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Fully clothed:
WW is home. He brought me back a cinnamon roll from this place in Evergreen, CO that is supposed to be the best pastry in the Denver area.
And he's dealing with the small beings this morning so I can actually wash my hair. (Yesterday morning was insane. Hermione knocked a glass of water into my work laptop while she was doing her homework at the breakfast table, killing it.)
And he has that interview at 10 this morning.
So, hurrah, life back to normal after six days.
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Fully clothed:
WW is home. He brought me back a cinnamon roll from this place in Evergreen, CO that is supposed to be the best pastry in the Denver area.
And he's dealing with the small beings this morning so I can actually wash my hair. (Yesterday morning was insane. Hermione knocked a glass of water into my work laptop while she was doing her homework at the breakfast table, killing it.)
And he has that interview at 10 this morning.
So, hurrah, life back to normal after six days.
HUZZAH FOR PASTRIES AND ASSISTANCE
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Already had to give former coworker and his crew the "Get over it or go home" speech.
It's annoying when people don't have the same quality standards in October that they had in April. Just saying.
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We played SS. The jokes about the segauthi were rampant. Lots of confusion effects. We blipped through/hand waved a lot of the final book, which was problematic because there are clues there that make the final fight a bit easier. Likewise, our paladin was exceptionally upset over certain attributes of the BBEG. However, if we had played through the entirety of the last book, we might have known of that attribute.
Overall, my group enjoyed it, but there are definitely a good bit of 'let's structure this encounter to F the players as much as possible.'
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I trust SS refers to Shattered Star, in this instance...
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I got a mailer from an ISP trying to get me to switch today. Normally I just throw them away, but this time I decided to read the fine print. And boy am I glad I did! It is great!
"This offer is for 2 months half-off our Gigabit Internet (Gigabit standard monthly rate is $89.99). Best of both worlds here! It's the world's fastest interent speed, coupled with the world's best WIFI equipment and experience. Enjoy TWO months 1/2 off Gigabit Internet speeds, plus we'll give you 2 free pods for as long as you maintain Gigabit Internet speeds. As is the usual fine print with our company - there's no tricks or gimmicks, you're locked into nothing and can enjoy whatever service or speed tier you want now, later or anytime inbetween. After, before, or even during the 2 month promotional period, customers may choose any other service level and pricing, at any time without any penalty because we're awesome. Without choosing another service level, this promotional half-off rate would increase to the standard monthly rate (currently $89.99)."
It goes on a bit from there, but that's the main part. I love it for a few reasons. First, they are claiming that Gigabit is the "world's fastest interent speed". Not "internet", "interent". Which leaves me with two questions: Is gigabit really the fastest speed? And what, exactly, is the "interent"? Second, they say they will give you "2 free pods", yet at no time on the entire mailer do they ever say what a "pod" is. In fact, this fine print is the only time "pods" are mentioned. So what are they? I'm assuming some kind of range extender, but that's just a guess. Connected to the "pods" issue, is the fact that they say you get them for "as long as you maintain Gigabit speeds". Not Gigabit level service, but gigabit speeds. Isn't it up to them to ensure that I maintain the speed? Finally, and this may just be me, I feel that there are probably some missing commas in there. Maybe they aren't required grammatically, but I just feel like there are a few places where a comma would...
Pods...I assume Tide.
1 gig speeds are generally the fastest you're going to find for residential customers in the US, but it's not the fastest thing out there.
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but it's not the fastest thing out there
Yes, that's Sonic; he's the fastest thing alive; the fastest thing alive!
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but it's not the fastest thing out thereYes, that's Sonic; he's the fastest thing alive; the fastest thing alive!
Especially since they put in the extra effort to pull his teeth!
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How NobodysHome Keeps Up With Trends:
(1) NobodysHome notices some odd show named The Squid Game trending on NetFlix. He ignores it.
(2) GothBard hears lots of good buzz about The Squid Game at work. GothBard and NobodysHome ignore it.
(3) The kids' friends watch all of The Squid Game and talk about how great it is. Impus Major finally decides to watch a single episode.
(4) The entire family is now watching The Squid Game with great interest.
It's amazing to me what the South Koreans (and Japanese) are doing with fairly generic, stale old plots.
Impus Minor was going off about an early scene where a game show agent convinces the protagonist to accept physical abuse in exchange for money. He talks about what a brilliant, realistic scene it is because it normalizes the, "You will accept abuse in exchange for money," nature of the relationship. And there's so much of that subtle brilliance in the series
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Especially since they put in the extra effort to pull his teeth!but it's not the fastest thing out thereYes, that's Sonic; he's the fastest thing alive; the fastest thing alive!
he had to go fast to avoid that one.
