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Gotta love getting up to the desk to start your shift at the same time as the fire department comes in because some a!#@@%~ kids have set off the smoke alarm in their room. They're a high school wrestling team (which is never a good sign) and were apparently "saunaing" in the bathroom to try and drop weight for their match tomorrow. Fire department told them to stop it, and so far I haven't had any issues. 2nd shift said he had lots of trouble with the kids, the coach, and the parents, though.
Oh, and the best part? Whoever did the group contract never put it in the system, so we had no idea they were coming until they showed up. A dozen rooms we didn't know we were going to need, just because someone (probably the manager) couldn't be f@#~ed to put it in the computer. Or, more likely, tell someone else to do it.
Jesus. I'm sorry.
I know a bit about high school wrestling and while I am surprised the steam set off the alarm(and I hope they were not trying to use it to mask their cigarette/pot smoking) , I do know of saunaing as an INCREDIBLY desperate tactic to ensure you make weight for your class. I know you have no love for this kind of disruption and potential damage to your facilities, but I pray you look on these kids with some mercy- chances are this is the only chance some weird-weighted kid has for a scholarship. Again, provided everyone involved is being honest.
As honest as I am naked.
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Mayonnaise Golem? Sure that sounds gross.
But if you want terrifying you can't beat a Jell-O Golem.
Can't beat a combination of The Terminator 2, a gelatinous cube and an alchemical golem (because of Jell-O shots).
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Mayonnaise Golem? Sure that sounds gross.
But if you want terrifying you can't beat a Jell-O Golem.
Can't beat a combination of The Terminator 2, a gelatinous cube and an alchemical golem (because of Jell-O shots).
Cap gets cookies.
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Good afternoon there John!
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Just here to say Bravely Default 2 is a really good game and isn't a direct sequel so you don't need to play the first game to get it.
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For some deep seated reason I find the idea of a mayo golem more disturbing than a blood golem...
I would take levels in ranger just to have that as my favoured enemy.
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In other news, today's trip to town to buy cabbage and underpants also involved a trip to Ye Olde Secondhand Bookshop, where they had lots of books.
I bought, for £15, because the vendor thought I had a cheeky face (beneath the mask), or because I made the Secret Sign without knowing it:
1) 'Fantasy Warlord', a failed rival to Warhammer, mainly for the fab Gary Chalk art
2) A book of Chris Achilleos' battle bikini-heavy artwork
3) 1 x Duelmaster gamebook
4) 'The City In The Autumn Stars', by Michael Moorcock
5) 6 x copies of 'Warlock: the Fighting Fantasy Magazine.
Not bad.
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This has just NOT been a good week for our family.
First, Shiro's son and I got the aforementioned food poisoning, knocking us clean out of Tuesday and making us fairly useless on Wednesday as well.
Well, yesterday Impus Major got his booster shot. Worst that can happen is a sore arm, right?
Nope. Today he was supposed to spend all day and night (11 hours total) with a friend back from Germany (yes, everyone, Mr. Stereotype is home! Woo hoo!), but he was feeling unwell last night, and this morning had a 101.3˚F fever. He tried to go out anyway, and admirably made it for almost two hours before collapsing and having to come home.
He's now asleep on the couch under a massive pile of blankets, as I was two days ago, and I vastly sympathize.
The absolute worst part?
Tomorrow night GothBard and Shiro conspired to have us go out to a $350 a person, non-refundable dinner at Alexander's Steakhouse in San Francisco.
And Shiro went and got his booster today.
(Though, knowing Shiro and how much he loves Alexander's, I suspect he'd hire an ambulance to wheel him in in a gurney just to have that ultra-special dinner. And I get to get chastised for however many courses for not having wine with dinner. I swear, no matter how nice the restaurant, if you don't drink their wine you're an ingrate.)
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uggg, poor lad. Hope ya feel better there soon Impus Major!
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uggg, poor lad. Hope ya feel better there soon Impus Major!
He's already bellowing out songs. Which is hilarious, because he says he still feels horrible. But it's, "Wake up, use the bathroom, bellow out a song, go back to sleep."
Seems like an improvement.
It'll be a hoot if Shiro ends up in a similar boat -- we'll give the people at Alexander's conniptions. Which I almost always do at high-end restaurants because of two facts about my taste buds:
(1) I do not care for shellfish, because whatever "delicate" flavor they are supposed to have tastes like rotting sea water to me. I'm my group's favorite "fake krab" detector because if I like the "crab" dip or "crab" sushi, they know the restaurant is using fake crab. (Which is made from fish, so I find it quite palatable.)
(2) Similarly, I do not care for organ meats because once again the flavor sensation I get is one of intense rot.
So, if you're a high-end restaurant and you can't give your guest foie gras or oysters on the half-shell or lobster bisque, what are you to do?
