Yeah, seems kinda redundant, huh? I feel that way about MMO gamers who insist you raid 7 dsys a week to be in their guild. I mean, talk about sucking all the fun out of a game. Do I get a timecard with that job Mr. Guildleader?That's why I like my eq2 guild. We raid on Fridays, everything else is optional. And even raids are friendly.
Friendly, nekkid raiding? Now that's scary.
Yeah if we start up a guild in the Pathfinder MMO, I am going to insist that raiding be strictly optional.
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It's weird, but the 30-something workers don't have the same issues as the younger mid-20-somethings, who can be like dealing with spoiled children. Not sure what happened to change things during that time period.
Yeah if we start up a guild in the Pathfinder MMO, I am going to insist that raiding be strictly optional.Yeah, seems kinda redundant, huh? I feel that way about MMO gamers who insist you raid 7 dsys a week to be in their guild. I mean, talk about sucking all the fun out of a game. Do I get a timecard with that job Mr. Guildleader?That's why I like my eq2 guild. We raid on Fridays, everything else is optional. And even raids are friendly.
Friendly, nekkid raiding? Now that's scary.
+1 We have a number of guildies that don't raid at all.
Heh. My guild in eq1 is four people =P Of course, it's a lot easier to do stuff with the new mercenary feature
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my 2 cents:
Never b%~&! or complain unless the boss man is b%$!*ing and complaining; then you can do it in sympathy and suck up like "wow. they're so stupid. I'm sorry you're having a Dilbert cartoon day, and that m++~**+*%%#+ is making you feel like Dilbert."
I feel you're prolly jaded like me, and the smartest person in the room usually unless you're at Paizo or a Nobel Prize winner walks into your section at work to ask about radioactive stuff, and this may be hard for you as well. But it becomes easier with practice. Fake it til you make it.
Say stuff like "it's been hard not having gainful employment, but I've taken it as time to really hone my talents and stuff. I'm going to turn this lemon into lemonade, man." And smile a lot. Fake vapidity. They love it, and if you can hide your wits, you might be able to pull one over on them when it really counts.
Learn to hide the bile and hatred and loathing like a ninja hides his weaponry. Disguise: optimist, man.
Hope that helps!
Ding dong, the douche is gone! >:D
Nuh-uh. I'm still here! :p
...oh. You said douche. I thought you meant "future world duce." ;)
Yeah, seems kinda redundant, huh? I feel that way about MMO gamers who insist you raid 7 dsys a week to be in their guild. I mean, talk about sucking all the fun out of a game. Do I get a timecard with that job Mr. Guildleader?That's why I like my eq2 guild. We raid on Fridays, everything else is optional. And even raids are friendly.
Friendly, nekkid raiding? Now that's scary.
A fellow viking? RARRRRR!
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Good points
I'm the old dood who went in the dungeon, came out scathed, and wants to tell others where the damn traps are......
I'm the old dood who went in the dungeon, came out scathed, and wants to tell others where the damn traps are......
Screw you old man! We'll find those traps on our own!
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Well, I'm very overweight. I've already made the switch from non-diet to mostly diet soda. Can't quite give it up. :) And I've been getting off my butt and exercising for the past year. I've lost 50 lbs, but I've reached the point where I think i need to do more work on my food intake too. So Weight Watchers it is. *sigh*
I've been told the first week is the hardest. A lot of the problem is acclimating. Also, I had some major grocery shopping to do to get the right kinds of food in the house. now comes the cleaning out of some of the worst of the wrong foods! A friend at work joined this month too, so we're supporting each other. As we generally eat out together once during the week, we can pick places that will make sense for both of us. Helps keep things easier.
I need to get some fresh ginger for this awesome Japanese salad dressing I want to make.
