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hmm 2nd shift was telling me about a lady who was complaining about our masks and signs for COVID etc. I personally would of kicked her out right their and then. 2nd shift girl is a bit too nice and patient. so now I'm hoping the lady comes down and give me a hard time. I just want an excuse. I will kick her out in a heart beat.
Gotta love coming in to work and having 2nd shift say "I got all the laundry done, and all but these few towels put away" and then seeing an entire bin of sheets that haven't been touched just sitting there, waiting. Not hidden in any way. Exactly where the laundry always waits.
I'll take my 2nd shift over yours. she does too much. she does her job and half of everyone else's on a slow night to keep from being bored. She is just too nice to a-holes.
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Anxiety attack averted (for the moment).
Had a great conversation with my mother-in-law, and got up the courage to ask her whether, if worse came to worse and we had no water in our house come Wednesday evening, I could just bring all my ingredients and things and just take over her kitchen and cook there. And she said yes.
Then she asked me if we could have a conversation about the big move-in and the combining of households, and I said yes. And she jumped right in with her thoughts about who would get which rooms in the house, and I realized *she* was trying to make her case to *me* about why she should have a particular bedroom *in her own house*, as if she were afraid I would take it away from her. So of course I told her why I thought her idea made the most sense.
And I told her flat out that there was only one thing really standing in the way for me, and that was the kitchen and breakfast room, and there was a lot there that wasn't useful and was just taking up space, and what I would dearly love to do is to take everything out of every cabinet and shelf and drawer and sort/cull/reorganize it all *together*. And she said yes.
And then I asked for the biggest thing, which is that, in the kitchen alcove next to the back door, there is a built-in desk, over three feet wide, going from floor to ceiling, with cabinets and pigeonholes and gorgeous light filtered through the hanging plants on the back porch. And it has been hers since she moved into the house in the 1960s. And I asked if I could have that space for myself. And, again, she said yes.
I know it still isn't going to be easy, but my heart is much lighter now.
Oh, also, I went to see my hairdresser yesterday and got a killer haircut. (Before you judge me for this, my hairdresser's salon has off-the-hook Covid protocols because the owner is immune-compromised. It's probably one of the safest places in Dallas.)
The mane is gone (for the moment), but it will grow back, and what is *also* gone is the last of the horrible DIY color that had turned brassy and awful and made me look like a scary witch. And there's just enough length that I can still put it up in a (tiny) ponytail when I go running in the mornings. And now it can grow back out looking healthier, because all of the chemical damage is gone now. I'm calling that a win.
US landlines have a geographical indicator/area code on, though; presumably US mobiles do not?Area Codes apply to all phones in the US, land or cell.
Then there's the next 3 digits...the exchange...in the land line world, those are also geographically specific within each area code. Roberts, IL, for instance, is 217-395-xxxx. Buckley, 6 miles east, is 217-394-xxxx.
Cell phones, at first, had exchanges that were specific to the carriers. Back in/around the late 90's, if you saw xxx-287-xxxx that number was associated to Sprint.
However, since telephone number migration became a thing, now it doesn't mean anything.
Yep. My brother got his phone in the central valley in California, so he's now had a 530 "area code" in Seattle for going on 20 years. My co-worker has a 415 San Francisco code while living in Boston.
Not only can you not tell cell phones from land lines, you can't even tell where they're located any more.
Oh, you can tell where I'm located, the snow and farm motif is unmistakable.
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I like having a number that doesn't match where I live: if a call is from my phone's area code, I know it is spam and not a job I applied for or other important thing I should answer.
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I like having a number that doesn't match where I live: if a call is from my phone's area code, I know it is spam and not a job I applied for or other important thing I should answer.
Same. Anybody I know from my hometown who would call me is a contact already. Any other call from that area code is 100% spam.
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Fun fact: there is one area code in the US that is cell phones only, and that is the 917 area code in NYC. Since NYC has the greatest density of phone numbers (with 7 or 8 area codes for landlines as it is), they set up a special cell phone area code before the rule came out about not doing that, so it is a grandfathered exception.
I like having a number that doesn't match where I live: if a call is from my phone's area code, I know it is spam and not a job I applied for or other important thing I should answer.Same. Anybody I know from my hometown who would call me is a contact already. Any other call from that area code is 100% spam.
I just never answer the phone if the number isn't already in my registry or a call I'm specifically expecting. It can go to voicemail if it's actually important and I'll call them back.
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"Enable this option to disable this feature." The single-most infuriating design choice in computing.
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When you have kids you kind of have to answer weird phone calls.
But I once got a wrong number call for someone with the same first name asking why I wasn't at work, and I'm sitting there with a 600 pound slab elevated with a winch and I'm like "I am at work..".
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"Enable this option to disable this feature." The single-most infuriating design choice in computing.
My absolute favorite version is when the name of the option itself is confusing.
In our application we have something along the lines of XYZ_ABC_DISABLE_MOBILE and you have to set it to "Yes" to enable mobile.
When we complained to the PMs they said, "Oh, well that option is to disable the OLD mobile version so that the new version would work."
"So, couldn't you have made it, 'XYZ_ABC_DISABLE_OLD_MOBILE'?"
"Oh, no! That would have been confusing!"
Yes. We seriously have conversations like that. It's why I have gray hair.
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Ok, I think we can officially call it a tradition now. Gorbacz's kobold witch mighty dragon dropped to zero hit points third session in a row, and was promptly healed with a potion.
We also advanced, reaching level 6.
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Fantasy Monster: Bee-Killer Dog. A dog that vomits carnivorous bees.
Me and the tengu investigator ended being statues for a few rounds on the other hand.
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Fantasy Monster: Bee-Killer Dog. A dog that vomits carnivorous bees.
COVERED IN BEEEEEEEEEEEEES
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Tell him I said TOKUSATSU FOREVERHi loves Ultraman, and has everything Ultraman-related for the last 40+ years.I thought you said you loved ultraman? Ah well.Something for NobodysHomeI never really got in to Ultraman. I had a grade school friend who was obsessed with him, so I saw a LOT of Ultraman when I was a kid. And even then understanding that every episode would be, "The two Japanese guys in rubber suits fight until 5 minutes before the end of the episode, then the one guy turns on the flashing light on his chest and invokes some power that obliterates the other guy before his time runs out," made it all quite anticlimactic.
Even at 7 years old I was asking, "If he's had that power all along, why did he wait until the end of the episode to use it?"
Got it. Got it. Tonkatsu forever.
Impus Minor loves him some tonkatsu. Though he favors chicken katsu when I make it.
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Fantasy Monster: Bee-Killer Dog. A dog that vomits carnivorous bees.
You got that from the Simpsons!
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They're having a big sale at the local game store so I got Mutants and Masterminds.
Looks interesting.
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I established early on that I just wasn't going to remember holidays this year.
It turns out this is Thanksgiving this week.
I guess that explains the food discussions people want to have with me.
Fantasy Monster: Bee-Killer Dog. A dog that vomits carnivorous bees.You got that from the Simpsons!
Nope. It was just a random refernce to dogs and bees that was thrown in DungeonMasterCal's thread after the last week monster that make me do this.
EDIT: Ok, apparently that seemingly random reference (for me) that made me create this monster was a quote from Simpsons, so it's indirect inspiration.
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If your ever unsure if something is a Simpsons reference just ask Quibblemuch.
Hey John.
If your ever unsure if something is a Simpsons reference just ask Quibblemuch.
...the pony?
If your ever unsure if something is a Simpsons reference just ask Quibblemuch....the pony?
Nay.
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I've decided I'm going to make a superhero who was a marine biologist that was mutated with a shark during a storm so his main powers will be environmental control (wind) and super speed.
His name, The Sharknado.
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Nay.If your ever unsure if something is a Simpsons reference just ask Quibblemuch....the pony?
Are we horsing around again?
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Or, a superhero who's main powers are animal control and elongated limbs, named The Trouser King.
"Is that a snake in your pants?" "Yes. Several, in fact".
So as anyone that watches low budget horror movies knows they always end up with a "In space" as the sequels build. Have we gotten a Sharknado In space yet?
Or, a superhero who's main powers are animal control and elongated limbs, named The Trouser King.
"Is that a snake in your pants?" "Yes. Several, in fact".
I think Samuel L Jackson would have something to say about this.
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So as anyone that watches low budget horror movies knows they always end up with a "In space" as the sequels build. Have we gotten a Sharknado In space yet?
So as anyone that watches low budget horror movies knows they always end up with a "In space" as the sequels build. Have we gotten a Sharknado In space yet?Yes.
Wow and it only took the third one to get to this point. Also Dude had a laser chainsaw.
So she went into space to fight sharks 9 months pregnant?
these movies dgaf.
That's okay, after all I dgaf about the movies.So as anyone that watches low budget horror movies knows they always end up with a "In space" as the sequels build. Have we gotten a Sharknado In space yet?Yes.Wow and it only took the third one to get to this point. Also Dude had a laser chainsaw.
So she went into space to fight sharks 9 months pregnant?
these movies dgaf.
So apparently their is 6 of these movies
The Last Sharknado: It's About TimeThe main character travels back in time for this one. It has Neil Degrasse Tyson playing Merlin in it. I kind of want to see it just for that.
Of course the real challenge, how do I make Florida Man.
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Of course the real challenge, how do I make Florida Man.
I believe that the 3e splatbook 'Savage Species' had rules for that.
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At the dentist for the first time in 14 years. I need three root canals, two crowns, and an implant to replace a crown that fell off eleven years ago.
This sucks.
At the dentist for the first time in 14 years. I need three root canals, two crowns, and an implant to replace a crown that fell off eleven years ago.
This sucks.
Ouch. My sympathies.
I hate going to the dentist. I tend to avoid it too.