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So ironically enough, COVID killed the food delivery industry for us.
You're looking at this from the wrong direction. What you need is a footman. Or in 21st century parlance, a delivery person who picks things up for you.
Find someone* on TaskRabbit, Uber, Lyft, etc, who is willing to work for you picking things up: grocery orders, restaurant orders, etc. Someone whom you call directly when errands need to be run.
Pay extravagantly for their being on-call for you, either with lavish hourly rates, or even a weekly retainer. Train them to meet your standards. And then use them frequently for errands.
Treat them like your cleaning person: part of your household staff. It's an old-fashioned concept, but it may work better for you than randos grabbing gigs from apps.
*You may have to fire a lot of people. But eventually you'll find someone who can fill this role for a couple years.
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So ironically enough, COVID killed the food delivery industry for us.You're looking at this from the wrong direction. What you need is a footman. Or in 21st century parlance, a delivery person who picks things up for you.
Find someone* on TaskRabbit, Uber, Lyft, etc, who is willing to work for you picking things up: grocery orders, restaurant orders, etc. Someone whom you call directly when errands need to be run.
Pay extravagantly for their being on-call for you, either with lavish hourly rates, or even a weekly retainer. Train them to meet your standards. And then use them frequently for errands.
Treat them like your cleaning person: part of your household staff. It's an old-fashioned concept, but it may work better for you than randos grabbing gigs from apps.
*You may have to fire a lot of people. But eventually you'll find someone who can fill this role for a couple years.
Normally our footman's name is "Impus Major". Fridays are inconvenient for him, though...
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Normally our footman's name is "Impus Major". Fridays are inconvenient for him, though...So ironically enough, COVID killed the food delivery industry for us.You're looking at this from the wrong direction. What you need is a footman. Or in 21st century parlance, a delivery person who picks things up for you.
Find someone* on TaskRabbit, Uber, Lyft, etc, who is willing to work for you picking things up: grocery orders, restaurant orders, etc. Someone whom you call directly when errands need to be run.
Pay extravagantly for their being on-call for you, either with lavish hourly rates, or even a weekly retainer. Train them to meet your standards. And then use them frequently for errands.
Treat them like your cleaning person: part of your household staff. It's an old-fashioned concept, but it may work better for you than randos grabbing gigs from apps.
*You may have to fire a lot of people. But eventually you'll find someone who can fill this role for a couple years.
Isn't major a bit too high rank for a footman?
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Look Freehold, sexy dutch bikes
oh, Dutch bike porn.
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This should be fun. PG&E hasn't billed me for gas since December 25. I tried submitting an online form. They didn't understand it. I tried calling. The automated system won't put you through to a human being, period.
So I just submitted a second online form stating that this was legal proof that I had done due diligence in attempting to notify them of the problem, and I would therefore not be liable for any penalty or interest on any money owed as a result of their error.
Somehow I think a message with words like "legal notice" "proof" and "liability" might get someone's attention.
On the other hand, free gas through the winter isn't so bad...
EDIT: And for anyone who wants to "beat The Man" in paperwork, this is standard strategy. Document that you made multiple attempts through multiple mechanisms to try to contact them and remedy the situation. When they say, "Well, you haven't paid your bill in 6 months so you owe $500 in penalties and $100 in interest," send copies of the phone and contact records and say, "No. I owe no penalties, and if you don't drop those right now the next letter will be from my lawyer."
I've never seen a company fail to drop penalties at that point and simply charge you what you owe.
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I don't get the reference. Then again, I pretty much only know her from "Hips Don't Lie". I know she's done a lot since, but I don't listen to music often.Why do I want to write an encounter where the PCs meet a hill giant bard portrayed by a 9 ft tall Shakira?Because you really need to Try Everything!
Just give the hill giant some gazelle horns.
Shakira played a gazelle pop star in the film Zootopia. "Try Everything" was her big number. EVERY child in my class, boys and girls, sang it constantly for a year.
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New cooking experiment: turtle baklava. Substituting crushed pecans and a little dark chocolate for the other nuts in the filling, and a dulce de leche for the honey syrup, and a little chocolate drizzle on the top.
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New cooking experiment: turtle baklava. Substituting crushed pecans and a little dark chocolate for the other nuts in the filling, and a dulce de leche for the honey syrup, and a little chocolate drizzle on the top.
Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh
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Great, now I'm going to spend the rest of the weekend rolling up my porn stats.This could be the start of something new! And since we established that NobodysHome works for PornHub, he might be able to help you launch your career!
I am quite happy about the amount of porn discussed in the thread of late.
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Epiphany time:
People don't hate things they like becoming popular because they want to remain "unique". People hate things they like becoming popular because popularity breeds crappiness.
We used to love the convenience of having food delivered to our door. Especially on game days so we could keep right on gaming as a hot lunch arrived on our doorstep.
With the advent of COVID, delivery has become so popular that it's become crap. Food is inevitably missing (at least one meal per order). It almost always arrives cold (one restaurant reported that our meal sat in the 38°F weather for 40 minutes before the driver arrived, begging the question, "Why did you out it outside?!?!?!"
We'd really love to order some delivery tonight -- I exacerbated my rib by moving heavy furniture, and GothBard's having a heck of a time at work. But the quality has plummeted so dramatically that a frozen Amy's dinner is better than whatever would arrive on our Welcome mat.
Pretty sad.
Wow. Aren't there any good places near you that offer curbside pickup?
I know California and Texas are pretty damned different, but, dude, even I call in to Bubba's Chicken House every couple of months for a family pack and some sides.
Almost every restaurant on Solano has curbside pickup. But on Friday nights the kids are in one game and we're in another, so taking 15 minutes to drive off and get food is a significant disruption in one game or the other. So it would be nice if we could have a deliveryperson bring it to our door so that none of the games get disrupted, but the sheer incompetence of ALL of them of late has led us to the conclusion, "If we're not willing to pick it up ourselves, we're not going to get it."
So ironically enough, COVID killed the food delivery industry for us.
I'm with you there. I refuse to use third-party delivery services anymore. I just pick the stuff up myself, even if it's inconvenient.
That means that packed evenings - like your Fridays - require planned dinners of leftovers or the like.
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I just drink Soylent. What difference does it make anymore?
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I'm still waiting on them to start selling Bachelor(ette) Chow in 20lb bags.
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It's really nice when you spend your life trying to raise your kids to think for themselves, and to have them still agree with you.
Albany Unified School District just announced a "new" reopening date of March 29, with hybrid, half-in-class, half-online learning. Impus Minor described it as, "The worst of both worlds."
I'd been planning on opting him out anyway, but I wanted to get his opinion on the subject.
I do find it interesting that all three of our companies (mine, GothBard's, and Shiro's) have mandated work-from-home for the rest of 2021. Impus Major's college is only offering online classes right now, with a "wait and see" attitude towards in-person classes in the Fall.
Aaaand... it degraded into a political tirade so I'm just deleting it all and stopping now.
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I'm still waiting on them to start selling Bachelor(ette) Chow in 20lb bags.
I used to make something like that for a friend of mine. It had oatmeal, egg whites, maple syrup, and walnuts, baked in a loose granola-like crumble. Carbs, protein, fat, all in the right proportions.
She could come home at night and just pour a bowl of 'chow' if that's all she had energy for.
Initially it was based on a tube of backpacker 'survival food', that was just egg whites, sugar, and shortening, in proper proportions to give you balanced macronutrients in a 2,000 calorie serving, in case you were injured/lost/whatever and needed nutrients without being too picky about nutrition.
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I'm still waiting on them to start selling Bachelor(ette) Chow in 20lb bags.
now I want to come home to you, shake a giant bag of Batchelor(ette) Chow at you, have you jump all over me, and then have you ignore me utterly as I pour you a (hopefully cereal) bowl of Batchelor(ette) Chow.
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I'm still waiting on them to start selling Bachelor(ette) Chow in 20lb bags.now I want to come home to you, shake a giant bag of Batchelor(ette) Chow at you, have you jump all over me, and then have you ignore me utterly as I pour you a (hopefully cereal) bowl of Batchelor(ette) Chow.
Babish has a recipe for that.
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... oh I see. I like some of my wife's family more then most of my family. especially extended.
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I heard that the Kool-Aid Man is joining a baseball team with a bunch of other corporate mascots. He's the pitcher.
When they win will they just turn him over on the coach?
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They certainly couldn't put him in the outfield. He'd go after a long fly ball and just smash through the fence.I heard that the Kool-Aid Man is joining a baseball team with a bunch of other corporate mascots. He's the pitcher.When they win will they just turn him over on the coach?
OH YEAH!
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I feel like hotel staff should be high on the list. We are constantly exposed to people and we are probably fairly likely to spread it. I suppose its more of a health risk to the obese. That is probably the logic.
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I think that no one thought of hotel staff when they put together the list of "Front Line" workers.
Which is BS because we are about as front line as you get with the exception of medical staff anyways.
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I can imagine a conversation going like this:
A: "Ok. Medical staff, grocery store workers, first responders, nursing home staff. All are front line. Anyone else?"
B: "What about hotel workers? They would be exposed to people from all over the place, and risk spreading it to others."
A: "Hmmmmm...Nah. No one's supposed to be travelling anyways."
B: "Good point. You'd have to be real dumb to travel during a global pandemic."
A&B: *laugh*Of course, they have vastly underestimated how dumb people are.
Classic mistake never underestimate people capacity for stupidity.
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I woke up to snow covering the streets, the cars, and the roofs, but nothing on the lawns yet. Although they say we may get as much as 6-7 inches between today and tomorrow.
It is very strange to see snow on my kitchen skylight.
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I had a camera man following me around for a while yesterday.
I will absolutely let that go to my head.
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I woke up to snow covering the streets, the cars, and the roofs, but nothing on the lawns yet. Although they say we may get as much as 6-7 inches between today and tomorrow.
It is very strange to see snow on my kitchen skylight.
A kitchen skylight sounds terrifying.
Probably just the lifetime spent living on the tundra.
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On the one hand, Red Dead Online isn't living up to its reputation for griefing. We've put in around 6 hours of play time, and not a single other player has given us any trouble. Yes, one player punched my horse, but if you're playing on a PC that's a standard, "Why the heck did they build the interactions this way?" event. I've already accidentally punched or knocked over around half a dozen NPCs, and Shiro even punched his own horse twice while trying to calm it down (it didn't go over well).
On the other hand, Red Dead Online is living up to its reputation for sheer tedium:
(1) Locate a mission on the map.
(2) Ride for 12 minutes of real time to get to the mission location.
(3) Spend 30 seconds getting the mission.
(4) Ride for 8-10 minutes of real time to get to the target location.
(5) Spend 1-5 minutes doing the mission.
The vast majority of your time in-game is just sitting there, watching your character ride their horse. Sure, they have "cinematic mode" so you can be doing something else while it's happening (I'm doing that right now), but a game where you spend over 80% of the time doing nothing but watching a horse follow a road isn't much of a game. Even if it is amazingly beautiful.
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Any time I need to look up NH's instructions for perfect ribs, I have to search my gmail account for the words, "Up yours, Meat Boy!"
His phrasing, not mine.
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Babish has a recipe for that.I'm still waiting on them to start selling Bachelor(ette) Chow in 20lb bags.now I want to come home to you, shake a giant bag of Batchelor(ette) Chow at you, have you jump all over me, and then have you ignore me utterly as I pour you a (hopefully cereal) bowl of Batchelor(ette) Chow.
HOLY S++$ THEY DO
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I woke up to snow covering the streets, the cars, and the roofs, but nothing on the lawns yet. Although they say we may get as much as 6-7 inches between today and tomorrow.
It is very strange to see snow on my kitchen skylight.
No need to thank me.
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I stepped into the garage to put a bag of recycling into the bin. Holy s~@%!
Definite jacket weather. Might even go with a hat and gloves today.
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It's currently -6 here, we're supposed to get up to 0 eventually.
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-4 with a high of 1 here.
My sister (at -15) is mocking me for being a wuss.
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-4 with a high of 1 here.
My sister (at -15) is mocking me for being a wuss.
We'll be hitting -15 tonight.
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Can't even go to Celsius to try to get negative temperatures around here. The 10-day forecast has our absolute lowest temp at 42˚F (5.6˚C). Barely even sweater weather.
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Got a VERY hasty apology from PG&E and an agent at the house to re-connect the meter to the network.
Gee... use the words "legal" and "waiver" and whatnot and suddenly they're VERY happy to bill you...
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We're watching The Great British Baking Show, it's chocolate week.
The General is screaming at everyone for the terrible, terrible things they're doing to brownies.
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Ha! Now they're doing Chocolate Babka, which was one of my strengths when I was a baker.
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Fantasy Monster: Heartsnare Rose. This rose doesn't have thorns. It doesn't need them. It has you to serve it, after all.
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Got a VERY hasty apology from PG&E and an agent at the house to re-connect the meter to the network.
Gee... use the words "legal" and "waiver" and whatnot and suddenly they're VERY happy to bill you...
How do you even disconnect the meter from the network without disconnecting gas? Here the meter is functioning as a piece connecting incoming gas pipe to the internal gas installation... You could tamper with its functioning or break it, but can't disconnect it without cutting gas first (or having a gas spill and blowing up everything shortly thereafter).
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We're watching The Great British Baking Show, it's chocolate week.
The General is screaming at everyone for the terrible, terrible things they're doing to brownies.
Hermione and I did the same thing watching that episode. So fecking stupid.
After we finished that season, we decided to go back and watch the earliest season we could find on Netflix that we hadn't seen yet (we've been sort of choosing numbers at random), so we're watching the one with Luis who died last year and Richard the Builder.
Which is how I got the idea to make the turtle baklava, because baklava was one of the challenges for patisserie week, and Hermione asked, "So, what would you do?"