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NobodysHome wrote:

I know I've mentioned it a couple of times previously, but this morning GothBard amused me when she said, "I don't think we should stop wearing masks just yet..."

As I told her:
- No sick days in 14 months, as opposed to 14-16 sick days per year for the last 10 years
- The lightest hay fever I've had in 20 years.

Unless there's a "no wearing masks in public" mandate (I'm looking at you, Florida and Texas), I'm happily keeping my face covering, thanks.

Last night being able to sit in the living room with the kids and two guests, all unmasked, was extraordinarily pleasant. But going out among the general public unmasked? No thanks.

Whaaaaaaaaat? I'm still wearing it!

EDIT: I said I am still wearing it! Dang it! *dressed*


Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
You guys listen to weird music.
Amatuer. :V
oh. It. Is. ON.

Ahem.

(Do be aware the show can never, ever be as, uh... goooooooood? - sure, let’s go with “good” - as this OP; and it wasn’t.)

deliberate, phlegmy cough

Hm. Good choice, good choice.

On the other hand,

Freehold DM wrote:
FOR THE SPIDER

... oh. Well, sure, if you insist.


gran rey de los mono wrote:
gran rey de los mono wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
I like my rain and snow like I like my women.
Hot enough to fry an egg?

Or maybe you just like girls?

Expected this to be JoCat; wasn't disappointed. :D


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Freehold DM wrote:
lisamarlene wrote:

How, in the name of all that is holy, does my eight year old son already have a favorite Rush album?

I feel so betrayed.
Sigh.
I love him anyway.
I'll try to introduce him to the works of Ichiro Mizuki, so he grows up fighting evil AND loving awesome music.

I approve of this plan.


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Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
You guys listen to weird music.
Amatuer. :V
oh. It. Is. ON.

Ahem.

(Do be aware the show can never, ever be as, uh... goooooooood? - sure, let’s go with “good” - as this OP; and it wasn’t.)

deliberate, phlegmy cough

Hm. Good choice, good choice.

On the other hand,

Freehold DM wrote:
FOR THE SPIDER
... oh. Well, sure, if you insist.

You force my hand, old friend


Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
You guys listen to weird music.
Amatuer. :V
oh. It. Is. ON.

Ahem.

(Do be aware the show can never, ever be as, uh... goooooooood? - sure, let’s go with “good” - as this OP; and it wasn’t.)

deliberate, phlegmy cough

Hm. Good choice, good choice.

On the other hand,

Freehold DM wrote:
FOR THE SPIDER
... oh. Well, sure, if you insist.
You force my hand, old friend

Oh, good! I was worried I wasn't going to get to use this today! :D

(My original plan before being derailed by SPIDER)


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Vanykrye wrote:
lisamarlene wrote:

How, in the name of all that is holy, does my eight year old son already have a favorite Rush album?

I feel so betrayed.
Sigh.
I love him anyway.

I'm proud of him. Conditionally. Which album?

;)

Rush in Rio.


lisamarlene wrote:
Vanykrye wrote:
lisamarlene wrote:

How, in the name of all that is holy, does my eight year old son already have a favorite Rush album?

I feel so betrayed.
Sigh.
I love him anyway.

I'm proud of him. Conditionally. Which album?

;)

Rush in Rio.

Ah, yes. I, too, love to rush to Rio music.


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Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
You guys listen to weird music.
Amatuer. :V
oh. It. Is. ON.

Ahem.

(Do be aware the show can never, ever be as, uh... goooooooood? - sure, let’s go with “good” - as this OP; and it wasn’t.)

deliberate, phlegmy cough

Hm. Good choice, good choice.

On the other hand,

Freehold DM wrote:
FOR THE SPIDER
... oh. Well, sure, if you insist.
You force my hand, old friend

Oh, good! I was worried I wasn't going to get to use this today! :D

(My original plan before being derailed by SPIDER)

I was going to use this originally


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lisamarlene wrote:
Vanykrye wrote:
lisamarlene wrote:

How, in the name of all that is holy, does my eight year old son already have a favorite Rush album?

I feel so betrayed.
Sigh.
I love him anyway.

I'm proud of him. Conditionally. Which album?

;)

Rush in Rio.

Ok, of the live albums, that's one of their best (IMHO). Definitely has the best crowd energy (objective truth).


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NobodysHome wrote:

One of NobodysHome's Major Pet Peeves: People who use tried-and-true phrases incorrectly to the point that they no longer serve the purpose they're supposed to.

