I'm playing Fallout 76 again, like all Fallout games the second time you play is a lot more fun.That is true... huh My first play through I tried to be good at everything make a smart character and upgrade gear. my second play though I made the character dumb as a rock and maxed out luck and str. 10 times as fun. Just walk up to things and punch their head off.I've been doing that in Fallout 4, it's been a ton of fun.
Truth be told I'm just waiting for the new PlayStation to ship (it's only going to be another week and a half at the most).
The monotony of the missions in Fallout 4 is draining, and the graphics in earlier Fallout games hasn't aged (plus Fallout New Vegas is so buggy on Playstation Now it's unplayable (you can't even rename your character) so I'm trying out 76 again.
I want to get the next x-box but were doing the house hunting right now and I do really need a better computer first too.
I guess striping is an option.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Wait, you can get paid for striping?!
You bastards lied to me!!
| 6 people marked this as a favorite. |
Sigh. I get to spend this weekend writing parent-teacher conference reports.
I don't want to.
I'm trying to think up a good incentive to reward myself if I get it done quickly. My brain is calling me a liar and not playing.
I will not, will absolutely NOT, do what I did last time, which was to lurk on FaWtL all weekend hoping for something to distract me.
Crapmonkeys.
Fire up the distractiononimzer, boys.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Well if he does go stripes, make sure they're vertical. Very slimming.
Stripes make it go faster.
I thought flames make it go faster.
| 4 people marked this as a favorite. |
Flames are stripes, kinda.
Also, I bought another sword.
I didn't need another sword.
But nonetheless.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
I was finally close enough to a blast zone to see the mushroom cloud.
No. Painting it red makes it go 3 times faster.
It also means I have to destroy it.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Paint it black.
Black as night
Black as coal
I wanna see the sun
Blotted out from the sky
I wanna see it painted, painted, painted
Painted black, yeah
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
To be clear, I'm not exaggerating about the literal impossibility of doing all that laundry in one shift. We have 1 washing machine. It takes 45 minutes to wash each load. That means that 11 loads will take 8hrs and 15mins just to wash, and 12 loads would take 9hrs. This isn't even taking into account the couple of minutes needed to unload the washer when it is done, and then put the next load in. There literally isn't enough time on my shift to do it all. And if the GM shows up for 1st shift like he's scheduled to, there is a good chance that he'll say something like "Why didn't you get all the laundry done and put away? You know that's your job, right?" And I don't need to hear that from anyone, least of all a guy who won't touch the laundry when he works a desk shift.
Edit:
It isn't fair to ignore the time spent loading/unloading the machine. If it takes 5 minutes to unload and then reload the washer after each cycle, then it will add an extra hour to the total time.
Take you like 30 minutes tops to burn it all though.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Longer. It's raining outside, and burning it inside would cause even more problems.Take you like 30 minutes tops to burn it all though.To be clear, I'm not exaggerating about the literal impossibility of doing all that laundry in one shift. We have 1 washing machine. It takes 45 minutes to wash each load. That means that 11 loads will take 8hrs and 15mins just to wash, and 12 loads would take 9hrs. This isn't even taking into account the couple of minutes needed to unload the washer when it is done, and then put the next load in. There literally isn't enough time on my shift to do it all. And if the GM shows up for 1st shift like he's scheduled to, there is a good chance that he'll say something like "Why didn't you get all the laundry done and put away? You know that's your job, right?" And I don't need to hear that from anyone, least of all a guy who won't touch the laundry when he works a desk shift.
Edit:
It isn't fair to ignore the time spent loading/unloading the machine. If it takes 5 minutes to unload and then reload the washer after each cycle, then it will add an extra hour to the total time.
True setting things on fire inside does lead to some interesting consequences.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
I believe I've been summoned.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
I have access to flamethrowers, just saying.
Does anybody live near Chicago? I will be going there in a few months to help out a friend but I plan on taking a day to sightsee a bit.
I live about 150 miles to the north.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
If I burn down Chicago then everyone will flee to Wisconsin.
It's bad enough that Illinois invade our lakes in the summer, we don't need them here full time.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
You live that close, and have access to flamethrowers, yet the f%@%ing city is still standing. Why?
Because Cap doesn't share his flamethrowers with Mrs. O'Leary's cow.
Duh.
I HAAAAAAAAAATE WRITING PROGRESS REPORTS.
It's 300 words per kid. It shouldn't be that difficult. But I get the same feeling I used to have writing term papers, because I feel like I'm the one being graded and judged.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Fantasy Monster: Thorny. A tiny, spiny, goat-fighting plant.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
I HAAAAAAAAAATE WRITING PROGRESS REPORTS.
It's 300 words per kid. It shouldn't be that difficult. But I get the same feeling I used to have writing term papers, because I feel like I'm the one being graded and judged.
That's the kind of nonsense requirement that makes my teeth itch every time I see it.
For 75% of your kids, I'm sure a progress report of,
Little Billy is doing fine, and is progressing normally for a child his age. He has no outstanding issues to speak of,
is all you need. But "special snowflake syndrome", even in Texas, makes you spend an extra 4-5 hours this weekend making up pointless platitudes to make the parents feel better about shelling out the cash to send their precious little angels to a private school.
Drives me crazy, because it's what drives so many good teachers out of teaching.
EDIT: For the record, I quit because of low pay, long hours, entitled kids and parents, and an abusive administration. But things like, "You MUST assign, collect, and grade homework every week and if you want any assistance you have to hire your own," did not help in the least.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Must resist commenting...
Must resist...
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Must resist commenting...
Must resist...
It's Sunday! Go for it! Nobody will notice!
EDIT: And if you were going to comment about my apparent hypocrisy in frequently complaining about lack of communication from teachers and my statement that for 75% of the kids, a simple, "They're doing fine," is enough, it's because Impus Minor clearly falls in the "other 25% bucket" in two of his classes.
His math teacher has never contacted me in any way, shape, or form. I don't particularly care; he's getting a B+ in math, he's gotten over 70% on all his exams, so everything's "fine" there. I don't appreciate the amount of homework he assigns, but that's my personal peeve and I don't need communication from his teacher about it.
His physics teacher saw him take his final exam, fail to turn it in, gave him a 0, and turned in his final grade assuming a 0 on the final. This is gross negligence of duty, as Impus Minor was clearly an outlier in that class.
Similarly, his English teacher ignored the fact that he didn't turn in any drafts for a major paper, never reached out to him or me about what was going on, and gave him an F.
It's fine to ignore students who are doing fine. If a student's missing major work, part of your job as a teacher is to reach out to the student to find out what's going on.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Must resist commenting...
Must resist...
It's Sunday! Go for it! Nobody will notice!
EDIT: And if you were going to comment about my apparent hypocrisy in frequently complaining about lack of communication from teachers and my statement that for 75% of the kids, a simple, "They're doing fine," is enough, it's because Impus Minor clearly falls in the "other 25% bucket" in two of his classes.
Nope. It would be about special snowflakes and Texas...
BUHAHAHAHAHhahahahahaaaaha!
*ahem*
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Must resist commenting...
Must resist...
It's Sunday! Go for it! Nobody will notice!
EDIT: And if you were going to comment about my apparent hypocrisy in frequently complaining about lack of communication from teachers and my statement that for 75% of the kids, a simple, "They're doing fine," is enough, it's because Impus Minor clearly falls in the "other 25% bucket" in two of his classes.
Nope. It would be about special snowflakes and Texas...
** spoiler omitted **
Oh, yeah. THAT.
It reminds me of a conversation with a friend who moved from California to Houston: "It's so nice here! Everyone's proud to be in Texas. In California all everyone does is complain about how bad it is there. In Houston, everyone's proud to be here and no one would dare complain."
Which was only a couple of years after the Dead Kennedys came out with Stars and Stripes of Corruption with the revolutionary sentiment, "Just because you love your country doesn't mean you can't criticize what's wrong with it. Patriotism means seeing the warts as well as the beauty."
I love California because we do constantly complain about what's wrong and discuss how we can fix it. I wouldn't want to live somewhere I couldn't do that.
I HAAAAAAAAAATE WRITING PROGRESS REPORTS.
It's 300 words per kid. It shouldn't be that difficult. But I get the same feeling I used to have writing term papers, because I feel like I'm the one being graded and judged.
That's the kind of nonsense requirement that makes my teeth itch every time I see it.
For 75% of your kids, I'm sure a progress report of,
Little Billy is doing fine, and is progressing normally for a child his age. He has no outstanding issues to speak of,is all you need. But "special snowflake syndrome", even in Texas, makes you spend an extra 4-5 hours this weekend making up pointless platitudes to make the parents feel better about shelling out the cash to send their precious little angels to a private school.
Drives me crazy, because it's what drives so many good teachers out of teaching.
EDIT: For the record, I quit because of low pay, long hours, entitled kids and parents, and an abusive administration. But things like, "You MUST assign, collect, and grade homework every week and if you want any assistance you have to hire your own," did not help in the least.
It's not actually a requirement that it has to be that long. That's just the common practice that the whole faculty has done for years, and so there's an understanding that you're going to more or less do what everybody else does.
It could be worse. This is just a 25 minute conference and a fairly short report. At the first school I worked at in Oakland (granted, tuition there was over 2000k/month, for preschool), it was a 750-1000 word report and an hour conference for each child, plus an 8-page printout from our record-keeping software detailing the child's mastery level of every lesson they'd had since their last conference.
Must resist commenting...
Must resist...
It's Sunday! Go for it! Nobody will notice!
EDIT: And if you were going to comment about my apparent hypocrisy in frequently complaining about lack of communication from teachers and my statement that for 75% of the kids, a simple, "They're doing fine," is enough, it's because Impus Minor clearly falls in the "other 25% bucket" in two of his classes.
Nope. It would be about special snowflakes and Texas...
** spoiler omitted **
Oh, yeah. THAT.
It reminds me of a conversation with a friend who moved from California to Houston: "It's so nice here! Everyone's proud to be in Texas. In California all everyone does is complain about how bad it is there. In Houston, everyone's proud to be here and no one would dare complain."
Which was only a couple of years after the Dead Kennedys came out with Stars and Stripes of Corruption with the revolutionary sentiment, "Just because you love your country doesn't mean you can't criticize what's wrong with it. Patriotism means seeing the warts as well as the beauty."
I love California because we do constantly complain about what's wrong and discuss how we can fix it. I wouldn't want to live somewhere I couldn't do that.
Texans are allowed to criticize Texas so long as they're funny.
You're also allowed to criticize *other* cities in Texas. Dallas skewers Austin for being too Berkeley, Austin skewers Dallas for valuing $$ over soul, everyone skewers the Lege (pronounced "ledge-ie", i.e. the state legislature), everyone skewers the hicks out in the Piney Woods, but no one talks smack about San Antonio or the Hill Country.
Oh, and Mexican-Americans in Texas talk smack about Mexican-Americans from California for being, apparently, too Californian and inauthentic.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Oh, and Mexican-Americans in Texas talk smack about Mexican-Americans from California for being, apparently, too Californian and inauthentic.
Everyone accuses California of being inauthentic.
New Yorkers and Chicagoans say our pizza is crap.
New Yorkers say our bagels are crap.
Southwesterners say our Mexican food is crap.
Wisconsonites say our dairy products are crap.
The majority of states say our politics, population density, and freeways are crap.
So why do people keep moving here!?!?!?!?!?
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Oh, and Mexican-Americans in Texas talk smack about Mexican-Americans from California for being, apparently, too Californian and inauthentic.Everyone accuses California of being inauthentic.
New Yorkers and Chicagoans say our pizza is crap.
New Yorkers say our bagels are crap.
Southwesterners say our Mexican food is crap.
Wisconsonites say our dairy products are crap.
The majority of states say our politics, population density, and freeways are crap.So why do people keep moving here!?!?!?!?!?
The "American Gods" answer would be the lingering fever-dream of the gold rush.
| 7 people marked this as a favorite. |
Oh, and Mexican-Americans in Texas talk smack about Mexican-Americans from California for being, apparently, too Californian and inauthentic.Everyone accuses California of being inauthentic.
New Yorkers and Chicagoans say our pizza is crap.
New Yorkers say our bagels are crap.
Southwesterners say our Mexican food is crap.
Wisconsonites say our dairy products are crap.
The majority of states say our politics, population density, and freeways are crap.So why do people keep moving here!?!?!?!?!?
It just shows you how much crap people are willing to put up with for nice weather.
|
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
The "American Gods" answer would be the lingering fever-dream of the gold rush.Oh, and Mexican-Americans in Texas talk smack about Mexican-Americans from California for being, apparently, too Californian and inauthentic.Everyone accuses California of being inauthentic.
New Yorkers and Chicagoans say our pizza is crap.
New Yorkers say our bagels are crap.
Southwesterners say our Mexican food is crap.
Wisconsonites say our dairy products are crap.
The majority of states say our politics, population density, and freeways are crap.So why do people keep moving here!?!?!?!?!?
With season 3 out on amazon, we're rewatching American Gods and it is so on the nose. (this coming from someone out in Europe)
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Oh, and Mexican-Americans in Texas talk smack about Mexican-Americans from California for being, apparently, too Californian and inauthentic.Everyone accuses California of being inauthentic.
New Yorkers and Chicagoans say our pizza is crap.
New Yorkers say our bagels are crap.
Southwesterners say our Mexican food is crap.
Wisconsonites say our dairy products are crap.
The majority of states say our politics, population density, and freeways are crap.So why do people keep moving here!?!?!?!?!?
because your men/women are hot.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Over halfway done.
Hermione and Dr. Darling made dinner so I could keep typing.
The next door neighbors have provided entertainment. They've been taking down a big dead tree in their backyard all day with a cherry picker and chainsaws, and half an hour ago they dropped a limb the wrong direction, and ripped out the power and phone lines to their house.
| 5 people marked this as a favorite. |
Sometimes Dr. Darling is pretty okay.
When I thanked him tonight for taking care of the kids, and the kitchen, and everything else pretty much all weekend so I could focus on my reports for school, he said, "Well, it wouldn't be the first time in our history that one person didn't have much of a weekend because the other person was having trouble writing something." (alluding to his troubled dissertation process)
Me: "Or much of a life."
Dr. Darling: "Yeah. You could do this every weekend for the rest of our lives and I still wouldn't have made it up to you."
Me: "Can I get that in writing?"
Dr. Darling: "Not a chance."
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Oh, and Mexican-Americans in Texas talk smack about Mexican-Americans from California for being, apparently, too Californian and inauthentic.Everyone accuses California of being inauthentic.
New Yorkers and Chicagoans say our pizza is crap.
New Yorkers say our bagels are crap.
Southwesterners say our Mexican food is crap.
Wisconsonites say our dairy products are crap.
The majority of states say our politics, population density, and freeways are crap.So why do people keep moving here!?!?!?!?!?
To resupply California loses to Texas, if the amount of complaints Texans have about Californians moving to Texas are to be believed.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
... Dr. Darling...
... Dr. Darling...
... Dr. Darling...
What have I done?!
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Does anybody live near Chicago? I will be going there in a few months to help out a friend but I plan on taking a day to sightsee a bit.
Depending on what part of Chicago you're talking about...
I'm about 165 miles SW from The Loop. Figure 2.5 hours drive time.
... Dr. Darling...... Dr. Darling...... Dr. Darling...What have I done?!
On the other hand, it might be an improvement over WW...
...