Er... feed me vertebrates and vegetables. I'll happily take corn or chicken soup over lobster bisque, and steamed broccoli over oysters any day of the week.
I'm easy to please; chefs just like to make it a challenge for themselves.
(The French Laundry stands above and beyond as a restaurant whose entire approach was, "We dare you to try to be unhappy." Their planned meal was full of shellfish, but they had a vegetarian option... for the same price. I ordered it anyway. And it still stands out as the best meal I've ever had, vegetarian or no. Also possibly the most expensive, but I know Alexander's is up there in the stratosphere but I never get to see the bill, so I don't know. So there you go:
(1) Best meal I've ever had.
(2) Most expensive meal I've ever paid for myself.)
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uggg, poor lad. Hope ya feel better there soon Impus Major!
He's already bellowing out songs. Which is hilarious, because he says he still feels horrible. But it's, "Wake up, use the bathroom, bellow out a song, go back to sleep."
Seems like an improvement.
It'll be a hoot if Shiro ends up in a similar boat -- we'll give the people at Alexander's conniptions. Which I almost always do at high-end restaurants because of two facts about my taste buds:
(1) I do not care for shellfish, because whatever "delicate" flavor they are supposed to have tastes like rotting sea water to me. I'm my group's favorite "fake krab" detector because if I like the "crab" dip or "crab" sushi, they know the restaurant is using fake crab. (Which is made from fish, so I find it quite palatable.)
(2) Similarly, I do not care for organ meats because once again the flavor sensation I get is one of intense rot.
So, if you're a high-end restaurant and you can't give your guest foie gras or oysters on the half-shell or lobster bisque, what are you to do?
Er... feed me vertebrates and vegetables. I'll happily take corn or chicken soup over lobster bisque, and steamed broccoli over oysters any day of the week.
I'm easy to please; chefs just like to make it a challenge for themselves.
(The French Laundry stands above and beyond as a restaurant whose entire approach was, "We dare you to try to be unhappy." Their planned meal was full of shellfish, but they had a vegetarian option... for the same price. I ordered it anyway. And it still stands out as the best meal I've ever had, vegetarian or no. Also possibly the most expensive, but I know Alexander's is up there in the stratosphere but I never get to see the bill, so I don't know. So there you go:
(1) Best meal I've ever had.
(2) Most expensive meal I've ever paid for myself.)
Yes, but then the poor chef is in the back trying to do something novel and creative-sounding to chicken and broccoli to justify the snootacular price tag. Shellac the chicken breast in unobtanium? Dust the broccoli with powdered pixie privates?
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No problem at all.
I'm one of those elder millennials who just barely don't qualify for X classification so I really do get it, I myself was "educated" about it less than a year ago much like how over the last decade I had to get out of the habit of using a fair number of other terms and phrases that were similarly seen as problematic, hateful, or offensive etc.
I consider this a failing on my children's part.
I was warning GothBard about it and Impus Major piped up from his sick bed, "Oh, yeah! Twitch streamers are getting banned for using it!"
Thanks for telling your folks, young whippersnapper!
Just here to say Bravely Default 2 is a really good game and isn't a direct sequel so you don't need to play the first game to get it.
BRAVELY DEFAUUUUUUUUUULT
In other news, today's trip to town to buy cabbage and underpants also involved a trip to Ye Olde Secondhand Bookshop, where they had lots of books.
I bought, for £15, because the vendor thought I had a cheeky face (beneath the mask), or because I made the Secret Sign without knowing it:
1) 'Fantasy Warlord', a failed rival to Warhammer, mainly for the fab Gary Chalk art
2) A book of Chris Achilleos' battle bikini-heavy artwork
3) 1 x Duelmaster gamebook
4) 'The City In The Autumn Stars', by Michael Moorcock
5) 6 x copies of 'Warlock: the Fighting Fantasy Magazine.Not bad.
DID YOU SAY GARY CHALK?!?!
FOR SOMMERLUND
FOR THE KAI
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I'm sorry, this type of management post drives me nuts, because it's so gosh-darned vague. One of you has offended other members of the community, but we're not going to tell you which of you has committed the offense, or how.
And because I'm me, excruciatingly codependent with a bevy of anxiety issues, I immediately go back through my last hundred or so posts to look to see if I remember anything that might be missing. Spock me, was it my fault? Was I rude/insensitive/ make an awkward joke that fell flat, again?
Or am I the only one who feels that way?
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I'm sorry, this type of management post drives me nuts, because it's so gosh-darned vague. One of you has offended other members of the community, but we're not going to tell you which of you has committed the offense, or how.
And because I'm me, excruciatingly codependent with a bevy of anxiety issues, I immediately go back through my last hundred or so posts to look to see if I remember anything that might be missing. Spock me, was it my fault? Was I rude/insensitive/ make an awkward joke that fell flat, again?
