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Still trying to remain apolitical, but it is Day 200 of California's lockdown. Which, in an ideal world of strict enforcement and well-behaved citizens, should have lasted... 6 weeks.
Yep. Just can't even get started without going political.
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I'm going to guess without opening the link that it's about Subway's "bread" isn't it.
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Well well, the OTD forums are getting spam in German, and what's more, it's coming from Tip-Top Romantic Intellectual Goethe, to boot, a good couple of hundred years after he was supposed to have popped his clogs. How about that?
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** spoiler omitted **...
Hugs, and anything else you need.
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For what it is worth, my prayers are with you, LM, along with positive thoughts and encouragement. You're a tough cookie and a great teacher, from what I can tell, and just remember...in life, just like in the classroom, tests come before promotions. You must have something darn good coming your way!
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So I have had my work cell phone for probably ten years. Or close to it. This year I am getting crazy amounts of texts from political parties asking for Candice's support.
To which, I text back avowing support for the opposite of whatever they are asking.
or saying i am a baby eating myrmidon.
Or the last one, I had to tell them that no, I would not be voting, that i needed to study for a blood test.
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Thanks for the sweet messages. I love you guys.
I'm feeling a little better now. I went to work in my classroom for a few hours today, got closer to being caught up, talked to my sister Eve, and took Hermione to her first Nutcracker rehearsal, and I took my laptop and did some game prep for tomorrow in the car while I was waiting, and... yeah.
And Eve texted me some new photos of my niece.
How I'll be feeling on Monday is anybody's guess, but at least I should sleep better tonight.
I really do wish I could send all of y'all actual cookies.
So I have had my work cell phone for probably ten years. Or close to it. This year I am getting crazy amounts of texts from political parties asking for Candice's support.
To which, I text back avowing support for the opposite of whatever they are asking.
or saying i am a baby eating myrmidon.
Or the last one, I had to tell them that no, I would not be voting, that i needed to study for a blood test.
There you go: A nice plus of living in California is that our votes are utterly meaningless so I never get political calls.
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LM, you are doing a job that I couldn't do and you are doing it well. You are trying and not giving up. I am proud of you.
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Thanks for the sweet messages. I love you guys.
I'm feeling a little better now. I went to work in my classroom for a few hours today, got closer to being caught up, talked to my sister Eve, and took Hermione to her first Nutcracker rehearsal, and I took my laptop and did some game prep for tomorrow in the car while I was waiting, and... yeah.
And Eve texted me some new photos of my niece.
How I'll be feeling on Monday is anybody's guess, but at least I should sleep better tonight.
I really do wish I could send all of y'all actual cookies.
You know my address.
And if strange people are sending Impus Minor skeletons...
Oooh -- I just spotted one of those Buy Goethe ads! I wanna buy Goethe! Ash fight!
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So I have had my work cell phone for probably ten years. Or close to it. This year I am getting crazy amounts of texts from political parties asking for Candice's support.
To which, I text back avowing support for the opposite of whatever they are asking.
or saying i am a baby eating myrmidon.
Or the last one, I had to tell them that no, I would not be voting, that i needed to study for a blood test.
There you go: A nice plus of living in California is that our votes are utterly meaningless so I never get political calls.
Right? This time of year I am glad to live in New York.
The most excitement I have ever had was all the calls I got this spring because of a competitive primary brought on my the retirement of my congressional representative. It was novel to have my vote so aggressively courted for once.
But now we are back to no political ads, because no politician is going to waste the exorbitant sums needed to advertise in the utterly uncompetitive New York media market.
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NobodysHome's Quote of the Night: Holy carp! Uninstalling Phantasy Star Online is nearly as tedious as playing it!
NobodysHome's Quote of the Night: Holy carp! Uninstalling Phantasy Star Online is nearly as tedious as playing it!
I miss Phantasy Star.
I miss Phantasy Star.NobodysHome's Quote of the Night: Holy carp! Uninstalling Phantasy Star Online is nearly as tedious as playing it!
Phantasy Star Online has no relation whatsoever to the original. GothBard and I spent so many hours playing I and II it's terrifying...
I miss Phantasy Star.NobodysHome's Quote of the Night: Holy carp! Uninstalling Phantasy Star Online is nearly as tedious as playing it!
Phantasy Star Online has no relation whatsoever to the original. GothBard and I spent so many hours playing I and II it's terrifying...
IS their at least cat girls?
I hear celery is good with peanut butter.
Yeah Not big on raw celery igther not really peanut butter much anymore as well. I have to be in a real specific mood for it.
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Just applied to Planned Parenthood in the field of Sexuality Education.
Let's see what happens, if anything.
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Fantasy Monster: Grimwitch Gremlin. Inspired by Fae Tactics from this month's Humble Choice. More gremlins might show up in the future.
A snippet of conversation between the GM and her husband during our game on Friday:
Husband: "I think I'm having a heart attack."
GM: "What! Why do you think that?"
Husband: "I'm smelling toast. That's a stroke thing, not heart attack isn't that?"
GM: "Yes it is, but I just made toast so that's why you're smelling it."
I've heard peanut butter for strike not the toast thing. It's your left arm going numb for a heart attack. Counting backwards I think was a test to se if your having a stroke as well.
Also I like the first place he went was a sever medical emergency then to ask if someone was making toast.
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A quick googling suggests that smelling burning toast or rubber can be a sign of a stroke, while a difference in how far from each nostril peanut butter can be before you stop smelling it could indicate that you are more likely to get Alzheimer's.A snippet of conversation between the GM and her husband during our game on Friday:
Husband: "I think I'm having a heart attack."
GM: "What! Why do you think that?"
Husband: "I'm smelling toast. That's a stroke thing, not heart attack isn't that?"
GM: "Yes it is, but I just made toast so that's why you're smelling it."I've heard peanut butter for strike not the toast thing. It's your left arm going numb for a heart attack. Counting backwards I think was a test to se if your having a stroke as well.
Also I like the first place he went was a sever medical emergency then to ask if someone was making toast.
Fascinating. I think house got one of those wrong. I'm going to have to find that episode.
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Fascinating. I think house got one of those wrong. I'm going to have to find that episode.A quick googling suggests that smelling burning toast or rubber can be a sign of a stroke, while a difference in how far from each nostril peanut butter can be before you stop smelling it could indicate that you are more likely to get Alzheimer's.A snippet of conversation between the GM and her husband during our game on Friday:
Husband: "I think I'm having a heart attack."
GM: "What! Why do you think that?"
Husband: "I'm smelling toast. That's a stroke thing, not heart attack isn't that?"
GM: "Yes it is, but I just made toast so that's why you're smelling it."I've heard peanut butter for strike not the toast thing. It's your left arm going numb for a heart attack. Counting backwards I think was a test to se if your having a stroke as well.
Also I like the first place he went was a sever medical emergency then to ask if someone was making toast.
Did the patient end up on dialysis?
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Fascinating. I think house got one of those wrong. I'm going to have to find that episode.A quick googling suggests that smelling burning toast or rubber can be a sign of a stroke, while a difference in how far from each nostril peanut butter can be before you stop smelling it could indicate that you are more likely to get Alzheimer's.A snippet of conversation between the GM and her husband during our game on Friday:
Husband: "I think I'm having a heart attack."
GM: "What! Why do you think that?"
Husband: "I'm smelling toast. That's a stroke thing, not heart attack isn't that?"
GM: "Yes it is, but I just made toast so that's why you're smelling it."I've heard peanut butter for strike not the toast thing. It's your left arm going numb for a heart attack. Counting backwards I think was a test to se if your having a stroke as well.
Also I like the first place he went was a sever medical emergency then to ask if someone was making toast.
Did the patient end up on dialysis?
Because when they got it wrong, the patient always got put on dialysis.
Also they always say lupus but it is never lupus except that one time.
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MrT and I both tested negative for Corona.
Still going to keep an eye on our symptoms. Because I know I dont have the flu (I always have a clear set of symptoms when I catch the flu, and I dont have any of those). It could be a weird cold but I've never felt slightly out of breath with a bit of a dry cough when I get the cold (I am firmly in the 'ridiculous amounts of snot' cathegory)
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MrT and I both tested negative for Corona.
Still going to keep an eye on our symptoms. Because I know I dont have the flu (I always have a clear set of symptoms when I catch the flu, and I dont have any of those). It could be a weird cold but I've never felt slightly out of breath with a bit of a dry cough when I get the cold (I am firmly in the 'ridiculous amounts of snot' cathegory)
Hooray for testing negative!
I don't remember the girl with a tick in her hoohaa getting put on dialysis, but maybe I'm wrong.Fascinating. I think house got one of those wrong. I'm going to have to find that episode.A quick googling suggests that smelling burning toast or rubber can be a sign of a stroke, while a difference in how far from each nostril peanut butter can be before you stop smelling it could indicate that you are more likely to get Alzheimer's.A snippet of conversation between the GM and her husband during our game on Friday:
Husband: "I think I'm having a heart attack."
GM: "What! Why do you think that?"
Husband: "I'm smelling toast. That's a stroke thing, not heart attack isn't that?"
GM: "Yes it is, but I just made toast so that's why you're smelling it."I've heard peanut butter for strike not the toast thing. It's your left arm going numb for a heart attack. Counting backwards I think was a test to se if your having a stroke as well.
Also I like the first place he went was a sever medical emergency then to ask if someone was making toast.
Did the patient end up on dialysis?
Because when they got it wrong, the patient always got put on dialysis.
Was that the one where the girl who played Buffy's little sister Dawn was the patient? I remember thinking, "Damn, good stuff never happens to her."
MrT and I both tested negative for Corona.
Still going to keep an eye on our symptoms. Because I know I dont have the flu (I always have a clear set of symptoms when I catch the flu, and I dont have any of those). It could be a weird cold but I've never felt slightly out of breath with a bit of a dry cough when I get the cold (I am firmly in the 'ridiculous amounts of snot' cathegory)
Thank god.
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Ghost of Tsushima is hands down the best game of the year.
And I've recently figured out how to respectfully bow, which essentially doubles the amount of time it takes to play, because even that is fun ("so, you think you're going to take that basket somewhere, do you? What if I bow to you every three feet").
Ghost of Tsushima is hands down the best game of the year.
And I've recently figured out how to respectfully bow, which essentially doubles the amount of time it takes to play, because even that is fun ("so, you think you're going to take that basket somewhere, do you? What if I bow to you every three feet").
You misspelled Star Wars Squadrons.
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Yet another reason to hate tipping in the U.S.: Places that take advantage of it to bilk customers.
Market Hall Foods on 4th Street in Berkeley is just a grocery store, similar to Andronico's on Solano or the corner store in that they have the standard groceries, deli counter, butcher, and bakery. You have to bag everything yourself, no one helps you; it's just a plain old grocery store.
But they set up their point of sale to be an iPad with a "Tip" line. And nobody wants to seem cheap, so everybody adds a tip... for no reason!!!
You're not getting any service. You're not in a place that's allowed to pay its employees sub-minimum wage on the assumption they'll get tips. You're in a grocery store. And they added a tip line to the checkout counter, and everybody tips.
Because if there's a tip line and you don't, you're a bad person.
It's just scummy in more ways than one.
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You misspelled Star Wars Squadrons.Ghost of Tsushima is hands down the best game of the year.
And I've recently figured out how to respectfully bow, which essentially doubles the amount of time it takes to play, because even that is fun ("so, you think you're going to take that basket somewhere, do you? What if I bow to you every three feet").
That's a weird way of spelling Ghost of Tsushima.
If I were a mutant animal, what kind of mutant animal would I be?
Or for that matter what kind of mutant animal would you be?
People bagging my groceries made me super uncomfortable when in the USA.
Same, but mostly because most people make no effort at all to be smart or efficient about it.
I clerked in my mother's general store all through high school, and I prided myself on my bagging skills. Inefficient baggers make me crazy.
Yet another reason to hate tipping in the U.S.: Places that take advantage of it to bilk customers.
Market Hall Foods on 4th Street in Berkeley is just a grocery store, similar to Andronico's on Solano or the corner store in that they have the standard groceries, deli counter, butcher, and bakery. You have to bag everything yourself, no one helps you; it's just a plain old grocery store.
But they set up their point of sale to be an iPad with a "Tip" line. And nobody wants to seem cheap, so everybody adds a tip... for no reason!!!
You're not getting any service. You're not in a place that's allowed to pay its employees sub-minimum wage on the assumption they'll get tips. You're in a grocery store. And they added a tip line to the checkout counter, and everybody tips.
Because if there's a tip line and you don't, you're a bad person.
It's just scummy in more ways than one.
I'll do it in a mom-and-pop bakery or something like that, where the person making the sale is also the person who made the goods and also the owner, because I know how hard they are working for every dollar.
If I were a mutant animal, what kind of mutant animal would I be?
Or for that matter what kind of mutant animal would you be?
i think you would be some kind of giant building animal thing.
Or panthro from new Thundercats. But with more hair and less nunchuks.
People bagging my groceries made me super uncomfortable when in the USA.Same, but mostly because most people make no effort at all to be smart or efficient about it.
I clerked in my mother's general store all through high school, and I prided myself on my bagging skills. Inefficient baggers make me crazy.
I live in Brooklyn. Unless you are at a bag your own self checkout, a bagger is there to get you out fast fast fast. We got a line building, pal.