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Crap.
Adam Daigle had a medical emergency and now there is a gofundme camapign to cover his medical expenses:
Adam Daigle's medical expenses gofundme page.
EDIT: Warning, Adam's bruised face is at the top of the page. It's not a pleasant image.
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Throw the money at Adam, not at me this time.
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Sounds like "IT workers praying to server to keep working while they go on a holiday vacation" scene?*lies down on the floor*The other one that kills me (and Vanykrye and Woran will weep over this one) is employees' attitude that their work computers are exactly the same as their home computers, so it's totally OK to download and install free trial software because there's nothing wrong with that.
If you're ever bored, read the license agreement for a free trial. Most of them are very explicit: "This free trial is for personal use only," meaning they are specifically forbidding corporations from taking advantage of their free trials.
Yet just Monday I had two managers try to tell me to download free trials, and my manager had to forward corporate policy to them that free trials require legal review and approval before being installed on corporate machines.
Your work computer is NOT your home computer. Don't treat it as if it is!
*lies down next to Woran*
*begins quiet chanting*
That is a different chant. And we're not lyind down on the floor. More like waving around our arms in supplication
Throw the money at Adam, not at me this time.
I was hesitant to share that here for concerns of TOS violations.
Have contributed. May contribute more depending on finances. Adam was very awesome and on point checking for food allergen concerns at Paizocon in the past.
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Things That Make Me Glad I Don't Do Elaborate Halloween Costumes:
Impus Major's friend just bet him that he wouldn't go as a "sexy octopus" for Halloween.
Being Impus Major, he accepted the bet.
GothBard, on hearing about the bet, said, "I already have an idea."
I'm glad I'm not involved. My idea would involve 4 pairs of purple leggings, some suction cups, high heels, big googly eyes with fake eyelashes, a big Mrs. Potatohead mouth, and then I'd be stuck.
I can't wait to see what they end up with.
I demand to be kept informed about this
Throw the money at Adam, not at me this time.I was hesitant to share that here for concerns of TOS violations.
Have contributed. May contribute more depending on finances. Adam was very awesome and on point checking for food allergen concerns at Paizocon in the past.
I am pretty sure that gofundme links for medical issues were posted in the past without issues.
Also, Eric Mona himself donated $500 so I think we might be on a somewhat safe side...
Crap.
Adam Daigle had a medical emergency and now there is a gofundme camapign to cover his medical expenses:
Adam Daigle's medical expenses gofundme page.
EDIT: Warning, Adam's bruised face is at the top of the page. It's not a pleasant image.
Donated. I hope he's okay. Miss that guy. He posted/ helped to create/ publish some good stuff.
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Why I work where I do.
Instructions from the boss this morning "it's going to start getting cold so make sure you have enough fuel for your flame thrower".
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"I didn't find the tea, but I found a pick axe, so that'll be useful!" - Tiny T-Rex, apparently straying far afield of the cupboard he was supposed to be looking in for the tea.
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Okay. After a very bad experience with Kingmaker on xbone, I am trying again with Wrath of the Righteous on PC. Here's hoping the modding community fixes any problems that come up.
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Seelah's in this game.
This is the first paladin I have not wanted to throttle.
Ever.
~skitters through looking for prey or perhaps a Paladin or two, then burrows into the ground to wait~
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*snuggles his plushie paladin toy*
Hoot-ROAR!
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Why I work where I do.
Instructions from the boss this morning "it's going to start getting cold so make sure you have enough fuel for your flame thrower".
CC: He was born Yesterday in Madison
JT: He revved up his Bobcat on the Mayor's front lawnCC: He made 16 sundials, in 24 hours
JT: And a tapir motel, and a working siege tower
Y'THROW 16 FLAMES, WHADDAYA GET? (etc.)
HFITFDOS, everyone!
(Holy F#!&, It's The First Day Of School).
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HFITFDOS, everyone!
(Holy F#$@, It's The First Day Of School).
~GULP~ Between that and your daughter being able to drive...
We are doomed! DOOMED!!!
J/K!
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HFITFDOS, everyone!
(Holy F@+*, It's The First Day Of School).
Day 15.
Holy f@#$, at least it's Friday.
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Preschool starts next Wednesday for my oldest, obviously we've never been through saying goodbye to our kids to leave them in the care of (relative) strangers. I think I'm going to have an emotional breakdown when I have to leave her at the classroom door.
We have our emails stating what she needs to have, what she needs to know, and general milestones that have to be met in order to participate and their general schedule along with what educational stuff they're going to focus on. She still has accidents getting to the restroom sometimes but after looking at the info they sent us I'm far less worried now since in the 4ish hours they will have her there are three dedicated bathroom breaks.
I saw they also mentioned the first week of the curriculum and I'm worried she will be bored for lack of challenge, she's known her alphabet for over a year and can read nearly 100 simple words on her own but the whole first week of school is focused on the color Red, the letter A, and the circle shape... I can't help but think that either we went way overboard trying to teach her stuff and not just let her run wild like a kid these last three years or that most kids her age must just be way WAY behind her.
Clearly, I haven't been in preschool in 30+ years so I have no idea what to actually expect, any other parents around who might be able to chip in if this is normal?
HFITFDOS, everyone!
(Holy F#$@, It's The First Day Of School).
~GULP~ Between that and your daughter being able to drive...
We are doomed! DOOMED!!!
Preschool starts next Wednesday for my oldest, obviously we've never been through saying goodbye to our kids to leave them in the care of (relative) strangers. I think I'm going to have an emotional breakdown when I have to leave her at the classroom door.
We have our emails stating what she needs to have, what she needs to know, and general milestones that have to be met in order to participate and their general schedule along with what educational stuff they're going to focus on. She still has accidents getting to the restroom sometimes but after looking at the info they sent us I'm far less worried now since in the 4ish hours they will have her there are three dedicated bathroom breaks.
I saw they also mentioned the first week of the curriculum and I'm worried she will be bored for lack of challenge, she's known her alphabet for over a year and can read nearly 100 simple words on her own but the whole first week of school is focused on the color Red, the letter A, and the circle shape... I can't help but think that either we went way overboard trying to teach her stuff and not just let her run wild like a kid these last three years or that most kids her age must just be way WAY behind her.
Clearly, I haven't been in preschool in 30+ years so I have no idea what to actually expect, any other parents around who might be able to chip in if this is normal?
We went through that, you'll do fine!
In my case I'd been homeschooled my whole life so I had absolutely no idea what to expect.
Preschool starts next Wednesday for my oldest, obviously we've never been through saying goodbye to our kids to leave them in the care of (relative) strangers. I think I'm going to have an emotional breakdown when I have to leave her at the classroom door.
That is well and truly normal. The first two weeks or so are brutal because the house becomes so quiet -- your hind brain constantly alerts you that something is wrong because the kids aren't making noise. After a couple of weeks you get used to it.
She still has accidents getting to the restroom sometimes...
Around half the kids at our kids' preschool still wore pullups to school because they were still having accidents.
I saw they also mentioned the first week of the curriculum and I'm worried she will be bored for lack of challenge... most kids her age must just be way WAY behind her...
Preschool is far less about learning and more about socialization. All those A's and the color red are going to be done with stories and singalongs and games. If it were a, "Sit at a desk and learn this material," then yes, she's well ahead of her peers and she'd be bored stupid. Since it'll all be games and playing, I'm pretty sure she'll be fine.
As long as it's not some pre-school that thinks it's doing college prep. But if it were, it would expect kids to come in knowing the alphabet and the numbers from 1-100.
Hmm, since I turned No Script on, more and more websites fail to load. Like, at all. Particularly American news sites. Are they using scripts to make the website itself load to combat use of NoScript?
Apparently everyone and their stupid dog use scripts in their websites these days...
*shakes cane*
Interesting. It seems that the NoScript messes with the google translate functionality.
*check* Oh, while the google.com was set to trusted, google.pl was set to default. When I switched to trusted the translation quality improved...
Apparently (artificial) intelligence is a script... Who would have knew?
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Hmm, since I turned No Script on, more and more websites fail to load. Like, at all. Particularly American news sites. Are they using scripts to make the website itself load to combat use of NoScript?
I consider it a "feature" -- you learn just how script-dependent the modern internet is, and you get to decide which scripts you're going to trust and which you aren't.
Security best practice is to copy any publicly-available scripts you're going to use locally, vet them before you use them, and then monitor the source sites for update. 99% of web sites use the publicly-available scripts from wherever they're hosted, vastly increasing the attack surface for malfeasants. There was just an article in The Register this morning on how one script store that's been used millions of times has a major security hole, so EVERY site that used the store has been compromised.
I don't like scripts. It makes web designers sloppy. So I allow the top-level domain scripts (if you're maintaining your own scripts you may at least have some concept of what you're doing) but not cross-domain with a few exceptions.
Yeah, my web sites look funky. But they're fairly safe.
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Two Things That Amused Me This Friday Afternoon:
(1) My Firefox GetPocket feed showed, "How to Make Classic Chicken Marsala at Home", and my immediate thought was, "If you can't even spell it right, why the heck should I trust you to make it right?"
Which tells you that I cook Asian food rather than European food.
Chicken Masala and Chicken Marsala are indeed both delicious dishes. One is Asian. One is Italian. I'll let you guess which one I know how to make from scratch.
(2) This one is mildly political:
I'm 90% sure the person was doing this tongue-in-cheek, but he was convincing most of Impus Major's friends that he honestly believed a conspiracy was afoot.
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I have just read a lovely piece of Polish text that exist only to torment foreigners...
My life, that's more letter Zs in one sentence than I ever believed possible.
Seelah's in this game.
This is the first paladin I have not wanted to throttle.