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Well, I'm very overweight. I've already made the switch from non-diet to mostly diet soda. Can't quite give it up. :) And I've been getting off my butt and exercising for the past year. I've lost 50 lbs, but I've reached the point where I think i need to do more work on my food intake too. So Weight Watchers it is. *sigh*
I've been told the first week is the hardest. A lot of the problem is acclimating. Also, I had some major grocery shopping to do to get the right kinds of food in the house. now comes the cleaning out of some of the worst of the wrong foods! A friend at work joined this month too, so we're supporting each other. As we generally eat out together once during the week, we can pick places that will make sense for both of us. Helps keep things easier.
I need to get some fresh ginger for this awesome Japanese salad dressing I want to make.
Sounds like you have a good plan down, and if you stay determined you'll get to where you want to get.
I've heard WW gives pretty good results if you follow it. Best of luck to you love, and hey, soon Solnes and I will be down there for extra support. ;)
Good luck with that Jess. And yes, the first week is the hardest, but the second week is not so great either. After that it's not so bad until about the sixteenth week. At least that's always been my experience with diets. :)
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Howdy folks. We had a nice, quiet day here in the zombie household. Ran some errands, washed some clothes, took a nap (all three of us).
Only bummer thing is that I wanted to fix the baby gate at the top of the stairs. It's not "broken" per se, but it could be more stable. It's anchored into the wall on one side and the bannister post on the other. Well, at the bottom, they're 34.5 inches away from each other, but at the top the measurement is a bit over 35 inches - about 3/4 difference really. I bought a 3/4 inch piece of pine and plan to cut a piece off and screw it onto the bannister post to even things out a bit. It won't look pretty, but I don't give a crap about that. I can refinish the post later on when the gate comes down.
Of course, I might have been able to get this accomplished if the batteries for my drill had been charged.
So now I've got something to do tomorrow.
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Hi, all. What did I miss?
Well, Don's arguement with the old hermit ended badly when the dude's feral pet cat attempted to claw Don's eyes out. Meanwhile, Jess' attempt to synthesize a rare compound for the manufacture of biodegradable beer huggies hit a snag when the formula mysteriously disappeared. And, across town, Doug was caught off guard by a rampaging herd of....No, wait! That's my soap opera.
That's not good, man. I hope you are taking care of yourself.
Thanks for the plus(s), seriously. That was some tongue-in-cheek humor about my ankle and severed limbs. I haven't had a problem in the last four years since onset. My father, who went to the hospital almost two months ago for a staph infections and blood clots has finally cleared some major health hurdles and is in physical therapy. But he will loose two fingers and some use in his left arm do to clotting and blood poisoning. I realize I'm growing older and my feet, in terms of my health, are my arch-nemesis. Do to my job, I need new shoes and insoles frequently. The compress sock I wear helps, but it only a matter of time before something worse happens.
or it could be my gout. Which means I need to cut back on my beef intake. Man I love steak.
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I'm sorry to hear that, Shiny. :( Hopefully you'll both be able to talk about it and figure things out.
Sorry to hear about your Dad, BP. That's rough. My dad had nasty blood clots and scared the pants off of us a couple of years ago. I'm sorry to hear it was rougher on your father, but my father, once they got him on blood thinners, hasn't had any problems. so hopefully once he's on the mend, things will look up for him!
Hm. what to spend my remaining points on tonight?
That's not good, man. I hope you are taking care of yourself.Thanks for the plus(s), seriously. That was some tongue-in-cheek humor about my ankle and severed limbs. I haven't had a problem in the last four years since onset. My father, who went to the hospital almost two months ago for a staph infections and blood clots has finally cleared some major health hurdles and is in physical therapy. But he will loose two fingers and some use in his left arm do to clotting and blood poisoning. I realize I'm growing older and my feet, in terms of my health, are my arch-nemesis. Do to my job, I need new shoes and insoles frequently. The compress sock I wear helps, but it only a matter of time before something worse happens.
or it could be my gout. Which means I need to cut back on my beef intake. Man I love steak.
I'd put a handmirror on the ground and have a good look at the bottom of your feet frequently.
