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Have your boss yell at you because a client referred to your phone manner as "gruff" and you learn that there is a business appropriate level amount of small talk for clients with whom you do regular business.
Likewise, I have a foreign associate with whom I trade triathlon/bike stories. it helps that she has a sexy french canadian accent
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I am not addicted to UFO series!
I can stop anytime I want!
I haven't played in months (or is that a year already?)!
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I do like me some X-com.
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I would like to say that the full version I got of X-com 2 didn't crash and that it was only your hacked copy.. I would like to say that...
At least it auto saved often.
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WAIT?!
There is a new X-Com game coming?!
Yes. Right now it is $10 on Steam. I have already bought it and am waiting on its release.
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I'm currently waiting on two things that I pre-purchased back in January. No more pre-purchasing for me until everything is back to running normally.
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Yes. Right now it is $10 on Steam. I have already bought it and am waiting on its release.WAIT?!
There is a new X-Com game coming?!
I have already done it over an half an hour ago...
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He told me that it crashed when he gave it to me, so I kind of expected it. But it was frustrating because I wanted to keep playing it.I would like to say that the full version I got of X-com 2 didn't crash and that it was only your hacked copy.. I would like to say that...
At least it auto saved often.
Yeah their fun games. definitely worth picking up.
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Moments that make you proud as a parent.
Crookshanks asked me yesterday "Before I turn 16 in a couple of weeks and work with you, can you get a few bags of gravel and sand so I can practice building a patio before I start".
So, I guess I'm going to the gravel and sand store on my home from work today.
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Oh, XCOM 2 did not crash often. Having said that, my heavily modded XCOM 2 crashed often.
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I just saw that there is a bundle of the 5 original games on steam for $15. Maybe I'll pick it up sometime.Yeah their fun games. definitely worth picking up.He told me that it crashed when he gave it to me, so I kind of expected it. But it was frustrating because I wanted to keep playing it.I would like to say that the full version I got of X-com 2 didn't crash and that it was only your hacked copy.. I would like to say that...
At least it auto saved often.
XCOM 1 was awesome. XCOM 2 was even more awesome (Especially if you had played the first first).
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Moments that make you proud as a parent.
Crookshanks asked me yesterday "Before I turn 16 in a couple of weeks and work with you, can you get a few bags of gravel and sand so I can practice building a patio before I start".
So, I guess I'm going to the gravel and sand store on my home from work today.
~laughter~ That is awesome! It is so nice to see that kind of behavior. Good job!
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~thinks~ I might just start up a new game of XCOM 1.
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Only one I've ever played was the original. And I mean the old DOS one from the mid '90s, just to be clear.XCOM 1 was awesome. XCOM 2 was even more awesome (Especially if you had played the first first).I just saw that there is a bundle of the 5 original games on steam for $15. Maybe I'll pick it up sometime.Yeah their fun games. definitely worth picking up.He told me that it crashed when he gave it to me, so I kind of expected it. But it was frustrating because I wanted to keep playing it.I would like to say that the full version I got of X-com 2 didn't crash and that it was only your hacked copy.. I would like to say that...
At least it auto saved often.
Ah. That is one that I eventually need to get around to playing. Having said that, the new XCOM series is well worth playing.
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Sharoth got me into XCom.
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Have your boss yell at you because a client referred to your phone manner as "gruff" and you learn that there is a business appropriate level amount of small talk for clients with whom you do regular business.
Yep, it's why I'm so very happy I don't have to deal with clients directly. I tend to mention this when I'm interviewing.
Give me a quiet desk or cube and let me work and don't make me deal with the phone any more than absolutely necessary, and I'm set.
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Crap. It seems that my kettle died. Couldn't it do that yesterday, before I went to shop?
I have an electric one that is AMAZING.
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OK, color me baffled.
This morning I checked my bank account and found a coronavirus relief deposit in it.
I should not be getting this!!
There were *so* many articles on who was eligible and who wasn't, and we aren't, and we've both kept our jobs. So I have no idea WTH is going on with the IRS.
