I'm a third of the way done with the job that was expected to take until the end of the week.
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I suppose not wearing clothes might be an aspect of my increased efficiency compared to the other foremen.
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I suppose not wearing clothes might be an aspect of my increased efficiency compared to the other foremen.Reduces wind drag, or so Ive heard.
Fantasy NPC: Mad Cultist Of Beasts.
I like the other guy better.
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Fantasy NPC: Mad Cultist Of Beasts.I like the other guy better.
But... But... She's a woman!
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College kid: So, am I going to be working on your crew all summer?
Me: I don't know, probably!
College kid: Hmmm, I should probably ask the boss for a raise then
Me: Yeah, probably.
♫ The head bone's connected to the neck bone. ♫
♫ The neck bone's connected to the neck bone. ♫
♫ The neck bone's connected to the neck bone. ♫
♫ The neck bone's connected to the neck bone. ♫
♫ The neck bone's connected to the neck bone. ♫
♫ The neck bone's connected to the neck bone. ♫
♫ The neck bone's connected to the neck bone. ♫
♫ There are seven cervical vertebrae! ♫
Or a transfer. And probably a new broom.College kid: So, am I going to be working on your crew all summer?
Me: I don't know, probably!
College kid: Hmmm, I should probably ask the boss for a raise then
Me: Yeah, probably.
Oh, I have 3 other brooms and direct access to the company's tool supplier so if I really want to break a broom I can.
Today is Nothing To Fear Day (in addition to Old Time Player Piano Day) so I guess if you want to purge without fear of legal repercussions today is the day!
Maybe I fear old time piano players, and am unconvinced that I have nothing to worry about so far as Derek 'Rinky-Dink' Merryweather is concerned.
When I was in middle school, I used to do prank calls. Star 69 cost money, so the risk of getting caught was relatively low, and it was harmless fun. Annoying, yes, but ultimately harmless. But then everyone got caller ID when I hit high school or college, and the hobby disappeared.
Until we got scammers. That isn't harmless. They're a!!~@&%s who deserve to have their day ruined.
So now when my phone tells me "scam likely" I no longer reject the call. I get to practice my accents, my ability to b#%*&##* and lie, and improvise.
F#~! you, a#~@#@%s. You called me trying to scam me. Enjoy me b~*%$@&+ting you for as long as I can keep you on the line and waste your time.
Yeah, I was really proud of Impus Major taking all those calls and carrying on conversations to waste the callers' time.
Unfortunately, we never get live humans any more; it's all robocalls with, "Press 1 to continue", and none of us feel like encouraging them by hitting buttons.
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Me: You can slow down and eat something, I don't expect anyone to keep up with me
College Student: Oh, thank God!!
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My attempts at creating parcel conflict between FedEx and UPS and then between the USPS and UPS this week were all for naught.
All because UPS is slow as s$@@.
Even the post office beat them.
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As I've mentioned, it's hard giving your kids their independence. When you have to do it twice; well, that's just mean.
The kids are all fully-vaccinated now, so their social lives have resumed. Impus Major was out 'til after I was asleep last night, and this morning he got up at 10:30, got dressed, and headed out again. He doesn't expect to be home before 2 or 3 am, so another day where he's just not around.
It's hard.
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And it's funny; my worry isn't about him, it's about his friends and how they interact with others. For example, today's his friend's birthday. His friend's favorite-ever activity is going to a remote location and getting stoned out of his mind in the wee hours of the morning. It's beyond my comprehension because a lifetime of backpacking taught me, "If you can't get out of where you are, you're in deadly danger."
So being so stoned you can't function in a park in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night? Not my cup of tea.
But it's what he does, so Impus Major will go with him, watch over him, and get him home safely. But from personal experience, the "responsible" one who makes sure everyone else gets home safely is always also the one who gets blamed if anything goes wrong. Lived through that. Don't want Impus Major to have to deal with it.
But he needs to learn his own lessons, so off he goes...
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His friend's favorite-ever activity is going to a remote location and getting stoned out of his mind in the wee hours of the morning. It's beyond my comprehension because a lifetime of backpacking taught me, "If you can't get out of where you are, you're in deadly danger."
So being so stoned you can't function in a park in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night? Not my cup of tea.
Mine either. But when I was a teenager I would go out to anywhere until the wee hours of the night just to have true freedom away from my parents. I would help friends sneak out even if just to hit Dunkin for a coffee and donut. Even such mundane activities were wondrous to do unsupervised... Maybe this teen is the same? I didn't smoke weed as a teen (I started at the ripe old age of 21) but if I had, you could bet it would be away from everyone.
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And before you mention it, a cool friend's cool parents' house just isn't the same to a teenager. You're still one of them.
My attempts at creating parcel conflict between FedEx and UPS and then between the USPS and UPS this week were all for naught.
All because UPS is slow as s*%+.
Even the post office beat them.
Well, ups is Polish for "oopsie".
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I am in Cali. The temperature dropped as soon as I arrived.
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And before you mention it, a cool friend's cool parents' house just isn't the same to a teenager. You're still one of them.
I was talking to the kids about this stuff just the other day: Back in my day, the crime rate around here was much higher (yep, an old man talking about the past being worse than the present -- I'm an iconoclast). We traveled in a pack of 6-8 teens, all with multiple years of martial arts training, all in leather with steel-toed boots and on the alert for trouble.
Watching a handful of 3-4 goofy teens with no combat training visit the same places at the same wee hours is hard. I just have to keep reminding myself how much safer it's gotten over the years.
And yeah, my friends spent countless hours at my parents' house sitting around the gaming table playing board games until 2 or 3 am. But the moment they wanted to do drugs, it was off to a remote park.
It's the whole "ostracism of vice". If you tell teenagers that something "fun" is illegal and immoral, they'll go off and find a secret, hidden place to do it and put themselves in unnecessary danger. My friends drank openly in my parents' house. Anything else? It was the 1980s and the War on Drugs. Into the shadows they fled!
I am in Cali. The temperature dropped as soon as I arrived.
Care to give me a county? Or even which half you're in?
Considering we're in a "heat wave" (it broke 70°F today), I'm guessing you're in SoCal.
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And before you start, LM, my graduating class had the most felony convictions of any class in Albany High's history, including its first murder conviction, and the year after I graduated saw the first gunfire incident on campus.
Albany was at a low spot in the 1980s.
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I see that other people are managing to favorite things, but whenever I click the Favorite icon I jump to the top of the page. Is this another "toss your cookies" event at Paizo?
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In California.
They have organic vodka but no duck eggs.
In California.
They have organic vodka but no duck eggs.
I'm pretty sure they do, you just need to look for them.
Of course you might have to fight some hobos for them.
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So, as if I ever needed concrete proof that "top xxx places" lists are complete B.S. sponsored by the places that make the list, this article had me howling.
Why?
Because we ate at Boss Burgers (#3 burger joint in the East Bay, according to the list) on Tuesday. Two people threw their burgers out instead of finishing them. One person threw his shake out. We threw out all the leftover fries and onion rings. All five of us agreed that there was no reason ever to eat there again: Al's, Barney's, and Grazzi (now 310) are all better.
So while I won't argue with 310 being at #2 (a perfectly decent place), when a group of teenagers throw out their fast food instead of eating it, you really don't belong on anyone's "best of" list.
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I've been playing around with Biomutant, it's pretty fun so far, a bit on the convoluted side as far as interface but that's how open world games do.
I tried going to the light side of the Not Force Dead Eye but it was a bit too Sesame Street meets Legend of Zelda for me.
So I started over and went with a Psi-Freak dark side. With adorably big ears and pink fur that blasts everything with it's mind.
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Irony:
(1) I got myself psychologically ready for Impus Major to be out past 2.
(2) VE pointed out that it’s no fun to hang out at adults’ houses.
(3) The kids all poured in around 7, and have been happily hanging out in our living room ever since.
(Yes, I fully expect that at around 10 or 11 they’ll head out, but it’s nice they still want to hang out here for a while.)
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So, as if I ever needed concrete proof that "top xxx places" lists are complete B.S. sponsored by the places that make the list, this article had me howling.
Why?
Because we ate at Boss Burgers (#3 burger joint in the East Bay, according to the list) on Tuesday. Two people threw their burgers out instead of finishing them. One person threw his shake out. We threw out all the leftover fries and onion rings. All five of us agreed that there was no reason ever to eat there again: Al's, Barney's, and Grazzi (now 310) are all better.
So while I won't argue with 310 being at #2 (a perfectly decent place), when a group of teenagers throw out their fast food instead of eating it, you really don't belong on anyone's "best of" list.
Oof yeah
If a hungry teen doesnt want your stuff then you served something nasty
I am in Cali. The temperature dropped as soon as I arrived.Care to give me a county? Or even which half you're in?
Considering we're in a "heat wave" (it broke 70°F today), I'm guessing you're in SoCal.
San Juan Capistrano according to my phone.
WORAN! RAGNAROK SEASON 2 IS OUT!
EVERYBODY
NEW SEASON OF LOVE DEATH AND ROBOTS
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San Juan Capistrano according to my phone.I am in Cali. The temperature dropped as soon as I arrived.Care to give me a county? Or even which half you're in?
Considering we're in a "heat wave" (it broke 70°F today), I'm guessing you're in SoCal.
So... south of L.A.
On the bright side, whenever you're in a place Bugs Bunny sang about, you know you're doing well...
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Hermione is ten today.
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Hermione is ten today.
Happy birthday, Hermione!
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NobodysHome: I can't believe that these uber-expensive, "craft store" cookies are so terrible! It tastes like there's a chemical factory in my mouth! Y'know, if you're going to charge $6 for a pack of 6 cookies, you'd think you could shell out for decent ingredients.
GothBard: Are they as bad as the almond cookies? Do you want an almond cookie instead? Do they compete for 'worst cookie in the world'?
NH: No...
GothBard: Well, then. I don't know what you're complaining about.
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Happy birthday, Hermione! (Same age as Shanna)
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And for the record, I slept like crap until Impus Major got home at 12:55 am, but I consider 12:55 am a perfectly reasonable hour for him to be getting home, so we're good.
(Around here, the peak violent crime hours are roughly 12:40-3:30 am, so having him home by 1:00 am is reassuring since the commute home is at least 15-20 minutes, and, as I said, Albany's a heck of a lot safer than it was when I was young.)