Every once in a while, there'll be somebody with peripheral neuropathy who stepped on a tack or something and didn't even feel it, so they walked around with a damn tack in their foot for a few days.I f#&$ing hate diabetes. What a douchy disease.
Yeah. Phone breakups are b&!%&%$@.
I am sorry to hear that BluePigeon. Please take care of yourself.
Mr. Shiny, don't give up. Please. Also, you are NOT a failure.
Jess, good luck with the diet.
~Le Sigh~ This is going to be a (very) rough few days. It is finally hitting Karen and I need to be a good little boy around her parents. ~grinds my teeth~ yay.
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Positive thinky bits out to you all, especially those having rough days.
@Jess; Alton Brown has a great food plan, and its fairly easy to implement.
(Sorry, FHDM, but its true.)
Also worth checking out: Mindless Eating, by Brian Wansink breaks down what we eat, why, and provides suggestions on how to manage portions/nutrition in an easy manner.
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I've avoided dieting as long as I could, because I don't want to turn into one of those food nazis. :) My dad has been on Atkins for about 10 years now, and about half of all conversations with him now end up revolving around that.
I should stop talking about it, so I don't unconciously become the same type of conversationalist. We spend most of my parents' visit trying to deal with finding him a restaurant with an Atkins friendly menu. He insists he doesn't need that, but if we don't, then the ENTIRE conversation for the next four hours is about how not Atikins friend the menu was.
Fortunately meat heavy menus aren't hard to find in Texas.
A hearty "Good morning FawtLy" from Sabine and me
That sucks Shiny.
Here's hoping there'll be no need to quit beef for anyone.
And good luck with the dieting to Jess Door. My parents did the weight-watchers a ten or so years ago. I remember a lot of roast beef and chicken.
best of Luck with the diet, Jess
and I really hope everything sorts itself out, Shiny, maybe just a panic attack after realizing t´what engagement means?
a good friend of me lost a lot of weight with Weight Watchers after her pregnancy, she is at 34 in the best shape of her life and at the lowest weight ever (after two kids)
There's something faintly irritating with people from south of the Baltic Sea and west Poland winning skiing competitions that's not going downhill all the time.
Speaking of good skiers - does anyone know where the name "Kikkan" originates?
Speaking of good skiers - does anyone know where the name "Kikkan" originates?
Kikkan refers to an ancient alien race that came here millions of years ago to subjugate the dinosaurs and turn them into techno-organic weapons to be used in wars elsewhere in the galaxy. Some of the dinosaurs had their intellects advanced through biomechanical means, and were later able to throw of the Kikkan's mental control long enough to record what was happening, and to engineer the "meteor strike" that wiped out the dinosaurs and their alien overlords. Fragments of those records survive in secret government collections.
There's something faintly irritating with people from south of the Baltic Sea and west Poland winning skiing competitions that's not going downhill all the time.
NEUNER!!........?
There's something faintly irritating with people from south of the Baltic Sea and west Poland winning skiing competitions that's not going downhill all the time.NEUNER!!........?
When I wrote it, I was thinking of Fourcade, but her* too!!
and I really hope everything sorts itself out, Shiny, maybe just a panic attack after realizing t´what engagement means?No. I had hoped it was just that, but she assured me that she just didn't want me anymore, and that agreeing to marry me was an attempt to change her own mind.
damn, very sorry to hear that.
Sorry, Shiny. That sucks. :(
Hey Shiny, I am so sorry to hear that. If you need anything please let me know. If you would like I can send a one time minis care package. I do have a few very rare extras. So if you want them they're yours.
Just strutting through the thread on a Sunday afternoon giving out all the +1s and positive waves I can muster.
I've come to the conclusion since last night I need to leave my current job and look for work elsewhere in Las Vegas before I move east for a while. I thinking of finishing my degree or degrees back east as well.
I am sorry to hear that BluePigeon. Please take care of yourself.
Mr. Shiny, don't give up. Please. Also, you are NOT a failure.
Jess, good luck with the diet.
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Positive Waves!
EDIT: NEKKID POSITIVE WAVES!