It's funny how expectations can affect you psychologically. After all the talk of how bad the second shot can be, all I have is some extremely mild soreness, not even as bad as the first shot.
So of course my hind brain starts worrying, "Did this second dose even work?"
Funny when you start thinking, "This doesn't hurt enough; it can't be working right..."
My first dose was the worse one, and the worst symptoms I had were extreme dizziness and distractedness. They warned me for round 2 that staying hydrated would help, and that probably made a lot of difference. But it might depend which vaccine you're getting.
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My first dose was the worse one, and the worst symptoms I had were extreme dizziness and distractedness. They warned me for round 2 that staying hydrated would help, and that probably made a lot of difference. But it might depend which vaccine you're getting.It's funny how expectations can affect you psychologically. After all the talk of how bad the second shot can be, all I have is some extremely mild soreness, not even as bad as the first shot.
So of course my hind brain starts worrying, "Did this second dose even work?"
Funny when you start thinking, "This doesn't hurt enough; it can't be working right..."
I drink a LOT of water. That probably helps.
I drink a LOT of water. That probably helps.My first dose was the worse one, and the worst symptoms I had were extreme dizziness and distractedness. They warned me for round 2 that staying hydrated would help, and that probably made a lot of difference. But it might depend which vaccine you're getting.It's funny how expectations can affect you psychologically. After all the talk of how bad the second shot can be, all I have is some extremely mild soreness, not even as bad as the first shot.
So of course my hind brain starts worrying, "Did this second dose even work?"
Funny when you start thinking, "This doesn't hurt enough; it can't be working right..."
Thanks for reminding me.
Damn. I could go for some mac and cheese and some soup right about now.
Yes, this is a great idea. They don't want you to pet the K9 officer, but I'm sure that they won't mind you stealing it.
"We'll give it back when we're done petting it."
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I will say this, with everyone this week that has refused to listen to me, from coworker, the roofers, my wife, the neighbor, the kids, and the landscape designer, the one person who has listened is the boss.
That helps, a lot.
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For the record, Scint's statement notwithstanding, the whole, "Women have worse side effects from the COVID vaccines" is proving true for us: I have a slightly sore arm (not even as bad as the first vaccine). GothBard has a 100°F fever today and is definitely woozy.
The big test will be on Monday when Impus Major gets his second dose. The boy is never sick, so the second dose may well be a doozy for him.
For the record, Scint's statement notwithstanding, the whole, "Women have worse side effects from the COVID vaccines" is proving true for us: I have a slightly sore arm (not even as bad as the first vaccine). GothBard has a 100°F fever today and is definitely woozy.
The big test will be on Monday when Impus Major gets his second dose. The boy is never sick, so the second dose may well be a doozy for him.
Please give her my best.
For the record, Scint's statement notwithstanding, the whole, "Women have worse side effects from the COVID vaccines" is proving true for us: I have a slightly sore arm (not even as bad as the first vaccine). GothBard has a 100°F fever today and is definitely woozy.
The big test will be on Monday when Impus Major gets his second dose. The boy is never sick, so the second dose may well be a doozy for him.
It might depend on which vaccine it is. My district got us Moderna.
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"Nixon sus."
"At least CREEP is a better acronym than WAP."
For the record, Scint's statement notwithstanding, the whole, "Women have worse side effects from the COVID vaccines" is proving true for us: I have a slightly sore arm (not even as bad as the first vaccine). GothBard has a 100°F fever today and is definitely woozy.
The big test will be on Monday when Impus Major gets his second dose. The boy is never sick, so the second dose may well be a doozy for him.
More anecdata: my mom felt worse after the first dose than dad.
We all did Pfizer.
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I built a technical masterpiece today.
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Have I mentioned recently how much I hate parents?
Let me see if I can copy-and-paste this and remove all identifying information:
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(1) Students are informed that popular teacher is on indefinite administrative leave
(2) Students meet with the principal and mysteriously say, "We don't want <teacher> to come back until they feel they're ready," indicating it's more than likely a personal leave of absence rather than a disciplinary one.
(3) Teacher's volunteer group personally reaches out to teacher, leaving treats and a card on their doorstep, sending them a group text, and letting them know we're there for them once they feel ready.
(4) The volunteer group wants to do more and I push back hard: Teacher needs space and time. They agree and back off.
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(5) Independent parent group starts a petition to "force" the school district to bring the teacher back, and it even includes the statement, "Whether they want to or not".
(6) Volunteer group points out what a horrible idea this is, and ask parents to stop.
