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I'm still working on finding the will to pony up for a 3DS.
Be a kid with a lot of friends, and just be gauche and ask for money towards one thing. Or have doting relatives. He hasn't even had his party yet and his grandmothers have put up $175 towards the console already, so his friends don't have to pony up much at all. (12 friends at $10 apiece would just about do it.)
I think it was his iPhone that was the stunner for me -- we told him it would be a while before he'd get one, and his well-to-do single uncle in Seattle (hello, ladies!) dropped $300 in the basket for Christmas.
Yes, he always HAS been Impus Minor's favorite uncle...
EDIT: And c'mon, how many of us DIDN'T run around naked as kids?
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Uh yeah, as kids...
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Impus Major: "Dad? Are lobsters mermaids to scorpions?"
Things you just don't want to think about too much...
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The answer to all those kinds of questions is always, "Maybe? Ask your mother."
(This is not the correct answer. Do not do this rhing. XD)
So why is no one talking about Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir, yet?!
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Honestly, it's times like that where I stroke my goatee thoughtfully, then start making s##& up.
But in order for them to believe you, you have to start out "absolutely!" first, then branch off from there.
But always, and I mean always end it with "...And that's why Jesus and the Easter Bunny sank Atlantis!"
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can I get his job?didn't you complain about this guy before?Aaaand... tirades!
I am always astonished when people cannot do something very simple that they have been asked to do by their managers. I think I've told the story of the guy whose ONE JOB was to follow the exact steps handed to him, he utterly failed, and we learned from his manager that he always fails, but it's "too much trouble" to fire him. Really? More trouble than fixing everything he touches? Forever? Then we were convinced by the powers-that-be to hire consultants to supplement our small team. After 2 weeks and $10,000, they provided us with... a 2-page Word doc. Full of stuff we already knew. We just had a team in India whose only job was to update our PowerPoints to the new template. They took 2 months. And I just got to present to my manager 3 of the 28 lessons they did, all 3 in totally different formats and templates. WTF?!?!?!
Paizo is no longer showing me the number of unread posts on threads. How can I possibly keep up? Waaaaah!
/tirades
Yeah. He really impressed me because they even threw him a retirement party.
So he retired from doing no useful work to... doing no useful work!
Just a poster child for, "Oh, you want a job where your performance doesn't matter, and you can mail it in every day? OK! No problem! Here... meet your co-workers..."
I can underperform FHDM in that position and with worse accent at that!
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Well, I'm sure *someone* is building character, but darned if I can say who that might be.
Impus Minor is a very "shiny new thing" sort, so for his birthday, he desperately wanted a Nintendo Switch. I checked on the Thursday before his birthday, and Amazon had 'em at $350 each, with free 2-day shipping (curse you, Amazon Prime!) He insisted, "No, Dad! The retail price is $300. Don't pay that extra $50!"
I was rather proud of him for his frugality, so I didn't pull the trigger.
And now, of course, the things are downright impossible to find, with dozens of scalpers showing up as "new listers" on Amazon selling the things for $150-$300 over retail. And I'm a very firm believer in, "If no one bought from scalpers, there wouldn't be scalpers, and there would be enough xxx to go around", so I refuse to *ever* buy from them.
So Impus Minor is suffering from "no early buyer's remorse", I'm stubbornly refusing to go through scalpers, and NobodysWife is desperately trying to figure out some way to get one without going through scalpers.
I figure he can wait 6 months. There will be plenty by then, and we may even pay less than retail. He is a *teensy* bit more eager than that, but understands that there just aren't that many out there right now. (A shipment showed up at the Gamestop in S.F. today. The line started at 4 am, to which we wondered, "Don't you people have LIVES?")
So anyway, I've never been a "first in line" type anyway, so it's interesting watching all the pain and disappointment that goes along with, "I want it NOW, instead of 6 months from now!"
I admit, Impus Minor is really being VERY good about it. He's just mildly disappointed, and there are no tantrums or anything like that. But I wish he'd stop seeing, "New shipments hit stores Wednesday" and get his hopes up.
As long as people are lining up at 4 am to get 'em, we're not getting one. I'm just not that dedicated to material things...
Direct him to various articles about the first releases of various devices and programs being wonky and how after 6 months those issues are usually ironed out. Hopefully.
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I'm still working on finding the will to pony up for a 3DS.Be a kid with a lot of friends, and just be gauche and ask for money towards one thing. Or have doting relatives. He hasn't even had his party yet and his grandmothers have put up $175 towards the console already, so his friends don't have to pony up much at all. (12 friends at $10 apiece would just about do it.)
I think it was his iPhone that was the stunner for me -- we told him it would be a while before he'd get one, and his well-to-do single uncle in Seattle (hello, ladies!) dropped $300 in the basket for Christmas.
Yes, he always HAS been Impus Minor's favorite uncle...
EDIT: And c'mon, how many of us DIDN'T run around naked as kids?
Why I don't have a rich single favored uncle? :/
Though I would spend $300 for many other things than iPhone...
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I need to get myself to finish a few things this week and send them to fulfill that "Will design for food" idea :|
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Of course instead of writing things that I could try to push to my publisher I am writing down supply of monster for the next week Monster Week...
<.<
>.>
Yeah, yeah, consider it a leak. I will probably be doing a monster week next week unless something happens. Or something...
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And now I am listening to Diggy Diggy Hole...
That's part of research!
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Uh, it seems I have forgotten to copy-paste it here from Monkey Treefort...
Wish For More! This blogpost is Owen's fault.
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All caught up on Legion.
Man is that an awesome show!
Holy cow! If you haven't seen it yet. Do.
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Cow, ibis, wavy line, sun, cow, angry cow, circle, man waving at hill, crown, cow.
Or 'You're too kind', also in Ancient Egyptian.
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Meanwhile, while all you folks are sleeping, I'm going to 'cash' in on the fantastic counterfeit money offer that's just appeared in OTD!
I shall be rich, I tell you! Rich! Rich! Rich, beyond my wildest dreams!
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Pretty much burned out on cold weather.
I'm tired of being cold when I wake up, I'm tired of being cold when I go outside, and I'm really tired of all the f+~#ing layers.
I just want to feel warmth, created by nature, and not my poor overworked furnace. That's all I want.
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It's pouring outside!!!
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I am 90% sure that KONOSUBA is what would happen if FAWTL was in a fantasy universe.
Just with a lot more cheesecake.
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Ugh, f+*~ you weather.
30s in the morning and 80s in the evening -_-
It's been like this all week.
And people wonder why I love winter. When will people realize it is the sanest and safest of seasons?
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I can underperform FHDM in that position and with worse accent at that!can I get his job?didn't you complain about this guy before?Aaaand... tirades!
I am always astonished when people cannot do something very simple that they have been asked to do by their managers. I think I've told the story of the guy whose ONE JOB was to follow the exact steps handed to him, he utterly failed, and we learned from his manager that he always fails, but it's "too much trouble" to fire him. Really? More trouble than fixing everything he touches? Forever? Then we were convinced by the powers-that-be to hire consultants to supplement our small team. After 2 weeks and $10,000, they provided us with... a 2-page Word doc. Full of stuff we already knew. We just had a team in India whose only job was to update our PowerPoints to the new template. They took 2 months. And I just got to present to my manager 3 of the 28 lessons they did, all 3 in totally different formats and templates. WTF?!?!?!
Paizo is no longer showing me the number of unread posts on threads. How can I possibly keep up? Waaaaah!
/tirades
Yeah. He really impressed me because they even threw him a retirement party.
So he retired from doing no useful work to... doing no useful work!
Just a poster child for, "Oh, you want a job where your performance doesn't matter, and you can mail it in every day? OK! No problem! Here... meet your co-workers..."
NONSENSE! I WILL COME TO WORK 20 MINUTES LATE EVERY DAY AND SPEAK WITH PEBBLES IN MY MOUTH!