Or am I the only one who feels that way?
No, that's my first reaction. I think it was the Black Eyed Peas thing for whatever reason.
No, that's my first reaction. I think it was the Black Eyed Peas thing for whatever reason.I'm sorry, this type of management post drives me nuts, because it's so gosh-darned vague. One of you has offended other members of the community, but we're not going to tell you which of you has committed the offense, or how.
And because I'm me, excruciatingly codependent with a bevy of anxiety issues, I immediately go back through my last hundred or so posts to look to see if I remember anything that might be missing. Spock me, was it my fault? Was I rude/insensitive/ make an awkward joke that fell flat, again?
Or am I the only one who feels that way?
Realization has dawned.
Thanks for clearing that up. I feel better now.
This has just NOT been a good week for our family.
First, Shiro's son and I got the aforementioned food poisoning, knocking us clean out of Tuesday and making us fairly useless on Wednesday as well.
Well, yesterday Impus Major got his booster shot. Worst that can happen is a sore arm, right?
Nope. Today he was supposed to spend all day and night (11 hours total) with a friend back from Germany (yes, everyone, Mr. Stereotype is home! Woo hoo!), but he was feeling unwell last night, and this morning had a 101.3˚F fever. He tried to go out anyway, and admirably made it for almost two hours before collapsing and having to come home.
He's now asleep on the couch under a massive pile of blankets, as I was two days ago, and I vastly sympathize.
The absolute worst part?
Tomorrow night GothBard and Shiro conspired to have us go out to a $350 a person, non-refundable dinner at Alexander's Steakhouse in San Francisco.
And Shiro went and got his booster today.
(Though, knowing Shiro and how much he loves Alexander's, I suspect he'd hire an ambulance to wheel him in in a gurney just to have that ultra-special dinner. And I get to get chastised for however many courses for not having wine with dinner. I swear, no matter how nice the restaurant, if you don't drink their wine you're an ingrate.)
Heal up baby bro and bring old Freehold a doggy bag.
uggg, poor lad. Hope ya feel better there soon Impus Major!
He's already bellowing out songs. Which is hilarious, because he says he still feels horrible. But it's, "Wake up, use the bathroom, bellow out a song, go back to sleep."
Seems like an improvement.
He seems to be taking it worse than me half a month ago. I was able to stay in front of the computer about half the time - somehow my old duvet was quite good at handling shivers - or maybe just the shivers worsened when I was lying in my bed instead of sitting in front of computer.
It'll be a hoot if Shiro ends up in a similar boat -- we'll give the people at Alexander's conniptions. Which I almost always do at high-end restaurants because of two facts about my taste buds:
I have to admit I had to google conniptions.
Fun fact, I started to wonder why the surprise dinner, why all the fuss?
Only after I read all of that, it occurred to me that it is supposed to be a new year's eve.
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I'm sorry, this type of management post drives me nuts, because it's so gosh-darned vague. One of you has offended other members of the community, but we're not going to tell you which of you has committed the offense, or how.
And because I'm me, excruciatingly codependent with a bevy of anxiety issues, I immediately go back through my last hundred or so posts to look to see if I remember anything that might be missing. Spock me, was it my fault? Was I rude/insensitive/ make an awkward joke that fell flat, again?
Or am I the only one who feels that way?
LOL. No; I feel the same way. Except this time I flagged my own post so we're all safe from the moderators...
...for now...
I have to admit I had to google conniptions.
They're a garnish, similar to capers except made with tapirs.
Fun fact, I started to wonder why the surprise dinner, why all the fuss?
Only after I read all of that, it occurred to me that it is supposed to be a new year's eve.
Yep. The Fake Russian isn't doing his annual sleepover this year, so we wanted to do something outside of the house that would get us off the streets well before midnight. Then GothBard spotted the Alexander's thing, knew Shiro would go nuts for it, so she booked reservations. Hardly a surprise.
So the kids'll be 6 blocks away, we'll be home by 10 pm, and hopefully we'll all be able to ring in the new year cheerfully.
I'm sorry, this type of management post drives me nuts, because it's so gosh-darned vague. One of you has offended other members of the community, but we're not going to tell you which of you has committed the offense, or how.
And because I'm me, excruciatingly codependent with a bevy of anxiety issues, I immediately go back through my last hundred or so posts to look to see if I remember anything that might be missing. Spock me, was it my fault? Was I rude/insensitive/ make an awkward joke that fell flat, again?
Or am I the only one who feels that way?
LOL. No; I feel the same way. Except this time I flagged my own post so we're all safe from the moderators...
...for now...
Was that some word or expression that you used that was questionable but not really common? If so, could you PM it to me?
As non-native English speaker I don't have much opportunity to learn what terms/expressions have second offensive meaning - it is much harder to discern that from written sources.
I'm sorry, this type of management post drives me nuts, because it's so gosh-darned vague. One of you has offended other members of the community, but we're not going to tell you which of you has committed the offense, or how.
And because I'm me, excruciatingly codependent with a bevy of anxiety issues, I immediately go back through my last hundred or so posts to look to see if I remember anything that might be missing. Spock me, was it my fault? Was I rude/insensitive/ make an awkward joke that fell flat, again?
Or am I the only one who feels that way?
LOL. No; I feel the same way. Except this time I flagged my own post so we're all safe from the moderators...
...for now...
Was that some word or expression that you used that was questionable but not really common? If so, could you PM it to me?
As non-native English speaker I don't have much opportunity to learn what terms/expressions have second offensive meaning - it is much harder to discern that from written sources.
Done, with contextual examples.
Two great questions posed by two people who have no idea what they are talking about are discussing Marc Antony:
"Does he own a pizza place, or is he an actor that knows The Rock?"
and
"Is Marc Antony involved in hentai?"
He better be.
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Geez, how I hate New Year's Eve:
(1) The #1 drunk driving death day of the year.
(2) If you can't avoid #1, then the astonishing number of people who think nothing of discharging their firearms into the air in a heavily-populated urban area at the stroke of midnight. Back when Impus Major was born we lived in the Richmond hills, and every New Year's Eve and 4th of July some yahoo up the street fired off his high-caliber revolver at the stroke of midnight. Six loud, clear, BANGs, with absolutely no safe direction for the bullets to go.
(3) Ignoring the danger of #1 and #2, if you don't drink alcohol at the stroke of midnight then you're a monster who should be shunned. You'd be amazed how many people think, "Oh, just have a sip," is harmless and not grossly insulting.
(4) I've been an early riser since my teen years, so a 10:00 pm bedtime is normal for me, and 11:00 pm is "a bit late". Being forced to be out past midnight "just because" always incensed me. I've always been grateful to the Fake Russian for his low-key, "Let's all get together at my place, play some board games until midnight, and then we can all go to bed and have pancakes in the morning," get-togethers. I'm fairly happy with tonight's arrangement (dinner is at 6:30 pm, so I expect to be home by 10:00 pm), but even in quiet old Albany there are always a few drunk driving crashes this evening, and the kids are going to be out until at least 1 or 2 am, so I doubt I'll get much sleep until they're both safely home. (Their limitation is, "No driving or riding on the freeway after midnight. Period. No ifs, ands, or buts.")
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I also hate New Year's Eve.
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The wife and I are going to consume delicious preserved meats, fancy cheeses, have some wine, and relax. Perhaps we will watch some of the new season of Big Mouth...just to dirty up the otherwise clean fun of the evening, also perhaps some board games with the neighbors.
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I love new years eve but I can see how others might not.
And yes, non alcoholic beverages should be available for those who do not make use of alcohol. Sparkling cider is a personal favorite.
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YA BOI IS NEGATIVE FOR COVID
Will retest in 24 hours just to be sure
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Happy New Year's Eve there John!
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I had some decent New Years Eve parties in the past.
Except the part when I had to keep an eye on a friend whenever she was close to the balcony (5th-6th floor), because she was in rather quirky mood... Some two months after a suicide attempt.
I haven't been to New Year's Eve party in a long time though.
Fireworks Petards and crackers are simply annoying.
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Fantasy Monster: Kitchen Gremlin
...can I eat one?
Or have it sit in a simmering broth and flavor a meal for me?
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In other news, today's trip to town to buy cabbage and underpants also involved a trip to Ye Olde Secondhand Bookshop, where they had lots of books.
I bought, for £15, because the vendor thought I had a cheeky face (beneath the mask), or because I made the Secret Sign without knowing it:
1) 'Fantasy Warlord', a failed rival to Warhammer, mainly for the fab Gary Chalk art
2) A book of Chris Achilleos' battle bikini-heavy artwork
3) 1 x Duelmaster gamebook
4) 'The City In The Autumn Stars', by Michael Moorcock
5) 6 x copies of 'Warlock: the Fighting Fantasy Magazine.Not bad.
DID YOU SAY GARY CHALK?!?!
FOR SOMMERLUND
FOR THE KAI
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New Year's Eve is 'Amateur Night' for would-be social drinkers. There's an idiotic notion that it's the best drinking night of the year (and liquor stores/vendors double down on it).
I haven't overly imbibed on New Year's Eve since 2007(?) -- I was invited to a party in the city, had some champagne, got a mild headache. Then because there was one of those people made dinner and was incredibly callous with the ingredients .
Joke was on them.
Spent the next four hours mostly in the bathroom nearly turning it into a hazardous site.
No one dared 'test' again after that.