(7) The kids hear about it, and say it's a horrible idea, and ask parents to stop.
(8) Parents ignore us and the kids, bypass us to get a list of all parents of all kids in all of teacher's classes, and have started a massive petition to "reinstate" teacher.
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Yeah, I'd love it if I had to take a psychological leave of absence and hundreds of angry parents forced the school district to at least make my condition public to try to take off some of the heat.
What part of "respect other people's wishes" do they not comprehend?
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They're not speaking proper English - it's Karenglish.
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Have I mentioned that in my homebrew I'm doing a variation on the Seven Samurai?
The biggest "issue" so far is that I have SO many NPCs with SO many personalities that I want the players to interact with ALL of them, but the kids are far more interested in, "How many of those kids can we get to dig trenches in the northern field? And do we have access to bamboo spikes?"
I've managed to pique their interest a bit: Just what is Father Freesong's back story that he was driven out of the orphanage and can only return in disguise? What manner of creature did the Asmodeans summon in the forest that's preventing the orphans from fleeing and hiding there?
I'm just worried they're going to be so desperate to get to the final battle they'll miss a ton of it. And quite possibly get themselves killed in the process. (I think it's a CR+5 or CR+6 fight, so they've got to plan carefully.)
EDIT: LOL. Leave it to Shiro to rain all over my parade. "Wait a minute?!?!? They know that there's a huge army on foot approaching that they can't hope to match in the open field, and they have dozens of horses and people with low-light vision and darkvision and they're not running night skirmishes to pick off a few of the bandits at a time? What the heck? Is this Seven Samurai?"
"Yeah, that's how they're playing it."
"Do they know what happened at the end of Seven Samurai?!?!?!"
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We're about halfway through our huge project that everyone (except me) said would take us most of the summer.
With a month and a half until actual summer.
I didnt realize until I was leaving that the main reason why I felt so awful at my desk was because, somehow, the heat in my building was on. It was maintaining a heat of 76 degrees. And it was actually 78 degrees in the building. Any time it dipped the heat turned on and blew gently onto the top of my head. Ugh.
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I didnt realize until I was leaving that the main reason why I felt so awful at my desk was because, somehow, the heat in my building was on. It was maintaining a heat of 76 degrees. And it was actually 78 degrees in the building. Any time it dipped the heat turned on and blew gently onto the top of my head. Ugh.
It's the reason I could never move anywhere east of the Mississippi: Every place I've visited on that side of the country sets the thermostat to 78˚F all winter.
I'd die of heat stroke.
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A company is installing fiber internet in my neighborhood. I am not interested, mainly because I don't need faster internet than what I already have, and it would cost about twice what I'm paying now. Today, I got an email from my ISP saying "Hey, just letting you know that we're doubling your speed at no extra charge. Enjoy!" So now I'm going to have faster internet at the same price. I may not need it, but I'll take it.
It's amazing what they can magically do for free once there is actual competition in an area.
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Have I mentioned that in my homebrew I'm doing a variation on the Seven Samurai?
The biggest "issue" so far is that I have SO many NPCs with SO many personalities that I want the players to interact with ALL of them, but the kids are far more interested in, "How many of those kids can we get to dig trenches in the northern field? And do we have access to bamboo spikes?"
I've managed to pique their interest a bit: Just what is Father Freesong's back story that he was driven out of the orphanage and can only return in disguise? What manner of creature did the Asmodeans summon in the forest that's preventing the orphans from fleeing and hiding there?
I'm just worried they're going to be so desperate to get to the final battle they'll miss a ton of it. And quite possibly get themselves killed in the process. (I think it's a CR+5 or CR+6 fight, so they've got to plan carefully.)
EDIT: LOL. Leave it to Shiro to rain all over my parade. "Wait a minute?!?!? They know that there's a huge army on foot approaching that they can't hope to match in the open field, and they have dozens of horses and people with low-light vision and darkvision and they're not running night skirmishes to pick off a few of the bandits at a time? What the heck? Is this Seven Samurai?"
"Yeah, that's how they're playing it."
"Do they know what happened at the end of Seven Samurai?!?!?!"
Three out of seven samurai survived... How many PCs you said you have?
I didnt realize until I was leaving that the main reason why I felt so awful at my desk was because, somehow, the heat in my building was on. It was maintaining a heat of 76 degrees. And it was actually 78 degrees in the building. Any time it dipped the heat turned on and blew gently onto the top of my head. Ugh.
That's okay, tilapia doesn't really count as fish.
