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"Let's do it against the doghouse" - The General, talking in her sleep.
"Build doghouse" - What I added to the list of chores this morning.
I hope Menard's is still open!
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You are dressed for it.
Do you have a dog?
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They have Peaches.
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Yes, but he's elderly and has lived his whole life inside, so not sure how to explain it to the kids, except it's something they'll understand when they're older.
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Captain Yesterday fun fact: My family has been raising beagles for years and in that time I've never seen one sleep inside a doghouse, ALWAYS on top.
They're pretty much canine goats.
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Yes, but he's elderly and has lived his whole life inside, so not sure how to explain it to the kids, except it's something they'll understand when they're older.
I didn't know Peaches was so old now.
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Yes, but he's elderly and has lived his whole life inside, so not sure how to explain it to the kids, except it's something they'll understand when they're older.I didn't know Peaches was so old now.
He is 12.
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Well, if there's *one* takeaway from this pandemic (other than that the current administration is indeed as incompetent as I thought), it's that there are many companies with whom I will never do business.
NobodysHome: One of these days, I think we should get a Tesla.
Alameda County: We are announcing a mandatory shelter-in-place for all non-essential personnel.
Elon Musk: Screw the county! I'm keeping the factory open, everyone! You can stay home if you want to.
NobodysHome: Whelp. Guess I'm never buying a Tesla.
I mean seriously. He overtly violated the county order and they had to start legal action against him to get him to stop.
During a pandemic.
Yep, Elon. You're now firmly on my s*** list.
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Well, if there's *one* takeaway from this pandemic (other than that the current administration is indeed as incompetent as I thought), it's that there are many companies with whom I will never do business.
NobodysHome: One of these days, I think we should get a Tesla.
Alameda County: We are announcing a mandatory shelter-in-place for all non-essential personnel.
Elon Musk: Screw the county! I'm keeping the factory open, everyone! You can stay home if you want to.
NobodysHome: Whelp. Guess I'm never buying a Tesla.I mean seriously. He overtly violated the county order and they had to start legal action against him to get him to stop.
During a pandemic.
Yep, Elon. You're now firmly on my s*** list.
Elon's response has been tangibly worse than the rest of the automakers, but he's not exactly alone.
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If the Elder Scrolls have taught me anything, it's that both lycanthropy and vampirism, once contracted, will cure any other diseases you have...*sad face*
I thought you were giving out lycanthropy. As a vaccine.
Dwarf Fortress agrees. They'll also prevent death by starvation or thirst!
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Captain Yesterday fun fact: My family has been raising beagles for years and in that time I've never seen one sleep inside a doghouse, ALWAYS on top.
They're pretty much canine goats.
So Peanuts was right all along...?
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Yep, Elon. You're now firmly on my s*** list.
Damn, that bites. Tesla was always going to be out of my range and thus never a concern, but I've been a SpaceX fanboy for a couple years now.
Can I still be pro-SpaceX while acknowledging their owner is a douchebag? Elon aside, the people working there are still making important strides.
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Operation Get Us Off This Crumbling Space Rock always has had a bit of a Faustian connotation...
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Yep, Elon. You're now firmly on my s*** list.
Damn, that bites. Tesla was always going to be out of my range and thus never a concern, but I've been a SpaceX fanboy for a couple years now.
Can I still be pro-SpaceX while acknowledging their owner is a douchebag? Elon aside, the people working there are still making important strides.
Yes.
The vast majority of companies are headed or owned by complete psychopathic douchebags, while the rest of the company manages to do good work and make important strides in spite of the owner.
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Operation Get Us Off This Crumbling Space Rock always has had a bit of a Faustian connotation...I heard Alpha Centauri is nice this time of year.
Oh, we may as well. The operas have all closed.
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Oh, we may as well. The operas have all closed.Operation Get Us Off This Crumbling Space Rock always has had a bit of a Faustian connotation...I heard Alpha Centauri is nice this time of year.
The Met is actually streaming performances from their archives nightly. Good stuff.
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Last night the Dropkick Murphys did a livestream to support their fans on St. Patrick's Day. A lot of people are being amazingly stand-up.
I mean, seriously. I complain about Global Megacorporation a lot, but when push comes to shove they're pretty darned impressive. We've been mandated to work from home. The India team basically said, "Zoom doesn't work for us; it's crap."