Today's Example: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

This is a short sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet: A 35-letter sentence that uses all 26 letters. (And yes, I've even read up on attempts at other sentences that try to do it in fewer letters, but this one is still the most memorable.)

The sheer number of times this is put in the past tense ("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog") drives me to distraction. Not only is it one letter longer, but WHERE'S THE S?!?!?!?!?!

There are others that annoy me ("I could care less." "Oh, really? So you do care?"), but this one is a simple check of all the letters in the alphabet (really important when buying an old-school typewriter) that people have started misusing so that it no longer serves its original purpose.

Grr...

Now I started wonder and it occured to me that I don't recall existence of Polish equivalent of a sentence that would use all the letters. We have a tad more characters than the basic Latin alphabet, though all are merely modifications of Latin characters.


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A Foundry-testing session GMed by Gorbacz is supposed to start within half an hour.

Grand Lodge

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Pathfinder Adventure, Rulebook Subscriber

Sounds positively dreadful!


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TriOmegaZero wrote:
Sounds positively dreadful!

You still partying with Mickey et.al?

Silver Crusade

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Drejk wrote:
NobodysHome wrote:

One of NobodysHome's Major Pet Peeves: People who use tried-and-true phrases incorrectly to the point that they no longer serve the purpose they're supposed to.

Today's Example: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

This is a short sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet: A 35-letter sentence that uses all 26 letters. (And yes, I've even read up on attempts at other sentences that try to do it in fewer letters, but this one is still the most memorable.)

The sheer number of times this is put in the past tense ("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog") drives me to distraction. Not only is it one letter longer, but WHERE'S THE S?!?!?!?!?!

There are others that annoy me ("I could care less." "Oh, really? So you do care?"), but this one is a simple check of all the letters in the alphabet (really important when buying an old-school typewriter) that people have started misusing so that it no longer serves its original purpose.

Grr...

Now I started wonder and it occured to me that I don't recall existence of Polish equivalent of a sentence that would use all the letters. We have a tad more characters than the basic Latin alphabet, though all are merely modifications of Latin characters.

It’s a pangram.

One that has gotten some attention on social media is this gem: “Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.” 29 letters compared to the 33 letters in the classic example NH gave. Of course, “the quick brown fox” is much easier to teach to children.

The Wiki article gives an example in Polish: “ Stróż pchnął kość w quiz gędźb vel fax myjń.”

Grand Lodge

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Pathfinder Adventure, Rulebook Subscriber
Freehold DM wrote:
TriOmegaZero wrote:
Sounds positively dreadful!
You still partying with Mickey et.al?

Leaving tomorrow!


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TriOmegaZero wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
TriOmegaZero wrote:
Sounds positively dreadful!
You still partying with Mickey et.al?
Leaving tomorrow!

But I love me some Disney princesses. Hug some for me. And eat some of that weird Disney food.


Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
You guys listen to weird music.
Amatuer. :V
oh. It. Is. ON.

Ahem.

(Do be aware the show can never, ever be as, uh... goooooooood? - sure, let’s go with “good” - as this OP; and it wasn’t.)

deliberate, phlegmy cough

Hm. Good choice, good choice.

On the other hand,

Freehold DM wrote:
FOR THE SPIDER
... oh. Well, sure, if you insist.
You force my hand, old friend

Oh, good! I was worried I wasn't going to get to use this today! :D

(My original plan before being derailed by SPIDER)

I was going to use this originally

I was going to use this whenever you linked something next, but you just made that impossible. So, now, I'm going to have to go cuter.

You know what? No. Not enough! Never enough!

MOOOORE

not because i was already watching it or anything i was totally watching it


TriOmegaZero wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
TriOmegaZero wrote:
Sounds positively dreadful!
You still partying with Mickey et.al?
Leaving tomorrow!

WOOO~!


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Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
You guys listen to weird music.
Amatuer. :V
oh. It. Is. ON.

Ahem.

(Do be aware the show can never, ever be as, uh... goooooooood? - sure, let’s go with “good” - as this OP; and it wasn’t.)

deliberate, phlegmy cough

Hm. Good choice, good choice.

On the other hand,

Freehold DM wrote:
FOR THE SPIDER
... oh. Well, sure, if you insist.
You force my hand, old friend

Oh, good! I was worried I wasn't going to get to use this today! :D

(My original plan before being derailed by SPIDER)

I was going to use this originally

I was going to use this whenever you linked something next, but you just made that impossible. So, now, I'm going to have to go cuter.

You know what? No. Not enough! Never enough!