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Why the f%&$ are you eating marshmallows! Don't you know they're gross, and icky.
So, I'm plugging away at my technical perfection yesterday and I get to the point where I need to mix up and install the edging, so I walk up to our trailer to get the 2 75 pound buckets of concrete mix I'll need and I get up to the driveway circle and there's a semi truck loaded down with trees and plants with literally everyone else in the company that wasn't out mowing lawns was there unloading everything and bustling about placing them where they go while the boss and designer are checking everything off the list and looking at the plans.
Needless to say I was glad I'd been wearing my earbuds because when one of the guys came down to get us to unload the trailer coworker told him to leave me be while I finished up the walkway.
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Because I wanted rice krispy treats, but didn't feel like making them, so I just ate marshmallows and rice krispys.Why the f@+% are you eating marshmallows! Don't you know they're gross, and icky.
I see! Yes, that is the one legitimate use of marshmallows.
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Finally finished the letter of recommendation my coworker asked me for on Monday. I'm a slow writer.
Three out of seven samurai survived... How many PCs you said you have?Have I mentioned that in my homebrew I'm doing a variation on the Seven Samurai?
The biggest "issue" so far is that I have SO many NPCs with SO many personalities that I want the players to interact with ALL of them, but the kids are far more interested in, "How many of those kids can we get to dig trenches in the northern field? And do we have access to bamboo spikes?"
I've managed to pique their interest a bit: Just what is Father Freesong's back story that he was driven out of the orphanage and can only return in disguise? What manner of creature did the Asmodeans summon in the forest that's preventing the orphans from fleeing and hiding there?
I'm just worried they're going to be so desperate to get to the final battle they'll miss a ton of it. And quite possibly get themselves killed in the process. (I think it's a CR+5 or CR+6 fight, so they've got to plan carefully.)
EDIT: LOL. Leave it to Shiro to rain all over my parade. "Wait a minute?!?!? They know that there's a huge army on foot approaching that they can't hope to match in the open field, and they have dozens of horses and people with low-light vision and darkvision and they're not running night skirmishes to pick off a few of the bandits at a time? What the heck? Is this Seven Samurai?"
"Yeah, that's how they're playing it."
"Do they know what happened at the end of Seven Samurai?!?!?!"
Don't a lot of the villagers also die?
In this incarnation they're defending an orphanage. I don't think half the PCs and kids dying will be considered a "victory".
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I like marshmallows. I like making ghetto smores.
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You say that fish and marshmallows have nothing to do with one another, but in that case, why did this come up when I googled 'ghetto smores' to find out what they were?
Also, what is an 'ass fish?' (Tilapia again?)
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"Nixon sus."
"At least CREEP is a better acronym than WAP."
Do you ever think Roger Stone's Nixon tattoo whispers chaotic evil impulses to him?
Also, what is an 'ass fish?' (Tilapia again?)
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FYI, if I goblinize today, I'm gonna need someone to bail me out of jail for punching maskless a*sholes in the supermarket.
FYI, if I goblinize today, I'm gonna need someone to bail me out of jail for punching maskless a*sholes in the supermarket.
SHADOWRUN SECOND EDITION FOREVER
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Do you ever think Roger Stone's Nixon tattoo whispers chaotic evil impulses to him?
"Nixon sus."
"At least CREEP is a better acronym than WAP."
Have you ever met Roger Stone? I'm pretty sure the Nixon tattoo helps moderate his evil impulses.
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Do you ever think Roger Stone's Nixon tattoo whispers chaotic evil impulses to him?
"Nixon sus."
"At least CREEP is a better acronym than WAP."
...TIL that someone has a Nixon tattoo and how much I hate the existence of that phrase.
FYI, if I goblinize today, I'm gonna need someone to bail me out of jail for punching maskless a*sholes in the supermarket.
Strange. I though people transformed into elves and dwarves as well.
...TIL that someone has a Nixon tattoo and how much I hate the existence of that phrase.Do you ever think Roger Stone's Nixon tattoo whispers chaotic evil impulses to him?
"Nixon sus."
"At least CREEP is a better acronym than WAP."
You didn't know? It was all over the news.
Have you ever met Roger Stone? I'm pretty sure the Nixon tattoo helps moderate his evil impulses.Do you ever think Roger Stone's Nixon tattoo whispers chaotic evil impulses to him?
"Nixon sus."
"At least CREEP is a better acronym than WAP."
I was going to say that I thought Amby had it backwards...Stone corrupts the tattoo of Nixon.