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Got new window.
Got new tires(michelin crossclimate2 x 4).
Got the car washed(and a new morrocan mint air freshener).
Parked right outside the house.
Let's try not to have another day like this for a while, huh?
Yes. I did it all naked.
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"No one told me where swimming pool 1 is going, but swimming pool 2 will be in your living room. Its good here? Great.
I will be turning an indoor pool into an indoor grotto at some point either this winter or next spring.
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Sometimes I'm jealous of toddlers. Like, imagine seeing someone who you don't want to talk to, and as soon as they open their mouth, you could scream "NO!" right in their face and run away.
And the excuses they give for utterly random behavior.
I had a three-year-old once who was wandering around my classroom in his underpants.I said, "Tiago, what happened to your pants?"
He panicked and said, "They fell off! There was an earthquake!"
Weasel-ing at social gatherings is one of my favourite feelings.
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About to go into a meeting with my SVP that he scheduled back in June when I was considered a "flight risk".
At this point it's going to be an awfully awkward meeting no matter what: "Yeah, you gutted my department, kicked the one guy who knew what was going on to the curb without so much as a, 'Oh, and can we have your project plans?', and it looks like you expect me to spend the next 5 years of my life maintaining courseware for a dying product. So, how are things?"
EDIT: Well, I managed not to get myself fired, so "win"!
About to go into a meeting with my SVP that he scheduled back in June when I was considered a "flight risk".
At this point it's going to be an awfully awkward meeting no matter what: "Yeah, you gutted my department, kicked the one guy who knew what was going on to the curb without so much as a, 'Oh, and can we have your project plans?', and it looks like you expect me to spend the next 5 years of my life maintaining courseware for a dying product. So, how are things?"
EDIT: Well, I managed not to get myself fired, so "win"!
Have you avoided being kicked upwards?
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Have you avoided being kicked upwards?About to go into a meeting with my SVP that he scheduled back in June when I was considered a "flight risk".
At this point it's going to be an awfully awkward meeting no matter what: "Yeah, you gutted my department, kicked the one guy who knew what was going on to the curb without so much as a, 'Oh, and can we have your project plans?', and it looks like you expect me to spend the next 5 years of my life maintaining courseware for a dying product. So, how are things?"
EDIT: Well, I managed not to get myself fired, so "win"!
Fortunately, yes.
It really is depressing that human nature is such that no matter how kind and generous you try to be, there's always someone who decides they're going to take advantage of your hospitality and be complete jerks, making you regret your decision.
Today's example? As I've mentioned, when the kids were having lots of guests over while they were in high school, I stocked the freezer with "teenager chow" so they could snack, and put nonperishables on the dryer. "You can have anything in that freezer drawer or on the dryer, and nothing else, so don't ask."
The young woman in question has come over multiple times now and gone through every cabinet in the kitchen, every drawer in the freezer and fridge, and asked the kids for anything she finds. They keep telling her, "Yes." I've told them under no uncertain terms that they are to tell her, "No."
Today she simply showed up "because it's hot", had Impus Major let her in, went into the freezer, helped herself to ice cream, and then left.
I'm not an ice cream store. I'm not in the business of giving away food to anyone who comes along.
What she's ensuring is that we'll have a, "No, you may not have ANY food at our home that you don't bring yourself," policy.
Which will be fine with all the other kids because we've reached the point that she's the only one who comes over for food, and she abuses the privilege ruthlessly because the kids let her.
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she abuses the privilege ruthlessly because the kids let her.Perhaps your kids would be better off if they learned how to set and enforce boundaries themselves, in case they ever have to deal with someone like that in their lives in the future.
What efforts have they made to stop "letting her"? What skills do they have to fend off people who want to walk all over their generosity?
You, of course, can easily ban behavior and people. But learning to enforce boundaries rather than create barricades is a good life-skill to have.
THANK YOU!!!
That's my issue. I've gotten Impus Minor to start saying, "No." I have to get Impus Major to do so. And that's the battle -- teaching the kids to stand up for themselves rather than having me do it is an eternal battle.
