I found something called a ballista crossbow. Basically a huge crossbow. Now I'm just grinding through a bunch of a@#$~@!s to get my strength high enough to use it.
I've started mastering mounted combat so as long as I don't get my horse killed I'm fine.
Except for the g$@++*n f#*+ing teleportation trap I walked into and I'm now stuck in some s+&! hole with giant puffballs, a mine filled with crystal douchebags, and a city teaming with giant diseased rats and ghost wizards. So many g++~*#n ghost wizards.
It's the one thing I couldn't stand about that particular town.
Former Coworker and I are working on different jobs right across the street from each other so I suggested if we get bored or want a challenge we could switch job sites for a day.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
I found something called a ballista crossbow. Basically a huge crossbow. Now I'm just grinding through a bunch of a+#!#&!s to get my strength high enough to use it.
I've started mastering mounted combat so as long as I don't get my horse killed I'm fine.
Except for the g~+#@#n f&!@ing teleportation trap I walked into and I'm now stuck in some s*&! hole with giant puffballs, a mine filled with crystal douchebags, and a city teaming with giant diseased rats and ghost wizards. So many g$@!@$n ghost wizards.
Ghost Wizard is probably my dream job.
Good night, John!
Whacked my thumb with the $70 mallet. It definitely hurts like you would expect if you whacked your thumb with a $70 mallet.
Fortunately as I was walking it off this lady walked by and got super emotional about all the mud on the road and said "Well, the village won't like this! I should call them and let them know!!" So I swept off the mud in the road while the throbbing in my thumb dissipated enough to go back to potentially whacking it again.
|
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
You know how there is a common urban myth about eating like... 10 spiders a year while you sleep yeah? Well, it's nonsense and all but it's not totally way off base.
Anyhow, I woke up this morning and found what I thought was a hair in my throat was in fact a spider leg. I won't say I didn't gag at least a little but I insist that I at least handled it like an adult without having a complete mental breakdown.
You know how there is a common urban myth about eating like... 10 spiders a year while you sleep yeah? Well, it's nonsense and all but it's not totally way off base.
Anyhow, I woke up this morning and found what I thought was a hair in my throat was in fact a spider leg. I won't say I didn't gag at least a little but I insist that I at least handled it like an adult without having a complete mental breakdown.
If you leave a small dish of water under your bed they should go for that and leave you alone. Or so I've heard.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Question for my fellow FaWtLers: When you're at home with no plans to go out, do you still carry your phone around with you inside the house?
I don't, and somehow that causes no end of confusion for friends and businesses alike -- they can't comprehend that someone would ever willingly put down their cell phone.
So yet again I had this conversation yesterday:
Receptionist: Is this number the best one for us to reach you?
NobodysHome: Yes.
R: OK. We'll call you at that number when your cats are ready.
NH: Wait. That won't work. That's my home number. If you're going to call me while I'm in the parking lot use this number .
R: OK, I'll change it in the records.
NH: Please don't.
R: We only allow one number, and we have to be able to call you when you're in the car, so we're going to use your cell phone number.
And yes, several days later I get an email that they've been trying to call me for days and I never answer my phone.
Go figure.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
I have mine on me in the house, because that's what I use to listen to the radio, or podcasts. Also, I suspect that I would lose it if I didn't.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Question for my fellow FaWtLers: When you're at home with no plans to go out, do you still carry your phone around with you inside the house?
I don't, and somehow that causes no end of confusion for friends and businesses alike -- they can't comprehend that someone would ever willingly put down their cell phone.
So yet again I had this conversation yesterday:
Receptionist: Is this number the best one for us to reach you?
NobodysHome: Yes.
R: OK. We'll call you at that number when your cats are ready.
NH: Wait. That won't work. That's my home number. If you're going to call me while I'm in the parking lot use this number .
R: OK, I'll change it in the records.
NH: Please don't.
R: We only allow one number, and we have to be able to call you when you're in the car, so we're going to use your cell phone number.And yes, several days later I get an email that they've been trying to call me for days and I never answer my phone.
Go figure.
I don't carry the phone all the time on me. It either sits in the pocket of the pants (which, in generally, I only put on when I plan to go outside or was outside earlier that day and haven't switched to pajamas or pajamas pants or buff if it is hot enough yet), sits on the desk connected to the charger, or lies thrown somewhere random after I turned off the alarm clock or did anything involving the phone. It can lie untouched for days and days, in fact. Oh, and it is always set to vibration mode, no sound, so I might or might not hear the buzzing from other room, kitchen, or bathroom, depending on background sounds.
Sometime I discover I had unanswered calls or messages days after they came.
