something different in their canning process. And I know that tomatoes are acidic and can start eating away at a can from the inside.
But when you open your cans of whole stewed tomatoes and there's black discoloration all over the tops of the tomatoes, it's "I suspect botulism" time and you throw everything out and wash the pot you were using ultra-thoroughly.
No idea what it was, but not taking chances with discolored canned goods.
Wise.
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Just throw in some wolf meat and a gourd, it'll be fine....
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"This person needs a computer for her home office as well as a setup for when she's in the office!"
How about we give her a laptop instead?
"No, she can't be trusted with that."
*headdesk*
And yesterday afternoon I found out that this user is only working from home on Saturday mornings. For overtime purposes.
One option for broke AF folks that wasn't in my area when I was in Ohio; giving plasma. I might just barely make rent. (The job goes well but still playing catch up.)
Course now I know I need to find a free clinic for high bp.
It never ends...
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I found one of my favorite songs on Youtube. Warren Zevon - Roland the headless Thompson gunner Happy Halloween.
Heh. I had to stop listening to Zevon when Hermione was two and a half. She started singing along to Roland in the car and it creeped me out. (You just don't ever need to hear "Time, time, time for another peaceful war / but time stands still for Roland while he evens up the score" in a two-year-old girl voice. You really don't.)
Good times.
Probably, some people have a tendency of leaving things on top of their cars, then driving away with things still on the roofs.
Yeah, that sounds like "we trust that person enough to have them use the device, but we don't trust that person when it comes to transporting it"
...
And then the actual revelation is the user in question goes to work by bike...
"This person needs a computer for her home office as well as a setup for when she's in the office!"
How about we give her a laptop instead?
"No, she can't be trusted with that."
*headdesk*
And yesterday afternoon I found out that this user is only working from home on Saturday mornings. For overtime purposes.
Laptop is statistically more likely to be lost, broken, or stolen?
I don't actually know, I'm just guessing.
"This person needs a computer for her home office as well as a setup for when she's in the office!"
How about we give her a laptop instead?
"No, she can't be trusted with that."
*headdesk*
And yesterday afternoon I found out that this user is only working from home on Saturday mornings. For overtime purposes.
I suppose, you can't wipe your ass with a desktop.
Not without logistic support, and they're probably not available on Saturday.
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"This person needs a computer for her home office as well as a setup for when she's in the office!"
How about we give her a laptop instead?
"No, she can't be trusted with that."
*headdesk*
And yesterday afternoon I found out that this user is only working from home on Saturday mornings. For overtime purposes.
Laptop is statistically more likely to be lost, broken, or stolen?
I don't actually know, I'm just guessing.
A lot of employees treat laptops just like purses or briefcases. "Oh, I'm just running inside for a 30-minute meeting! I'll throw it in the trunk!"
My first tech company had to start firing people for losing laptops because it was such an issue.
So yeah, you're less likely to try to take a desktop to a coffee shop, work there for a bit, then throw it in the trunk while you run into the store "for a few minutes".
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Speaking of diet sodas, here's yet another one of those marketing things that makes me want to commit homicide: "No Sugar Added!"
I don't tend to care for desserts, but on hot days I like fruit juice popsicles. There's a company that makes some decent ones. They add sugar, but not too much, so I find them perfectly palatable.
--EXCEPT--
in addition to their normal green boxes, they have blue boxes that are advertised as, "100% natural! No sugar added!"
And yeah, of course, they're full of artificial sweetener. And, as Nylarthotep is learning, the older you get, the more sensitive to that chemical crap you get.
So I made the mistake and ended up throwing out a box of inedible popsicles. GothBard was trying to do me a favor and bought me two of the boxes. I tried eating a couple, but no. Just... no.
So, if you're a marketer, and you have to HIDE THE FACT THAT YOU'RE USING AN ARTIFICIAL SWEETENER, shouldn't that be telling you that maybe, just maybe, you shouldn't be using the d****d stuff?
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"This person needs a computer for her home office as well as a setup for when she's in the office!"
How about we give her a laptop instead?
"No, she can't be trusted with that."
*headdesk*
And yesterday afternoon I found out that this user is only working from home on Saturday mornings. For overtime purposes.
Laptop is statistically more likely to be lost, broken, or stolen?
I don't actually know, I'm just guessing.
A lot of employees treat laptops just like purses or briefcases. "Oh, I'm just running inside for a 30-minute meeting! I'll throw it in the trunk!"