But I guess it's time to buy another gift card for another local business...
EDIT: Ah, it's Impus Minor's fault. "For each child age 16 or younger in the family, parents will get a payment of $500."
So it doesn't matter how much you make, if you have kids you get $500 per kid. I still feel like if you're over the cutoff, you really don't need the checks, so give 'em to people who need it. That's what I'll be doing with mine.
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I just saw that there is a bundle of the 5 original games on steam for $15. Maybe I'll pick it up sometime.Yeah their fun games. definitely worth picking up.He told me that it crashed when he gave it to me, so I kind of expected it. But it was frustrating because I wanted to keep playing it.I would like to say that the full version I got of X-com 2 didn't crash and that it was only your hacked copy.. I would like to say that...
At least it auto saved often.
LordSynos might have spare keys for those that he gives away. At least he had in the past.
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OK, color me baffled.
This morning I checked my bank account and found a coronavirus relief deposit in it.
I should not be getting this!!
There were *so* many articles on who was eligible and who wasn't, and we aren't, and we've both kept our jobs. So I have no idea WTH is going on with the IRS.
But I guess it's time to buy another gift card for another local business...
Better check the conditions and if it really is it before doing anything with it. The various scammers and such crawled out of their gutters during the pandemic trying even more sh*t.
On the positive note, the leader of a gang that was conning elderly people with grandkid in need scam in Poland was recently caught by the police.
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You may know all this:
Below 198K for a married couple is entitled to some form of stimulus.
At 198K for a married couple is where it all phases out.
And then the 500/child. Not sure if that is subject to phase out or not. It is always in a separate sentence, so it is not clear to me at least and I am too lazy to read the full law.
If you have not yet filed your 2019 tax return, then it based on your 2018 return...so if you or your spouse had lower income in 2018, you may be getting the benefit of that.
Or they could have just f@@$ed up.
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You may know all this:
Below 198K for a married couple is entitled to some form of stimulus.
At 198K for a married couple is where it all phases out.
And then the 500/child. Not sure if that is subject to phase out or not. It is always in a separate sentence, so it is not clear to me at least and I am too lazy to read the full law.If you have not yet filed your 2019 tax return, then it based on your 2018 return...so if you or your spouse had lower income in 2018, you may be getting the benefit of that.
Or they could have just f&@*ed up.
Yep. It reads just like Pathfinder rules. "If it's in a separate sentence, even if it's in the same paragraph, then it's a separate rule."
*SIGH*
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OK, color me baffled.
This morning I checked my bank account and found a coronavirus relief deposit in it.
I should not be getting this!!
There were *so* many articles on who was eligible and who wasn't, and we aren't, and we've both kept our jobs. So I have no idea WTH is going on with the IRS.
But I guess it's time to buy another gift card for another local business...
Better check the conditions and if it really is it before doing anything with it. The various scammers and such crawled out of their gutters during the pandemic trying even more sh*t.
On the positive note, the leader of a gang that was conning elderly people with grandkid in need scam in Poland was recently caught by the police.
If scammers are doing direct deposits into my bank account, more power to 'em!
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OK, color me baffled.
This morning I checked my bank account and found a coronavirus relief deposit in it.
I should not be getting this!!
There were *so* many articles on who was eligible and who wasn't, and we aren't, and we've both kept our jobs. So I have no idea WTH is going on with the IRS.
But I guess it's time to buy another gift card for another local business...
EDIT: Ah, it's Impus Minor's fault. "For each child age 16 or younger in the family, parents will get a payment of $500."
So it doesn't matter how much you make, if you have kids you get $500 per kid. I still feel like if you're over the cutoff, you really don't need the checks, so give 'em to people who need it. That's what I'll be doing with mine.
but what about the 500 dollars you should be getting for me, Papa Nobodyshome?
