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Finished with my snow run.
It was a good run, got everything done on my list in 11 hours and then ended up helping the boss and a bunch of the other guys I've worked with for years finish up the last big apartment complex someone else had flaked on.
Which is always fun because together we're like a well oiled machine so we hardly even talk to each other when we get there and just fall into our usual roles and knock it out (in fairness that's what happens when you've worked with people for twenty years).
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It also could be a pub. As in "Oi! Let's go round tha Stinkye Gorget and haff a pint of tha ol' 'Alf-Blind Ferret."I hath anne Stinkye Gorget.Is that one of those weird British beers that you drink warm?I think it's like a metal dickey.
Dickey as in the clothing item. Not like steely dan.
Cookies. Because the cadence of that line rolled like a Hobbit drinking song.
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It also could be a pub. As in "Oi! Let's go round tha Stinkye Gorget and haff a pint of tha ol' 'Alf-Blind Ferret."I hath anne Stinkye Gorget.Is that one of those weird British beers that you drink warm?I think it's like a metal dickey.
Dickey as in the clothing item. Not like steely dan.
All of those things are true. It may or may not also be a piece of armour protecting the throat.
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Interesting.
It turns out you get pretty sore working 24 hours in a 48 hour time span.
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The nice thing about winter is there are 3 other people that work here in the winter with my first name, so it gets pretty hilarious when the lady in dispatch tries to get ahold of one of us.
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One of the things I hate about the modern medical industry is their utter reticence in providing information about follow-up care or symptoms.
When GothBard had her gall bladder out, she had extreme pain and digestive issues for weeks after the treatment. Was this normal? Was this something to be concerned about? We got absolutely no information from the hospital, even something as simple as, "If you get these symptoms, get back to the hospital immediately," and we were left making multiple calls to advice nurses, the hospital, the surgeon, and GothBard's primary care physician, all of which can be summed up with, "We don't want to tell you anything concrete, but don't bother with the hospital unless it gets really bad."
We're now in the same boat with Impus Major. Yesterday while walking uphill on campus he had the same mild heart pain. Is this normal 3 weeks after having myocarditis? It seems like it should be, but neither Google nor the release docs gave me any useful information, so yet again I'm forced to call my primary care physician, an advice nurse, and the hospital, all to get a simple answer to, "Is this expected, or do we need to get him a wheelchair for getting around campus, or should we get him back to the hospital?"
Providing too little information in health care is to no one's best interest...
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One of the things I hate about the modern medical industry is their utter reticence in providing information about follow-up care or symptoms.
When GothBard had her gall bladder out, she had extreme pain and digestive issues for weeks after the treatment. Was this normal? Was this something to be concerned about? We got absolutely no information from the hospital, even something as simple as, "If you get these symptoms, get back to the hospital immediately," and we were left making multiple calls to advice nurses, the hospital, the surgeon, and GothBard's primary care physician, all of which can be summed up with, "We don't want to tell you anything concrete, but don't bother with the hospital unless it gets really bad."
We're now in the same boat with Impus Major. Yesterday while walking uphill on campus he had the same mild heart pain. Is this normal 3 weeks after having myocarditis? It seems like it should be, but neither Google nor the release docs gave me any useful information, so yet again I'm forced to call my primary care physician, an advice nurse, and the hospital, all to get a simple answer to, "Is this expected, or do we need to get him a wheelchair for getting around campus, or should we get him back to the hospital?"
Providing too little information in health care is to no one's best interest...
I want to agree with you, but after years of both mom and grandma nursing experience, there are only a handful of places in the body where you SHOULD NOT be feeling any pain whatsoever and if you do you have to go to the doctor more or less now, even if just for blood tests and consult. The heart is one of them.
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I want to agree with you, but after years of both mom and grandma nursing experience, there are only a handful of places in the body where you SHOULD NOT be feeling any pain whatsoever and if you do you have to go to the doctor more or less now, even if just for blood tests and consult. The heart is one of them.One of the things I hate about the modern medical industry is their utter reticence in providing information about follow-up care or symptoms.
When GothBard had her gall bladder out, she had extreme pain and digestive issues for weeks after the treatment. Was this normal? Was this something to be concerned about? We got absolutely no information from the hospital, even something as simple as, "If you get these symptoms, get back to the hospital immediately," and we were left making multiple calls to advice nurses, the hospital, the surgeon, and GothBard's primary care physician, all of which can be summed up with, "We don't want to tell you anything concrete, but don't bother with the hospital unless it gets really bad."
We're now in the same boat with Impus Major. Yesterday while walking uphill on campus he had the same mild heart pain. Is this normal 3 weeks after having myocarditis? It seems like it should be, but neither Google nor the release docs gave me any useful information, so yet again I'm forced to call my primary care physician, an advice nurse, and the hospital, all to get a simple answer to, "Is this expected, or do we need to get him a wheelchair for getting around campus, or should we get him back to the hospital?"
Providing too little information in health care is to no one's best interest...
My anxiety disagrees with that. Yes, I had my heart tested and the results were within norm.
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Second antigen test results are negative today.
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It is not terribly reliable, doubly so with my clumsy hands, and my broken nose being oversensitive to trying to get a good swabbing.
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I want to agree with you, but after years of both mom and grandma nursing experience, there are only a handful of places in the body where you SHOULD NOT be feeling any pain whatsoever and if you do you have to go to the doctor more or less now, even if just for blood tests and consult. The heart is one of them.One of the things I hate about the modern medical industry is their utter reticence in providing information about follow-up care or symptoms.
When GothBard had her gall bladder out, she had extreme pain and digestive issues for weeks after the treatment. Was this normal? Was this something to be concerned about? We got absolutely no information from the hospital, even something as simple as, "If you get these symptoms, get back to the hospital immediately," and we were left making multiple calls to advice nurses, the hospital, the surgeon, and GothBard's primary care physician, all of which can be summed up with, "We don't want to tell you anything concrete, but don't bother with the hospital unless it gets really bad."
We're now in the same boat with Impus Major. Yesterday while walking uphill on campus he had the same mild heart pain. Is this normal 3 weeks after having myocarditis? It seems like it should be, but neither Google nor the release docs gave me any useful information, so yet again I'm forced to call my primary care physician, an advice nurse, and the hospital, all to get a simple answer to, "Is this expected, or do we need to get him a wheelchair for getting around campus, or should we get him back to the hospital?"
Providing too little information in health care is to no one's best interest...
Well, keep in mind that he was already hospitalized with a heart issue. So imagine pulling a calf muscle. The doctors can treat the immediate pain, then tell you, "It's going to be weak for the next 3 months. Don't do anything strenuous."
And you do something strenuous, and it hurts, and you think, "D'oh!" but you're not worried.Impus Major was told to avoid strenuous exercise for 3 months as his heart heals. Finding that exercise that increases his heart rate causes him discomfort seems perfectly reasonable. But I'm not a doctor, and with his heart involved I don't want to hypothesize. So I'm waiting for the doctor's call-back now.
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When they had to rebuild my nose with stitches I was told "no heavy lifting!" I actually had them clarify what they considered to be heavy lifting because I figured it was entirely different than mine.
It turns out they considered "heavy lifting" to be anything over 25 pounds, while I was "taking it easy" by only building a wall with 60 pound blocks (as opposed to the usual 80-120 pound blocks we usually built with.
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Finally got my callback, and the doctor said that while the discomfort isn't "normal", considering he was told to avoid strenuous exercise for 6 months and he's reporting a pain level of 1 of 10 while exercising and the pain goes away as soon as he rests, she's not concerned that he's doing any harm and he can wait until next week's MRI to see what's going on.
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FIREDOVE IS HOME
We have a long way to go for full recovery, but she is home, and that's wonderful!
FIREDOVE IS HOME
We have a long way to go for full recovery, but she is home, and that's wonderful!
WOOT!
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FIREDOVE IS HOME
We have a long way to go for full recovery, but she is home, and that's wonderful!
Getting home is a huge deal! It truly is amazing how quickly one heals in a loving environment!
Good luck!!
Obviously, there will be no Legend Of Five Rings session this week (there were some voices saying we might be able to gather, alas, it was not to be...)
FIREDOVE IS HOME
We have a long way to go for full recovery, but she is home, and that's wonderful!
WOOHOO!!!!!
Soooo happy for all of you!
FIREDOVE IS HOME
We have a long way to go for full recovery, but she is home, and that's wonderful!
Fantastic news! :)
FIREDOVE IS HOME
We have a long way to go for full recovery, but she is home, and that's wonderful!
Hurrah!!!
Random technical question because why not?
We've been using DnDBeyond for our 5e campaign, and the die roller has been epically bad. (My elf cleric hasn't managed to roll over a 5 on any knowledge check in around 7 sessions, leading to all kinds of blonde jokes.)
After we nearly died from bad rolls last session I created a spreadsheet and entered my rolls: Bottom 4%. Put in Shiro's character's rolls. Bottom 1.7%. We're already at a 1/750 chance of the two of us having such bad days together, but it's been consistent: Last session was no worse than any of my other sessions!