My first tech company had to start firing people for losing laptops because it was such an issue.
So yeah, you're less likely to try to take a desktop to a coffee shop, work there for a bit, then throw it in the trunk while you run into the store "for a few minutes".
Funnily enough, one of my best friends in college used to do just that. It was the early 90's, when no one had laptops except spies in the movies, and when we would go study, he would take his tower, a monitor, a modem, the whole nine yards, and we would go set up camp in the atrium of the chichi hotel a few miles down the highway where they had an all-night coffee shop around the indoor waterfall, and the staff didn't seem to give a crap.
This is the same guy who taught me how to build my first tower out of spare parts we picked out from random car trunks in a South Dallas parking lot after midnight. (Cash only.)
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Speaking of diet sodas, here's yet another one of those marketing things that makes me want to commit homicide: "No Sugar Added!"
I don't tend to care for desserts, but on hot days I like fruit juice popsicles. There's a company that makes some decent ones. They add sugar, but not too much, so I find them perfectly palatable.
--EXCEPT--
in addition to their normal green boxes, they have blue boxes that are advertised as, "100% natural! No sugar added!"
And yeah, of course, they're full of artificial sweetener. And, as Nylarthotep is learning, the older you get, the more sensitive to that chemical crap you get.So I made the mistake and ended up throwing out a box of inedible popsicles. GothBard was trying to do me a favor and bought me two of the boxes. I tried eating a couple, but no. Just... no.
So, if you're a marketer, and you have to HIDE THE FACT THAT YOU'RE USING AN ARTIFICIAL SWEETENER, shouldn't that be telling you that maybe, just maybe, you shouldn't be using the d****d stuff?
Outshine?
I've got a freezer full. Yeah, don't get the blue ones.
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"This person needs a computer for her home office as well as a setup for when she's in the office!"
How about we give her a laptop instead?
"No, she can't be trusted with that."
*headdesk*
And yesterday afternoon I found out that this user is only working from home on Saturday mornings. For overtime purposes.
Laptop is statistically more likely to be lost, broken, or stolen?
I don't actually know, I'm just guessing.
My perspective may be skewed. I have one of the oldest laptops on my company's IT list. They keep telling me that I'll get a new one at some point.
Recently, I asked when that would be. It turns out, they were just waiting for the laptop to get lost, broken, or stolen. That is their upgrade plan.
They weren't prepared for someone like me to keep the same laptop for 7 years with no incidents.
Speaking of diet sodas, here's yet another one of those marketing things that makes me want to commit homicide: "No Sugar Added!"
I don't tend to care for desserts, but on hot days I like fruit juice popsicles. There's a company that makes some decent ones. They add sugar, but not too much, so I find them perfectly palatable.
--EXCEPT--
in addition to their normal green boxes, they have blue boxes that are advertised as, "100% natural! No sugar added!"
And yeah, of course, they're full of artificial sweetener. And, as Nylarthotep is learning, the older you get, the more sensitive to that chemical crap you get.So I made the mistake and ended up throwing out a box of inedible popsicles. GothBard was trying to do me a favor and bought me two of the boxes. I tried eating a couple, but no. Just... no.
So, if you're a marketer, and you have to HIDE THE FACT THAT YOU'RE USING AN ARTIFICIAL SWEETENER, shouldn't that be telling you that maybe, just maybe, you shouldn't be using the d****d stuff?
Outshine?
I've got a freezer full. Yeah, don't get the blue ones.
Nailed it.
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Side note: I once left my fully-secured, password-protected, company-issue iPhone on an airplane and never recovered it. I wasn't sure what would happen. Dock my pay? Take it out of my bonus? I was prepared for anything.
They were like, "Wow, you had that phone for 4 years. That's amazing. No worries - here's a new one. Did you know we have somebody on their 5th phone this year?"
Impus Major brought up an interesting moral quandary for me. I just threw the tomatoes out and didn't worry about it. He asked, "Can't you get your money back?"
I responded, "Sure. But I'd have to take pictures, write the company, answer any of their questions, wait for the coupons in the mail, and go back and get more. Maybe an hour's worth of work for $3 worth of product. It's not worth my time."
Then I started thinking about how Muir Glen would probably want to know that something went wrong with their canning process, and if everyone behaved as I did and just threw the stuff out there would be huge amounts of waste, and suddenly it's not my money back that's important, it's communicating to the company that something went wrong with their canning process.