MOOOORE

not because i was already watching it or anything i was totally watching it

*fires cuteness beam

*fires sultry beam*
*hits all the buttons*


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An annual litany

"Don't forget to take your binders with you! I'm cannibalizing whatever's left."

As of today's end-of-year purge, I now have nine binders completely stuffed with looseleaf paper, three with dividers, and several dozen cherry-picked binders in good condition stuffed in my cabinet.

No child in this school would ever need to buy looseleaf again...


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Scintillae wrote:

An annual litany

"Don't forget to take your binders with you! I'm cannibalizing whatever's left."

As of today's end-of-year purge, I now have nine binders completely stuffed with looseleaf paper, three with dividers, and several dozen cherry-picked binders in good condition stuffed in my cabinet.

No child in this school would ever need to buy looseleaf again...

When I was in grad school, I bought my office supplies at Costco because I figured, "This stuff will never be obsolete."

I have two entire closets full of obsolete office supplies:
- Binders: every teacher at the school insists on either 3-subject or 5-subject notebooks they can collect and return, and binders are unacceptable.
- Graph paper, including logarithmic and spiral: It's now all, "Print it out from desmos.com."
- Staples, staplers, notepads, colored pencils, colored pens, highlight pens, blue books, three-hole punches, etc.: It's either in the subject notebook or on the computer; there is no other accepted method of turning things in.

So yeah, any time anyone comes over and says, "Do you have an <office supply>?", I respond, "Sure, you can use it. But you have to keep it."

They consider me odd.


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Scintillae wrote:

An annual litany

"Don't forget to take your binders with you! I'm cannibalizing whatever's left."

As of today's end-of-year purge, I now have nine binders completely stuffed with looseleaf paper, three with dividers, and several dozen cherry-picked binders in good condition stuffed in my cabinet.

No child in this school would ever need to buy looseleaf again...

And yet you'll still put it on the list of school supplies to buy in August.


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captain yesterday wrote:
Scintillae wrote:

An annual litany

"Don't forget to take your binders with you! I'm cannibalizing whatever's left."

As of today's end-of-year purge, I now have nine binders completely stuffed with looseleaf paper, three with dividers, and several dozen cherry-picked binders in good condition stuffed in my cabinet.

No child in this school would ever need to buy looseleaf again...

And yet you'll still put it on the list of school supplies to buy in August.

I've never asked for it. Since we're 1:1, 95% of what I do is digital anyway.


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I swear, Mozilla's targeted "pocket" articles convince me that we're under no threat from open-source companies slurping our data.

Every day it's, "Easy chicken tikka masala recipe" or "One pot beef stroganoff that's better than any restaurant".

(1) "Easy" = "Cutting corners" = "Not as good as it could be"
(2) "One pot" = "Cutting corners" = "Not as good as it could be"

Almost every recipe starts with something along the lines of, "Add 3 tbsp of margarine and 1/2 cup of egg substitute," which makes me ignore it entirely.

And twice the recipe looked decent enough to actually try. And both times they were terrible. So I haven't clicked on a recipe link in over a year.

Yet every time I open Firefox, "Hey, maybe this quick, easy, one pot, substitute-all-the-ingredients dish will wow you!"


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Thirty years ago Aiymi was told that she would eventually lose one of her kidneys due to a birth defect/deformity. Based on some blood work she's had the last couple weeks, that time has likely come. We're at the nephrologists' office now.

Ultimately, right now, we don't know anything, but it seems likely.


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Vanykrye wrote:

Thirty years ago Aiymi was told that she would eventually lose one of her kidneys due to a birth defect/deformity. Based on some blood work she's had the last couple weeks, that time has likely come. We're at the nephrologists' office now.

Ultimately, right now, we don't know anything, but it seems likely.

Good luck! Is it only the one, or are both in danger?

Losing one kidney is surprisingly light. (We had a black belt who donated a kidney to a friend and after a few months she seemed completely fine.) Losing function in both is terrifying.


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Be Careful What You Wish For

Other teams have been asking my manager to work on an utterly stupid project for over a year now. Since I had some down time, she asked me to start working on it. I started doing due diligence and doing a competent job of rebuilding the course.

This wasn't what she wanted at all, so she pulled me from the project.

The problem is that there's existing free content that's better than the existing course. We keep pointing this out to the powers-that-be. And they want us to revamp the course anyway. To which we respond, "Why are we rebuilding a course that no one ever takes because there's free content on the same topic?"

So I listed how I'd rebuild the course and my manager took one look and said, "That's too good of a job," and pulled me.

