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Let us know if you've got any off next week, most of the household here took it all off.
I'm off all next week. Were you planning on coming out to California and freezing your butt off enjoying our wonderful July weather?
EDIT: Apparently I did indeed take it all off...
And seriously. Both cats have moved to their "winter lairs". It's not bad enough that I have to turn on the heat (still hits the low 60s by midday), but the cats have decided that they're not going back outside 'til the sun returns in August.
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I know it's not just Albany that's like this, but yet another reason we live here: I stopped by the ATM to get cash. I pulled out the cash and the card, but forgot to sign out as I walked away. The next woman in line walked up, didn't notice that I was looking, signed me out, put in her card, and proceeded with her transaction. There wasn't even a moment of hesitation in her movements of, "Hey, I can access this guy's account!"
It was definitely, "That moron forgot to sign out! What a waste of my time!"
You must have been wearing fish pants.
The only real outward sign that you have money is that you rarely look stressed.
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And seriously. Both cats have moved to their "winter lairs". It's not bad enough that I have to turn on the heat (still hits the low 60s by midday), but the cats have decided that they're not going back outside 'til the sun returns in August.
Mephisto is back to sleeping on the couch
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I know it's not just Albany that's like this, but yet another reason we live here: I stopped by the ATM to get cash. I pulled out the cash and the card, but forgot to sign out as I walked away. The next woman in line walked up, didn't notice that I was looking, signed me out, put in her card, and proceeded with her transaction. There wasn't even a moment of hesitation in her movements of, "Hey, I can access this guy's account!"
It was definitely, "That moron forgot to sign out! What a waste of my time!"
You must have been wearing fish pants.
The only real outward sign that you have money is that you rarely look stressed.
Today is chili peppers.
And yeah. From bottom to top:
(1) Paint-spattered New Balance walking shoes with the soles coming loose and shoelaces so frayed that you have to look twice to realize they're not untied, they're just a mess.
(2) Chefwear chili pepper pants.
(3) A hole-filled Summoner Con sweatshirt from League of Legend's first Summoner Con in 2013.
And I was loudly exulting that I could get $10 bills from the ATM.
Not exactly "nouveau riche" material.
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Today I learned that, in the epic struggle of doner meat sandwich vs. paper bag, the doner meat sandwich will always, always win.
I was curious so I checked: Yep. It's 1:30 pm on July 2, and it's 59°F in the Sunset in San Francisco near where my uncle-in-law lives.
Summer? What's that?
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Let us know if you've got any off next week, most of the household here took it all off.I'm off all next week. Were you planning on coming out to California andfreezing your butt offenjoying our wonderful July weather?
I thought we were, but we're actually driving out next Sunday instead. Our one housemate just started a new job and doesn't have time off yet. So we're doing an overnight trip during her weekend.
A friend of mine who's wife has family in Quebec moved there when the pandemic started because "it's getting too crazy here, man" moved back because, as he put it, "it started getting crazy up there, man!".
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Impus Major: Dad, you're so good at this already!
NobodysHome: I lived the 80s. You guys just wish you had.
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Speaking of reaching epic levels of stupid, the Celica's insurance bill just came due: $385/year for a car with a 20-year-old driver.
Just goes to show: Make sure your car is older than your kids.
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Watching 20000 Leagues Under the Sea with the kids tonight, I am struck by two thoughts:
1. Dallas needs a subterranean Nautilus-themed steampunk tiki bar, and
2. I'd settle for an Airstream camper remodeled to look like the Nautilus on the inside.
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Whew finished that big 28 man free for all arena fight. it went surprisingly well. Never again though, or at least no more then once per campaign. The big mythic barbarian killed a bunch but the air kineticist ran him out of rage rounds and kept blasting him from a distance. I thought my 18lvl wizard was going to take it but a concerted effort was made and he got put down despite hiding behind a prismatic wall for most of the fight. So two PC's were left standing and one of them just stepped out.
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I'm going to visit my dad and at least 3 brothers tonight, should be fun!
Which would have been a really weird thing to say a couple of years ago.
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(An interesting side note was that in the course of doing my day job I learned that 401(k) loans are about the worst thing you can possibly do financially, because you're getting taxed on the money you're using to repay the loan twice: Once when you make the payment, and again when you retire.)
Only the interest.
The principal is a wash - yes you pay it back post tax, but you received the loan tax free, so that sum is only taxed when you take it out in retirement.