Also, sometimes my phone doesn't receive calls/messages immediately, only much later showing that someone attempted to contact me - either a crappy network, or the phone is slowly breaking down.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Question for my fellow FaWtLers: When you're at home with no plans to go out, do you still carry your phone around with you inside the house?
I don't, and somehow that causes no end of confusion for friends and businesses alike -- they can't comprehend that someone would ever willingly put down their cell phone.
So yet again I had this conversation yesterday:
Receptionist: Is this number the best one for us to reach you?
NobodysHome: Yes.
R: OK. We'll call you at that number when your cats are ready.
NH: Wait. That won't work. That's my home number. If you're going to call me while I'm in the parking lot use this number .
R: OK, I'll change it in the records.
NH: Please don't.
R: We only allow one number, and we have to be able to call you when you're in the car, so we're going to use your cell phone number.And yes, several days later I get an email that they've been trying to call me for days and I never answer my phone.
Go figure.
I would not be communicating with you right now without it.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Yes, I carry my phone on me at home, but mostly to watch stuff or listen to music.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Sounds like Drejk and I are the oddballs; his description pretty much matches mine -- the phone's by my bedside table as an alarm clock except when Impus Major's at school, when I have it near me in case he needs something.
Please, for your own sakes, don't be like the people I just dealt with.
About 15 minutes ago, I saw a large SUV with a smallish U-Haul trailer pull into the lot. There isn't much parking available right now, especially multiple spaces together, so they spent a long time trying to back into a somewhere they could sorta fit. Then, they pile out (2 adults, 4 kids ranging from 2-3 up to 10-12 years old), get a ton of luggage out of the car (like 3 bags per person) and come in. The little one had clearly been sleeping, and was not happy about being woken up and forced to walk into the hotel dragging a small bag with her, but everyone else was loaded down, so no one could carry her. They come to the desk and ask for a room. Only to be told "Sorry, we're sold out." Apparently they never thought to call, or check online, or anything to see if there were rooms available. After standing in stunned silence for about 20 seconds, they ask about our sister hotel next door. "Nope. They're sold out too." So they had to go back out to their SUV, load it all back up, and as I was typing this they finally pulled out of the parking lot to try and find a room elsewhere. Luckily for them, it shouldn't be too hard to find something, but they could have saved themselves a lot of trouble if they had either: A) checked availability online, B) called ahead, or even C) had one of them come in and asked before trying to park and unload everyone.
So, please, don't do that to yourselves.
Don't worry, I'm just the room party guy.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Why in the Spocking hell does my Mother in Law find it necessary to overcook garlic toast at 530 a.m.?
[Lengthy string of expletives redacted.]
| 5 people marked this as a favorite. |
There are two types of people:
Coach Coworker: Salutations.
Student: What?
Coach Coworker: Hello.
Student: Oh.
Me: Sup, nerd.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
The downside of whacking my thumb yesterday is it apparently bruised my thumb pad so it looks like I won't be playing video games for a bit.
The up side is this forces me to not play Elden Ring.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
How dumb is the general population?
We're facing the worst drought in 50 years. The governor asked people to voluntarily cut back on their water usage.
Needless to say, hoarding mentality took over and water use skyrocketed.
How, exactly, do you "hoard" water?
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
How dumb is the general population?
We're facing the worst drought in 50 years. The governor asked people to voluntarily cut back on their water usage.
Needless to say, hoarding mentality took over and water use skyrocketed.
How, exactly, do you "hoard" water?
Maybe everyone is switching to the TB12 diet! Have you seen how much water Tom Brady drinks!!
Don't get me wrong, I drink a lot of water and people don't drink enough water but even if l think he takes it a bit extreme.
One of the floating assistants for my grade level found out last night she had Covid,so all unvaccinated children who were at school yesterday have to quarantine at home.
I have five Kindergarteners in my class for the rest of the week.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
One of the floating assistants for my grade level found out last night she had Covid,so all unvaccinated children who were at school yesterday have to quarantine at home.
I have five Kindergarteners in my class for the rest of the week.
That's a lot for Texas! You must work at one of those hippie schools I keep hearing about.
Yesterday was 94 and today is already 86 and super humid.
Needless to say I'm rather enjoying it.
|
|
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
How dumb is the general population?
We're facing the worst drought in 50 years. The governor asked people to voluntarily cut back on their water usage.
Are they still carefully keeping the discussion away from the insane almond and alfalfa corpo-farm water usage, or nah?
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Are they still carefully keeping the discussion away from the insane almond and alfalfa corpo-farm water usage, or nah?How dumb is the general population?
We're facing the worst drought in 50 years. The governor asked people to voluntarily cut back on their water usage.