Unfortunately, today is trash day so all the evidence is gone, but Impus Major made me re-think things and next time it occurs I'll take a picture and let them know what happened. Not for the money, but because if I'm constantly complaining about a lack of communication from companies, I shouldn't be guilty of it myself.
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I completed another project today, I'm calling it "Northern Stone Areola".
"This person needs a computer for her home office as well as a setup for when she's in the office!"
How about we give her a laptop instead?
"No, she can't be trusted with that."
*headdesk*
And yesterday afternoon I found out that this user is only working from home on Saturday mornings. For overtime purposes.
Laptop is statistically more likely to be lost, broken, or stolen?
I don't actually know, I'm just guessing.
A lot of employees treat laptops just like purses or briefcases. "Oh, I'm just running inside for a 30-minute meeting! I'll throw it in the trunk!"
My first tech company had to start firing people for losing laptops because it was such an issue.
So yeah, you're less likely to try to take a desktop to a coffee shop, work there for a bit, then throw it in the trunk while you run into the store "for a few minutes".
And on the other side of the spectrum, there was me, panickedly clutching my laptop bag on my way between Poland and UK, and back and checking if everything is ok every few minutes and never getting my laptop anywhere outside the house beside the big travel.
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"This person needs a computer for her home office as well as a setup for when she's in the office!"
How about we give her a laptop instead?
"No, she can't be trusted with that."
*headdesk*
And yesterday afternoon I found out that this user is only working from home on Saturday mornings. For overtime purposes.
Laptop is statistically more likely to be lost, broken, or stolen?
I don't actually know, I'm just guessing.
My perspective may be skewed. I have one of the oldest laptops on my company's IT list. They keep telling me that I'll get a new one at some point.
Recently, I asked when that would be. It turns out, they were just waiting for the laptop to get lost, broken, or stolen. That is their upgrade plan.
They weren't prepared for someone like me to keep the same laptop for 7 years with no incidents.
Crap. Who keeps putting an ocean on their route?!
They were like, "Wow, you had that phone for 4 years. That's amazing. No worries - here's a new one. Did you know we have somebody on their 5th phone this year?"
That sounds like one of my fellow players. It became to be a running joke when he kept starting FB posts with "Beloved, you won't believe what has happened..." and everyone already knew that he broke/lost his phone.
Me? I had my previous phone for what? Ten years? The current one was a hand me down which I got in 2017.
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This one reminds me so much of Gothbard. I can hear her reading this out loud in the back of my head.
Seriously, blood pressure? I mean...like...ugh. Just hate having to take meds again. I managed to control with diet up until now. I was on earlier, but got it down walking in Ohio.
Of course, urban sprawl and 95 degree weather with rain daily make that not am option here.
Oh well. Found a lost wallet, so some good news. And free clinic and low cost generics should cover the cost for meds, but still....ugh.
F+~& you almost forty and your stereotypical b&@%!~#&.
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Seriously, blood pressure? I mean...like...ugh. Just hate having to take meds again. I managed to control with diet up until now. I was on earlier, but got it down walking in Ohio.
Of course, urban sprawl and 95 degree weather with rain daily make that not am option here.
Oh well. Found a lost wallet, so some good news. And free clinic and low cost generics should cover the cost for meds, but still....ugh.
F$*+ you almost forty and your stereotypical b@%!!!%$.
I’m sure everything you have been through has sent your blood pressure through the roof. Hopefully this is temporary.
Ready for days off. job bad. Make brain hurt. argh!
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A teenager is selling fish on the corner of his street, he is yelling “DAM FISH GET YOUR DAM FISH FOR SALE ONLY $3 A FISH” for advertisement. One man, a pastor, walks by and stops to ask why he has to use the word “damn”. The boy then explains that he caught the fish at the local dam and the pastor understands and says “I’ll take 2”.
Later that night when the pastor gets home, he goes to his wife with the fish and says, “Honey can you cook the dam fish for me” the pastors wife is shocked and asked why he used such a word. The husband then explains to his wife what the boy told him and she understands.
When they sit down at the dinner table, his son, wife and daughter are sitting at the table. The pastor asks his daughter “Honey pass me the dam fish please”. The son, surprised, says “Oh yeah, that’s the spirit Dad! Now, Mom pass me the f**king potatoes.”