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I know it's not just Albany that's like this, but yet another reason we live here: I stopped by the ATM to get cash. I pulled out the cash and the card, but forgot to sign out as I walked away. The next woman in line walked up, didn't notice that I was looking, signed me out, put in her card, and proceeded with her transaction. There wasn't even a moment of hesitation in her movements of, "Hey, I can access this guy's account!"
It was definitely, "That moron forgot to sign out! What a waste of my time!"
Must be an old ATM. Newer models force you to sign out and take your card before they will dispense your cash.
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VIGNETTE 1: Music = Kashmir by Led Zeppelin
Yeah, I remember the day like it was yesterday. All them damned environmentalists claimin' they'd solved our whole oil spill "problem" 'cause they'd come up with some kinda bacteria that was gonna eat it all. So, what's the problem with oil spills anyway? A couple o' critters die, the ocean washes it out, and everythin's good as new. It's not like we needed fixin'.
And yeah, you know where this is goin'. First time out, they spread the bacteria all over some kinda oil spill up in the Antarctica where nobody would've cared one way or another, 'cept they managed to get the bacteria all over their boat. When they came back to port in California they started refuelin' 'n' the bugs got into the gas there. 'N' it they were powerful bugs. I reckon within a month there wasn't a drop of oil to be found in all of North America. A month later there was no fuel anywhere in the world.
Then, the choppin' began. Since we had no gas, we started choppin' trees to make charcoal for fuel. Compostin' corn to get ethanol. All that s+@$. 'Cept once you cut down all the trees guess what happens? It gets HOT. The ground started dryin' up and there wasn't enough water for both the people and the corn, 'n' the corn went first, 'n' then the people.
The World War took care o' that.
So, from what I hear you're down here in Australia lookin' for the last untouched oil rig so you can hold a big ol' monster truck rally. Good on you. But there's a thousand miles o' irradiated desert between you 'n' it, a bunch o' hostile natives, and no guarantee the rig even exists. And once you get there, how're you going to avoid pollutin' it?
It's a fool's errand. But if you're determined, I'll sell you a map...
KEY POINTS:
The players should introduce themselves, and why they're holding a monster truck rally
The players should try to buy the map from the old man
VIGNETTE 2: Music = Holding Out for Hero by Bonnie Raitt
The players should arrive at Oasis, a town of hippie hydroponic farmers
They can buy fresh provisions and gas masks to protect them from the toxic swamp
The hippies will complain about the bandits who come and steal their vegetables every month
Try to hit one player's defining moment
BATTLE #1: 10 leather-clad bandits with hand blades, spiked baseball bats, riding oversized tricycles with spiked wheels that have ethanol motor boosters
VIGNETTE 3: Music = Down Under by Men At Work
The players should have to travel through a dark poisonous swamp
Gas masks are plenty; there's no need to actually protect their skin
Spider webs, giant toads, crocodiles, giant spiders: Play it up
Attacked by a swarm of poisonous swamp koalas
Try to hit one player's defining moment
BATTLE #2: 10? Poison koalas with claws, but really slow
VIGNETTE 4: Music = Beds are Burning by Midnight Oil
The players should get to Ayers Rock (Uluru) and see a bunch of massive mutant kangaroo camels
They can try to get them as mounts
Jumping +2
Cover 2 range increments once per combat
Punching +1
2 hit points each
If they don't, the desert is too hot and irradiated and they have to go underground
VIGNETTE 5: Music = Going Underground by the Jam
The players either take the dangerous tunnels under the desert or ride the kangaroos
Either way, do a mole man encounter
VIGNETTE 6: Music = Fight Fire with Fire by Metallica
Arriving outside fortress and fighting thugs and ranged attackers with flamethrowers
If it's too late add the boss here
VIGNETTE 7: Music = Rubber Duckie by Ernie
Need to clean up and get all traces of bacteria off before entering the compound
VIGNETTE 8: Music = Rock You Like a Hurricane by the Scorpions
Fight Tina Turner clone for control of the refinery
OTHER POSSIBILITIES:
Adorable possum swarm
Tasmanian devil boss
Spiders
Crocodiles with Crocodile Dundee
Seems like it should be good for 3-4 hours.
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I knew customer support was going down the toilet in general, but really NetGear? "You cannot file a ticket after 90 days of using the device?"
And here I thought a 1-year warranty was unacceptable.
