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Speaking of bad habits, I've already complained multiple times about people walking down the street carrying on LOUD conversations on speakerphone, especially when they're discussing medical information with their friends. "Well, I got the tests for xxx back yesterday and they were negative, so tomorrow I'm going in to get tested for yyy."
Today my neighbors (who are usually wonderful people) are taking it one better: They're doing an entire legal and financial contract on speakerphone in their back yard. Were I so inclined, I'd already have their bank account numbers, their social security numbers, and their birth dates.
Really, neighbors?
EDIT: Oooh! Another bad habit!
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I only drive my car to and from work mostly, but I don't usually let it idle if I have to sit somewhere, the AC is on it's last legs and I'd like to preserve it for when I need it like after working in 95 degree weather.
My work truck I only let idle in the winter but that's because up until last year I had the Death Trap in winter and every time you turn it off could be it's last.
Or it could spontaneously catch fire, though it was nice enough not to do it to me.
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Speaking of bad habits, I've already complained multiple times about people walking down the street carrying on LOUD conversations on speakerphone, especially when they're discussing medical information with their friends. "Well, I got the tests for xxx back yesterday and they were negative, so tomorrow I'm going in to get tested for yyy."
Today my neighbors (who are usually wonderful people) are taking it one better: They're doing an entire legal and financial contract on speakerphone in their back yard. Were I so inclined, I'd already have their bank account numbers, their social security numbers, and their birth dates.
Really, neighbors?
EDIT: Oooh! Another bad habit!
And you've tattooed the relevant data... there, I see, for easy reference later.
Well.
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How NobodysHome Uses His Phone:
Phone: Hey, NobodysHome! Want to share your photos on Google Photos?
NobodysHome:
Phone: Hey, NobodysHome! Want to keep up with current events on Yahoo! News?
NobodysHome:
I figure at this rate after a week or two of apps notifying me that I'm not using them, I'll have a nice clean phone.
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Today's plan.
1. Install paver edging around the patio shaped like a snail
2. Install edging around patio shaped like a half circle
3. Cut in pavers at the edge of the half circle.
4. Sweep in polymeric sand and compact the snail shaped patio
5. Sweep in more sand and blow off the snail shaped patio and gently spray it with water
6. Repeat step 4 for the half circle patio
7. Repeat step 5 for the half circle patio
8. Go back to the shop.
Coworker was being difficult so I had to skip 6 and 7, which I'll get to on Monday.
On the plus side, the promotion kicks in then so I'll be in charge while coworker gets another crew to build a wall somewhere else.
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Night John.
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The song "Stacey's Mom" was released in 2003. That means that Stacey could now be the mom who's got it going on.
Meanwhile, Jack and Diane are eligible for AARP.
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Are Jack and Diane Stacey's Mom's Mom and Dad? *mindblown*The song "Stacey's Mom" was released in 2003. That means that Stacey could now be the mom who's got it going on.Meanwhile, Jack and Diane are eligible for AARP.
Holy s$*+.
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Had a VERY vivid dream that I cooked for Celestial Healer, Vanykrye, and at least one other at a house that was not my own. My cooking sickened everyone. I remember Celestial Healer's face very vividly as the food was too spicy for him and I ran to get him a cup of milk. Vany ate everything in site, got a weird look on his face and doubled over in pain. The last person, who was never truly revealed, lay on his stomach having some kind of mental breakdown. The weird part is my mother was there, taking care of everyone, and forbidding me to interact with everyone lest I make things worse.
It was so real.
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This evening is Hermione and Teensy Valeros's end-of-year ballet recital, and I'm a backstage mom, which means I'm at the theater from 1 until about 9. The best thing about this is that it miraculously gets me out of having to attend my school's annual Gala, which is being held via Zoom this year.
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Had a VERY vivid dream that I cooked for Celestial Healer, Vanykrye, and at least one other at a house that was not my own. My cooking sickened everyone. I remember Celestial Healer's face very vividly as the food was too spicy for him and I ran to get him a cup of milk. Vany ate everything in site, got a weird look on his face and doubled over in pain. The last person, who was never truly revealed, lay on his stomach having some kind of mental breakdown. The weird part is my mother was there, taking care of everyone, and forbidding me to interact with everyone lest I make things worse.
It was so real.
Was that a pizza? If that was a pizza it mighty have been me.
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Gardening is actually pretty dark if you think about it.
Said the guy that looked up rhubarb cultivation.
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Speaking of bad habits, I've already complained multiple times about people walking down the street carrying on LOUD conversations on speakerphone, especially when they're discussing medical information with their friends. "Well, I got the tests for xxx back yesterday and they were negative, so tomorrow I'm going in to get tested for yyy."
Today my neighbors (who are usually wonderful people) are taking it one better: They're doing an entire legal and financial contract on speakerphone in their back yard. Were I so inclined, I'd already have their bank account numbers, their social security numbers, and their birth dates.
Really, neighbors?
EDIT: Oooh! Another bad habit!
I have just heard a computerized voice outside my windows. I think that neighbors were registering for vaccination on the phone.
