I still don't know how do the women keep up with that no/useless pockets crap...
I moved to wearing cargo pants/combat fatigues just to have a variety of big pockets on my pants. In fact, I am currently considering getting a worker's cargo pants that I saw in a shop some time ago.
I borrowed a game pad from my GM and tried playing Jedi: Fallen Order, with it instead of being a civilized person using mouse and a keyboard.
Interestingly, the enemies I run into seemed to respond slightly differently to my attacks - their parries didn't seem to be as ridiculously quick and unbreakable as when attacking them with a mouse button. That was (mis)blanaced by the fact that controlling camera with a pad instead of a mouse is an utter crap.
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I still don't know how do the women keep up with that no/useless pockets crap...
And therein you have the purse industry.
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New title at work!
Lead Foreman of Natural Stone, Hardscapes, and Concept Design.
Congratulations, LFNSHCD!
It's pretty much the same job I had last year but design concepts sounds a bit classier then art projects.
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Call the others "dumbass" and threaten to put your foot in their asses, and you could become "Red Foreman of Natural Stone, Hardscapes, and Concept Design".New title at work!
Lead Foreman of Natural Stone, Hardscapes, and Concept Design.
That would be Former Coworker that does that. He's even going bald like Red.
Although, fun story, my wife's parents look and act almost exactly like Red and Kitty.
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New Guy: Yeah, I'm supposed to go with Big Nate, does anyone know what he looks like?
Me Yes.
New Guy:... Are you going to tell me, or what..
Me: He's big.
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Freehold is my spirit animal.
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What The General said: Can you shore up the door!
What I heard: Can you whore up the door!
Needless to say, I was glad I asked her to repeat what she said as those are two very different things.
You should have tried it. If it worked out well then your boss could have added that to your duties.
CY's duties:
Snow removal
Building walls/patios
Keeping the tools organized
Carving boulders
Whoring up doors
Don't forget angry bear shaving via skid loaders.
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Yesterday was WW's last day with the postal service (11 whole days, probably not a record). He's home today to take delivery of his work computer for the new job, they've finished the background checks, he officially starts Wednesday, and our health insurance starts March 1st.
I cannot wait to get that health insurance card in my hand. I'm gonna be flashing that sucker around everywhere like it's a fat wad of Benjamins in a music video.
It's the Vimes' Boots thing. It just costs so much more freaking money to be poor. I damned near had a heart attack this summer when I had to pay out of pocket for two shots that Val had somehow missed, and it wiped out half of our savings. This is coming just in time, Hermione is due for a checkup and two booster shots this spring.
No more "gargle with peroxide and hope it goes away" when I have a toothache. No more, "No, you can't go to the birthday party at the trampoline place, because I can't afford an ER visit if you break something."
I couldn't find the Simpsons clip I wanted to use for your situation. Here is the runner up.
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Marvel Movie Timeline #15: Captain America: Civil War:
I walked into this one with high expectations: Everyone says it's one of the best, and I hadn't seen it before. I'll agree that it has a richer, more interesting plot and an insane amount of action, but somehow it didn't grab me as much as Thor or the original Avengers (or even Guardians of the Galaxy). So I have those three as my "top-tier" movies, and this is a slight cut below them.It's a really strong movie and it has a much darker plot than most, and the main characters' motivations are believable. But the pitch meeting hits many of the critical flaws: While Iron Man and Captain America have strong motivations for what they're doing, what the heck is Ant Man doing there? Hawkeye? Even the recruiting of Spider-Man is nonsensical.
"We have two major heroes who are going to duke it out. Let's throw in a whole bunch more heroes so it's a giant fight! Motivation? Don't need that!"
I liked it. I'd watch it again. But I'll humbly state that in my personal tastes, it's not among the best of them.
its a big team up/crossover movie. It's not supposed to make sense. I mean I love them both but Secret Wars and Crisis on Infinite Earth's didn't make a lot of sense.
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Thank you all for your support. Mom is healing slowly.
Congratulations, LFNSHCD!New title at work!
Lead Foreman of Natural Stone, Hardscapes, and Concept Design.
Gesundheit.
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Freehold is my spirit animal.
Bow-chicka-wow-wow?
Bow-chicka-wow-wow?Freehold is my spirit animal.
You did what to who's chicken for how many cookies?
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You did what to who's chicken for how many cookies?Bow-chicka-wow-wow?Freehold is my spirit animal.
Reminds me of a Terry Pratchett quote:
"Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken."
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You did what to who's chicken for how many cookies?Bow-chicka-wow-wow?Freehold is my spirit animal.
Plugged it in, then played it with a violin bow through a wah pedal, a la Jimmy Page.
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Today's beer, a rather powerful sour, is a good deal more to my taste than yesterday's pecan cocoa vanilla etc etc milk stout, which resembled liquid cake.
Okay, I'm making my wishlist of things I want to fix up on the house now that we can actually start to fix things.
Out on the front walk are two iron lamp posts, each about 4' high, at one time painted green, and at one time functional. The electric line to them died long ago, but I'm wondering if it's possible (after giving them the spray-Krylon treatment) to just insert solar LED light bulbs into the sockets. Particularly if I can get them in warm white.
Would this work? I know a few of you have skill ranks in this Knowledge area.
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So, through the use of peanut butter and an electric shock mouse trap I think I've created some sort of new Frankenstein mouse.
In that I bait the electric mouse trap, everything is installed properly, it has a "100% kill rate" and yet there's no dead mice.
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I had a mouse problem at my first apartment, and as much as I hated doing it we set traps because we had pet rats at the time who were NOT okay with sharing the home at ALL and more than once ended up "catching" a mouse trying to steal food from outside the cage and in the process grievously wounding the mouse my rat caught/bit/latched onto.
We weren't going to use poison so we tried a few different types of traps, first the plastic spring-loaded jaws types, which didn't work. We then moved to an electric solution and that too just flat out failed as I am pretty sure the mice never even entered the electric one as far as I was able to tell given that the bait seemed untouched.
After trying and failing for two weeks (during which time our pet rats ended up injuring another mouse and also getting scratched up pretty bad himself) with those methods we just grabbed the old-fashioned wood and spring steel type and within the next few days, we caught all of the pests or at least scared the rest in that building from entering our unit. We used peanut butter caked onto a tiny piece of graham cracker as bait so they couldn't just lick at it as it would dry up and need pulled/chewed on.
As much as the old method was gruesome it was a far sight better than poison or glue traps. Perhaps you have a faulty electric trap or maybe your mice just aren't actually going inside it to even check out the bait for whatever reason.
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Okay, I'm making my wishlist of things I want to fix up on the house now that we can actually start to fix things.
Out on the front walk are two iron lamp posts, each about 4' high, at one time painted green, and at one time functional. The electric line to them died long ago, but I'm wondering if it's possible (after giving them the spray-Krylon treatment) to just insert solar LED light bulbs into the sockets. Particularly if I can get them in warm white.
Would this work? I know a few of you have skill ranks in this Knowledge area.
The only thing you want to make sure of is to detach the original wires from the socket... otherwise the solar panels will just pump power into the ground. Treat the posts as independent stands and you'll be fine.
I've been alternating between Far Cry 5 and 6 again. They both have their strong points, though I think I still prefer 6.
Tried playing Tiny Tina's Adventure time or whatever. I like the premise and the setting but man do I hate the Borderlands controls and weapon mechanics.
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Ah, SportsBall!
Not only is our Sunday game canceled because of SportsBall, but I was thinking it would be nice to pick up some WingStop and 360˚ Bakery on the way to Shiro's when I came to the realization that there is no way in Hades that I should go anywhere near that food area today. It's the major "SportsBall-type takeout" area in Fremont, so in addition to WingStop it's got an In-N-Out burger, a Five Guys burger, a Chipotle, and a "pick up and barbecue" meat place where the meat's all pre-prepped for the grill so you take it home, slather some sauce on it if you're so inclined, and you're done.
I suspect it may be slightly crowded in that area today.
Being an obsessive-compulsive, a physicist, AND a mathematician, there are few things that incense me more than book "solutions" that round off on every step. So for example, maybe:
(1) Step 1: 7/4 = 1.75, round off to 1.8.
(2) Step 2: Multiply by 0.25 = 0.45, round off to 0.5.
...and so forth...
Notice that even after step 2, the real answer is 0.4375, so your 0.5 is already off by nearly 15%.
We work so hard to drill into students' heads, "Don't round off until the very end or you're going to introduce a staggering amount of error to the problem," and then the textbooks are so poorly-written that they don't follow suit.
Grr...
(Yes, I used to write solutions to textbook problems, and seeing other people's work made me wonder how they managed to get paid for their incompetence.)
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Oh so that's what those things were.
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Ah, SportsBall!
Not only is our Sunday game canceled because of SportsBall, but I was thinking it would be nice to pick up some WingStop and 360˚ Bakery on the way to Shiro's when I came to the realization that there is no way in Hades that I should go anywhere near that food area today. It's the major "SportsBall-type takeout" area in Fremont, so in addition to WingStop it's got an In-N-Out burger, a Five Guys burger, a Chipotle, and a "pick up and barbecue" meat place where the meat's all pre-prepped for the grill so you take it home, slather some sauce on it if you're so inclined, and you're done.
I suspect it may be slightly crowded in that area today.
Yeah, the kids were begging to pick up fried chicken from our favorite takeout place today, and that got a big "no way in H-E-double-hockey-sticks".
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You did what to who's chicken for how many cookies?Bow-chicka-wow-wow?Freehold is my spirit animal.
<_<
>_>
...I can't eat cookies anymore.
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Which means they're all mine! Mine! Muahahahah!
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Which means they're all mine! Mine! Muahahahah!
Yes. Eat them, you magnificent non diabetic bastard.
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Today marks the release of Kwame Nkrumah from prison in 1951, following his party's victory in Ghana's first general election, so naturally, the office was festooned with so many hearts that it looked like a butcher's dumpster, the day was soundtracked by the gloopiest playlist imaginable, holding its own against the toddler's disco downstairs, and the supervisor ladies were both dressed up as vampires.
Also, fencing was cancelled, to allow for the performance of Romantical activities, and also possibly because the toilets had flooded.
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Things Very Few People Care About:
I turned off the living room heat on February 4, the earliest I've ever done so, and we had balmy mid-70s weather all last week, plus we're supposed to be in the mid-60s starting tomorrow.
But today it's a high 57°F with a low of 42°F with very little sunshine, so there'll be a strong temptation to turn on the heat in the evening.
But... but... earliest heat off ever!!!
And no one else cares...
But Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!
Today marks the release of Kwame Nkrumah from prison in 1951, following his party's victory in Ghana's first general election, so naturally, the office was festooned with so many hearts that it looked like a butcher's dumpster, the day was soundtracked by the gloopiest playlist imaginable, holding its own against the toddler's disco downstairs, and the supervisor ladies were both dressed up as vampires.
Also, fencing was cancelled, to allow for the performance of Romantical activities, and also possibly because the toilets had flooded.
Are Valentines Vampires a British thing, or am I missing something?
And can we be sure that the "Romantical activities" are not related to the flooded toilets?
A) No, you're not missing anything. As to why they were dressed that way, I can't tell you
B) Correlation is not causation, gran.