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Not good.A gran spotted in the wild! Now Timmy, don't spook it...we want to observe this for a while...
How you been?
The longer answer, without going too far into it, is that last November and December I had 2 hospital stays totaling about 3.5 weeks to treat a bleeding duodenal ulcer and a nasty leg infection. I spent the next 7 months trying to heal the hole in my leg the infection caused, including various treatments to try and help with my messed up veins.
Meanwhile, on January 1st, my Dad went to the ER for a kidney stone, and Mom convinced him to tell the doctors about the other problems he'd been dealing with (ie, ignoring) for the last 6 months or so. They did some tests and found out he had a cancerous 4cm diameter tumor in his colon. Cue months of intense chemo, which didn't help. So he chose to stop treatment, begin hospice at home, and passed away in August.
Add in all the normal (and not so normal) crap with work, and life in general, and it's been a shitty year.
I hope everyone else's year has been better.
Yikes. I'm close enough that you have more than my sympathies if you need it. I'm completely serious in that.
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Gran. I am so sorry.
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Right there with ya gran.
Condolences. I hope his passing was as painless as possible.
"Can you create an email account for the following employee?"
Yeah, there's nothing below that question in the email.
We've tried contacting the client yesterday and today to get...I don't know...a name...what permissions they should have... basic information that they know we need for new hires. They know this because we go through this dance with them nearly every time they inform us of a new hire. Usually a week after they've already been on the job.
And yet, we'll still get a bad review from this person because it wasn't done in a timely fashion.
I despise systems that rely on dumb people to do things correctly.
You should have given access to Nobodys...
When I woke up in the morning when I woke up, there was a thin white layer on the ground.
It wasn't there anymore when I went to get some groceries in the evening.
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So over five four days and a few hours I accumulated 57 hours of playtime of Elden Ring...
No, I can stop any time, why do you ask?
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Aaaand, recruiters are now using AI. Or it sure feels like it.
I've started getting weekly headhunting calls asking me to apply to be a Senior or Principal Software Developer at various companies around the Bay Area...
...except...
...I have -0- experience as a professional software developer. I'm convinced that the AI scans my LinkedIn profile and sees:
- 20+ years of industry experience
- The word "Senior" in my current title
- The word "Developer" in my current title
And it fills in the rest.
I'm wondering whether Senior Photography Developers are getting the same offers.
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It's nice to be wanted
Thats why I make sure they get my good side in the mugshots.
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Anti-consumerism really is depressing.
Adhering to my wishes, Shiro found nothing to give me for Christmas. And notice how it's marketed: A "gag gift" intended for "people who have everything" or "naughty children". Not, "Those of us who are exhausted by endless consumerism and consumption and want the cycle to stop."
I'll continue to push for people to gift me with meals or other perishable consumables, but I'm not holding my breath that that'll ever happen.
EDIT: For my father, who had similar tastes, I'd fish a cardboard box out of the recycling bin, not even wrap it, use a Sharpee to label it, and it delighted him.
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Aaaand, recruiters are now using AI. Or it sure feels like it.
I've started getting weekly headhunting calls asking me to apply to be a Senior or Principal Software Developer at various companies around the Bay Area...
...except...
...I have -0- experience as a professional software developer. I'm convinced that the AI scans my LinkedIn profile and sees:
- 20+ years of industry experience
- The word "Senior" in my current title
- The word "Developer" in my current titleAnd it fills in the rest.
I'm wondering whether Senior Photography Developers are getting the same offers.
We'll see what develops.
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Aaaand, recruiters are now using AI. Or it sure feels like it.
It was confirmed a while ago yes. Sadly, through the usual channels - instantly dismissing people with "ethnic" names, certain kinds of job experience, and from certain locations.
~It's racism all the way doooooown...!~
I'm wondering whether Senior Photography Developers are getting the same offers.We'll see what develops.
GAH!
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What the letter F with three stars is 'Worship Piano', and why might I possibly need to know how to do it?
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Fantasy Monster: Splinterbone Pile
That's what you get when you break all those skeletons in a dungeon...
What the letter F with three stars is 'Worship Piano', and why might I possibly need to know how to do it?It's a very specific fetish for people who like to lick Baldwins. And you should know how to do it because Google knows your browsing history.
It's all fun and games until your tongue gets trapped between the keys.
Or sliced multiple times on the wires...
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I love shopping for twentysomethings.
We lost our annual New Year's Eve festivities thanks to a divorce, so after Impus Major loudly complained about it yet again this year, I suggested that *HE* could throw a New Year's Eve party at our house. Success!! The party will be here and my kids will be safely at home on New Year's Eve. Win-win.
So today we're going to Costco to pick up food and beverages for the event. And, as I told Impus Major, "What's great about your friends is that we can buy stuff like sandwich and shrimp plates and not a single one of them will complain about day-old shrimp."
Ah, hosting those without taste! How rewarding!
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Yet another thing I love about the modern generation, at least around here: Impus Major is hosting a total of 12 people. Only three of them drink at all, and one of those three might have half a glass of champagne. So one bottle of champagne for the entire party will have enough left for GothBard to partake, and four bottles of sparkling apple cider might not be enough...
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Or sliced multiple times on the wires...
It'd take more than one tonic and gin to get over that. Just ask Billy.
Benefits of playing a glass cannon...
I run into a large boss arena expecting to fight a big-ass enemy... Only to see a single blob on the center taking my shape and the boss health bar appears with "Mimic Tear".
Two or three spells later, and a swing or two from my new spirit minion, and its gone. It had my paltry hit points and didn't even cast a single spell.
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And now I barely survived an encounter with a fox... After it killed me by pouncing on me unexpectedly...
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And the I died because I switched to write with no enemy in sight.
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Ah, the idiocy of youth!
Impus Major wanted to invite 18 people to New Year's. I pointed out that our house couldn't handle that many people, and he needed to keep it in the single digits. Even our previous host, in a house at least twice as large as ours, hosted a total of 8 adults and 6 kids, most of whom were under 10.
So, Impus Major ignored me and invited 12 people. Impus Minor's D&D group heard about it and demanded to know why they weren't invited... so they were.
Tonight there will apparently be 18 people trying to socialize in our living room, dining room, and kitchen.
Hope they're cozy with each other, 'cause it's going to be pretty elbow-to-elbow in here.
Ah, the idiocy of youth!
Impus Major wanted to invite 18 people to New Year's. I pointed out that our house couldn't handle that many people, and he needed to keep it in the single digits. Even our previous host, in a house at least twice as large as ours, hosted a total of 8 adults and 6 kids, most of whom were under 10.
So, Impus Major ignored me and invited 12 people. Impus Minor's D&D group heard about it and demanded to know why they weren't invited... so they were.
Tonight there will apparently be 18 people trying to socialize in our living room, dining room, and kitchen.
Hope they're cozy with each other, 'cause it's going to be pretty elbow-to-elbow in here.
Of course they will. Don't you remember being that age?
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Of course they will. Don't you remember being that age?Ah, the idiocy of youth!
Impus Major wanted to invite 18 people to New Year's. I pointed out that our house couldn't handle that many people, and he needed to keep it in the single digits. Even our previous host, in a house at least twice as large as ours, hosted a total of 8 adults and 6 kids, most of whom were under 10.
So, Impus Major ignored me and invited 12 people. Impus Minor's D&D group heard about it and demanded to know why they weren't invited... so they were.
Tonight there will apparently be 18 people trying to socialize in our living room, dining room, and kitchen.
Hope they're cozy with each other, 'cause it's going to be pretty elbow-to-elbow in here.
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We made it home. Eventually, so did our luggage. We picked up the dog. Now we're getting ready to go to a party. Tired.
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Drinking overproof rum from the corner shop, o dear.
Hope everybody has an Happy New Year.
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Hippo Gnu Deer to you, to!
And neverunderestimate the power of flakes. 17 people invited; approximately 9 showed up, so the party was all-in-all about as expected.
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New Years Day D&D-a-Thon has begun!
I've made a double-batch of jambalaya for lunch tor everybody.
Hermione couldn't pronounce the word "Andouille", so apparently it contains a pound and a half of Ennui Sausage.
HAPPY NEW YEAR WOOOOOOOOOO
Eh, we have one each year.
Yes.
The myth of decay is the projection of the individual human arc towards decrepitude and death, whereas the general condition is improving.
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Except for music. That's objectively worse.
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And what's the difference between a good GM and a bad GM?
As you may recall, Shiro and I had quite the falling out about the rewrite of traps in 5e vs. Pathfinder.
So what happens to start the session this time?
Without naming any names, Shiro went over the rules on finding and disarming traps so we'd understand how 5e changed things (which is rather massive).
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Did they at least let y'all know they weren't coming? Not attending a party, even last minute, I can accept. But simply not showing up? That's a good way to not get invited again.Hippo Gnu Deer to you, to!
And neverunderestimate the power of flakes. 17 people invited; approximately 9 showed up, so the party was all-in-all about as expected.
No; the kids are all in their 20s, age of, "RSVP'ing is for old people".
Next year when there isn't nearly enough food I will listen to their pitiful mews with joy in my heart.