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Hmmm... Nope. It seems that the neighbor's (adult) daugther is arguing on the phone with her ex husband about something related to their kid.
I just heard "that will end in the court".
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How NobodysHome Uses His Phone:
Phone: Hey, NobodysHome! Want to share your photos on Google Photos?
NobodysHome:
Phone: Hey, NobodysHome! Want to keep up with current events on Yahoo! News?
NobodysHome:I figure at this rate after a week or two of apps notifying me that I'm not using them, I'll have a nice clean phone.
How much of that preinstalled crap will reinstall itself to default setting and how soon?
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Yesterday, I got given a pre-birthday tea (tea meaning evening meal, in this case - I got mutton jolloff and cake to eat) by ALL(DE), Shanna and Sonic, which was a lovely thing for them to do, and proper cheered me up after a rather s%@~ week.
Later on that evening, ALL(DE) and I serenaded one another with the religious songs they made us each sing at school, which must have annoyed one deity or another, since there was a huge great rainstorm shortly afterwards.
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Yesterday, I got given a pre-birthday tea (tea meaning evening meal, in this case - I got mutton jolloff and cake to eat) by ALL(DE), Shanna and Sonic, which was a lovely thing for them to do, and proper cheered me up after a rather s!&! week.
Later on that evening, ALL(DE) and I serenaded one another with the religious songs they made us each sing at school, which must have annoyed one deity or another, since there was a huge great rainstorm shortly afterwards.
Is your birthday today or tomorrow?
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Tuesday 11th, but I bolloxed up. I was supposed to go over on Monday, but I forgot to book the day off and have to work then.
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Just applied to be an adult sexuality educator.
Holy s+@#.
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Shattered Star, Book 5: "I disabled Scrying and Teleportation throughout the dungeon because I don't like it."
Shattered Star, Book 6: "I disabled Teleportation throughout the dungeon...
You know, if you can't write for high-level play, maybe you shouldn't be getting paid to write for high-level play.
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Had a VERY vivid dream that I cooked for Celestial Healer, Vanykrye, and at least one other at a house that was not my own. My cooking sickened everyone. I remember Celestial Healer's face very vividly as the food was too spicy for him and I ran to get him a cup of milk. Vany ate everything in site, got a weird look on his face and doubled over in pain. The last person, who was never truly revealed, lay on his stomach having some kind of mental breakdown. The weird part is my mother was there, taking care of everyone, and forbidding me to interact with everyone lest I make things worse.
It was so real.
Why do I feel like this has something to do with the fact that I order mild chicken at Bonchon?
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Shattered Star, Book 5: "I disabled Scrying and Teleportation throughout the dungeon because I don't like it."
Shattered Star, Book 6: "I disabled Teleportation throughout the dungeon...
You know, if you can't write for high-level play, maybe you shouldn't be getting paid to write for high-level play.
I see where both parties are coming from.
We need both alternatives to teleportation/ realistic reasons why it might not be wise to teleport and games where teleportation is a part of the game.
IIRC, Pyrespace limited teleportation to the planet or within a specific area, it was so universal that nearly anyone with the money had defenses against teleportation that rerouted it to sane areas(the front door, a kill box if you attempted to teleport onto an actively Spelljamming vessel, etc.)
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The two books do a good job of showing "bad writing" (Book 5 is, "I Dimensional Lock the entire dungeon and then write in exceptions in every room where I want my guys to be able to use it. But even in those rooms my guys can and the good guys can't"), vs. "mediocre writing" (Book 6 is, "PCscan teleport freely within the halls but can't teleport through walls").
At least in case 2 it's not crippling. The party wizard is a conjuration specialist specializing in summons and pit spells. "The entire dungeon is Dimension Locked" is brutal on him.
And it took me 30 seconds to come up with a better solution in Book 5: "The McGuffin prevents any form of Scrying or Detection spells from working on it or its current owner, explaining why it hasn't been found in so many years."
Done. No crippling the PCs. Just, "I can give you a detailed description of the BBEG for flavor but you can't get to him from here."
(And yeah, when I'm making bad guys Dimensional Lock, Dimensional Anchor, and Greater Dispel Magic are essentials. Getting off a Dimension Lock and then a Force Wall is brutal on the PCs.)
EDIT: The point being that there's a HUGE difference between, "This is always on, permanent, throughout the dungeon, and you can't possibly dispel it," as compared to, "You made enough noise that the BBEG knew you were coming and laid down some spells to prepare for you, but you can dispel them as normal."
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Home. About to shampoo my children's hair about nineteen times to get all the lacquer out.
The brand of hair styling product our dance school "requests" we use bears an uncanny resemblance to spar varnish.
But the show went well.
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Had a VERY vivid dream that I cooked for Celestial Healer, Vanykrye, and at least one other at a house that was not my own. My cooking sickened everyone. I remember Celestial Healer's face very vividly as the food was too spicy for him and I ran to get him a cup of milk. Vany ate everything in site, got a weird look on his face and doubled over in pain. The last person, who was never truly revealed, lay on his stomach having some kind of mental breakdown. The weird part is my mother was there, taking care of everyone, and forbidding me to interact with everyone lest I make things worse.