Ever.
I just really enjoy how competently made the first 4 Party Members I've met so far are. My biggest gripes with Kingmaker was that some of the party members have downright painful builds to look at for such a punishing game at times.
My life, that's more letter Zs in one sentence than I ever believed possible.
Those that have a dot or a small dash over them are pronounced like French 'j' (dot) or a somehow similar but softer "zii' sound (dash).
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Preschool starts next Wednesday for my oldest, obviously we've never been through saying goodbye to our kids to leave them in the care of (relative) strangers. I think I'm going to have an emotional breakdown when I have to leave her at the classroom door.
We have our emails stating what she needs to have, what she needs to know, and general milestones that have to be met in order to participate and their general schedule along with what educational stuff they're going to focus on. She still has accidents getting to the restroom sometimes but after looking at the info they sent us I'm far less worried now since in the 4ish hours they will have her there are three dedicated bathroom breaks.
I saw they also mentioned the first week of the curriculum and I'm worried she will be bored for lack of challenge, she's known her alphabet for over a year and can read nearly 100 simple words on her own but the whole first week of school is focused on the color Red, the letter A, and the circle shape... I can't help but think that either we went way overboard trying to teach her stuff and not just let her run wild like a kid these last three years or that most kids her age must just be way WAY behind her.
Clearly, I haven't been in preschool in 30+ years so I have no idea what to actually expect, any other parents around who might be able to chip in if this is normal?
So, this is my fifteenth year teaching pre-k and kindergarten (mixed age class), and the most essential skills I personally wish parents would teach their children before bringing them to my class are:
* how to really wash your hands well,* how to wipe your bottom (it's amazing how many of my KINDERGARTNERS tell me "I'm not allowed to do it myself, Mommy and Daddy do it for me")
* how to put on your own face mask after you take it off for snack, etc., and
* the virtue of taking turns and sharing (blocks, crayons, books, etc.)
Other than that, pretty much what NH said.
Even when my daughter was in the classroom next door to mine and my son was across the hall, the separation still drove me to distraction for the first few weeks. It's usually harder on the adults than it is on the child.
It's now four weeks since we moved into Miz Daisy's house, and our evil corporate former landlords are still ghosting us over the $2k security deposit. (Technically they have six more days under the terms of our lease.)
And it's been 309 days since WW was laid off, and he still hasn't made it past the first interview stage on *anything* he's applied for.
If the Texas Workforce Commission doesn't screw up his unemployment *again* (as they have three times now), we can probably make it through the end of the year if I'm careful with money, but everything I managed to sock away in savings last year is quickly dwindling. Which means that, barring an employment miracle, we will not get to go see my mom and Eve for Christmas for the third year in a row.
Also, I pulled a hamstring on my run Thursday morning, because I keep forgetting that being almost 47 means I really ought to start stretching first.
I am not terribly happy at the moment.
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Also, I pulled a hamstring on my run Thursday morning, because I keep forgetting that being almost 47 means I really ought to start stretching first.
Just wait 'til you're 54 and tearing rib muscles playing miniature golf...
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Sorry you're having a less-than-fun time at present, LM.
Today was the Town Parade, when Morris Dancers roam the streets unchecked, seeking whom they may devour. However, I had quite enough of that sort of thing when I was growing up, so while I had to go out to get a haircut and buy some bits & bobs, I did not stick around to watch the Atrocities.
Sorry you're having a less-than-fun time at present, LM.
Today was the Town Parade, when Morris Dancers roam the streets unchecked, seeking whom they may devour. However, I had quite enough of that sort of thing when I was growing up, so while I had to go out to get a haircut and buy some bits & bobs, I did not stick around to watch the Atrocities.
Now I'm having visions of teams of Morris dancers confronting each other in the streets like Mardi Gras Indians.
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Now I'm having visions of teams of Morris dancers confronting each other in the streets like Mardi Gras Indians.Sorry you're having a less-than-fun time at present, LM.
Today was the Town Parade, when Morris Dancers roam the streets unchecked, seeking whom they may devour. However, I had quite enough of that sort of thing when I was growing up, so while I had to go out to get a haircut and buy some bits & bobs, I did not stick around to watch the Atrocities.
It happened. Slightly pudgy middle-aged men wearing straw hats and bells getting riled up on Hobgoblin Gold Ale and slagging off one another's banjo players. Takeaway drivers being unable to drive more than 10 yards up the street without running into a retired quantity surveyor jigging about and waving two handkerchiefs in the air. Chaos and anarchy!
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Also, I pulled a hamstring on my run Thursday morning, because I keep forgetting that being almost 47 means I really ought to start stretching first.Just wait 'til you're 54 and tearing rib muscles playing miniature golf...
Hey, just so you're aware, you don't need to be using a driver at the mini golf course. Their Par 3 holes don't have the same size fairways as the other ones, so you probably could get away with a 6 iron instead and take some strain off those intercostals.