She is wise.


Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
You guys listen to weird music.
Amatuer. :V
oh. It. Is. ON.

Ahem.

(Do be aware the show can never, ever be as, uh... goooooooood? - sure, let’s go with “good” - as this OP; and it wasn’t.)

deliberate, phlegmy cough

Hm. Good choice, good choice.

On the other hand,

Freehold DM wrote:
FOR THE SPIDER
... oh. Well, sure, if you insist.
You force my hand, old friend

Oh, good! I was worried I wasn't going to get to use this today! :D

(My original plan before being derailed by SPIDER)

I was going to use this originally

I was going to use this whenever you linked something next, but you just made that impossible. So, now, I'm going to have to go cuter.

You know what? No. Not enough! Never enough!

MOOOORE

not because i was already watching it or anything i was totally watching it

*fires cuteness beam

*fires sultry beam*
*hits all the buttons*

First of all, sir, how dare you.

<3

:D


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Vanykrye wrote:

Thirty years ago Aiymi was told that she would eventually lose one of her kidneys due to a birth defect/deformity. Based on some blood work she's had the last couple weeks, that time has likely come. We're at the nephrologists' office now.

Ultimately, right now, we don't know anything, but it seems likely.

Praying for you, my dude.


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Celestial Healer wrote:
Drejk wrote:
NobodysHome wrote:

One of NobodysHome's Major Pet Peeves: People who use tried-and-true phrases incorrectly to the point that they no longer serve the purpose they're supposed to.

Today's Example: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

This is a short sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet: A 35-letter sentence that uses all 26 letters. (And yes, I've even read up on attempts at other sentences that try to do it in fewer letters, but this one is still the most memorable.)

The sheer number of times this is put in the past tense ("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog") drives me to distraction. Not only is it one letter longer, but WHERE'S THE S?!?!?!?!?!

There are others that annoy me ("I could care less." "Oh, really? So you do care?"), but this one is a simple check of all the letters in the alphabet (really important when buying an old-school typewriter) that people have started misusing so that it no longer serves its original purpose.

Grr...

Now I started wonder and it occured to me that I don't recall existence of Polish equivalent of a sentence that would use all the letters. We have a tad more characters than the basic Latin alphabet, though all are merely modifications of Latin characters.

It’s a pangram.

One that has gotten some attention on social media is this gem: “Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.” 29 letters compared to the 33 letters in the classic example NH gave. Of course, “the quick brown fox” is much easier to teach to children.

The Wiki article gives an example in Polish: “ Stróż pchnął kość w quiz gędźb vel fax myjń.”

And it is technically incorrect because q, v, and x are not part of modern Polish alphabet (though the word quiz somewhat sneaked into the Polish language, as did vel, though fax should be written faks instead). Also, it's a gramatical mess. "Stróż pchnął kość" would be ok (literaly, "a watchman/caretaker pushed a bone") but later it makes no sense.

And I haven't every seen anywhere before.


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NobodysHome wrote:
Scintillae wrote:

An annual litany

"Don't forget to take your binders with you! I'm cannibalizing whatever's left."

As of today's end-of-year purge, I now have nine binders completely stuffed with looseleaf paper, three with dividers, and several dozen cherry-picked binders in good condition stuffed in my cabinet.

No child in this school would ever need to buy looseleaf again...

When I was in grad school, I bought my office supplies at Costco because I figured, "This stuff will never be obsolete."

I have two entire closets full of obsolete office supplies:
- Binders: every teacher at the school insists on either 3-subject or 5-subject notebooks they can collect and return, and binders are unacceptable.
- Graph paper, including logarithmic and spiral: It's now all, "Print it out from desmos.com."
- Staples, staplers, notepads, colored pencils, colored pens, highlight pens, blue books, three-hole punches, etc.: It's either in the subject notebook or on the computer; there is no other accepted method of turning things in.

So yeah, any time anyone comes over and says, "Do you have an <office supply>?", I respond, "Sure, you can use it. But you have to keep it."

They consider me odd.

Lol. If Hermione still needs spiral graph paper for math in August, as she did this year, I'll send you an SASE. The only places I could find it for sale were Walmart and Amazon, so I got scolded by WW.


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NobodysHome wrote:
Scintillae wrote:

An annual litany

"Don't forget to take your binders with you! I'm cannibalizing whatever's left."

As of today's end-of-year purge, I now have nine binders completely stuffed with looseleaf paper, three with dividers, and several dozen cherry-picked binders in good condition stuffed in my cabinet.