But it is indeed the correct battle to have.
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"They fell off! There was an earthquake!"
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Had a couple of young kids (17-18) helping out on a job site this week. After a couple hours, one of them put down his shovel and said to me, "you look like old-ass Harry Potter, bro." His buddy turned around, agreeing, and adding, "yeah, like he just got out of prison or some s~~+."
Thanks, guys.
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Had a couple of young kids (17-18) helping out on a job site this week. After a couple hours, one of them put down his shovel and said to me, "you look like old-ass Harry Potter, bro." His buddy turned around, agreeing, and adding, "yeah, like he just got out of prison or some s**%."
Thanks, guys.
Tim Hunter after spending too much with John Constantine?
Gammit, Steam, you have to mock me by having multiple games I'd like to get on sale at the same time? They all add to more than I can pay, because of course...
And I was supposed to cut down on games for some time to build up a few spare bucks on PayPal.
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It really is a different 'Merikuh I live in.
This afternoon we had two 18-year-olds and four 21-year-olds in the house. Among the six of them, only two have driver's licenses, and one more has a learner's permit.
Back in my day, if you didn't have a license on your 16th birthday, something was wrong with you...
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"They fell off! There was an earthquake!"I ran out of gas! I had a flat tire! I didn’t have enough money for cab fare! My tux didn't come back from the cleaners! An old friend came in from out of town! Someone stole my car! There was an earthquake! A terrible flood! Locusts! It wasn't my fault, I swear to God!
You get cookies.
Choices, choices...
Rage 1 & 2 or Deathloop?
Lets go with Rages. Deathloop will remain stuck () waiting in my wishlist for another sale somewhen in the future.
Rage 1 installed. Let's see how does it play.
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We got this high quality dirt at the job site I'm currently working for the other Captain and his crew. Real top notch dirt with manure and sand mixed in.
So, two of the other Captain's guys comes over and looks at the dirt and one says "What's with the spots in the dirt?" And I say "sand!" And the second guy says "But the other Captain says it's supposed to have sand mixed in?!" So I say "Yes, that's what the sand is for".
Aaaannnddd...
It's unplayable.
After annoyingly uninterruptable intro, you wake up in a military cryogenic facility, get out, see gorgeous view of a crater that the rest of the facility is. And soon after the game messes up loading/caching textures. I can hear the game actually playing (like, the car and the voice of the first NPC) but I am stuck seeing one frame.
Apparently, the PC port is crap, and the game has issues with AMD.
After trying a few solutions I think I'll pass. A shame, because the game looks good. I thought that the last step solved the issue when I passed the place where the freeze happened, but it happened some time later again.
Should I get a refund, or keep the game for an unspecified time in the potential future when I might have another computer that has dedicated Nvidia gfx instead of integrated AMD?
I wouldn't be getting actually money back ($4-something), only Steam credit anyway...
I was getting a mild headache while playing it, though I am not sure if it was weather, back issues, or the visuals.
Anyway, I am rather disappointed.
It really is a different 'Merikuh I live in.
This afternoon we had two 18-year-olds and four 21-year-olds in the house. Among the six of them, only two have driver's licenses, and one more has a learner's permit.
Back in my day, if you didn't have a license on your 16th birthday, something was wrong with you...
Same.
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I'm having the opposite "problem" with my players in the Tuesday homebrew.
Not only did they grab the very old silver dragon with 5 levels of paladin and put her in charge of the country they're trying to defend, but they grabbed the fey queen and the remnants of a centaur army (including at 15th-level druid and a 15th-level fighter) and put them in charge of defending the other border town.
So now that they feel that the country they're trying to defend is "safe", NOW they're following the intended plotline to go prevent the invasion in the first place.
If it works for them, it works for me, but as Impus Minor said, "Y'know, at this point the whole invasion feels kind of like a wet napkin. But oh, well, let's go get those giants anyway!"
Fun's fun, and they're delighting in grabbing the most powerful NPCs they can get their hands on and putting them in tactical positions. Makes sense, but takes a wee bit of urgency out of the intended task...
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Had a couple of young kids (17-18) helping out on a job site this week. After a couple hours, one of them put down his shovel and said to me, "you look like old-ass Harry Potter, bro." His buddy turned around, agreeing, and adding, "yeah, like he just got out of prison or some s!+#."
Thanks, guys.
At the bronx zoo, I had a 4-6 year old girl point up at me and go "Guy in glasses could be gorrillia"
The parents didn't even look at each other, Just snapped their hands down, each grabbed one arm, and they ran into the crowd as fast as they could go without seeming to be running. So Im going to assume from that level of pratice, not the first time the kids done that.
Multiple times while working at a wolf center, living in a tent, kids would go "Oh look its Hagrid" parents would shush them, I'd tell them no, he's my favorite character. And I basically have his job...
Rage 2 started with two crashes, which didn't bode well. Thankfully, after restarting the computer, it run mostly smoothly. The gunplay gameplay is fun and fast. At least for now.
And now, time to bed.
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I didn't get a license until I was 21.
I didn't get mine until I was 24.
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I got my liscense as soon as I was vaccinated at 6 months
It really is depressing that human nature is such that no matter how kind and generous you try to be, there's always someone who decides they're going to take advantage of your hospitality and be complete jerks, making you regret your decision.
Today's example? As I've mentioned, when the kids were having lots of guests over while they were in high school, I stocked the freezer with "teenager chow" so they could snack, and put nonperishables on the dryer. "You can have anything in that freezer drawer or on the dryer, and nothing else, so don't ask."
The young woman in question has come over multiple times now and gone through every cabinet in the kitchen, every drawer in the freezer and fridge, and asked the kids for anything she finds. They keep telling her, "Yes." I've told them under no uncertain terms that they are to tell her, "No."
Today she simply showed up "because it's hot", had Impus Major let her in, went into the freezer, helped herself to ice cream, and then left.
I'm not an ice cream store. I'm not in the business of giving away food to anyone who comes along.
What she's ensuring is that we'll have a, "No, you may not have ANY food at our home that you don't bring yourself," policy.
Which will be fine with all the other kids because we've reached the point that she's the only one who comes over for food, and she abuses the privilege ruthlessly because the kids let her.
Are they trying to hit that? Because they might be flirting a bit, and she may be exploring that aspect of life, not necessarily being a bad house guest. I would say check first, just to be sure.
Had a couple of young kids (17-18) helping out on a job site this week. After a couple hours, one of them put down his shovel and said to me, "you look like old-ass Harry Potter, bro." His buddy turned around, agreeing, and adding, "yeah, like he just got out of prison or some s+*~."
Thanks, guys.
Prison Potter ain't a bad look.
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Tim Hunter after spending too much with John Constantine?Had a couple of young kids (17-18) helping out on a job site this week. After a couple hours, one of them put down his shovel and said to me, "you look like old-ass Harry Potter, bro." His buddy turned around, agreeing, and adding, "yeah, like he just got out of prison or some s**%."
Thanks, guys.
This is even better. F$&+ yeah.
Had a couple of young kids (17-18) helping out on a job site this week. After a couple hours, one of them put down his shovel and said to me, "you look like old-ass Harry Potter, bro." His buddy turned around, agreeing, and adding, "yeah, like he just got out of prison or some s!+#."
Thanks, guys.
At the bronx zoo, I had a 4-6 year old girl point up at me and go "Guy in glasses could be gorrillia"
The parents didn't even look at each other, Just snapped their hands down, each grabbed one arm, and they ran into the crowd as fast as they could go without seeming to be running. So Im going to assume from that level of pratice, not the first time the kids done that.
Multiple times while working at a wolf center, living in a tent, kids would go "Oh look its Hagrid" parents would shush them, I'd tell them no, he's my favorite character. And I basically have his job...
...you live in the bronx?
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I didn't get a license until I was 21.I didn't get mine until I was 24.
Similar.
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I'm having the opposite "problem" with my players in the Tuesday homebrew.
Not only did they grab the very old silver dragon with 5 levels of paladin and put her in charge of the country they're trying to defend, but they grabbed the fey queen and the remnants of a centaur army (including at 15th-level druid and a 15th-level fighter) and put them in charge of defending the other border town.
So now that they feel that the country they're trying to defend is "safe", NOW they're following the intended plotline to go prevent the invasion in the first place.
If it works for them, it works for me, but as Impus Minor said, "Y'know, at this point the whole invasion feels kind of like a wet napkin. But oh, well, let's go get those giants anyway!"
Fun's fun, and they're delighting in grabbing the most powerful NPCs they can get their hands on and putting them in tactical positions. Makes sense, but takes a wee bit of urgency out of the intended task...
The DM placing a knife in the backs of the players the instant they blink is an old one. I'm guilty of it, I've had it done to me as well. It's unhealthy, and something we all need to work at.
...Are they trying to hit that? Because they might be flirting a bit, and she may be exploring that aspect of life, not necessarily being a bad house guest. I would say check first, just to be sure.
Hmm... trying to be kind and not come across as a prude here, so let's see whether I can succeed:
She is a ridiculous flirt. By the time she was 14 she learned that skimpy clothing, smiles and giggles, and lots of physical contact opened doors for her. She's a stereotypical example of a young woman who's learned that she can get teen boys to do anything for her by heavily exploiting her sexuality. She's also a ludicrous extrovert and hates to be alone, and hates to be at home, so now that she has nothing to do over the summer she goes out every day, knocks on doors until she finds one or more male friends to drag around, then finally decides on someone's house to descend on; always a house that provides free food and TV.
All typical teenage behavior. It's not particularly unusual. But when it's your house she decides to drag her crowd to multiple times a week, it gets quite tiresome, and you need to start setting boundaries.
...you live in the bronx?
Only when sleeping overnight in the zoo.
I'm from slightly upstate ny. The bronx zoo is close enough for a daytrip.
So, layoffs were August 1, all we were told was that "many of our products are being discontinued", and I've been left adrift since then. I had a week off and a lot of things to close out so I've been keeping myself busy, but my new director finally scheduled a meeting with me today.
He and I go *way* back (17 years), so I honestly want to ask him, "How hard should I be looking for a new job?"
But he's also an absolute corporate lapdog, so my fear is that even asking the question will put me in jeopardy, in spite of our long history together.
Another fine example of why it is so important to find a manager you can trust, and stick with them until they leave, then leave with them.
Yes, I'm regretting not searching harder for a new position when my first manager left. On the other hand, given the HUGE number of layoffs across the tech sector, I could well have been hit had I not stayed, and right now the only thing keeping us sane is that I still have an income while GothBard searches.
Oh, speaking of which, on the bright side of things there's a company where she's a fantastic fit (her skill set would let her knock her initial job out of the park, even though it's something below her pay grade and skill level), and they're a big enough company that after a year or two she could transfer to something more interesting to her. They've scheduled a follow-up interview with her, and I'm strongly encouraging her to go for it.
(There are a couple of other irons in the fire at smaller, more exciting companies where she'd start right off on something more in line with her interests, but there's a lot to be said for large companies with lateral flexibility.)
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And what does it say that my first action in the half hour before the meeting is to get a complete list of everything Global Megacorporation thinks I have of theirs so I can be ready to ship it back this afternoon?
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(I'm not planning on stealing from the corporation from any sense of vengeance or spite, but I have 18 years' worth of crap and I need to know what they want back. For example, the 2005 CD burner? Am I really going to waste postage sending that back? Fortunately, it looks like their records only go back to 2019 and only include the "big ticket" items (laptop, monitor, and microphone), so shipping my stuff in should be quite easy, if necessary.)
And honestly, I sincerely doubt this is a "layoff" call. I think this is a, "Congratulations! You're now responsible for updating 12 courses per quarter!" call wherein I learn that I am indeed the troll responsible for turning out the lights when I leave.