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LordSynos might have spare keys for those that he gives away. At least he had in the past.I just saw that there is a bundle of the 5 original games on steam for $15. Maybe I'll pick it up sometime.Yeah their fun games. definitely worth picking up.He told me that it crashed when he gave it to me, so I kind of expected it. But it was frustrating because I wanted to keep playing it.I would like to say that the full version I got of X-com 2 didn't crash and that it was only your hacked copy.. I would like to say that...
At least it auto saved often.
The red dragon is wise. I have keys for X-COM: Enemy Unknown, X-COM: Terror from the Deep, and X-COM: UFO Defense.
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I just saw that there is a bundle of the 5 original games on steam for $15. Maybe I'll pick it up sometime.Yeah their fun games. definitely worth picking up.He told me that it crashed when he gave it to me, so I kind of expected it. But it was frustrating because I wanted to keep playing it.I would like to say that the full version I got of X-com 2 didn't crash and that it was only your hacked copy.. I would like to say that...
At least it auto saved often.
Alternatively, there is currently a Humble Bundle that includes the first X-Com of the most recent series for $18.50. It comes with a bunch of others games as well. If you're interested in X-Com and even one or two of the other games in there (Borderlands, for instance, is a fantastic co-op FPS), it's probably worth it.
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EDIT: Ah, it's Impus Minor's fault. "For each child age 16 or younger in the family, parents will get a payment of $500."
It is definitely Impus Minor's sole fault that he picked such late year to be born that he is 16 or younger now. You and GothBard are completely blameless and beyond reproach in that matter, on the other hand.
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but what about the 500 dollars you should be getting for me, Papa Nobodyshome?OK, color me baffled.
This morning I checked my bank account and found a coronavirus relief deposit in it.
I should not be getting this!!
There were *so* many articles on who was eligible and who wasn't, and we aren't, and we've both kept our jobs. So I have no idea WTH is going on with the IRS.
But I guess it's time to buy another gift card for another local business...
EDIT: Ah, it's Impus Minor's fault. "For each child age 16 or younger in the family, parents will get a payment of $500."
So it doesn't matter how much you make, if you have kids you get $500 per kid. I still feel like if you're over the cutoff, you really don't need the checks, so give 'em to people who need it. That's what I'll be doing with mine.
It is definitely your own fault that you are past 16 by now. You shouldn't have grown so fast.
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Alternatively, there is current a Humble Bundle that includes the first X-Com of the most recent series for $18.50. It comes with a bunch of others games as well. If you're interested in X-Com and even one or two of the other games in there (Borderlands, for instance, is a fantastic co-op FPS), it's probably worth it.I just saw that there is a bundle of the 5 original games on steam for $15. Maybe I'll pick it up sometime.Yeah their fun games. definitely worth picking up.He told me that it crashed when he gave it to me, so I kind of expected it. But it was frustrating because I wanted to keep playing it.I would like to say that the full version I got of X-com 2 didn't crash and that it was only your hacked copy.. I would like to say that...
At least it auto saved often.
Nice bundle... Except I already have all of the fun games and I am completely uninterested in the rest. Well, maybe except Sid Meier's Pirates...
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I guess that means I should be watching the mail for mine, since I don't have IRS DD.
Alternatively, there is currently a Humble Bundle that includes the first X-Com of the most recent series for $18.50. It comes with a bunch of others games as well. If you're interested in X-Com and even one or two of the other games in there (Borderlands, for instance, is a fantastic co-op FPS), it's probably worth it.I just saw that there is a bundle of the 5 original games on steam for $15. Maybe I'll pick it up sometime.Yeah their fun games. definitely worth picking up.He told me that it crashed when he gave it to me, so I kind of expected it. But it was frustrating because I wanted to keep playing it.I would like to say that the full version I got of X-com 2 didn't crash and that it was only your hacked copy.. I would like to say that...
At least it auto saved often.
I will have to check this out once my internet lets me load things!
(Pretty sure I can see most of Paizo right now, but I can't be sure.)
(Except PMs. If you guys here were the ones that said something that way, sorry: I will check those out later, I suppose...!)