The VP responded within a few hours saying, "Yeah, <someone> was trying to price gouge us, and I was trying to resist that, but getting you guys working is more important than money right now, so I've approved the expense until we can find a cheaper option."
Basically, fix the problem, then start pointing fingers and accusing each other of bad stuff.
I'm really grateful to be working for such a company right now. The behavior of many other companies is *so* beyond vile at the moment.
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In other news, after a bunch of a$$hats (Elon Musk included) basically said, "Yeah, we're going to ignore your mandatory quarantine. We dare you to arrest us," GothBard's gaming group does not want to be guilty by association, so the Wednesday night games are canceled until further notice.
I've had to run a LOT of Roll20 games because one of the kids in my Serpent's Skull game spent every summer in Germany. Lara Croft guy has never run an online game, and he's not sure he wants to spend the time and effort to set it all up.
Ah, well, they're looking at trying Fallout 76 again now that it's had a while to get at least a little bit repaired.
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In other news, after a bunch of a$$hats (Elon Musk included) basically said, "Yeah, we're going to ignore your mandatory quarantine. We dare you to arrest us," GothBard's gaming group does not want to be guilty by association, so the Wednesday night games are canceled until further notice.
I've had to run a LOT of Roll20 games because one of the kids in my Serpent's Skull game spent every summer in Germany. Lara Croft guy has never run an online game, and he's not sure he wants to spend the time and effort to set it all up.
Ah, well, they're looking at trying Fallout 76 again now that it's had a while to get at least a little bit repaired.
My 5e group is doing the same, especially since our GM is immunocompromised. We're trying to move it to roll20, at least temporarily, but it's... Rough going.
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Captain Yesterday fun fact: My family has been raising beagles for years and in that time I've never seen one sleep inside a doghouse, ALWAYS on top.
They're pretty much canine goats.
My mother in law now has a beagle pup. He likes climbing on the back of the couch.
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So Peanuts was right all along...?Captain Yesterday fun fact: My family has been raising beagles for years and in that time I've never seen one sleep inside a doghouse, ALWAYS on top.
They're pretty much canine goats.
It's surprising how accurate they are!
I'm pretty sure he's attempted to shoot down the Red Baron at least a thousand times. At least.
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Oh, we may as well. The operas have all closed.Operation Get Us Off This Crumbling Space Rock always has had a bit of a Faustian connotation...I heard Alpha Centauri is nice this time of year.
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♫♪ "Have you heard, it's in the starsNext July we collide with Mars?
Well, did you ever?
What a swell party, a swell party..." ♫♪
(I wish Good Omens had found a way to squeeze in The Ineffables singing a duet of Porter's "Well, Did You Evah!".)
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I could see Musk being driven to try and get more space-stuff done because the dethplague has lit a fire under his ass and being an innovator can't understand why people don't see why it's important to get things GOING.
It's a bit tone-deaf, but I'd rank it right up there with the a-holes that are STILL EFFIN SHOPPIN for BS and getting within 3' of me while wheezing and reeking like they just crawled out of a brewery while taking a bath in a sewer.
Doesn't excuse him being an ass-hat, but it makes sense and fits his character, from what I've heard of him.
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Aaaaaand... GothBard's company just has to one-up me.
Not only did they mandate work from home for all employees, but they just increased everyone's pay by $100/month to defray the costs associated with working from home.
It's really nice and an amazing luxury that BOTH of our companies are being class acts.
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Free yourself from constraints of reality! (Mage 20th Anniversary, DriveThru)
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Yep, Elon. You're now firmly on my s*** list.
Damn, that bites. Tesla was always going to be out of my range and thus never a concern, but I've been a SpaceX fanboy for a couple years now.
Can I still be pro-SpaceX while acknowledging their owner is a douchebag? Elon aside, the people working there are still making important strides.
Yes.
The vast majority of companies are headed or owned by complete psychopathic douchebags, while the rest of the company manages to do good work and make important strides in spite of the owner.
I misspoke here, and didn't really think about it until after the Edit Window had passed. Sociopathic douchebags. I sincerely apologize to those who may have been offended by my mischaracterization of their behavior.
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Aaaaaand... GothBard's company just has to one-up me.
Not only did they mandate work from home for all employees, but they just increased everyone's pay by $100/month to defray the costs associated with working from home.
It's really nice and an amazing luxury that BOTH of our companies are being class acts.
Can you explain to me how not having to use public transportation, put gas in your car, or have insurance paid is "costs associated with working from home"? As far as I have heard, working from home is almost always a savings.
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I spent two hours at school this morning, emptying the turtle tank, taking out all the big hunks of rock (two hunks of Texas limestone the size of basketballs), disassembling the pump and the light rig, cleaning out the classroom fridge (yay! I get two pounds of cheese, two open jars of almond/mixed nut butter, two tubs of pre-made guacamole, and a dozen apples!)
and taking the turtle tank, the food, and a dozen random potted plants home with me in my tiny civic. I still can't believe I got that massive tank to fit in the backseat. Or that I transferred it from my classroom to my car to my breakfast room without breaking anything. And got the pump primed and functioning again.
Now I want to keep it.
But the cool thing is, when I do video chats with my students, they'll be able to see Joben in his tank behind me.
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Can you explain to me how not having to use public transportation, put gas in your car, or have insurance paid is "costs associated with working from home"? As far as I have heard, working from home is almost always a savings.Aaaaaand... GothBard's company just has to one-up me.
Not only did they mandate work from home for all employees, but they just increased everyone's pay by $100/month to defray the costs associated with working from home.
It's really nice and an amazing luxury that BOTH of our companies are being class acts.
I pretty much said the same thing. Yes, she's spent around $100 as one-time expenses to make her WFH environment work (earbuds, adapters, a laptop stand, and the like), but we're saving around $20/day in commuting costs. The company provided free lunches MWF, so that's likely a wash, but I'm not going to complain.
Honestly, I think they're probably looking at a huge boom in business right now, so they're not particularly worried. (Gaming companies are a great investment at the moment... 8 million Californians not being allowed to go outside'll do that.)
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Aaaaaand... GothBard's company just has to one-up me.
Not only did they mandate work from home for all employees, but they just increased everyone's pay by $100/month to defray the costs associated with working from home.
It's really nice and an amazing luxury that BOTH of our companies are being class acts.
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Aaaaaand... GothBard's company just has to one-up me.
Not only did they mandate work from home for all employees, but they just increased everyone's pay by $100/month to defray the costs associated with working from home.
It's really nice and an amazing luxury that BOTH of our companies are being class acts.
<ditto>
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Honestly wondering how much of this is an east coast vs west coast work culture thing.
There's exceptions and outliers of course, like the above mentioned Tesla, but the majority of stories I've heard about people being freed to work from home and better supported while doing so have come from CA, OR, AZ, and WA, and the stories of higher ups locking down hard on the "no you must keep coming to the office" seem to be more commonly allocated eastward.
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East coast(ish) Raleigh law firm - we are on work from home orders. We are a paperless office nominally so it is a bit easier.
as for extra expense - you may have to get/upgrade an internet connection; office supplies - paper/ink for printer, pens, pencils, note pads. You may have to have a separate phone line or a cell phone. And in some cases, we have had to provide computers for our employees to take home. I am not saying that there is no cost savings on the individual with no commute, but I can see that there is some ongoing expense for some employees to work from home.
That said, my gym has also let us borrow a rower and some weights and is posting work at home workouts....so there are more east coast generous examples.
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<ditto>Aaaaaand... GothBard's company just has to one-up me.
Not only did they mandate work from home for all employees, but they just increased everyone's pay by $100/month to defray the costs associated with working from home.
It's really nice and an amazing luxury that BOTH of our companies are being class acts.
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Not just dental offices. Most outpatient clinics of all kinds are being told to either handle the non-emergency (but still necessary - not elective) cases for the hospitals or to shutdown and transfer all of their supplies over.
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Free yourself from constraints of reality! (Mage 20th Anniversary, DriveThru)
Meanwhile, while in the mid-west (southern Lousy-anna edition)
I need to keep going in to maintain the functionality of the auditorium and assist with some long-distance (video stream) performances,...Oh yeah, and YAY MORE FREE STUFF!
:)
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Yeah, but almost all dentistry work is non-emergency, besides temps and stuff made in office. We make crowns, bridges, dentures, inlays, veneers, and all that kind of stuff - all of which can wait a few months, as the governor basically ordered all of those things put to a crashing halt. They're made to order, as every one has to be custom fit to each mouth. With no dentists ordering, even though manufacturing is allowed to stay open, WE are not.
