Deep 6 FaWtL

[BigNorseWolf]

Readies the fire extinguisher , duct tape, screwdrivers, sage, salt, rubber chicken, and hard cider.....

[quibblemuch]

Reckon a fella could have a pretty damn good weekend in Vegas with all that...

[Limeylongears]

gran rey de los mono wrote:

Waterhammer wrote:

I lost my sweet bippy in an earlier wager. What other things might I offer. I would like to get back my bippy. It was sweet.

Do you have someone else's sweet bippy to wager?

Personally, I've always preferred a saltier bippy.

[Freehold DM]

Vanykrye wrote:

gran rey de los mono wrote:

BigNorseWolf wrote:

Put up a sign pool closed due to alligators and hope there isn't a druid for whom that's a bonus?

I worked at 2 hotels in Florida that had outdoor pools. Gators were always a possibility. Never happened while I was there, but heard about it happening previously, and another hotel nearby had it happen while I was down there.

It happened to my in-laws.

I worry for Amby and Solnes and other Florida folks as a result.

[captain yesterday]

First thread I see "I'm searching for how to make money without woman sacrifice"

Jesus f#%$ing christ the spam has gotten dark!

Really makes you wistful for the Korean gambling sites spam.

[NobodysHome]

captain yesterday wrote:

First thread I see "I'm searching for how to make money without woman sacrifice"

Jesus f#%$ing christ the spam has gotten dark!

Really makes you wistful for the Korean gambling sites spam.

What I love about FaWtL: People can reappear after who-knows-how-long gone and don't even have to acknowledge their absence.

I'm going to anyway. Welcome back!

[BigNorseWolf]

quibblemuch wrote:

Reckon a fella could have a pretty damn good weekend in Vegas with all that...

You were SUPPOSED to delete that tape...

[Limeylongears]

I got up early this morning to feed the cats, went back to bed, then got up again a couple of hours later. I went downstairs, followed by the cats, and reflexively went to the catfood box and opened a couple of packets, until I thought, 'Hold on - I've already done it!'

Oh, the looks of disappointment and betrayal on their furry little faces when they found out they weren't getting the second breakfast they'd been led to expect.

[gran rey de los mono]

I saw a note that a Mom left for her (presumably teenage) kids before leaving them alone for the weekend. It said:

"Don't add to the population. Don't subtract from the population. Don't damage or destroy physical property. Stay out of the hospital, newspaper, and jail."

Maybe that would some in helpful for some of you.

[NobodysHome]

gran rey de los mono wrote:

I saw a note that a Mom left for her (presumably teenage) kids before leaving them alone for the weekend. It said:

"Don't add to the population. Don't subtract from the population. Don't damage or destroy physical property. Stay out of the hospital, newspaper, and jail."

Maybe that would some in helpful for some of you.

That is practically what I told my kids when I turned them loose. Truly fantastic advice.

[captain yesterday]

Life update.

Still divorced, my ex-wife is going the born again route, so insert your crazy train memes as you will.

Because of that I haven't seen Milo in 2 years and she's completely cutoff Crookshanks.

Crookshanks works with me now and recently moved downtown, so easier to pick her up.

Because of a lack of snow last year I started driving for Uber, but in a professional and contrary way. In that i never cancel on a rider until at least the required 5 minutes, I never hit on the riders, and I NEVER play jazz.

So naturally I average 6 bucks more per hour then the average.

Otherwise I'm kicking ass at work, I'm in charge of all the artsy projects and instead of working with the same guys for the last 20 years I'm now working with and training their kids. And they still can't keep up.

Life is weird, in the last 4 years we lost our dog, my best friend for 25 years passed away, Crookshanks moved out, and I got divorced.

So don't be surprised if I start ghost writing country songs.

[NobodysHome]

Impus Major found an amazingly apropos statement about modern news coverage that really opened my eyes. Since even the news is political these days,

Probably unnecessary spoiler:

You interview two people. One person says, "It is raining today." The other person says, "It is sunny today."

If you write an article that says something along the lines of, "So-and-so said it was raining, and so-and-so said it was sunny," you are useless and should lose your job.

It is your job as a reporter to go out, look at the sky, find out whether it's sunny or raining, and report that.

After he shared that astonishingly simple bit of wisdom with me, it is depressing and astonishing to realize that the majority of "news" from all outlets fails that basic test.

EDIT:

An example from this morning:

If you don't follow the news, the TL;DR version is that as of November 1 food stamps are being cut off because of the government shutdown. States sued, and a judge ordered the administration to use the program's emergency funds to continue feeding people, which seems like kind of a no-brainer, since this seems like an "emergency". The administration's response was, "We can't without legislative action." I saw an article on this and I was interested. What laws are involved? Why does Congress have to act to release emergency funds? So I read the article. And it quoted the person. And that was it. No investigation. No discussion. And I immediately realized I was reading a canonical example of Impus Major's point. Why are you doing nothing but reporting what someone else said? Are you a parrot or a reporter?

[NobodysHome]

captain yesterday wrote:

So don't be surprised if I start ghost writing country songs.

I'm sure Impus Major will download them on Spotify.

[TriOmegaZero]

Well, we all know that ‘news’ media is just entertainment now given who owns it all.

[Drejk]

Fantasy Monster: Polyscorpion

Don't mind the multiple claws, it's the stingers that you should be worried of...

[Limeylongears]

captain yesterday wrote:

Life update.

Still divorced, my ex-wife is going the born again route, so insert your crazy train memes as you will.

Because of that I haven't seen Milo in 2 years and she's completely cutoff Crookshanks.

Crookshanks works with me now and recently moved downtown, so easier to pick her up.

Because of a lack of snow last year I started driving for Uber, but in a professional and contrary way. In that i never cancel on a rider until at least the required 5 minutes, I never hit on the riders, and I NEVER play jazz.

Not even mid to late '70s Herbie Hancock?

[captain yesterday]

No jazz! They made me watch a video about maximizing profit and they told me to only play jazz and hand out mints and water bottles to everyone.

It turns out all you have to do to maximize your profit is have a playlist including Piano Man, Bohemian Rhapsody, Kokomo, Black Hole Sun or anything from Nirvana Unplugged.

I should mention i mostly give rides to the bar crowd and college students, in fact on my snow route we do all the frat houses and apartment buildings i drop kids off when I uber, it's definitely handy having 20 years experience driving downtown through every snow and ice storm.

[captain yesterday]

I'm doing great though I'm keeping positive, I've learned how to live alone for the first time in my life, I have a new car (obviously) with a short loan and I'm kicking ass at work, which is easier to invest yourself in when half the people you work with are basically family.

[gran rey de los mono]

Heya cap. Sounds like there is some major suckage going on, but that the good outweighs the bad.

[gran rey de los mono]

Some of the "highlights" from the work log for the weekend:

1) Someone tore the automatic closer off of one of the stairwell doors. Why? Who f&&*ing knows. How? Also a good question, as they are held open by electromagnets and should only close in case of a fire or power outage. Neither of which happened.

2) Lots of complaints about the pool being closed, as I predicted. But it has been drained, cleaned, and (mostly) refilled. They had to stop filling it because someone claimed that the sound of the water through the pipes was "so loud I can't hear myself think". Which is, frankly, b@+%~~%@. Especially since their room is one floor up and across the hall from the pipe. They're supposed to finish filling it and work on getting the chemical balance right tomorrow.

3) A guest yelled at 2nd shift because their TV didn't work. When she went up to look at it, the picture was working, but no sound. So she took the remote and turned the volume up. That's all it was, the previous guest had turned the volume all the way down, and he didn't think to turn it back up. Instead, he felt it necessary to yell at the desk clerk about it. Great guy.

4) Another guest yelled at the same desk clerk because they were charged for 3 nights instead of 2. They stayed for 3 nights. But apparently they feel that they should only have to pay for 2, because reasons? Another great guy, no doubt.

5) Guest checked in, went up to room. Called back down and asked about a feather-free room. Was told that "Sorry, all of our feather-free rooms are occupied. I can replace the feather pillows with foam ones if you'd like." He said "No, that's fine," hung up, and immediately filed a complaint with central saying that we didn't honor his (non-existent) feather-free request. At least he didn't yell at the desk clerk.

Finally, 6) A guest was extremely upset that we wouldn't put 3 roll-a-way beds into his room. He had a room with 2 queen-sized beds. Due to fire code, we can only put roll-a-ways into rooms with a king bed, and then only 1 per room. When told no, he flipped out, and almost got thrown out. Which he should have been anyways, since there were 9 adults in that room, and you are only allowed 5 (fire code again).

Sooooooooooooooo glad I don't work weekends anymore.

[gran rey de los mono]

Also, there's a food delivery that has already been sitting here for like 6.5 hours. I'm guessing it was delivered to the wrong address, but there's no address on the tag, so who knows?

[Orthos]

captain yesterday wrote:

Life update.

Glad to see you and Crookshanks are doing as well as you can be in that regard.

A big OOF from me on the "born again" nonsense. Been down that road and I do not envy either of you having to be in that situation, and especially Milo being stuck in it. Hopefully they (he?) can get out of there ASAP and back into the sane(-ish) world.