No child in this school would ever need to buy looseleaf again...

When I was in grad school, I bought my office supplies at Costco because I figured, "This stuff will never be obsolete."

I have two entire closets full of obsolete office supplies:
- Binders: every teacher at the school insists on either 3-subject or 5-subject notebooks they can collect and return, and binders are unacceptable.
- Graph paper, including logarithmic and spiral: It's now all, "Print it out from desmos.com."
- Staples, staplers, notepads, colored pencils, colored pens, highlight pens, blue books, three-hole punches, etc.: It's either in the subject notebook or on the computer; there is no other accepted method of turning things in.

So yeah, any time anyone comes over and says, "Do you have an <office supply>?", I respond, "Sure, you can use it. But you have to keep it."

They consider me odd.

I have over 100 A4, 96 page graph notebooks with funny covers. Leftovers from a work a few years ago. All free (and with boss's permission, I find myself having too much scruples to steal office supplies).


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Vanykrye wrote:

Thirty years ago Aiymi was told that she would eventually lose one of her kidneys due to a birth defect/deformity. Based on some blood work she's had the last couple weeks, that time has likely come. We're at the nephrologists' office now.

Ultimately, right now, we don't know anything, but it seems likely.

I'm sorry. Is there anything we can do to support you two right now?

Big hugs.


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Vanykrye wrote:

Thirty years ago Aiymi was told that she would eventually lose one of her kidneys due to a birth defect/deformity. Based on some blood work she's had the last couple weeks, that time has likely come. We're at the nephrologists' office now.

Ultimately, right now, we don't know anything, but it seems likely.

You want a kidney? I'll sell you a legitimate human kidney, super cheap! Wire me money today, kidney show up tomorrow!


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lisamarlene wrote:
Vanykrye wrote:

Thirty years ago Aiymi was told that she would eventually lose one of her kidneys due to a birth defect/deformity. Based on some blood work she's had the last couple weeks, that time has likely come. We're at the nephrologists' office now.

Ultimately, right now, we don't know anything, but it seems likely.

I'm sorry. Is there anything we can do to support you two right now?

Big hugs.

Just keep being yourselves. That's all I ever ask from anybody.

Even though I've been voluntarily off work for the last couple months we're not in dire straits (yet). We still have her income and she has her own insurance. She's still working through this, and we got some good news from the nephrologist.

He doesn't think this is related to her chronic kidney condition. He thinks this is actually something new, different, and acute, which means we just have to find out the cause and treat accordingly.

Sometimes that's far easier said than done. Granted, it would be far better for this process to go more quickly because of the kidney damage she already sustained earlier in life, but he doesn't think she's in true danger quite yet. Took a couple of her medications out of her routine, more tests to come, ultrasound, all that fun stuff.


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Good luck Vanny. I hope that it is easily treated.


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I have to say, I am pleasantly surprised tonight. We had two "new" people work the desk today, one on 1st shift and the other on 2nd. I say "new" because they've been working next door, but have only had about a half shift each of training over here. So, I was fully expecting that none of the laundry would have been touched. Instead, all the towels were done. Half of the fitted sheets were folded. The flat sheets were washed and dried. So I just had to finish folding the fitted sheets, fold the flat sheets, and the top sheets are in the wash right now. Then they'll need dried, folded, and the bundles made. But that's not a lot, all things considered. So, yay for that.


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Best wishes to Aiymi, Van.


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I use graph paper fairly frequently to play Four Against Darkness and similar solo RPGs, but had a devil of a time finding more when I ran out.

Scarab Sages

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NobodysHome wrote:
Scintillae wrote:

An annual litany

"Don't forget to take your binders with you! I'm cannibalizing whatever's left."

As of today's end-of-year purge, I now have nine binders completely stuffed with looseleaf paper, three with dividers, and several dozen cherry-picked binders in good condition stuffed in my cabinet.

No child in this school would ever need to buy looseleaf again...

When I was in grad school, I bought my office supplies at Costco because I figured, "This stuff will never be obsolete."

I have two entire closets full of obsolete office supplies:
- Binders: every teacher at the school insists on either 3-subject or 5-subject notebooks they can collect and return, and binders are unacceptable.
- Graph paper, including logarithmic and spiral: It's now all, "Print it out from desmos.com."
- Staples, staplers, notepads, colored pencils, colored pens, highlight pens, blue books, three-hole punches, etc.: It's either in the subject notebook or on the computer; there is no other accepted method of turning things in.

