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Better a three-eyed serpent than the one-eyed snake...
Gotta love two days in a row with 90 degrees.
I mean that honestly, I love warmer weather.
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So far the side effects of the covid vaccine are pretty minimal, but it's only the first dose.
The hardest thing to overcome is my own overriding fear of needles. Which makes me an extremely difficult patient.
Crookshanks developed the localized rash at the injection site and the General had a couple of the minor symptoms but so far I just had the arm soreness that you get from other shots like tetanus shots, which has almost entirely subsided. Though I was glad it wasn't hard to sleep on because I got the shot on my sleeping arm as opposed to my spooning arm, which is way more important on the weekend.
I returned home afternoon and went to bed early. I woke up before 10 pm, shaking severly, and feeling like my head was a training dummy for snipers. I was barely able to get up because of the chills and measured my temperature. 36.2 Celsius. Not quite a fever, though higher than my typical results of 35-something.
I drank a lot of water, changed mattress to softer, and went back to bed, fighting the headache (I forgot to purchase a suitable painkiller when I was coming back from 24/7 apothecary, all I have at home is generally to be avoided after vaccination because it can reduce its effectiveness).
I got up some time later weathered a series of dry heaves heaves (you would expect that I would spill what I poured moments ago, but no) and spent some time in bathroom while the pain and chills slowly abated to a functional degree.
Now I am here in front of the screen, though very soon I will turn off the computer, drink even more water, and go back to the bed.
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O dear. Pathfinder session ending up with an angry, drunken rogue (ooc) shouting at everybody, having been thwarted when attempting to assassinate the king of Pitax by a DM with a decent grasp of the rules, promising a town to a barbarian without clearing it with his Lawful Liege, and then trying to start a fight in the middle of said barbarian's camp. Next week's session should be verrrry interesting, but I already know what I'm going to do.
As I told Shiro, I may well be running two TPKs in a single month:
- The adult group of four 14th-level PCs (barbarian, slayer, wizard, lore oracle) is about to face a demilich with 13 levels of cleric. This would be a really dangerous fight if the demilich started in its torpor, but it sounds like they're going to accidentally wake it up first. And you never want a fair fight with a demilich.
- The "kids" group of four 5th-level PCs (crossbow "gunslinger", battle oracle, summoner with non-combat eidolon, cad (fighter archetype) who doesn't use weapons) is facing a CR+6 battle against an attacking army. So far, their entire tactic is, "Dig a few pits and trenches, put all the kids inside the wooden building, and assume the four people who actually have bows will be able to mow down an army."
In the first case I think the party's pretty hosed -- it's going to be a close battle no matter what. In the second case, I'm taking every kid aside individually and saying, "That's not a good plan."
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Eve texted to say, "When you are here next month, when your niece informs you we are not moving to Maine, we're moving to Coney Island instead, DO NOT CORRECT HER BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH THE SHITSTORM THAT FOLLOWS."
I read this out loud.
Val says, "CONEY Island?!? I thought it was PONY Island."
Now I want to see a My Little Pony version of the Mermaid Parade.
I might be playing to many sniper games recently...
Last night (just after getting my J&J vaccine), I had an utterly terrible headache and chills (it might be a side effect, a reaction to a super-windy weather, or most likely a combination thereof).
While dozing on and off while trying to pass the night, I kept dreaming that the pulses of headache are enemy sniper positions and by precision shoots at those pulses I was getting rid of the pain but new headache centers kept appearing over and over.
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Eve texted to say, "When you are here next month, when your niece informs you we are not moving to Maine, we're moving to Coney Island instead, DO NOT CORRECT HER BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH THE S@$!STORM THAT FOLLOWS."
I read this out loud.
Val says, "CONEY Island?!? I thought it was PONY Island."
Now I want to see a My Little Pony version of the Mermaid Parade.
if only bronycon/nyponycon was still a thing.
I would gladly welcome your niece and family in Brooklyn.
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Finished an important thing! Yay!And you seem to be still alive after the vet visit.
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Had Mephisto been kneading the rug before or after the visit?
He does that regularly. Sleeping on the couch is part of his evening routine and he then kneads the rug. Normally he also makes mrew mrew sounds, but not when you look at him. I think he's self concious then. Just keeps kneading but doesnt make a sound.
The vet visit went better then expected. We had taken Merah before who just acts like she is the queen and the vet office is also her domain.
We were scared however Mephisto would put up a fight. And he is STRONG. But he was really timid the whole time, only fighting with the carrier when we had just put him in.
And when we let him out back home we were scared he'd relaps and go into hiding, sit behind the washing machine for a day. But he was not that happy and a bit skittish, but he kept being around the house all day. So that is good! Progress for poor traumatized Mephisto!
Arya is a terror at the vet’s office. They have a note in her file to use protective gear and sedate her when necessary.
Woke up this morning to a message from my iPhone 4S that it "needs activation". No remedial steps have worked, so I suspect Verizon stopped supporting my phone without telling me.
Thanks, Verizon?
(And yeah, I thought about what I've been using my phone for since COVID started, and I think I'm going back to a flip phone just to spite 'em.)
Is the 4S a 3g phone? Verizon has been planning to shut down its 3g network for a while. That's why I got my Dad's old phone. They were going to shut it down in 2019, but have kept pushing it back. Maybe they finally turned it off.
Oh, I don't mind if they did it. The phone's 10 years old, and I don't expect major corporations to cater to my idiosyncrasies.
But I do expect proper notification. "Hey, we're no longer going to support your phone as of May 3, 2021. You should think about upgrading."
EDIT: Nope. Looks like it's just a bug.
"Verizon 3G CDMA Network Shut off date set for December 31, 2022"
It was supposed to rain all day today but the storm system went to the north this time, so no rain as of yet.
Which is just fine as I'm on a roll this morning.
Called Verizon, and the rep was at least truthful and informative, if not helpful.
"Your phone's been unsupported for years. Eventually something happens and they try to reactivate themselves and they can't, and we can't do it either, so there's nothing you can do about it."
Plausible, and May is roughly the time frame in which I originally activated this phone, so an annual "reactivation check" is quite possible. I'm trying to check my bill history, but apparently I've been using this 4S for quite a few years...
OK. Turns out I threw out the wrong battery on my old Samsung flip phone, so I had to *gasp* order a new phone.
What'll intrigue me the most is whether or not anyone notices that I have no phone for a few days.
I doubt it.
EDIT: I also realized that for the first time in roughly 20 years I'll be using an "up-to-date" phone. What a concept! :-O
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Arya is a terror at the vet’s office. They have a note in her file to use protective gear and sedate her when necessary.Finished an important thing! Yay!And you seem to be still alive after the vet visit.
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Had Mephisto been kneading the rug before or after the visit?
He does that regularly. Sleeping on the couch is part of his evening routine and he then kneads the rug. Normally he also makes mrew mrew sounds, but not when you look at him. I think he's self concious then. Just keeps kneading but doesnt make a sound.
The vet visit went better then expected. We had taken Merah before who just acts like she is the queen and the vet office is also her domain.
We were scared however Mephisto would put up a fight. And he is STRONG. But he was really timid the whole time, only fighting with the carrier when we had just put him in.
And when we let him out back home we were scared he'd relaps and go into hiding, sit behind the washing machine for a day. But he was not that happy and a bit skittish, but he kept being around the house all day. So that is good! Progress for poor traumatized Mephisto!
Ah, those kinds of cats. Usually they are put in a 'push' cage, a wire cage where one side can move so you can pincer the cat in the cage so you can put give them a shot (or sedative) safely
OK. Turns out I threw out the wrong battery on my old Samsung flip phone, so I had to *gasp* order a new phone.
What'll intrigue me the most is whether or not anyone notices that I have no phone for a few days.
I doubt it.
EDIT: I also realized that for the first time in roughly 20 years I'll be using an "up-to-date" phone. What a concept! :-O
Pay one of your kids to set it up for you, trust me.
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Pay one of your kids to set it up for you, trust me.OK. Turns out I threw out the wrong battery on my old Samsung flip phone, so I had to *gasp* order a new phone.
What'll intrigue me the most is whether or not anyone notices that I have no phone for a few days.
I doubt it.
EDIT: I also realized that for the first time in roughly 20 years I'll be using an "up-to-date" phone. What a concept! :-O
*SIGH*
When you're in IT, you even set up phones for teenagers.
(Impus Minor came to me just on Saturday asking me to resolve a network lag issue for him.)
I am trying to comrehend idea of mobile company "supporting" a specific phone. What the hell the mobile company has to do with the model of the phone? They are supposed to maintain the cellular network and provide the sim cards for phones to work with the network... Period.
I am trying to comrehend idea of mobile company "supporting" a specific phone. What the hell the mobile company has to do with the model of the phone? They are supposed to maintain the cellular network and provide the sim cards for phones to work with the network... Period.
[tongue in cheek but with nuggets of truth]
Europe went with one wireless standard and stuck with it. In order to ensure additional phone sales, the U.S. changes standards with some regularity and doesn't require mobile companies to maintain the old networks.So as I posted, 3G will be dead in the U.S. at the end of 2022.
Since we don't have reasonable user privacy laws, either, mobile companies want phones that they can track and that can run their latest malware, so if an older phone will no longer let them track it effectively, they stop supporting it and you have to get a new one.[/tongue in cheek]
TL;DR: In the U.S. it is perfectly legal for a wireless company to declare your phone "no longer supported" and to not provide you with service.
I tend to run over my phone or someone else runs over my phone with a dump truck or skid loader before it's obsolete.
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The kids got their second doses today, so the whole family's vaccinations are complete!
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The problem with an apple addiction is you can't see a doctor about it.
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Did you all hear about that new kind of tea? It changes colors, plays 8-bit music, and seems to practically fill the air with its aroma. It's called "Hue-Midi-Tea".
If you make that joke here in Florida anytime between now and October, you've got a 50/50 chance of being grievously harmed by an angry overheated Floridian within earshot.
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The problem with an apple addiction is you can't see a doctor about it.
This made my brain think of apples granting you a charge like the pole on a magnet, so that you and the doctor are same-charged and repel.
Which then made me think if you got group of apple-charged patients to surround a doctor, you could move him/her around like the "I'm not touching you" game version of a Ouija puck.
Which then then made me think if the apple-charged patients completely surrounded the doctor as a stator, and the doctor started spinning like a rotor, would you all produce electricity? Or some new form of energy?
Did you all hear about that new kind of tea? It changes colors, plays 8-bit music, and seems to practically fill the air with its aroma. It's called "Hue-Midi-Tea".If you make that joke here in Florida anytime between now and October, you've got a 50/50 chance of being grievously harmed by an angry overheated Floridian within earshot.
Think of this as a lottery what means of grievous bodily harm will be used!
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The problem with an apple addiction is you can't see a doctor about it.
Wisconsin is the place for you if you have an apple addiction. We have almost as many apples as Michigan with a quarter of the a~&@!+#s.
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We made it! (On Friday...but I've been busy so you hear now.)
Our place is great. Solid brick and the basement floor of the building so it's the safest spot around. Neighborhood is wonderful. Neighbors are nice.
The toddler loves the place because now we have room to properly baby proof and let her crawl around without constantly pulling her from dangerous stuff. The dogs love having a dog park. The weather has been perfect.
It's been good.
It's Florida, so probably a methed up alligator.Think of this as a lottery what means of grievous bodily harm will be used!Did you all hear about that new kind of tea? It changes colors, plays 8-bit music, and seems to practically fill the air with its aroma. It's called "Hue-Midi-Tea".If you make that joke here in Florida anytime between now and October, you've got a 50/50 chance of being grievously harmed by an angry overheated Floridian within earshot.
Now we need to talk Drejk into stateing up a methed up alligator.
The problem with an apple addiction is you can't see a doctor about it.Wisconsin is the place for you if you have an apple addiction. We have almost as many apples as Michigan with a quarter of the a*&@+%*s.
pfeh. Noone beats new York.
EDIT: Strange. Thought we had more.
May the Fourth be with you!
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MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU
Putting Rogue One on in the background today.
Interesting... Impus Minor is having a fairly strong reaction to the vaccine. He woke up at 6:30 am this morning complaining that, "I feel really terrible," and, "It's like my whole body is being stretched."
The talk around the second vaccine is that the stronger your immune system is, the worse your symptoms will be, but Impus Minor is sick a lot, so it's interesting that he's the one complaining.
We'll see how Impus Major feels once he wakes up.
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We made it! (On Friday...but I've been busy so you hear now.)
Our place is great. Solid brick and the basement floor of the building so it's the safest spot around. Neighborhood is wonderful. Neighbors are nice.
The toddler loves the place because now we have room to properly baby proof and let her crawl around without constantly pulling her from dangerous stuff. The dogs love having a dog park. The weather has been perfect.
It's been good.
Hooray!
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'You know what', they thought, 'What would really add a touch of class to the LIVING WALL is a hot pink neon sign that gives the impression that you're working in a 1980s strip club'
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And we continue to hate Impus Major.
Impus Minor has a 100.8°F and can barely stay conscious. I'd be worried if it weren't for the fact that this is one of the "expected" outcomes of the second vaccine.
Impus Major? He's up bright and early this morning "feeling great".
Grr...