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I love white castle!!It is a very interesting and damning reflection of the "franchise effect" in our area. I used to love junk food: KFC, Taco Bell, McD's, Round Table... bring it on!
Unfortunately, once rents around here started skyrocketing and franchises were required to keep their prices at the national level, they had to start cutting corners somewhere.
Why they didn't just buy the buildings outright I'll never know, but the KFC, Burger King, and Taco Bell in our area are so much worse than their counterparts anywhere else in the country it's appalling. Shiro routinely eats at the Taco Bell near his house. He bought some food from the Taco Bell near our house, took one bite, and threw out the entire bag.
It's really really appallingly bad.
So, combine that, plus the fact that Impus Major associates any illness he ever had with the last place he ate, and we can't do:
- McDonald's or KFC because of Impus Major
- Taco Bell or Burger King because of inedibility
- Round Table because cost-cutting has driven them from "expensive but excellent" to "expensive and crap"Living in a stupid-expensive area isn't all spits and giggles.
I disagree, ours are just as bad as yours, but neither of us can beat Illinois, they have White Castle, which is so bad not even our goat would eat it.
Edit: And yes, a goat WILL eat a tin can if one's handy, I've seen it, so yeah, it's bad, really, really, really bad.
I have to believe you're getting paid to say that.
Otherwise it might be the first time in recorded history anyone has said that willingly.
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Line up here everyone! There's sure to be a show! Bring your 3-D glasses, there will be nudity!!
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Tofu fries for those who have fries cravings. I tried the deep fried version before, they were nice but very filing. More then normal fries would be. It was all I could do to finish the meal with a cup of no sugar soya milk.
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It is a very interesting and damning reflection of the "franchise effect" in our area. I used to love junk food: KFC, Taco Bell, McD's, Round Table... bring it on!
Unfortunately, once rents around here started skyrocketing and franchises were required to keep their prices at the national level, they had to start cutting corners somewhere.
Why they didn't just buy the buildings outright I'll never know, but the KFC, Burger King, and Taco Bell in our area are so much worse than their counterparts anywhere else in the country it's appalling. Shiro routinely eats at the Taco Bell near his house. He bought some food from the Taco Bell near our house, took one bite, and threw out the entire bag.
It's really really appallingly bad.
So, combine that, plus the fact that Impus Major associates any illness he ever had with the last place he ate, and we can't do:
- McDonald's or KFC because of Impus Major
- Taco Bell or Burger King because of inedibility
- Round Table because cost-cutting has driven them from "expensive but excellent" to "expensive and crap"Living in a stupid-expensive area isn't all spits and giggles.
I disagree, ours are just as bad as yours, but neither of us can beat Illinois, they have White Castle, which is so bad not even our goat would eat it.
Edit: And yes, a goat WILL eat a tin can if one's handy, I've seen it, so yeah, it's bad, really, really, really bad.
I might try it on a food dare. I'm known to eat nearly everything, remember?
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You can do it! It's all about attitude and believing in yourself. I was 110 pounds when I started working in construction.
Ya that same attitude applies for distance running as well. Think on how tired you are, you'll fail. But just stay focused(my breathing control really helps) and you can do it!
One thing about work is I hate leaving jobs half done so if something is half finished I'll try to get it done even if it means staying late etc.
And I hate being called to do something else when I'm in the middle of doing something.
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And I hate being called to do something else when I'm in the middle of doing something.
I've recently realized this about myself as well.
Sometimes there's no help for it, but "Good at focusing on a single task until convenient milestone" and "Doesn't like switching tasks on momentary notice" are going to make an appearance in future interviews.
Co-worker and I work really good together because he's really good at seeing the big picture and I'm really good at focusing on the details.
We're also both pretty positive and light hearted, so that definitely helps.
That is not a patron-only bonus content.
~GASP~ It is not? Then what am I paying you every month for? ~grins and runs~
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~sighs~ Be careful of what you wish for. I wanted to be sort of busy today, so what do I get? One coworker off on vacation and another one sick. On the plus side, I will not be bored today.