>and don't forget to copy/paste this time just in case the screen blanks out again...
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We're working in Okee today, but I'm mostly driving to and from the job site to Madison, which is about an hour away.
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... similarly, they could be using the Cortex system, so anyone may just maybe succeed at anything/fail at anything, and she rolls like Orthos when his character's life depends on it).
continuing with the earlier thought now that the joke at Orthos' impossible tendency to roll ones in strict defiance of all odds is finished, maybe:
I mean. Have you tried just... you know... not rolling 1s?
Just to see what it's like, I mean.
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aaaaaaaaggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh
there goes a long post
short version: heart everyone here, be nice, folk are different, kthnxbai
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Percussive maintenance protocol worked. I have tea!
I giggled at the thought of Drejk, God of Tea going around thwacking things with a hammer so they will produce tea.
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Percussive maintenance protocol worked. I have tea!I giggled at the thought of Drejk, God of Tea going around thwacking things with a hammer so they will produce tea.
new monster to stat!
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new monster to stat!Percussive maintenance protocol worked. I have tea!I giggled at the thought of Drejk, God of Tea going around thwacking things with a hammer so they will produce tea.
So, you start with 35/29/28/25/25/25 scores...
Then divine ranks, skill points, a minimum HD equal to twice the ranks, maybe. Definitely the Creative Blood, so that sounds like a minimum of 6 ranks, then...
Or maybe in PF a red dragon with three tiers and the divine source...
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Fighting my ADD
An eight year Old’s attention span
A five year Old’s attention span
Lizards
Ants
Manga
Bible stories
Small rooms
Dull pencils
Brother tricks
Pokémon
Fake throwing stuff
Cookie
Rain storm
Single big drop in rain storm
“Tricking” Daddy
Spinning a lego piece
Hiding a lego piece in Easter egg so we don’t get distracted by it
Get distracted by hiding the lego piece and hide a rubber band in another
Start chasing your brother around the table
Narrowing not spilling Daddy’s soup from lunch
Playdough (we don’t even HAVE play dough, where do they get-never mind doesn’t matter, MOVING ON)
Rocks
Also more rocks
Did I mention rocks
Also did you know we have a fan? We have a fan. It spins and everything.
YES, YOU HAVE TO WRITE THE ANSWER, BECAUSE THAT’S THE INSTRUCTIONS (and the only way we can turn it in for a grade)
YES you have to make it so other people can read it
NO, “lizard” is not an acceptable answer for... literally anything
No, you aren’t thirsty, you are distracted and if you are thirsty you have water right here
Okay you can go potty
Okay so now we can work
No, Brother stop bothering Brother
You, too, Brother, leave Brother alone
Brother. Brother! Both of you- BROTHERS! SIT
Peanut butter
Lizards
Ants
Manga
...
IT IS JUST THREE QUESTIONS LEFT
CAN WE PLEASE GET THROUGH THREE QUESTIONS
no?okaythen.
Also, the table is not a gymnasium. Please do not treat it as such. Yes, it bears your weight for now, but it shakes terribly and will soon start breaking. Let’s not do that. Thanks.
Commence wild “dancing” while I am grading the book.
(“Dancing” is in quotes for a reason.)
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In other uplifting news, I just uttered this sentence (modified):
“You know what? You were right, <Eldest>. I was wrong. I’m sorry! You did well. You may now pat my head three times because I was wrong and you were right.”
This was followed by, “There you go! Please do it softer next time.”
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How... do we lose a pencil? In five seconds? Ther is literally no where for that pencil to be. THIS IS THE CLEAN ROOM OF THE HOUSE, DAGGUMMIT, HIW CAN SOMETHJNG GET LOST ON A SMOOTH CLEAN SURFACE IN THE CLEANEST SLOT IN TH- oh, hey, there it is. Cool. Glad we found that.
(Stuff that never is said out loud. Well, not quite like that, anyway.)
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... You holding it together there, man?
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... You holding it together there, man?
Let me tttthhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnmmmmmmnope!