He starts with a rrrrrrrrooooooooooUUUUUUUUUUUUXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!
Would anyone here be interested in a L5R play by post? Getting to play a character again in a live game makes me want to flex my creative writing muscles, and an intrigue heavy setting like that lends itself well to such a format.
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Man, tonight has just crawled by. Feels like I've been here for a week.
Time dilation sucks. You need to move away from that gravity well.
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Oh Well. I am glad that you understand the gravity of the situation.
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I'm shovelling snow, time is flying by.
I'm making pumpkin butter (from the pumpkin puree I froze after the kids carved the jack o' lanterns this fall) as the first step to making pumpkin butter cinnamon rolls.
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Holy f#**ing s%*#, this is some deep and heavy snow.
This is when all the hard work this summer pays off.
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51 places shovelled, only another 19 to go. Unfortunately they're all spread out.
I came in at 3 AM so only 8 hours so far.
Are you shoveling by cat bucket, plow, blower or old-fashioned hand shovels?
Just a regular little Toro and some shovels. And two plucky latino assistants.
Though I do the lion's share of the work.
Why? I mean, I know on job sites you are usually the most skilled/experienced, but we're just talking about throwing snow here. Why are YOU doing the "lion's share?"Are you shoveling by cat bucket, plow, blower or old-fashioned hand shovels?Just a regular little Toro and some shovels. And two plucky latino assistants.
Though I do the lion's share of the work.
Because he wants it to get done, still get done right (when Cap gets done with a driveway, it kind of looks like the snow hit the entire neighborhood with the exception of that driveway), and get through anywhere between 70-125 households in a reasonable amount of time.
Because he wants it to get done, still get done right (when Cap gets done with a driveway, it kind of looks like the snow hit the entire neighborhood with the exception of that driveway), and get through anywhere between 70-125 households in a reasonable amount of time.Why? I mean, I know on job sites you are usually the most skilled/experienced, but we're just talking about throwing snow here. Why are YOU doing the "lion's share?"Are you shoveling by cat bucket, plow, blower or old-fashioned hand shovels?Just a regular little Toro and some shovels. And two plucky latino assistants.
Though I do the lion's share of the work.
This.
Also because I'm still the most skilled and experienced person on the south side of town.
There's a couple of other people with more experience than me but they handle other parts of town, and I'm still the most skilled in the company.
I'm not bragging, that was in my last review.
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Because he wants it to get done, still get done right (when Cap gets done with a driveway, it kind of looks like the snow hit the entire neighborhood with the exception of that driveway), and get through anywhere between 70-125 households in a reasonable amount of time.Why? I mean, I know on job sites you are usually the most skilled/experienced, but we're just talking about throwing snow here. Why are YOU doing the "lion's share?"Are you shoveling by cat bucket, plow, blower or old-fashioned hand shovels?Just a regular little Toro and some shovels. And two plucky latino assistants.
Though I do the lion's share of the work.
This.
Also because I'm still the most skilled and experienced person on the south side of town.
There's a couple of other people with more experience than me but they handle other parts of town, and I'm still the most skilled in the company.
I'm not bragging, that was in my last review.
I just finished reading a comic book and now I want to see Captain Yesterday take on the rival snow removal team from across town in a crossover event.
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I just finished reading a comic book and now I want to see Captain Yesterday take on the rival snow removal team from across town in a crossover event.Because he wants it to get done, still get done right (when Cap gets done with a driveway, it kind of looks like the snow hit the entire neighborhood with the exception of that driveway), and get through anywhere between 70-125 households in a reasonable amount of time.Why? I mean, I know on job sites you are usually the most skilled/experienced, but we're just talking about throwing snow here. Why are YOU doing the "lion's share?"Are you shoveling by cat bucket, plow, blower or old-fashioned hand shovels?Just a regular little Toro and some shovels. And two plucky latino assistants.
Though I do the lion's share of the work.
This.
Also because I'm still the most skilled and experienced person on the south side of town.
There's a couple of other people with more experience than me but they handle other parts of town, and I'm still the most skilled in the company.
I'm not bragging, that was in my last review.
Could be an adventure game
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I just finished reading a comic book and now I mwant to see Captain Yesterday take on the rival snow removal team from across town in a crossover event.Because he wants it to get done, still get done right (when Cap gets done with a driveway, it kind of looks like the snow hit the entire neighborhood with the exception of that driveway), and get through anywhere between 70-125 households in a reasonable amount of time.Why? I mean, I know on job sites you are usually the most skilled/experienced, but we're just talking about throwing snow here. Why are YOU doing the "lion's share?"Are you shoveling by cat bucket, plow, blower or old-fashioned hand shovels?Just a regular little Toro and some shovels. And two plucky latino assistants.
Though I do the lion's share of the work.
This.
Also because I'm still the most skilled and experienced person on the south side of town.
There's a couple of other people with more experience than me but they handle other parts of town, and I'm still the most skilled in the company.
I'm not bragging, that was in my last review.
I did that last week, we both started a house at the same time and by the time I was finished the crew leader for the other company said "Holy s!&!, you kicked our ass!" And then he gave me 20 bucks to finish his job.
I would have crushed them harder if I'd known it was a competition.
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Fantasy NPC: Vix, The Puppeter
Puppeteer *
Puppet-wielding enemies will always be especially creepy to me.
I admit, it's not the greatest thing ever, but SOS was a part of my childhood. So there's some nostalgia there.How will you make chipped beef without it?I'll politely disagree, and use CrystalSeas' convenient list:(1) Chipped beef: Don't eat it nor make it, because I have sense
Exactly. Plus it was good 'poor folk' food. Last time I made it, though, the dried beef was really pricey, just like oxtails and parsnips and other staples we used to rely on to eat well on the cheap.
Okay, FYI, I have not been naked since Monday. I'm retconning having been clothed. My only excuse is that I was dopey and distracted post-root-canal.
We tried going to get Covid tests today because we found out yesterday that we had contact with someone last week who later tested positive. But by the time we got to the testing site, they had run out for the day and there was a cop turning people away, so we're trying again when they open at 7:30 tomorrow morning.
So that's fun.
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Exactly. Plus it was good 'poor folk' food. Last time I made it, though, the dried beef was really pricey, just like oxtails and parsnips and other staples we used to rely on to eat well on the cheap.
For the past few years, chipped beef on toast has been a once-a-year nostalgia treat. Chipped beef in a jar (the dry, salty kind), is, at the moment selling for $5.59 per 4.5 oz jar, or roughly $20 per pound.
Americans consider horses pets, much like cats and dogs. So the prohibition against eating them is very much the one against eating pets.
Eating horsemeat (or horsemeat advertised as such - there was a grand scandal a couple of years ago when certain unscrupulous slaughterhourses adulterated their minced beef with equally minced horse, and no-one noticed until Food Standards caught them) is also taboo in the UK, although I personally have no issue with eating it. Someone once theorised that this is a hangover from the ancient Britons' worship of the horse, but that sounds like rubbish to me.
And today is a true milestone, in that I have learned what chipped beef is. I have never seen it (though I have seen potted beef, and eaten it, and wished I hadn't).
Oxtail is still cheap round these parts.
Americans consider horses pets, much like cats and dogs. So the prohibition against eating them is very much the one against eating pets.Eating horsemeat (or horsemeat advertised as such - there was a grand scandal a couple of years ago when certain unscrupulous slaughterhourses adulterated their minced beef with equally minced horse, and no-one noticed until Food Standards caught them) is also taboo in the UK, although I personally have no issue with eating it. Someone once theorised that this is a hangover from the ancient Britons' worship of the horse, but that sounds like rubbish to me.
And today is a true milestone, in that I have learned what chipped beef is. I have never seen it (though I have seen potted beef, and eaten it, and wished I hadn't).
Oxtail is still cheap round these parts.
I remember that. The scandal involved the horsemeat ending up in IKEA meatballs, if memory serves.
I thought it was McDonald's.
12.5 hours for 7 inches of snow, not too shabby.
Fantasy NPC: Vix, The PuppeterPuppeteer *
Puppet-wielding enemies will always be especially creepy to me.
Duh. It was supposed to be a young werewolf!
Americans consider horses pets, much like cats and dogs. So the prohibition against eating them is very much the one against eating pets.Eating horsemeat (or horsemeat advertised as such - there was a grand scandal a couple of years ago when certain unscrupulous slaughterhourses adulterated their minced beef with equally minced horse, and no-one noticed until Food Standards caught them) is also taboo in the UK, although I personally have no issue with eating it. Someone once theorised that this is a hangover from the ancient Britons' worship of the horse, but that sounds like rubbish to me.
And today is a true milestone, in that I have learned what chipped beef is. I have never seen it (though I have seen potted beef, and eaten it, and wished I hadn't).
Oxtail is still cheap round these parts.
One of the antrophologic explanations is that it was (IIRC) Anglo-Saxons Germans who consumed horses as part of their pagan rituals. Introducing taboo against horse meat was part of Christian missionary effort early after their christianization (supported by papal bull in VIII century). In regions were eating horse was particularly popular it was turned into taboo as mark of paganism and shunned, and that stuck in some regions.
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If CY isn't available to clear your driveway, here's an alternative
Driveway Clearing.
Perhaps Elon Musk has some old ones left in the back of some warehouse.
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I've done that! I've also used a flamethrower to dry pavers, and unfreeze pavers and wall block.
Using a flamethrower is one of the perks no one tells you about in your interview and doesn't come up until the boss tells you "Just grab a flamethrower from the hog shed!".
Okay, FYI, I have not been naked since Monday.
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Exactly. Plus it was good 'poor folk' food. Last time I made it, though, the dried beef was really pricey, just like oxtails and parsnips and other staples we used to rely on to eat well on the cheap.I admit, it's not the greatest thing ever, but SOS was a part of my childhood. So there's some nostalgia there.How will you make chipped beef without it?I'll politely disagree, and use CrystalSeas' convenient list:(1) Chipped beef: Don't eat it nor make it, because I have sense
the idea of oxtail being expensive fills me with rage.
Life is too short to eat oxtail if you're not forced to.
So, while I haven't been around testing labs, I have been around physics labs, and if the general chaos in them is any indication, it should come as no surprise that GothBard's test has come back negative, and hours later I still have no results.
But it is kind of funny to go to the testing center together, get tested within 15 minutes of each other, wait 54 hours for GothBard to get her results back, and my sample is still "in testing" 4 hours later.
Ah, well, the likelihood that we'll have different results seems pretty low, though twice now Impus Minor and I have had the flu when GothBard and Impus Major avoided it. Different immune systems, different results.
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And yeah, in terms of using a flamethrower to clear a driveway, one of the commenters put it best. "And then the melted snow re-freezes and you've created a sheet of black ice in your driveway."
Good for separating frozen-together pavers, but I wouldn't do it to clear my driveway.
Oxtail soup ftw
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Okay, FYI, I have not been naked since Monday. I'm retconning having been clothed. My only excuse is that I was dopey and distracted post-root-canal.
We tried going to get Covid tests today because we found out yesterday that we had contact with someone last week who later tested positive. But by the time we got to the testing site, they had run out for the day and there was a cop turning people away, so we're trying again when they open at 7:30 tomorrow morning.
So that's fun.
Pfff. Good luck.