So $142.66 down the toilet when I could've spent half to a third of that on a wireless router that just plain works. (The Amped Wireless router I got for the house back in 2013 is still going strong with no issues whatsoever, other than that its signal isn't powerful enough to hit both Impus Minor's room and the studio. Stupid lath and plaster stucco walls.)
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Disclaimer: I mislike sales tax in general, as it is the most regressive tax possible.
That out of the way, allowing each city, county, and state to set its own tax rates is getting out of hand.
If I walk to the corner store in Kensington, the sales tax rate is 8.75%. If I walk north a bit into Richmond, the sales tax rate is 9.75%. If instead I walk up to the Andronico's at the top of Solano, the sales tax rate is 10.25%. If I go to the Safeway lower down on Solano, the sales tax rate is 10.75%. Even worse, the July 1 tax increase reduced me from having FIVE tax rates all within two miles of each other down to FOUR, but three of them are all within a mile from my house.
"OK, kids! Here's a $20 bill. Your advanced civics and math assignment is to figure out how much you can spend based on where you're standing."
Not a sensible way to do things. Ever.
I knew customer support was going down the toilet in general, but really NetGear? "You cannot file a ticket after 90 days of using the device?"
And here I thought a 1-year warranty was unacceptable.
** spoiler omitted **
Netherlands?
Haven't heard that name in a while. I thought they went out of business. Didn't they always suck?Edit- Too funny for me to change. Thanks autocorrect.
This is shouting at the computer time.
KEEP HIM OUT OF DISTANCE! STAB, STAB, STAB!
Still, interesting to watch. I should not like to try fighting against longsword with a pair of flails, to put forward a western European equivalent, so well done to them.
I knew customer support was going down the toilet in general, but really NetGear? "You cannot file a ticket after 90 days of using the device?"
And here I thought a 1-year warranty was unacceptable.
** spoiler omitted **
Netherlands?
Haven't heard that name in a while. I thought they went out of business. Didn't they always suck?
Back in the early 00's they were the better choice over Cisco's garbage.
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America The Motion Picture is the stupidest thing I have ever seen. I can't stop laughing at the British jokes or the really cold(and factual) slams Geronimo sneaks in there.
I reserve the right to punch anyone who thinks this is actual history, however.
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I came to a realization that makes the world make more sense recently. that realization is that just about everyone is an idiot. like 98.9% of everybody just barely functioning animal... that is all.
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Fantasy Monster: Dreamsipper. A dream-eating bat aberration.
I came to a realization that makes the world make more sense recently. that realization is that just about everyone is an idiot. like 98.9% of everybody just barely functioning animal... that is all.
I think the real issue here is that you have baseless and unreasonable expectations in the first place.
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I came to a realization that makes the world make more sense recently. that realization is that just about everyone is an idiot. like 98.9% of everybody just barely functioning animal... that is all.I think the real issue here is that you have baseless and unreasonable expectations in the first place.
Have you worked in the service industry?
Most recent example. Person making reservation wants me to Email them their confirmation of their stay. Specifically requested Email mind. Expectation: that they know how to check their Email.. They did not.
That's why I avoid service industry like a plague.
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People like that crack me up!
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I got my summer mega order from Paizo yesterday, I didn't get to really look through everything until last night.
The Mwangi Expanse book is definitely the highlight, very well done, probably the best book in the Lost Omens line.
Fists of the Ruby Phoenix looks like a blast.
Horizons of the Vast book one doesn't excite me, the Kingmaker in Space rules look complicated and even less fun than the original Kingmaker kingdom rules. Otherwise it's heavily inspired by Lost in Space (you might even say they should have just called it In Space).
The end adventure of Fly Free or Die is... Present. I don't want to say too much but it's definitely not up to Paizo's usual standards.
I haven't looked through the stand alone adventure Malevolence yet but it looks interesting.
Fantasy Monster: Dreamsipper. A dream-eating bat aberration.
I'm a little confused by this part- . Victim can't be woken up until their nonlethal damage drop below their hit point value.
Wouldn't they need to have their nonlethal damage be healed before waking up?
From what I saw of Mwangi expanse, I really like the new gods, but I am not a fan of the new races. Then again I am old and have not played P2E, and may be unfairly judging them.
From what I saw of Mwangi expanse, I really like the new gods, but I am not a fan of the new races. Then again I am old and have not played P2E, and may be unfairly judging them.
They are hit or miss, I like the Anadi (spider people) but some of the other ones are better as concepts then actually playable characters.
I appreciate finally getting Gnolls as a player ancestry and gripplis are always fun, especially the heritage that can deliver touch spells and open doors with their tongue.
Fantasy Monster: Dreamsipper. A dream-eating bat aberration.I'm a little confused by this part- . Victim can't be woken up until their nonlethal damage drop below their hit point value.
Wouldn't they need to have their nonlethal damage be healed before waking up?
That's exactly what it means. That's how nonlethal damage works - you suffer nonlethal damage, they accumulate and grow. When you have more nonlethal damage than your current hit points, you drop unconscious. When you heal nonlethal damage, they get lower and once they are lower than your current hit points, you wake up.
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I'm going to visit my dad and at least 3 brothers tonight, should be fun!
Which would have been a really weird thing to say a couple of years ago.
You mean that wasn't sarcasm?
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FaWtL auxillary rescue team, deploy! Captain yesterday is clearly having a stroke, or has been replaced by an alien. Either way, he needs to be rescued!
I'm going to visit my dad and at least 3 brothers tonight, should be fun!
Which would have been a really weird thing to say a couple of years ago.
You mean that wasn't sarcasm?
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...FaWtL auxillary rescue team, deploy! Captain yesterday is clearly having a stroke, or has been replaced by an alien. Either way, he needs to be rescued!
I don't think Freehold's Abscondi-mobile works on dudes.
That's exactly what it means. That's how nonlethal damage works - you suffer nonlethal damage, they accumulate and grow. When you have more nonlethal damage than your current hit points, you drop unconscious. When you heal nonlethal damage, they get lower and once they are lower than your current hit points, you wake up.Fantasy Monster: Dreamsipper. A dream-eating bat aberration.I'm a little confused by this part- . Victim can't be woken up until their nonlethal damage drop below their hit point value.
Wouldn't they need to have their nonlethal damage be healed before waking up?
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I kind of wish it was winter already. The heat wave is going to continue next week.
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My family: Why on earth would you leave Florida for Ohio? It's so cold!
(Massive heatwave happens across USA)
My family: It's so hot since you left! You're so lucky.
Me: >:-(
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I don't think Freehold's Abscondi-mobile works on dudes.I'm going to visit my dad and at least 3 brothers tonight, should be fun!
Which would have been a really weird thing to say a couple of years ago.
You mean that wasn't sarcasm?
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...FaWtL auxillary rescue team, deploy! Captain yesterday is clearly having a stroke, or has been replaced by an alien. Either way, he needs to be rescued!
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I thought I was going to get soooooo much done today.
That did not happen.
I ran, I made WW's great-aunt's raisin pecan cinnamon rolls, I packed ONE BOX, and then I took a very long nap.
I might pack a second box before I make dinner. I might not.
The problem is, Monday through Saturday each week, we're working on getting the bedrooms at Miz Daisy's house de-hoarded and deep-cleaned and ready for us to move in, so Sundays are both my only day to pack things at our house and also my only day to rest.
Thank goodness I don't go back to work until August ninth, which is the day after our lease ends at this house.
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I thought I was going to get soooooo much done today.
That did not happen.
I ran, I made WW's great-aunt's raisin pecan cinnamon rolls, I packed ONE BOX, and then I took a very long nap.
I might pack a second box before I make dinner. I might not.
The problem is, Monday through Saturday each week, we're working on getting the bedrooms at Miz Daisy's house de-hoarded and deep-cleaned and ready for us to move in, so Sundays are both my only day to pack things at our house and also my only day to rest.
Thank goodness I don't go back to work until August ninth, which is the day after our lease ends at this house.
I didn't have my glasses on when I read this. I was wondering what went into WW's great aunt's racist pecan cinnamon rolls at first.
I didn't have my glasses on when I read this. I was wondering what went into WW's great aunt's racist pecan cinnamon rolls at first.I thought I was going to get soooooo much done today.
That did not happen.
I ran, I made WW's great-aunt's raisin pecan cinnamon rolls, I packed ONE BOX, and then I took a very long nap.
I might pack a second box before I make dinner. I might not.
The problem is, Monday through Saturday each week, we're working on getting the bedrooms at Miz Daisy's house de-hoarded and deep-cleaned and ready for us to move in, so Sundays are both my only day to pack things at our house and also my only day to rest.
Thank goodness I don't go back to work until August ninth, which is the day after our lease ends at this house.
Given that she and her husband are among the small handful of family members WW actually speaks well of, I'm guessing probably not.
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I hate raisins.