Who's got two thumbs, and just had his Anniversary yesterday? (And celebrated more Anniversary today?)
Me. It's me. I've got both thumbs *and* I just had my Anniversary with Firedove, my wife! WOO~! :D
Happy Anniversary, Tac!
Re: that rake story and the McDonald's story
Why would you physically abuse yourself to get out of an easily replaceable minimum wage job? Quit. Better than second degree oil burns.
The difference is who says the not-waiting-to-work person goes home. If the the employee does it, it's job abandonment.
If the employer does it, no matter how stupid the circumstances, then such a person can bring legal action against employer if they don't get unemployment.
We used to have some kids at work that would game the fact that Corporate was cutting hours. They'd half-ass their job, and if someone said they could go home 'early'?
So and so told me to go home early, so I couldn't get it done right.
Best cure was to look 'em in the eye and say 'That's a decision you need to make for yourself, I'm not your boss.'
(Helped by fact Corporate was being cheap and wouldn't assign a manager or supervisor to the shift. Technically, if I told someone to go home, I could get fired.)
And in my McDonald's case, he also didn't get to go home after that. He was detained first by us, then by the police (very close by) until the medical personnel arrived. Involuntary mental health hold.
Also, that's not 2nd degree burns.
Oh yeah.
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Who's got two thumbs, and just had his Anniversary yesterday? (And celebrated more Anniversary today?)
Me. It's me. I've got both thumbs *and* I just had my Anniversary with Firedove, my wife! WOO~! :D
Huzzah, huzzah, to you and your thumbs!!
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Who's got two thumbs, and just had his Anniversary yesterday? (And celebrated more Anniversary today?)
Me. It's me. I've got both thumbs *and* I just had my Anniversary with Firedove, my wife! WOO~! :D
Since you obviously seem happy about this, I offer congratulations!
It really sounds like some of you never actually worked/lived through (or perhaps just don't recall) ACTUAL poverty if you think that anybody at all is functionally able to quite a job, any job, for any amount of time without ending up homeless. I had a burner cell phone with no contract and bought 100 minutes/texts at a time, and my only hobbies at the time included the FLGS club with a $2 door fee, all my cards were second hand, and I had to rely on friends books in order to play RPGs as I didn't even own a computer to otherwise "acquire" the PDFs.
I worked my way up as a fast-food worker from minimum wage to a manager making $1.50 more and on more than one occasion I still had to borrow cash from neighbors to fill my tank with gas to get to work and missing a single day meant having to pay my landlord the rest of my rent money a week late... and two thirds of my meals at that time were free food that was already in the "waste' garbage can. I still have many scars from working and cleaning the grills and fryers to this day and they remind me every day just how unfair life can be and how lucky I have been to stumble into a career that I love and pays well after all this time.
Some people can't just quit a job no matter how much they hate it or the toll it takes on their body, support systems, savings, and a flush job market are not a universal truth.
Every single point you make is absolutely fair and true; BUT, I think it's a matter of association.
Vanykrye wrote, "True story from my high school days..."
Personally, I immediately imagined the unidentified employee as a high school kid who was working for extra cash for food and gas money rather than a full-time employee trying to make ends meet.
And you are yet again correct; nowhere did Vanykrye identify the employee in that manner. Since he referred to it as HIS "high school days", I made the (likely incorrect) leap of logic that the afflicted employee was also a high schooler. I suspect many...
He was no longer in high school, but not by much. I don't know what his life/financial situation was at that time. I do know he needed serious help.
I'm just saying no minimum wage job is worth that. It's not hard to replace a minimum wage job.
If you had said this was a sous chef in a five star restaurant, okay, maybe I can see injuring yourself for time off.
But McDonald's fry jockey - absolutely not.
Congratulations on another (I assume) wonderful year of marriage to Tacticslion and Lady Firedove!
And the home internet has gone out. This doesn't happen often. Two cop cars blew past the house with lights but no sirens.
I'm thinking a car accident took out the neighborhood fiber junction.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TACTICSLION
youch that would be a problem.
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Fantasy Monster: Shatterbone
Oh wow what a terrifying creature!
Just waiting to call the tire place to see about getting a new tire, I'm going to see if they can extract whatever is causing the air to leak out so I can give it to the boss when I tell him to give the kid crew magnets to case the shop's gravel lot.
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Happy Anniversary, Tac.
Happy Birthday, Nobody.
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Happy anniversary Tact and Lady Firedove.
Happy belated birthday NH.
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Nobby hirthday, Hapbody's Bome.
Happy anniversary Tact and Lady Firedove.
Happy belated birthday NH.
It's my birthday today, so you hit it on the nose.
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GothBard performed one of the greatest practical jokes I've seen on the kids in years: She bought them Necco Wafers.
The noises Impus Minor made while trying to eat his first one were priceless, but his quote a few seconds later was close: "I can feel myself aging while eating these!"