My job is waiting when this is over, for what it's worth, but...this f$++ed me royally, especially with Tala's job unofficially fired her for having our daughter (again, Kroger, please make sure to tell your friends - especially since we heard the same exact story from a member of our gaming group in another state happening to them with the same company).
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I hear ya, VE. Aiymi works for a software company that works specifically with small surgery centers, outpatient clinics, eye, dental, small doctors' offices, etc. Most of her clients are shut down.
Her boss is saying "Hey, a lot of these places aren't going to be seeing patients, so they'll have plenty of time to work on software implementation projects!"
Um, NO. That's not how this works. They save as much money as they can by turning off the lights and locking the doors.
Aiymi used to work as an inventory coordinator for a major hospital in East Central Illinois. She was there during the swine flu scare. That was bad. That was *nothing* compared to this. We have friends that still work there.
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Freehold will not be happy until there is a 20th anniversary edition Hunter the Reckoning. INHERIT THE EARTH!!!
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So,
(1) Yes, it's an amazingly common trope that very few series (anime or manga) manage to do well, and
(2) It's at about the same point of the story arc in the series,
...but the similarities between My Hero Academia episodes 68-76 and One Punch Man Chapters 71-75 is really quite striking. (And yeah, the numbers are similar, but anime episodes tend to be 3-5 manga chapters, so my guess is that we're WAY farther along in the MHA timeline.)
But when it's done well (i.e., almost never), it really hits me in the feels.
...cut scene to the protagonist arriving with an expression that says, "Yep. This is over."
As I said, it's done in virtually every fight-themed manga and anime. And it is so terribly done in most that I just wince when it begins. Both OPM and MHA did it masterfully. So they deserve my applause.
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Breathing a huge sigh of relief... Census is suspending operations until March 31st.
Since WW's job in Census Administration is all about hiring new people, fingerprinting them, and lots of other human interaction stuff with lots of random strangers, I was really worried about him.
So now he gets to be home, sending out resumes and applications, and hopefully also dealing with our knee-high lawn.
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I hate Kroger but had been shopping there anyway because it's closest. Totally happy to boycott the bastards.
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We don't have Kroger near us, so in my case it's mostly symbolic but if we ever go anywhere with one we sure as f#~# won't go there.
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Unfortunately, it's 5-10 minutes, tops, to our choice of 2 Krogers, 2 WalMarts, and a Costco. Given those options, and we don't have the storage space to effectively shop at a Costco (or a membership), the only realistic option for us is Kroger. After that we're looking at 30-45 minute drives to one of two HyVees, or 20-30 minutes to a ridiculously expensive Schnuck's.
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Unfortunately, it's 5-10 minutes, tops, to our choice of 2 Krogers, 2 WalMarts, and a Costco. Given those options, and we don't have the storage space to effectively shop at a Costco (or a membership), the only realistic option for us is Kroger. After that we're looking at 30-45 minute drives to one of two HyVees, or 20-30 minutes to a ridiculously expensive Schnuck's.
We do have the option of having groceries delivered to us as well...but the only store that we can do that from is Kroger.
Plus I'm not the one that does the primary grocery shopping. I've told Aiymi about what happened. She's also appalled. However, it's also at great odds with her experience from when she worked there, so it's unlikely to change her shopping habits.
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We don't have Kroger near us, so in my case it's mostly symbolic but if we ever go anywhere with one we sure as f~!+ won't go there.
That's how I used to feel about Chick-Fil-A when we lived in California. Now that we're in a part of the country where they are just as plentiful as Whataburgers, and I've discovered how tasty they are, it's harder to be resolute!
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I don't know that I've ever seen a Chick-Fil-A or Whataburger, though I'm sure there are some around here.
Yep. Chick-Fil-A is only 24 miles away (a 40-minute drive), but no Whataburger, because it's Texan and we're Californian, and there are few things Texas hates more than California.
'Cause we're just better than they are...
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Politics aside, I hate Chik-Fil-A.
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We don't have Kroger near us, so in my case it's mostly symbolic but if we ever go anywhere with one we sure as f$$% won't go there.
You have to Google their subsidiaries to get a good picture. There are no Krogers that I've ever seen, but Food4Less is ubiquitous around here, and it's a Krogers subsidiary.
And yes, I'm petty enough to boycott ALL of a corporation's subsidiaries. Because you can't spell "NobodysHome" without "ornery".