So now I want to add a button to either Roll20 or DnDBeyond that says, "Take all the raw 1d20 rolls for the session and add them to the spreadsheet."
I could code it easily enough if either web site had an API, but neither seems to have anything for extracting die rolls.
Anyone know of such a thing? Hand-entering all the rolls for every session is do-able, but a bit of a PITA.
On the other hand, we're beginning to strongly suspect that DnDBeyond's die roller is heavily skewed in favor of the GM, to the tune of an average around 8 for players and 13 for the GM.
I just need more data to prove it.
FIREDOVE IS HOME
We have a long way to go for full recovery, but she is home, and that's wonderful!
I am very, very glad to hear she is home. Do you need anything at the moment?
We had similar perceived experience (no actual hard data, though) while playing Pathfinder Second edition with Gorbacz on Fantasy Grounds, to the point where we joked that the system favored the GM because she was the only person that actually paid for it.
When GM got a streak of bad rolls and we bounced up a bit, we joked that her subscription probably run out.
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Did I tell you guys I got Super Robot Wars 30 to celebrate getting the new job?
Because I got Super Robot Wars 30 to celebrate getting the new job.
I choked up a bit when the Ra Cailum showed up and played the main theme to Char's Counterattack.
Random technical question because why not?
We've been using DnDBeyond for our 5e campaign, and the die roller has been epically bad. (My elf cleric hasn't managed to roll over a 5 on any knowledge check in around 7 sessions, leading to all kinds of blonde jokes.)
After we nearly died from bad rolls last session I created a spreadsheet and entered my rolls: Bottom 4%. Put in Shiro's character's rolls. Bottom 1.7%. We're already at a 1/750 chance of the two of us having such bad days together, but it's been consistent: Last session was no worse than any of my other sessions!....
You only need to get to ~1/10,000 before it becomes a legit complaint over a quirk, IMO.
API seems vanishingly unlikely in terms of monetization, IMO.
Anyone know one of the Devs?
Yep, but after I crunched the numbers for the day we got confirmation that for that day, every player was below average and the GM was above average. I'll be parsing the previous session tomorrow because mo data, mo better.
I know that some of the people in my group thought that the Roll20 roller was consistently low, but personally I felt like it was fine.
When everyone at a R20 table is having the same horrific 'dice luck' it balances out.
Confirmation bias, though, always seems to indicate that it's the players getting low rolls and the GMs getting higher ones
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Getting warm outside, it's already -14 degrees (actual temperature, not wind chill, which doesn't apply to us as we always wear layers outside).
I always figured if I had to stat myself for Pathfinder I'd most likely be a Rogue. But I've come to realization over the past year as I've taken on more responsibility that I'd actually be a Bard. Not one of those bards that can play music or act or anything, but I'm really good at inspiring people to work, even people that normally wouldn't work that hard.
I suppose I should probably get a mandolin now or something.
I always figured if I had to stat myself for Pathfinder I'd most likely be a Rogue. But I've come to realization over the past year as I've taken on more responsibility that I'd actually be a Bard. Not one of those bards that can play music or act or anything, but I'm really good at inspiring people to work, even people that normally wouldn't work that hard.
I suppose I should probably get a mandolin now or something.
I humbly suggest carved boulder bongos!
Though I bet it is still 50% the hair that inspires others there Cap.
Did I tell you guys I love Super Robot Wars?
Because I love Super Robot Wars.
Anyone else like to cut the edge off their slice of bread, stick it above their upper lip, and say "Behold! I am Sir Isaac Gluten. Bow before the glory of my crustache."? Or is it just me?
Only you.
And now Pagan Min returns in the second DLC for Far Cry 6, while I am still replaying Far Cry 4. Far Cry 6 is still not on HumbleBundle/Steam. Ah, well. One day. I hope.
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Today is my first day back at work. I'm still not up to dealing with our clients in a constructive manner. I'm finding it nearly impossible to deal with their petty and stupid behavior in a diplomatic manner. I'm not great at that to begin with (surprising, I know), but right now I'm handling it by not verbally talking to them.
Mom's estate is going to be in probate for several months. My aunt is grieving by trying to go through the house and "laying claim" to random knickknacks that she had given to Mom. My uncle keeps telling her to back off, but it's just how she's trying to get through it herself.
I went through Mom's email on Monday. For every one email that was important enough to keep on the first pass I deleted 35.
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I truly hate wealth by level.
I don't, but I only use it to determine starting gold for a group at the beginning of a campaign. I have a tendency to give out more than what WBL prescribes as the campaign goes on.