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I went to the theater to see Alita : Battle Angel today and I enjoyed it. It was a good adaptation of the manga and the respect and love for that manga showed in the movie. Is it perfect? No. But it is enjoyable and they really tried to get the feel for the manga. I will be seeing it again in the theater and buying the DVD when it comes out.
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White Castle is great. I wish there was one nearby.I love white castle!!It is a very interesting and damning reflection of the "franchise effect" in our area. I used to love junk food: KFC, Taco Bell, McD's, Round Table... bring it on!
Unfortunately, once rents around here started skyrocketing and franchises were required to keep their prices at the national level, they had to start cutting corners somewhere.
Why they didn't just buy the buildings outright I'll never know, but the KFC, Burger King, and Taco Bell in our area are so much worse than their counterparts anywhere else in the country it's appalling. Shiro routinely eats at the Taco Bell near his house. He bought some food from the Taco Bell near our house, took one bite, and threw out the entire bag.
It's really really appallingly bad.
So, combine that, plus the fact that Impus Major associates any illness he ever had with the last place he ate, and we can't do:
- McDonald's or KFC because of Impus Major
- Taco Bell or Burger King because of inedibility
- Round Table because cost-cutting has driven them from "expensive but excellent" to "expensive and crap"Living in a stupid-expensive area isn't all spits and giggles.
I disagree, ours are just as bad as yours, but neither of us can beat Illinois, they have White Castle, which is so bad not even our goat would eat it.
Edit: And yes, a goat WILL eat a tin can if one's handy, I've seen it, so yeah, it's bad, really, really, really bad.
I have to believe you're getting paid to say that.
Otherwise it might be the first time in recorded history anyone has said that willingly.
I never knew these words could be used in a sentence like that.
Nope, still doesn't make sense.
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I went to the theater to see Alita : Battle Angel today and I enjoyed it. It was a good adaptation of the manga and the respect and love for that manga showed it the movie. Is it perfect? No. But it is enjoyable and they really tried to get the feel for the manga. I will be seeing it again in the theater and buying the DVD when it comes out.
a Hollywood adaption of a book imperfect, I am shocked!
Shocked, I say!!
That is not a patron-only bonus content.~GASP~ It is not? Then what am I paying you every month for? ~grins and runs~
A lot of other things other than my nudity.
I received a tracking number for a thing I ordered, and it confuses me. I'm used to seeing long random strings of numbers, or numbers and letters. But this one looks like this (not the actual number, but representative):
1.23E+12So, my tracking number is an exponential? Have do they really need numbers that high now? And why is it that the tracking number for the other thing I ordered (at the same time, from the same retailer, on the same order just split into two shipments) is just 12 digits? Just weird.
Likely an error.
Possibly due to some glitch the tracking number generated was longer than the system can handle, so the system instead represented it as an exponential number to fit it within the string limit, just like calculators do when facing too long strings.
At least I think so.
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Despite being on autopilot nearly the entire day, I nailed Valentine's Day, both literally and figuratively.
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I had to go to Menard's for a furnace filter and laces for my boots, and ended up in the Toys R Us parking lot, not even close.
I went to go to the bank to pay rent, but as I was leaving I thought "Tiny T-Rex sure would love to get picked up from school in my snow truck" so instead of going to the bank I found myself accidentally driving by his school. Again, not even close.
I went to the mall to get a little something for the General, but found myself at Shopko instead, which is kind of close, and I needed new shoes anyway, so I'll let that slide.
It's a good thing I developed impeccable driving habits early in life otherwise I might have left a trail of destruction in my wake.
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White Castle is great. I wish there was one nearby.I love white castle!!It is a very interesting and damning reflection of the "franchise effect" in our area. I used to love junk food: KFC, Taco Bell, McD's, Round Table... bring it on!
Unfortunately, once rents around here started skyrocketing and franchises were required to keep their prices at the national level, they had to start cutting corners somewhere.
Why they didn't just buy the buildings outright I'll never know, but the KFC, Burger King, and Taco Bell in our area are so much worse than their counterparts anywhere else in the country it's appalling. Shiro routinely eats at the Taco Bell near his house. He bought some food from the Taco Bell near our house, took one bite, and threw out the entire bag.
It's really really appallingly bad.
So, combine that, plus the fact that Impus Major associates any illness he ever had with the last place he ate, and we can't do:
- McDonald's or KFC because of Impus Major
- Taco Bell or Burger King because of inedibility
- Round Table because cost-cutting has driven them from "expensive but excellent" to "expensive and crap"Living in a stupid-expensive area isn't all spits and giggles.
I disagree, ours are just as bad as yours, but neither of us can beat Illinois, they have White Castle, which is so bad not even our goat would eat it.
Edit: And yes, a goat WILL eat a tin can if one's handy, I've seen it, so yeah, it's bad, really, really, really bad.
I have to believe you're getting paid to say that.
Otherwise it might be the first time in recorded history anyone has said that willingly.
I loved White Castle when I was a kid, but (a) we only ate there on special occasions, when we were in Chicago to visit family, and we would stop on our way to museums or Cubs games, so that artificially raises the value in my memory, and (b) I haven't eaten there in over thirty years, so I'm prepared to accept that it probably tastes pretty lousy.
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Whingey Wizzard has a job interview today at 9:30.
It's his second interview this week with a local company that places extracurricular specialist teachers in local schools, the position is a management position that oversees and coordinates programs.
For once, his rather eccentric resume and provable skill set are a pretty good fit. His first interview earlier this week was with someone who was junior to the position but with whom he would be working with a lot; today's interview is with the HR director.
And then he has a lunch meeting today with the pastor at our church about bringing an early morning Aikido class into the church two days a week. We already have another church member doing a yoga twice a week, so there is precedent, and the pastor wants to do more to make the church a place where folks in the community come during the week other than for the grocery bag distribution. The yoga guy does a free class but has a donation box, so basically the same structure as WW's "free dojo" back in California. It would do him a LOT of good to be teaching again. And a 7:00 class is something he could do and still work a 9-5.
So... fingers firmly crossed. This could be a good day.
Despite being on autopilot nearly the entire day, I nailed Valentine's Day, both literally and figuratively.
I think you mean you nailed it figuratively and...double figuratively? Twice-over figuratively?
TS, figurative grammar nazi, hoping your V day celebrations did not literally include hammer and nails
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Yes, I did in fact use a hammer and nails, the bookshelf isn't going to fix itself!
I spent most of the day catching up on housework that was neglected during our month of snow.
You played a rogue because you bet Shiro would put all kinds of traps in his dungeons and no one else would do it. Not sure if he said only core and APG for resources or I'd try seeker life oracle. And also maybe because you wanted to break the groups thinking that all groups need a dedicated heal bot.Too much undead and incorporeals sort of neuters a lot of PC abilities(like witches would cry). And rogues can't sneak attack. And I read from you talking about it that Shiro has a rather devious streak to him.LOL. Yes. Shiro's devious streak is legendary.
But we were warned at the very beginning of the AP that it would be an undead-themed AP, and I chose to play a rogue instead of a cleric anyway. So that's totally on me.
It's a nice try, but it's quite a bit off:
(1) After playing divine casters in the last three APs, I insisted that I would not be playing a divine caster, and would prefer to play an arcane caster(2) After eight years of never once playing an arcane caster, I said that I'd like to play an arcane caster. I was told that someone else had already taken it, because of course. (I wouldn't mind nearly so much if so many of them didn't play arcane casters so poorly. "What's the next 'boom' spell on the list? I'll queue up all of those, because that's my job, right?")
(3) After watching two people desperately trying and failing to play rogues, and fondly recalling my GMNPC rogue from our very first AP (Crimson Throne), I decided to bring her back to have fun playing a "disruptor/trickster" rogue.
So it had nothing to do with my expectation of traps from Shiro, and nothing to do with my trying to break the group. In fact, I was pretty unhappy that after explicitly saying that I would not be playing a divine caster, the best we got was an inquisitor who (almost) never cast a heal spell. A lot of our healing was provided by my rogue with a wand of CLW and a UMD roll.
When we couldn't find a fourth player, I brought in a barbarian to try to provide the high DPS we'd need in a low-healing group, but he died very early to a group of zombie dogs, we all decided we needed more healing so another guy brought in the paladin, and as I've noted, the paladin is so ineffective as to be as much of a drag on the party as the rogue.
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And I hate being called to do something else when I'm in the middle of doing something.I've recently realized this about myself as well.
Sometimes there's no help for it, but "Good at focusing on a single task until convenient milestone" and "Doesn't like switching tasks on momentary notice" are going to make an appearance in future interviews.
Yeah, there are stupid interview questions, and then there are ones people handle stupidly.
"What is your worst trait/what is your biggest weakness?" and its variants is really supposed to be an introspective question: Do you know what you're weak at? So many managers have turned it into an, "If the candidate answers this question honestly they lose the job," that it's amazingly frustrating. Because yeah, I single-track and don't like to be disturbed. My manager likes to know that. We interviewed a candidate. She said her writing skills were superb, but her technical skills were lacking. We could work with that. Another guy admitted he had little experience in the industry, so we'd have to train him up. Knowing how to support a co-worker is golden. Having SO many a$$hat managers turn it into a 'trap' question is mind-bogglingly frustrating.
About 50-60% of our candidates give the Mary Poppins, "I'm practically perfect in every way," which is a big red mark against them.
But yes. "I like to focus on a single task and hate to be disturbed" is definitely me.
I received a tracking number for a thing I ordered, and it confuses me. I'm used to seeing long random strings of numbers, or numbers and letters. But this one looks like this (not the actual number, but representative):
1.23E+12So, my tracking number is an exponential? Have do they really need numbers that high now? And why is it that the tracking number for the other thing I ordered (at the same time, from the same retailer, on the same order just split into two shipments) is just 12 digits? Just weird.
Blame Microsoft Excel, and don't even get me started.
Our record IDs in our system are 14-digit numbers, say 300000000000001. We have to do imports using comma-separated value (CSV) spreadsheets.
If you open a CSV file in Microsoft Excel and it contains a large number, Excel auto-converts it to scientific notation, so it's suddenly 3E+14. And it saves it in that format in the CSV file, beraking our import.
Really, really, really cheeses us off, and it's an inexcusable programming blunder: "Here's a text-based file. I'm going to replace concrete values with symbols so no other program can use this file any more" is SO Microsoft, and SO evil...
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I received a tracking number for a thing I ordered, and it confuses me. I'm used to seeing long random strings of numbers, or numbers and letters. But this one looks like this (not the actual number, but representative):
1.23E+12So, my tracking number is an exponential? Have do they really need numbers that high now? And why is it that the tracking number for the other thing I ordered (at the same time, from the same retailer, on the same order just split into two shipments) is just 12 digits? Just weird.
If you key your tracking number into excel spreadsheet its likely so long that you get an exponential number.
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Whingey Wizzard has a job interview today at 9:30.
It's his second interview this week with a local company that places extracurricular specialist teachers in local schools, the position is a management position that oversees and coordinates programs.
For once, his rather eccentric resume and provable skill set are a pretty good fit. His first interview earlier this week was with someone who was junior to the position but with whom he would be working with a lot; today's interview is with the HR director.
And then he has a lunch meeting today with the pastor at our church about bringing an early morning Aikido class into the church two days a week. We already have another church member doing a yoga twice a week, so there is precedent, and the pastor wants to do more to make the church a place where folks in the community come during the week other than for the grocery bag distribution. The yoga guy does a free class but has a donation box, so basically the same structure as WW's "free dojo" back in California. It would do him a LOT of good to be teaching again. And a 7:00 class is something he could do and still work a 9-5.
So... fingers firmly crossed. This could be a good day.
Good luck to WW!
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You played a rogue because you bet Shiro would put all kinds of traps in his dungeons and no one else would do it. Not sure if he said only core and APG for resources or I'd try seeker life oracle. And also maybe because you wanted to break the groups thinking that all groups need a dedicated heal bot.Too much undead and incorporeals sort of neuters a lot of PC abilities(like witches would cry). And rogues can't sneak attack. And I read from you talking about it that Shiro has a rather devious streak to him.LOL. Yes. Shiro's devious streak is legendary.
But we were warned at the very beginning of the AP that it would be an undead-themed AP, and I chose to play a rogue instead of a cleric anyway. So that's totally on me.
It's a nice try, but it's quite a bit off:
(1) After playing divine casters in the last three APs, I insisted that I would not be playing a divine caster, and would prefer to play an arcane caster
(2) After eight years of never once playing an arcane caster, I said that I'd like to play an arcane caster. I was told that someone else had already taken it, because of course. (I wouldn't mind nearly so much if so many of them didn't play arcane casters so poorly. "What's the next 'boom' spell on the list? I'll queue up all of those, because that's my job, right?")
(3) After watching two people desperately trying and failing to play rogues, and fondly recalling my GMNPC rogue from our very first AP (Crimson Throne), I decided to bring her back to have fun playing a "disruptor/trickster" rogue.So it had nothing to do with my expectation of traps from Shiro, and nothing to do with my trying to break the group. In fact, I was pretty unhappy that after explicitly saying that I would not be playing a divine caster, the best we got was an inquisitor who (almost) never cast a heal spell. A lot of our healing was provided by my rogue with a wand of CLW and a UMD
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No one wants to play a divine caster because everyone expects you to be a heal bot and that's not fun at all. I'm happy to be a buff bot, but not happy to be a heal bot. Inquisitors get limited number of spells. Human FCB helps, but it's still limited and using them for heal spells is boring...
I'm currently on my second outage call of the day where something stopped working, nobody can see why, then it inexplicably started working again, and still nobody knows why.
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My father loved White Castle. He lived for 20 years in Lebanon, IN, and they have one. I tried it once.
No.
No one wants to play a divine caster because everyone expects you to be a heal bot and that's not fun at all. I'm happy to be a buff bot, but not happy to be a heal bot. Inquisitors get limited number of spells. Human FCB helps, but it's still limited and using them for heal spells is boring...
I love playing a divine caster for the raw unadulterated game-altering power you get by 8th level with your second set of domain abilities.
But c'mon; after THREE CAMPAIGNS IN A ROW I was ready to try something different. And nobody wanted to take up the slack.
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I absolutely agree. I play Oracles as my main jam, because they mitigate the issue of being expected to heal. You have the flexibility to do something else when you aren't needed to heal thanks to spontaneous casting. But you can't do the same thing with different permutations forever.
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I greatly upped starting hp and changed death rules to mitigate this to an extent, but the number of players who think their character is dying after losing 6 HP is astonishing.
I also love Oracles, never played one with the life mystery.
Generally I prefer Time, Dark Tapestry, or Heavens mysteries for my Oracles.
We don't really do Clerics or Paladins, how we operate is everyone generally is responsible for their own combat healing unless someone's dying.
I've done Time, Metal (with a glaive - that was a lot of fun), Battle, Wave, and Winter.
I like oracles. I also like clerics, but for entirely different reasons.
One thing I really like about 4e is classes that are expected to heal get a minor-action heal feature, so they can heal a couple times while bringing the pain. Players who want to go the healbot route can take further healing powers, especially divine classes.
I'm going a more traditional route with my heartbreaker, insofar as healing requires explicitly magical per-day spells. But I've got nothing good to say about D&D's arcane/divine divide -- I think it's a weird relic of real-world religion -- so healing spells are open to any caster class. Not necessarily every caster, in fact if you're a priest of anything but a god of healing you probably have zero healing power at all. But if you're a wizard for example, you can totally study up on the healing arts as well as you can the blaster arts.
We actually haven't played Pathfinder in quite a while, or Starfinder.
Something about a lot of snow...
Hi, everyone.
John!
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And it's done. My friend passed away at 11:56 pm last night, 14 days short of his 54th birthday.
No, no it's not. Everyone's life comes to an end. Please treat them with some dignity, and when it's time for them to go, let them go.
Good on you, Friend, for defeating the machines and going when you were supposed to.