...So...are we going to hear the story of the f!*&ing potatoes now? I mean...I'm sure there are probably some instructional websites on the matter...but I can't be bothered...I mean I really don't want to.
A teenager is selling fish on the corner of his street, he is yelling “DAM FISH GET YOUR DAM FISH FOR SALE ONLY $3 A FISH” for advertisement. One man, a pastor, walks by and stops to ask why he has to use the word “damn”. The boy then explains that he caught the fish at the local dam and the pastor understands and says “I’ll take 2”.
Later that night when the pastor gets home, he goes to his wife with the fish and says, “Honey can you cook the dam fish for me” the pastors wife is shocked and asked why he used such a word. The husband then explains to his wife what the boy told him and she understands.
When they sit down at the dinner table, his son, wife and daughter are sitting at the table. The pastor asks his daughter “Honey pass me the dam fish please”. The son, surprised, says “Oh yeah, that’s the spirit Dad! Now, Mom pass me the f**king potatoes.”
Was that little boy you? this sounds like a gran coming of age story to me .
A picture is worth 1,000 words....So...are we going to hear the story of the f&~+ing potatoes now? I mean...I'm sure there are probably some instructional websites on the matter...but I can't be bothered...I mean I really don't want to.A teenager is selling fish on the corner of his street, he is yelling “DAM FISH GET YOUR DAM FISH FOR SALE ONLY $3 A FISH” for advertisement. One man, a pastor, walks by and stops to ask why he has to use the word “damn”. The boy then explains that he caught the fish at the local dam and the pastor understands and says “I’ll take 2”.
Later that night when the pastor gets home, he goes to his wife with the fish and says, “Honey can you cook the dam fish for me” the pastors wife is shocked and asked why he used such a word. The husband then explains to his wife what the boy told him and she understands.
When they sit down at the dinner table, his son, wife and daughter are sitting at the table. The pastor asks his daughter “Honey pass me the dam fish please”. The son, surprised, says “Oh yeah, that’s the spirit Dad! Now, Mom pass me the f**king potatoes.”
Glad at least reddit had the NSFW warning on that one!
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Like Crookshanks before him, Tiny T-Rex made it through the first five books of Harry Potter and then put it down and started reading the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Never read them I figured I got all I wanted out of the movies.
I do still need to read hitchhikers though. I hear the movie was basically entirely unrelated aside from excerpts from the book.
Never read them I figured I got all I wanted out of the movies.
I do still need to read hitchhikers though. I hear the movie was basically entirely unrelated aside from excerpts from the book.
That and Mos Def is now how I'll always picture Ford Prefect.
I haven't actually read the Harry Potter books either, nor have I watched the movies.
But I hear they were all super popular with the kids.
Sometimes I forget your older then me captain but then you throw around lines like " I hear it's super popular with the kids."
I'm just teasing!
I watched the movies they came out while I was in high school.(partially anyways the first 2-3 I think.) suddenly people stopped calling my glasses john Lennon style and instead called them harry potter. I did not care for this. an ex tried to get me to read them once but I hate reading something I already know the story for. They were entertaining. I like the casual magic setting. Needed more dwarfs...
Like Crookshanks before him, Tiny T-Rex made it through the first five books of Harry Potter and then put it down and started reading the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Dropped the zero, got with the hero.
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I do still need to read hitchhikers though. I hear the movie was basically entirely unrelated aside from excerpts from the book.
The thing to remember with Hitchhiker's:
1) No two versions are the same. The original BBC radio broadcasts bear little resemblance to what Adams released as a book. The movie is different from both of them.
2) Douglas Adams liked it that way.
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EARTHQUAAAAAAAAKE!
OK, well, maybe a tiny little tumbler. But it's always fun when I'm awake for the little ones...
EARTHQUAAAAAAAAKE!
OK, well, maybe a tiny little tumbler. But it's always fun when I'm awake for the little ones...
sorry.
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The Harry Potter books will always hold a dear place in my heart, because when Impus Major was born GothBard and I took turns reading to each other while helping Impus Major get to sleep, and she read almost the entire series to me aloud. I think by the time she'd finished The Half-Blood Prince we moved on to the Percy Jackson books, but hundreds of the best hours of my life are centered around those books.
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Ever have a nice post all typed out and then sit back and go, yeah can't ask that, too political?
Yeah.
I had bojangles sweet tea this morning. It was yummeh.