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Hey gran, isn't the laundry already done? If not then get to work! Chop chop!!!
~RUNS~
j/k!!!
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gran, I do hope that you are having a good night and that work is going well.
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I blame XKCD for this one.
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Hey, captain! The sundial you built looks awesome!
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The biggest myth in education.
Fascinating.
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Testing Impus Minor's first absence today.
We'll see whether we get an all-clear, "He can come back tomorrow," or whether he's going to get locked out of school until he gets a COVID test.
I appreciate that California's extreme caution has led to the lowest COVID rate in the country.
But no-brain policies of, "You can't be absent unless you're sick, and if you're sick you can't come back until you're tested for COVID," are aggravating, to say the least.
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Chrono Trigger good
chrono trigger very good.
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Testing Impus Minor's first absence today.
We'll see whether we get an all-clear, "He can come back tomorrow," or whether he's going to get locked out of school until he gets a COVID test.
I appreciate that California's extreme caution has led to the lowest COVID rate in the country.
But no-brain policies of, "You can't be absent unless you're sick, and if you're sick you can't come back until you're tested for COVID," are aggravating, to say the least.
Work has been the same way, but the part-timers BOTH called in last week and were back on their next scheduled day.
Unrelated: I'm feeling a bit nauseous... :>
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One of my favorite homonym pairs is "illicit" vs. "elicit".
Very different meanings, and almost inevitably hilarious when someone mistakenly uses the former instead of the latter.
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Well, illicit activity can elicit a reaction from witnesses.
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Far Cry 6 is live now. And too damn expensive for me to buy it...
Oh, it isn't on Steam or Humble Bundle? Never mind then, Ubisoft failed to accept cardless PayPal payment so no Far Cry 6 for me until it appears elsewhere than Ubisoft or Epic.
:(
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Far Cry 6 is live now. And too damn expensive for me to buy it...
Oh, it isn't on Steam or Humble Bundle? Never mind then, Ubisoft failed to accept cardless PayPal payment so no Far Cry 6 for me until it appears elsewhere than Ubisoft or Epic.
:(
Yeah, GothBard and Shiro have it and will likely be playing it all night tonight. My entire reaction was, "Another separate game library system? I don't need to play that bad."
I'll let you know what they think of it tomorrow.
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Far Cry 6 is live now. And too damn expensive for me to buy it...
Oh, it isn't on Steam or Humble Bundle? Never mind then, Ubisoft failed to accept cardless PayPal payment so no Far Cry 6 for me until it appears elsewhere than Ubisoft or Epic.
:(
Yeah, GothBard and Shiro have it and will likely be playing it all night tonight. My entire reaction was, "Another separate game library system? I don't need to play that bad."
I'll let you know what they think of it tomorrow.
I already have Steam, GoG Galaxy, and Ubisoft Connect, but all the games on the last are the games that (a) I bought on Humble Bundle; (b) got for free during promotions; (c) are weird Steam-purchased-gifted by you, Steam-installed monstrosities that have to open Ubisoft Connect client to start.
I am bitter about Epic because of their year or longer exclusivity contracts with creators. The stories that their clients dig deeper in the system compared to other game library clients do not help, so I don't have an Epic account nor get anything there... To the point that I ignore free game giveaways there.
The problem is that Steam, GoG, and Humble Bundle support payments with PayPal without issues (though Steam requires relinquishing the right to return game when paying with PayPal, probably as a safety against people playing the game and then canceling the payment, which is supposedly easier on PayPal than when paying with an actual card), Ubisoft Connect (and Lord Of The Rings Online) do not accept PayPal balance payments requiring a card to be connected to the PayPal account, which is a big NO for me.
Well, that and the price that exceeds $ on my PayPal AND the amount of money I am currently willing to spend on a game - for that amount of money I could get a dental filling here.
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The review of Far Cry 6 I just watched was quite positive, though I already noted one thing I dislike was mentioned - supposed removal of skills as such turning them into perks that are attached to weapons...
Give me back my generic RPG elements!
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Wow, you must be making serious book. My last filling after insurance was something like 200$ US.
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...Well, that and the price that exceeds $ on my PayPal AND the amount of money I am currently willing to spend on a game - for that amount of money I could get a dental filling here.
Yeah; one of the least-appreciated things about living here is that the cost of living is so ludicrous that worldwide prices are silly. Far Cry 6 = 3.75 lunches for Impus Minor. It's not even a minor trip to the grocery store.
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Wow, you must be making serious book. My last filling after insurance was something like 200$ US.
Different country different dental prices.
Here a cheap filling costs 200-300 złoty, with better ones and more complex being more expensive - without any insurance. Złoty to dollar conversion rate is nearly 4:1 now. Serious work like root channel or proper crown gets more expensive, though.
Far Cry 6 costs 250 złoty.
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...Well, that and the price that exceeds $ on my PayPal AND the amount of money I am currently willing to spend on a game - for that amount of money I could get a dental filling here.Yeah; one of the least-appreciated things about living here is that the cost of living is so ludicrous that worldwide prices are silly. Far Cry 6 = 3.75 lunches for Impus Minor. It's not even a minor trip to the grocery store.
Kobold Minion Foreman: mumble-mumble-shisss-mumble
Drejk: What do you mean lunches are not liquid assets?! Dammit! Thwarted again!
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...Well, that and the price that exceeds $ on my PayPal AND the amount of money I am currently willing to spend on a game - for that amount of money I could get a dental filling here.Yeah; one of the least-appreciated things about living here is that the cost of living is so ludicrous that worldwide prices are silly. Far Cry 6 = 3.75 lunches for Impus Minor. It's not even a minor trip to the grocery store.
And in comparison, for me, it is either five orderings of a big (60 cm/2-feet) pizza, ten modest restaurant meals, or groceries for two to three weeks. Typically I take a single 100 złoty bill going for a weekly shopping, though it varies depending on what was on promotions, and what fancy struck me (like cheese).
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...Well, that and the price that exceeds $ on my PayPal AND the amount of money I am currently willing to spend on a game - for that amount of money I could get a dental filling here.Yeah; one of the least-appreciated things about living here is that the cost of living is so ludicrous that worldwide prices are silly. Far Cry 6 = 3.75 lunches for Impus Minor. It's not even a minor trip to the grocery store.
Kobold Minion Foreman: mumble-mumble-shisss-mumble
Drejk: What do you mean lunches are not liquid assets?! Dammit! Thwarted again!
Well... they could be...
Depends on what the boss thinks of adult beverages on the lunch break...
Note: Not saying Impus Minor has lunches of this variety.
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Yup I failed my Will save and will be picking up Far Cry 6 on my way home from work tomorrow.
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...Well, that and the price that exceeds $ on my PayPal AND the amount of money I am currently willing to spend on a game - for that amount of money I could get a dental filling here.Yeah; one of the least-appreciated things about living here is that the cost of living is so ludicrous that worldwide prices are silly. Far Cry 6 = 3.75 lunches for Impus Minor. It's not even a minor trip to the grocery store.
Kobold Minion Foreman: mumble-mumble-shisss-mumble
Drejk: What do you mean lunches are not liquid assets?! Dammit! Thwarted again!Well... they could be...
Depends on what the boss thinks of adult beverages on the lunch break...
Note: Not saying Impus Minor has lunches of this variety.
You should work with body builders, they'll introduce you to a whole new world of protein shakes and powders.
Of course then they'll want to carry ALL your boulders for you, as if I can't carry my own boulders.
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Yup I failed my Will save and will be picking up Far Cry 6 on my way home from work tomorrow.
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I'll let you know what they think of it tomorrow.
I expect something like "more of the same - mostly in positive sense - with some minor tweaks and improvements"
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Finished Falcon/Winter Soldier this evening. It's hands-down my favorite of the three MCU TV series.
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Finished Falcon/Winter Soldier this evening. It's hands-down my favorite of the three MCU TV series.
I made a Spotify playlist called "I like 40s music".
And it's really good!
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Last day of teaching before early fall break. I'm exhausted and I really need the vacation.
Not that it's going to be a ton of fun, we have to scrape and repaint all the exterior window frames and trim on the house next week and finally try to figure out what the weird smell is coming up through the vents (when the house was built, they thought it would be a great idea to have the air circulate in the space underneath the house to cool it down, so what comes through the vents smells like the anus of Cerberus), and it's back up to the 90s here, but at least I won't be "working".
Good times.
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It's my second day of fixing everything former coworker and his crew installed in their two and a half days here.
Which is a bit ridiculous considering he's been doing this for twice as long as I have.
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Finished Falcon/Winter Soldier this evening. It's hands-down my favorite of the three MCU TV series.
I made a Spotify playlist called "I like 40s music".
And it's really good!
Treppa! Treppa!