So yeah, any time anyone comes over and says, "Do you have an <office supply>?", I respond, "Sure, you can use it. But you have to keep it."

They consider me odd.

I figured that after graduating Id never use those supplies again.

Then I got into RPGs. I take a LOT of notes.


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We have a new piece of equipment to test out today, it's called a "paver roller" I hope it's as fun as it sounds.


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Scintillae wrote:
captain yesterday wrote:
Scintillae wrote:

An annual litany

"Don't forget to take your binders with you! I'm cannibalizing whatever's left."

As of today's end-of-year purge, I now have nine binders completely stuffed with looseleaf paper, three with dividers, and several dozen cherry-picked binders in good condition stuffed in my cabinet.

No child in this school would ever need to buy looseleaf again...

And yet you'll still put it on the list of school supplies to buy in August.
I've never asked for it. Since we're 1:1, 95% of what I do is digital anyway.

That sounded more accusatory than I'd wanted.

I meant the school system in general.

I spend a ton of money every year on unnecessary school supplies, so I guess reading about how many supplies left over left me feeling a little bitter.

Obviously it's nothing you did and I'm sure you're a fantastic teacher and it's a lot different where you are, so I apologize, it was a poor use of words. A lesson for me to not post when I only have a minute or two, bad form on my part.


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Today is supposed to be my last day of school, but because of a thoroughly idiotic decision on the part of the Director, our inservice week next week is turning into optional "snow days" to make up for the week of winter storms we had in February. So most of them will be back on Monday.


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It's official, after school gets out for the summer on June 2nd Crookshanks will be working with me again.


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lisamarlene wrote:
Today is supposed to be my last day of school, but because of a thoroughly idiotic decision on the part of the Director, our inservice week next week is turning into optional "snow days" to make up for the week of winter storms we had in February. So most of them will be back on Monday.

Congratulations! We have ~8 days left!


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lisamarlene wrote:
Today is supposed to be my last day of school, but because of a thoroughly idiotic decision on the part of the Director, our inservice week next week is turning into optional "snow days" to make up for the week of winter storms we had in February. So most of them will be back on Monday.

Welcome to Wisconsin!


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Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
You guys listen to weird music.
Amatuer. :V
oh. It. Is. ON.

Ahem.

(Do be aware the show can never, ever be as, uh... goooooooood? - sure, let’s go with “good” - as this OP; and it wasn’t.)

deliberate, phlegmy cough

Hm. Good choice, good choice.

On the other hand,

Freehold DM wrote:
FOR THE SPIDER
... oh. Well, sure, if you insist.
You force my hand, old friend

Oh, good! I was worried I wasn't going to get to use this today! :D

(My original plan before being derailed by SPIDER)

I was going to use this originally

I was going to use this whenever you linked something next, but you just made that impossible. So, now, I'm going to have to go cuter.

You know what? No. Not enough! Never enough!

MOOOORE

not because i was already watching it or anything i was totally watching it

*fires cuteness beam

*fires sultry beam*
*hits all the buttons*

First of all, sir, how dare you.

<3

:D

The creator of Berzerk just passed away today.

May he rest peacefully.


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Coworker: Yeah, one of the head mower asked me if you'd want to switch over to mowing. I told him you probably wouldn't go for it

Me: You should have told him bring it up with the boss, it'd be hilarious watching him get laughed out of the barn.


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Another tirade against tipping:
One of the less discussed, more awkward aspects of tipping is, "Am I paying for friendship?"

In Europe, with either a fixed tip pre-set or no tipping at all, when servers started hanging around our table to chat with us it was utterly delightful: Admittedly, Shiro's a hoot, GothBard has an irrepressible cheerfulness when she's out, and Impus Major has a magnetic personality, but we knew they were hanging out with us because they found us interesting.

Last night at Forbidden Island one of the servers seated us, then brought me a definitively non-virgin drink (it must have been around 120 proof even with the fruit juice), was completely horrified, and we simply laughed it off because it was easy enough to give it to someone else at the table. Over the next hour, she started visiting our table more and more often. By the time our 90 minutes was up (a requirement put in due to limited indoor seating), she allowed us to stay as long as we wanted, and spent most of her time hanging around our table talking with us, bringing us water, joking a bit with us, and being generally fun to be around.

And the problem with the tipping culture is: Was she doing that because she actually enjoyed our company, or was she doing it because she was trying to drive up her tip?

One of those stupid, "Only in America" things where you have no idea whether a server is choosing to hang around your table because you're fun, or because you seem like good tippers.

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