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NONSENSE! I WILL COME TO WORK 20 MINUTES LATE EVERY DAY AND SPEAK WITH PEBBLES IN MY MOUTH!I can underperform FHDM in that position and with worse accent at that!can I get his job?didn't you complain about this guy before?Aaaand... tirades!
I am always astonished when people cannot do something very simple that they have been asked to do by their managers. I think I've told the story of the guy whose ONE JOB was to follow the exact steps handed to him, he utterly failed, and we learned from his manager that he always fails, but it's "too much trouble" to fire him. Really? More trouble than fixing everything he touches? Forever? Then we were convinced by the powers-that-be to hire consultants to supplement our small team. After 2 weeks and $10,000, they provided us with... a 2-page Word doc. Full of stuff we already knew. We just had a team in India whose only job was to update our PowerPoints to the new template. They took 2 months. And I just got to present to my manager 3 of the 28 lessons they did, all 3 in totally different formats and templates. WTF?!?!?!
Paizo is no longer showing me the number of unread posts on threads. How can I possibly keep up? Waaaaah!
/tirades
Yeah. He really impressed me because they even threw him a retirement party.
So he retired from doing no useful work to... doing no useful work!
Just a poster child for, "Oh, you want a job where your performance doesn't matter, and you can mail it in every day? OK! No problem! Here... meet your co-workers..."
~shakes my head sadly~ Children. Why am I around children? I am Union. You all do not hold a candle to us.
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When calling in your child to school because he isn't feeling well. It's best to wait at least five minutes after discussing the matter with your wife on the phone.
Hopefully by doing that, you won't accidentally slip a "I love you!" at the end and make things really, really awkward with the school's secretary.
Like I did. :-)
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So... everything you need to know about NobodysHome in one easy incident:
NobodysWife: You're so wonderful! You're like some kind of miraculous cross between June Cleaver and Steve Wozniak!
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Was he a member of the miracle on ice.
I'm just going to assume so, if only for the image of you in your chef pants body checking everyone everywhere.
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So... everything you need to know about NobodysHome in one easy incident:
NobodysWife: You're so wonderful! You're like some kind of miraculous cross between June Cleaver and Steve Wozniak!
Because Nobodys Wife is a Slytherin. But she's a chaotic good Slytherin.
Mostly.
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I'm alive! And I got my term paper submitted online eight minutes before the midnight deadline!
True, I haven't had more than four and a half hours of sleep in a week, but I have my lecture notes ready for the parent education night at my school tonight (this is where Montessorians guilt-trip parents into paying for a babysitter and coming to school in the evening so that we, the minimum wage faculty, can tell them they're parenting all wrong, because the boss tells us we have to. So. Damned. Awkward.)... and all set for parent-teacher conferences on Friday.
F@$* my life.
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I think I need a new job.
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I can underperform FHDM in that position and with worse accent at that!NONSENSE! I WILL COME TO WORK 20 MINUTES LATE EVERY DAY
Pffshhttt... Minutes? I can be late whole hours, and different amount of hours every day! While working remotely!
AND SPEAK WITH PEBBLES IN MY MOUTH!
Still nothing compared to power of FOREIGN NON-NATIVE SPEAKER!
Or I can simply beat you by speaking Polish...
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I can underperform FHDM in that position and with worse accent at that!NONSENSE! I WILL COME TO WORK 20 MINUTES LATE EVERY DAYPffshhttt... Minutes? I can be late whole hours, and different amount of hours every day! While working remotely!
AND SPEAK WITH PEBBLES IN MY MOUTH!Still nothing compared to power of FOREIGN NON-NATIVE SPEAKER!
Or I can simply beat you by speaking Polish...
dammit the Polish are stealing the job I never had!
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Why NobodysHome is never invited to retirement parties:
Manager: Hey, everyone! Joe Writer is retiring! Send all your well wishes to me so I can compile them and pass them on!
NobodysHome: "Congratulations! I hope you are more competent at retirement than you were at your job!"
Manager: ...
NobodysHome: You're not going to pass that on, then?
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dammit the Polish are stealing the job I never had!I can underperform FHDM in that position and with worse accent at that!NONSENSE! I WILL COME TO WORK 20 MINUTES LATE EVERY DAYPffshhttt... Minutes? I can be late whole hours, and different amount of hours every day! While working remotely!
AND SPEAK WITH PEBBLES IN MY MOUTH!Still nothing compared to power of FOREIGN NON-NATIVE SPEAKER!
Or I can simply beat you by speaking Polish...
And while not getting it myself... :(
Tacticslion did you know BLARG is from Archie comics ?
I did not!
Still in need of time to check out all those links...
AWESOME~! Thanks!
You would list that in the "Did you know...?" forum... which I still need to catch up with!
There are so many things I don't, yet know! Dang it!
ARG!
Due to the new glitch, I don't know how many posts I've missed: I DON'T EVEN KNKW HOW MUCH I DON'T KNOW!
:O
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Why NobodysHome is never invited to retirement parties:
Manager: Hey, everyone! Joe Writer is retiring! Send all your well wishes to me so I can compile them and pass them on!
NobodysHome: "Congratulations! I hope you are more competent at retirement than you were at your job!"
Manager: ...
NobodysHome: You're not going to pass that on, then?
NobodysHome...
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Well, today is just a fantastic example of why I am so grumpy at my work. We handed off a course to a 2-person team and gave them 2 months to:
So... they accomplished the *first* goal... for 16 of the 18 lessons.
And that took them 2 months.
Update the screenshots? Nope! Some of the screenshots are from the 2011 release of the software... SIX MAJOR RELEASES ago. I just finished fixing an example that just plain does not work as written due to changes in the product, so technical content? Yeah, that's down the tubes. (Some of the labs didn't work due to technical changes, and they didn't fix those, either.) My partner is re-testing the practices and reports that all those practices the team claims passed? They don't work. And none of the practices have been updated.
So... two months and they failed to even complete "apply a new template to around 400 slides."
And now my partner and I have two WEEKS to do everything else. Correctly.
So NobodysHome gets grumpy at his co-workers.
EDIT: Great! Now my partner tells me she's only 3 days away from retirement...
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And while not getting it myself... :(dammit the Polish are stealing the job I never had!I can underperform FHDM in that position and with worse accent at that!NONSENSE! I WILL COME TO WORK 20 MINUTES LATE EVERY DAYPffshhttt... Minutes? I can be late whole hours, and different amount of hours every day! While working remotely!
AND SPEAK WITH PEBBLES IN MY MOUTH!Still nothing compared to power of FOREIGN NON-NATIVE SPEAKER!
Or I can simply beat you by speaking Polish...
A) ...unless you live in the U.K., perhaps?
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So... everything you need to know about NobodysHome in one easy incident:
NobodysWife: You're so wonderful! You're like some kind of miraculous cross between June Cleaver and Steve Wozniak!
After my drunken romp through Northern California, that combination may actually exist.
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Why NobodysHome is never invited to retirement parties:
Manager: Hey, everyone! Joe Writer is retiring! Send all your well wishes to me so I can compile them and pass them on!
NobodysHome: "Congratulations! I hope you are more competent at retirement than you were at your job!"
Manager: ...
NobodysHome: You're not going to pass that on, then?
See that right there is why I never actually apply to any of those jobs at Nobody's Corporation you occasionally point at me. You don't want someone like me there. Because when people are morons who can't do their jobs properly I tell them and their boss and everyone else who has to work with both of us that they are morons who can't do their job properly and eventually I get them gotten rid of. And I am told that I'm not very nice. I don't give a crap if I'm not, I just want people to be competent.
See that right there is why I never actually apply to any of those jobs at Nobody's Corporation you occasionally point at me. You don't want someone like me there. Because when people are morons who can't do their jobs properly I tell them and their boss and everyone else who has to work with both of us that they are morons who can't do their job properly and eventually I get them gotten rid of. And I am told that I'm not very nice. I don't give a crap if I'm not, I just want people to be competent.
And the whole church said, "Amen!!"