The best part is that the kids are still eating them a day later. It's like some kind of horrific dare.
Necro what?
Fantasy Monster: Shatterbone
Drejk, I have something for you to consider, and this is only meant constructively: I don't think it needs the Hover feat - you can give it something else. Hovering is DC15. The shatterbone has +37 Fly. It would take a hurricane before it would have any serious issues with flight. The other uses of the Hover feat don't really apply to a medium creature. Just a thought.
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Necro what?
They do taste like they're ancient dead...
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Been playing man-eater captain. you were right about that game it is a blast.
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Happy anniversary Tact and Lady Firedove.
Happy belated birthday NH.
It's my birthday today, so you hit it on the nose.
Now that it is the day AFTER your birthday, then happy belated birthday!
Remember, a Dragon is always right, especially when they are wrong!!!
Happy birthday and happy anniversary to you two. you guys just mix those two to match however you feel.
Fantasy Monster: ShatterboneDrejk, I have something for you to consider, and this is only meant constructively: I don't think it needs the Hover feat - you can give it something else. Hovering is DC15. The shatterbone has +37 Fly. It would take a hurricane before it would have any serious issues with flight. The other uses of the Hover feat don't really apply to a medium creature. Just a thought.
I considered exactly what you mentioned while writing that monster, but I finally kept Hover (in the unlikely case of a lot of penalties being stacked or something that would prevent making a skill check/succeeding) because I hadn't had any other fitting feat anyway.
Technically, a birthday is an anniversary.
that is true.
I considered exactly what you mentioned while writing that monster, but I finally kept Hover (in the unlikely case of a lot of penalties being stacked or something that would prevent making a skill check/succeeding) because I hadn't had any other fitting feat anyway.Fantasy Monster: ShatterboneDrejk, I have something for you to consider, and this is only meant constructively: I don't think it needs the Hover feat - you can give it something else. Hovering is DC15. The shatterbone has +37 Fly. It would take a hurricane before it would have any serious issues with flight. The other uses of the Hover feat don't really apply to a medium creature. Just a thought.
Yeah, you may have noticed I didn't suggest another feat either.
Ability Focus came to mind, but that was pretty much it on the short list of immediate thoughts.
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Delicious Irony:
Impus Minor: Signs into Apple on his desktop. Runs "Find My iPhone"
Apple: We cannot verify the identity of your computer. We've sent a text to your iPhone. You'll be able to run "Find my iPhone" once you enter the value you see on your phone."
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Delicious Irony:
Impus Minor: Signs into Apple on his desktop. Runs "Find My iPhone"
Apple: We cannot verify the identity of your computer. We've sent a text to your iPhone. You'll be able to run "Find my iPhone" once you enter the value you see on your phone."
Irony? I think You misspelled idiocy.
Been playing man-eater captain. you were right about that game it is a blast.
You should try Biomutant! One of my all time favorite games! And not just because I was able to craft a Hipster Handle Bonkhammer. There was also the time I killed a boss by using my earth fist power to repeatedly punch him in the crotch and then expelling some toxic diarrhea to make him throw up.
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Did You Know that, despite being created in 2013, the British Government's eel management plans have STILL NOT BEEN RELEASED?
This is deeply sinister, and I think I deserve a prestigious award for bringing the matter to the world's notice.
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Eve decided that today was the day we would go through Dad's files and boxes still in her garage, and decide what we're keeping (because it has to go on the moving truck with them) and what is getting tossed.
We finally made the decision to toss out all of his journals, after reading entries for dates that were significant for us and seeing how vastly divergent from our reality his written accounts were.
For example, the entry for my wedding day went on about how the congregation seemed to respond to his voice and his reading of the OT scripture, and complained about how my mother and Eve acted cool and distant towards him, and how rude that was. And that was all.
Gee, maybe if you hadn't been such an abusive, gaslighting, narcissistic s$++weasel, they would have been friendlier.
That is one of the kinder examples.
It feels so good to throw so much of it away.
Most of what we are saving, we're only keeping to sell later (i.e. his vintage underwater professional movie cameras, still in working condition, and his underwater sound recording equipment, and some truly antique scuba gear from the very early days). It's not like we're ever going to use it.
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Maybe donate it to some marine museum? Maine is by the ocean, they might have some.
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Good. I got a message (after two calls that I missed) that my mom got confirmation of her settled status, so there won't be issues with her remaining stay in UK.
Dad got his over a month ago, almost immediately, but he worked continuously in UK for 14 years now.
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Well, the listing on Mom and Eve's house is live, and already getting lots of interest, so in the morning we're all leaving to go camping out at the lake for a couple of days so the realtor can show it freely.
We're going to get back here Thursday just in time to do laundry and pack before starting the drive back to Texas on Friday.
Evening, all. What did I miss?
Just a mild apocalypse.
*sigh* Herding cats.
I try to organize a session but... It doesn't look terribly well with lack of overlap in free time between the players.