It was so real.
my dinner tonight failed. Foreshadowing, perhaps.
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We have a little league team in again this weekend. Apparently about half of them are super nice and great guests, while the other half suck so badly that we had to close the pool and exercise room. Also, one of the kids called one of our housekeepers the N word. Twice. Just loud enough for her to here it, but not loud enough to tell which of the kids in the group it was. Second shift got so pissed off at them that she did all the laundry because "It was either do that to work off the angry energy or I was going to kill them". And that is why we hate teams.
...time to kick some team ass.
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How NobodysHome Uses His Phone:
Phone: Hey, NobodysHome! Want to share your photos on Google Photos?
NobodysHome:
Phone: Hey, NobodysHome! Want to keep up with current events on Yahoo! News?
NobodysHome:I figure at this rate after a week or two of apps notifying me that I'm not using them, I'll have a nice clean phone.
Since I turned off the 'wifi', the 'instawebconnect', and most media transfers on my phone, my flip-phone has been having a 'temper tantrum' and will randomly try to activate features -- only to be blocked by the fact I've turned most everything *off*.
It then tries to take random scrrenshots and post them... but there's no web connection, so it just tells me that it took screeenshots (which I then delete).
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A Wei Ji sighting!
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What is with you and bananas tonight?
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Excerpt from a thread on tumblr:
Poster 1: "Reading your posts feels like eating a banana, it’s kinda tingly and itchy and makes me very uncomfortable but I also like it too much to stop."
Poster 2: "You are allergic to bananas."
.....time passes ......
Poster 2: "Are you uninformed loons really unaware that bananas aren’t SUPPOSED to cause tingling & swelling sensations? Also potatoes are not supposed to give you potato sweats. Pineapples aren’t supposed to be spicy."
Sounds like oral allergy syndrome. If bananas make your mouth itch and swell, it is likely that you have a latex allergy and your body finds bananas too genetically similar to latex.
I get this reaction with apples, pears, and stone fruits, and it is connected to my allergies to the pollen of trees in the birch family.
(Here, “you” is a generic “you,” not referring to Gran in particular.)
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Right before Hermione was born, I had a terrible oral reaction to some Chilean langostino I bought at Trader Joe's to make ceviche. I looked like I'd had a lip injection go terribly wrong. Also my throat swelled up. I went to the allergist and they ran a full panel of seafood and shellfish allergy tests, and each one came up negative. The allergist told me that sometimes the chemicals used in the processing of frozen seafood can cause that reaction.
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A Wei Ji sighting!Its like a rare pokemon encounter!
Wei Ji attempts Response!
...it is minimally effective.
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Right before Hermione was born, I had a terrible oral reaction to some Chilean langostino I bought at Trader Joe's to make ceviche. I looked like I'd had a lip injection go terribly wrong. Also my throat swelled up. I went to the allergist and they ran a full panel of seafood and shellfish allergy tests, and each one came up negative. The allergist told me that sometimes the chemicals used in the processing of frozen seafood can cause that reaction.
We have to report to everyone that Impus Major had a "major anaphylactic reaction" because back in 2014 he had a severe allergic reaction to some chemical that was in the box our new TV came in.
We ran a full panel, everything came back negative, and he's never had an allergic reaction sense.
There are nasty, nasty chemicals out there that they use in manufacturing. I dread the day Impus Major gets hit by that chemical again.
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Looks like we're soon to lose our "one degree of separation" between us and our original cats.
As I mentioned, the Calico's already lost over 30% of her body weight for reasons the vet can't figure out, even after two major blood panels. ("We think it may be her thyroid again.") This morning she's uninterested in food at all, even the prescription wet stuff she's been going nuts over for the last few months.
So I can rush her to the emergency vet to try to get her intravenous nutrients for a while, but to what end? If they don't know what's causing the issue, they can't exactly fix it, and I don't want the final days of her life to be spent in a veterinary hospital, terrified, alone, and miserable.
I'll let her lie on the deck in the sun all day, being paid attention to by her family, I'll set an appointment to bring her in for more testing, and if she survives to that day, great. If she doesn't, we did a fantastic job of taking in a near-dead stray and giving her a d**ned fine life.
It's kind of funny -- for all our other cats, I would have done anythng to keep them alive for even a few more months. For the Calico, we're ready to let her go when she decides it's time.
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HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL WHO OBSERVE
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Right before Hermione was born, I had a terrible oral reaction to some Chilean langostino I bought at Trader Joe's to make ceviche. I looked like I'd had a lip injection go terribly wrong. Also my throat swelled up. I went to the allergist and they ran a full panel of seafood and shellfish allergy tests, and each one came up negative. The allergist told me that sometimes the chemicals used in the processing of frozen seafood can cause that reaction.
I wish dad was here. He would love to watch you make ceviche.
Interestingly enough, I do not like ceviche.