Yeah, that's the elephant in the room: Agriculture uses 40% of our water, residences use 10%, and 50% is reserved for the environment. Yet every time there's a drought the agriculture industry screams that it needs more water or everyone will starve to death, and few realize that a 15% reduction in residential use is really only a piddling 1.5% in overall use.
Nail. Head.
In other news, is resume writing really a completely lost art?
When I was in high school, I had to produce a sample resume. Impus Minor had to do the same. We were graded for brevity and clarity.
Yet our latest candidate comes with unbelievable qualifications (21 years in our specific industry, using our tools, doing exactly what we need), but her resume is 6 pages of full-paragraph descriptions of every job she's ever had. I'm surprised she didn't go ahead and describe her lunch breaks as well.
I suspect she's desperate to find a place because nobody's interviewing her. Because as soon as I saw the poorly-formatted, massively wordy resume my thought was, "She can't possibly do the job because she summarizes things using full paragraphs."
I would've thrown the resume out as well. My new manager is kinder. We'll see which one of us is right.
EDIT: For those who've never taken technical training, our job description is basically, "Take a 500-word page of documentation and turn into three bullet points of no more than 20 words each. Oh, and make it entertaining to boot."
So being unable to write brief summaries is a deal-breaker.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
That's a lot for Texas! You must work at one of those hippie schools I keep hearing about.One of the floating assistants for my grade level found out last night she had Covid,so all unvaccinated children who were at school yesterday have to quarantine at home.
I have five Kindergarteners in my class for the rest of the week.
Well, it's Montessori, so... yeah.
But we've got Hippie Libertarians here. Kind of like Oregon and most of New England.
| 5 people marked this as a favorite. |
Today, I am 43, which means that I got the day off work, so instead, I went to Leeds Royal Armouries to look at the weaponry, then bought some books, then went home and played the guitar, then went to Wednesday fencing. I had a good time.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Follow-up: Interview went swimmingly, but we asked for "a couple of work samples"... and got SEVENTEEN.
Once we've finished the process, whether we hire this person or not, I need to find some way to gently take them aside and suggest they embrace brevity...
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Today, I am 43, which means that I got the day off work, so instead, I went to Leeds Royal Armouries to look at the weaponry, then bought some books, then went home and played the guitar, then went to Wednesday fencing. I had a good time.
Happy Birthday, Limey!
Today, I am 43, which means that I got the day off work, so instead, I went to Leeds Royal Armouries to look at the weaponry, then bought some books, then went home and played the guitar, then went to Wednesday fencing. I had a good time.
Isn't there some English tradition that you can't celebrate until 43 years, 21 days, and 0 hours, at which point you must spontaneously combust?
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Today, I am 43, which means that I got the day off work, so instead, I went to Leeds Royal Armouries to look at the weaponry, then bought some books, then went home and played the guitar, then went to Wednesday fencing. I had a good time.
Happy National Foam Rolling Day!
Also, a happy Twilight Zone Day and Eat What You Want Day! Hopefully, they are unrelated.
Today, I am 43, which means that I got the day off work, so instead, I went to Leeds Royal Armouries to look at the weaponry, then bought some books, then went home and played the guitar, then went to Wednesday fencing. I had a good time.Isn't there some English tradition that you can't celebrate until 43 years, 21 days, and 0 hours, at which point you must spontaneously combust?
I'm pretty sure they call that futball.
Yesterday was 94 and today is already 86 and super humid.
Needless to say I'm rather enjoying it.
Needless to say once it reached 94 degrees and my work area was under full sun I was not enjoying it as much.
Today, I am 43, which means that I got the day off work, so instead, I went to Leeds Royal Armouries to look at the weaponry, then bought some books, then went home and played the guitar, then went to Wednesday fencing. I had a good time.Isn't there some English tradition that you can't celebrate until 43 years, 21 days, and 0 hours, at which point you must spontaneously combust?
Couldn't tell you. I'm just a smoking heap of greasy ashes at the moment.
How dumb is the general population?
We're facing the worst drought in 50 years. The governor asked people to voluntarily cut back on their water usage.
Needless to say, hoarding mentality took over and water use skyrocketed.
How, exactly, do you "hoard" water?
Not that hard. My grandmother was a water hoarder. She filled up nearly every glass container that had a screw on lid with water and put it on the fridge. It is important to note she grew up and became a nurse in time without indoor plumbing and water came from a pump spigot with an underground well, in a country synonymous with "influenza".
Today, I am 43, which means that I got the day off work, so instead, I went to Leeds Royal Armouries to look at the weaponry, then bought some books, then went home and played the guitar, then went to Wednesday fencing. I had a good time.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO