Deep 6 FaWtL

[Drejk]

Umbral Reaver wrote:

So, how many fingers do peeps hereabouts have these days?

That sounds like a beginning of a grisly story...

Will it crash my hope that implications of your statement of still having all the fingers while you were here the last time were purely metaphorical?

[Vanykrye]

lisamarlene wrote:

Also, I'm 47.

You are so disgustingly young.

[Umbral Reaver]

NobodysHome wrote:

Umbral Reaver wrote:

So, how many fingers do peeps hereabouts have these days?

As of this writing, eight fingers and two thumbs.

I'm replacing a 10"x70" pane of glass on my front porch tomorrow, so stay tuned...

I have eleven!

One is in a container several kilometres away and another is an attachment I made myself and affixes with medical tape (I need to do a rebuild that uses elastic or something).

[NobodysHome]

Since we're having a renaissance of Founding FaWtLers, I'll spoiler because I know some of their sensibilities:

Medical Finger Story:

My favorite finger story is a high school friend. He lost a finger working on his motorcycle. He managed to ice it and they reattached it. He continued working on his motorcycle. He lost another finger working on his motorcycle. Again, he managed to ice it and get it reattached.

It took the third time he lost a finger to make him realize that he probably wasn't suited to motorcycle repair. (And the third time was half his thumb, and they couldn't reattach that.)

[Limeylongears]

Umbral Reaver wrote:

So, how many fingers do peeps hereabouts have these days?

My own, or other peoples' as well?

[Umbral Reaver]

NobodysHome wrote:

Since we're having a renaissance of Founding FaWtLers, I'll spoiler because I know some of their sensibilities:

** spoiler omitted **

Spoilered for finger trauma also::

Almost lost two. Spent a week or so in hospital while doctors did their best to save both of them (including some visits by wee leeches!) but only got the one back. Did need a bunch of skin grafts, though.

But on the upside, now I can do this.

[TriOmegaZero]

Corridor Crew did some good things with a finger.

[Umbral Reaver]

TriOmegaZero wrote:

Corridor Crew did some good things with a finger.

Alas I'm missing it all the way down, as shown with the image above.

[Wei Ji the Learner]

Because All the Cool Kids are Fingering it:

Every single finger (and the thumb) on my left hand have been brutalized (but thankfully not outright removed).

My pinky got super-extended when it decided to catch a basketball that the rest of my hand NOPE'd out hard in '93 (joint at hand). Most of the long-term pain was mitigated when I gritted my teeth and SHOVED it back into place. Not afraid to admit I was crying AND screaming when I did that.

My ring, middle, and index fingers were caught when a station wagon middle door slammed on them in '84 (second joint). A month of wraps and gauze, but thankfully the folks were good about wrapping them *tight*.

My thumb (the joint furthest from hand) got stuck in the door of our rust-bomb Chevy Nova in '86. It was bad enough that they were briefly considering putting it in a cast, but there was no good way to anchor it with the available medical tech of the time, so it was splints and wraps for three months of excruciating pain.

Can still feel it pretty much a front is coming in.

Despite that, at my best typing speed (years after all that happened) was clocked at 140 wpm (and that was with typewriters...).

[TriOmegaZero]

I did try to take my hand off when doing pool maintenance and not properly relieving air pressure in the filter tank. Thankfully the rocket launch only caused deep bruising and no breakage.

[captain yesterday]

Umbral Reaver wrote:

So, how many fingers do peeps hereabouts have these days?

All of them.

[Freehold DM]

lisamarlene wrote:

Freehold DM wrote:

lisamarlene wrote:

NobodysHome wrote:

lisamarlene wrote:

Tacticslion wrote:

Vanykrye wrote:

I've been sick all week.

I'm a youngin' by FAWTL standards. Only been in here a couple years or so.

Yeah, I'm not very "old" in those terms. I'm pretty sure I've only been here for this thread alone!

Meh. I've been here 4 1/2 years.

If I annoy you, blame NH, it's all his fault.
I was home sick from work, remembered he'd said something about an obit he'd posted after my PC died in Scarwall, stalked him onto FAWTL, and never left.

I've only been threatened with suspension from the threads once, by Sara Marie, when I honestly did not know that a term formerly used by members of a certain community was now considered derogatory. She schooled me, pointedly if not quite politely.

I've also only been threatened with suspension on FB once, when an ultra-right-wing cousin asked me on Mother's Day if he should wish me a "Happy Birthing Persons Day" instead, and I said what I would probably feel like doing if he did. So he reported me for threats of violence. Because cousins.

Oh, yeah. Blame the old guy for being followed around by attractive young women!

You have issues, missy!

You and my son are the only two people who can get away with calling me "Missy".

Also, I'm 47.

Just for that I want to put shoes on my knees and sneak into your classroom as a new student and start dropping M bombs.

** spoiler omitted **

Spoiler:

Oh my god. I thought I had offended you at first and turn I clicked on the spoiler and now I can't stop laughing. I am in my car cracking up.

[Freehold DM]

Wei Ji the Learner wrote:

** spoiler omitted **

Despite that, at my best typing speed (years after all that happened) was clocked at 140 wpm (and that was with typewriters...).

The first car my dad got with me around was a nice red Chevy Nova. So many happy memories.

[Freehold DM]

Vanykrye wrote:

lisamarlene wrote:

Also, I'm 47.

You are so disgustingly young.

flexes

[captain yesterday]

A few years ago I nearly severed my nose, it required 17 stitches to basically reattach the one side.

I missed a day of work from that.

[Umbral Reaver]

I lost it in the psychic war.

[lisamarlene]

Limeylongears wrote:

Umbral Reaver wrote:

So, how many fingers do peeps hereabouts have these days?

My own, or other peoples' as well?

Limey gets cookies.

[Vanykrye]

Vanykrye wrote:

I'm a youngin' by FAWTL standards. Only been in here a couple years or so.

Ok, I just took the time to check. It's been 4 years in this thread for me.

I'm not sure if I'm supposed to feel pride, shame, shameful pride, dirty, happy, or "more than happy".

If you're confused about that last part, then I give you this: More Than Happy. You can skip the first 13 seconds.

[Limeylongears]

Umbral Reaver wrote:

I lost it in the psychic war.

A veteran of 1,000 of them.

Also, whoopee, biscuits for me.

(NB: I do not normally drink (hard) cider, but today is an exception. I am full of appley goodness at present)

[Scavion]

Somewhat messy child story, don't read if squeamish about blood or adult fears/parenting, but related to fingers:

So a long long time ago when I was 5 or 6, it's Mother's Day. Little Me wants to make a Mother's Day card for his mom because he cares about her a great deal. So he gets his construction paper, scissors, crayons/colored pencils and gets to work. However...Little Me wants to cut out a heart to put in his card. Little Me: "How do I cut in the middle of the paper so I can make this heart? Oh I know." So Little Me lays the paper flat on the palm of his hand and takes his scissors and jabs straight down alongside the edge of his hand, slicing right between his index finger and thumb.

In dull shock, I cup my hands so I don't make a mess and leave my room to go get my mom. I start walking down the stairs and my sister spots me walking down the stairs. She sees the expression on my face and asks me what's wrong. Little Me finally freaks out and chucks what's pooled everywhere.

Anyways, still have all my fingers :)

[Limeylongears]

Hurray for adorable cloak lady

[Tacticslion]

Still got all my digits I was born with.

but hand trauma!:

Knuckles, on the other hand. (TKD tournament with an ex-Ranger. That dude kicked like a truck. First and only broken bone in my life—I had no idea what was wrong until it had mostly healed. Fun times.)

Also for hand trauma story, when I was a kid I stuck my hand in a hole in a telephone booth. that’s an old timer device where we had phones at various public places for convenience in the ancient days before cellular phones, just in case you young children didn’t know Turns out that booth was home to a jest of yellow jackets. My mother nearly smothered me trying to protect me from the things but my hand was gotten pretty bad. Hey: turns out I’m not allergic to yellow jackets! … still super swollen hand for a while, though. I had a red dot on the back of my wrist from that incident for over a decade.

Fun times!

EDIT: dang it!

[John Napier 698]

Still have all of mine.

About to go home. Good night, everyone. And have a good weekend.

[Tacticslion]

Good night and good weekend, John!

[Feros]

I once broke my left thumb at work. I was adjusting something on some mowers while holding onto the three point lift control. I turned to look at what I was trying to do, as doing it by feel was getting me nowhere...and moved my other arm forward.

Yep, Grade A stupidity. Broke the tip and then shattered it into three pieces. I walked into the office and mentioned to Tracy my coworker that I thought I had just broken my thumb. I was apparently so calm and matter of fact about it that she thought I was joking...until she saw the blood dripping onto my boots.

She got me to the hospital and I sat in the ER next to a guy with a bleeding contusion on his head. We compared stories. He was trying to dump a load of firewood and something got stuck. So he went around to the back and poked the stuck wood with a broom.

We laughed at our mutual stupidity.

I got a pin put in to hold the three pieces together and reattach them to the main bone and then had the nail stitched back on. It was cool to watch!

[Freehold DM]

Limeylongears wrote:

Umbral Reaver wrote:

I lost it in the psychic war.

A veteran of 1,000 of them.

Also, whoopee, biscuits for me.

(NB: I do not normally drink (hard) cider, but today is an exception. I am full of appley goodness at present)

I want some cider.

[gran rey de los mono]

Ran another session of Carrion Crown tonight. I think they're trying to speedrun it. They got through basically the entire first floor of Harrowstone Prison in less than 3 hours.

[Vanykrye]

Freehold DM wrote:

Limeylongears wrote:

Umbral Reaver wrote:

I lost it in the psychic war.

A veteran of 1,000 of them.

Also, whoopee, biscuits for me.

(NB: I do not normally drink (hard) cider, but today is an exception. I am full of appley goodness at present)

I want some cider.

I have some apple-infused mead. I'm sure that's close enough.

[Tacticslion]

I’d love non-alcoholic cider. Might have to go get some.

[TriOmegaZero]

I need to go raid my brothers mead stash. But also have work tomorrow. Bleh.

It would make more sense if he hadn't been called into work today when he didn't expect it and could be here to share.

[Freehold DM]

Vanykrye wrote:

Freehold DM wrote:

Limeylongears wrote:

Umbral Reaver wrote:

I lost it in the psychic war.

A veteran of 1,000 of them.

Also, whoopee, biscuits for me.

(NB: I do not normally drink (hard) cider, but today is an exception. I am full of appley goodness at present)

I want some cider.

I have some apple-infused mead. I'm sure that's close enough.

I really, really want some mead. It's been so long...q

[Freehold DM]

TriOmegaZero wrote:

I need to go raid my brothers mead stash. But also have work tomorrow. Bleh.

It would make more sense if he hadn't been called into work today when he didn't expect it and could be here to share.

Interestingly enough, the best mead I had was from Brotherhood winery.

[captain yesterday]

I've broken 4 fingers 6 times (yes, that's right, I broke two fingers twice, in the exact same way exactly one year apart).

But they're all still there and bend correctly.

Funny enough, I never broke any bones until I had kids, probably unrelated.

[taig]

I have all my fingers and thumbs, still. The only thing I've broken is my collarbone. I have also taken many many non-combat blows to the head.

[Aberzombie]

Freehold DM wrote:

Interestingly enough, the best mead I had was from Brotherhood winery.

That’s because you’ve never had any of my home brewed mead.

[Wei Ji the Learner]

...haven't had mead in a long time.

Last time I had some was after it had turned well past the expected shelf-life...

Should try and look some up...

[TriOmegaZero]

Ye gods, grapefruit and hops are not flavor profiles that should be in mead. XP

[Limeylongears]

I have a broken index finger on my right hand which healed wonky (serves me right for fighting with a longsword and not wearing the proper hand protection). I have also cracked a couple of ribs while engaged in Deadley Crombrat, and I broke my collarbone by falling off my pram when I was a toddler. That's it.

[Justin Franklin]

I have all my fingers, however my lower right leg is now got a titanium core..

[lisamarlene]

It's Whingey Wizzard, aka Dr. Darling,'s birthday tomorrow. (He will be 52.)

Because Miz Daisy, his mother, is "allergic" to cane sugar and its derivatives, gluten, dairy, chocolate, and fun, also air, instead of a cake, I'm baking a single-layer sized slab of the brownies I devised to put in her Christmas stocking one year. They don't actually taste like chocolate, but they're almost good if you concentrate on the flavors of the nuts, cherries, and coconut oil. But, basically, it's equal portions gf baking mixture, almond meal, coconut oil, coconut sugar, carob powder, diced cherries, toasted pecan bits, and egg, with a bit of vanilla and baking powder thrown in.

My soul is rebelling at calling this a birthday dessert, so when I was at the British grocery across town this morning, I picked up a miniature candelabra for birthday candles with a spike that sticks into the top of the "cake". I'm hoping this will make it look a bit less forlorn and sad. Perhaps it will only accentuate the sorrow. Perhaps I could find a recording of Werner Herzog singing "Happy Birthday" to give the whole scene the proper ambience.

[Limeylongears]

Happy birthday to WW!

I never realised before now that there were such things as British grocery stores. Splendid.

Is there anything in them bar baked beans, Cornish pasties, and suet pudding?

[Vanykrye]

Limeylongears wrote:

Happy birthday to WW!

I never realised before now that there were such things as British grocery stores. Splendid.

Is there anything in them bar baked beans, Cornish pasties, and suet pudding?

Brown sauce.

[lisamarlene]

Limeylongears wrote:

Happy birthday to WW!

I never realised before now that there were such things as British grocery stores. Splendid.

Is there anything in them bar baked beans, Cornish pasties, and suet pudding?

Really? Or are you pulling my leg?

I mean, just like over here, I'm assuming there would be a fair number of Indian, Jamaican, etc. specialty markets in England for the expats.

It's much like that, except since Americans tend to fetishize "British Culture" (or at least what we see of it on public television), well, it's a bit Disneyish.

There's an entire wall of teas, another wall of crisps (WW always asks me to pick up the haggis-flavored ones), huge tracts of jams (and marmelades), and a lot of dry goods that American grocery stores don't carry, like golden syrup or every variety of HP sauce or ploughman's pickle. There are racks and racks of sweets and chocolates. Two large freezers of pre-made pork pies, sausage rolls, steak and kidney pies, bangers, various kinds of pasty, and frozen haggis. Also frozen sticky toffee pudding.

And then there is the other half of the store, which is largely devoted to all things Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, and various football clubs. You can get Shakesperian Insult bandages, shelf-stable battenberg cake, an Arsenal Jersey, chocolate frogs, Sherlock Holmes paper dolls, and Dalek fingerless gloves.

These last two are the only items in the second section I've actually bought (the paper dolls were for Hermione's Christmas stocking last year).

And I always get an Irn-Bru, because it's damned hard to find here.

[Limeylongears]

That sounds great. I suppose one tends to take it for granted when it's just kind of there.

The old-school Irn Bru in the glass bottle is the stuff to get, if you can find it.

[Umbral Reaver]

The plan is that one day I'll get my severed finger (yes, I still have it) properly cleaned and wired together, and put it on a cord to wear around my neck.

There's a certain awesomeness in wearing my own bones as a talisman.

[taig]

I quoted the whole thing from Liz Courts because it's beautiful, but I wonder how often Liz wanted to say the bolded part during her stint at Paizo. :)

Liz Courts wrote:

A lot of folks have said a lot on this topic, but I wanted to add my own two coppers to this particular topic.

I haven't been around in a while, so let me do a quick recap for those that might not know:

* I have been around in the Paizo community since 2005, and watched it grow from "just" magazine publishers to where it is now.
* I saw the shift from 3.5 to Pathfinder and beyond. (My name is in the "Special Thanks" section of the 1E Core Rulebook.)
* I have seen every angle of this business from ideation to creation to development to production to logistics to community to distribution. I know how all of the sausage gets made.
* I helped create PaizoCon, when it was just an unofficial gathering with 40 people in the basement of a hotel.
* I helped start the Wayfinder fanzine (still going strong)
* I was at the ground floor of Pathfinder Society's Season 0, and saw it grow to the enormous community that it is today.

I saw all of this *before* I got hired to work at Paizo in 2010, so when I tell you how heartbreaking the last 11 years has been, I mean it.

The most common thing I've heard from my fellow former Paizo employees is "I don't drink as much as I used to when I worked there." I want you to consider why that is. The other thing I see is how melancholy folks are. Working in games is f!@!ing awesome, I love seeing the unbridled creativity that people bring to bear, and their skills in getting a product into a customer's hands, from every department of a company. Yeah, it's a lot of work, and some days, any job is just that: a job. But the *passion* that people brought made a world of difference. Watching that passion die, watching it slowly get ground down under the working conditions and lack of improvement, still hurts.

For those that might say "That's just how it is": shut up. That doesn't make it right, or acceptable, or any form of apathetic acceptance of the status quo.

It has been said that Paizo's success has been in spite of the poor decisions that have been made. It hurts,...

[gran rey de los mono]

I think it's been a little while since I complained about laundry at work, but it sure is a problem again.

Came in, there is a note for 2nd shift telling them to do certain laundry items. Why they weren't just told to "work on the laundry", I don't know, but they were specifically told to do the towels and decorative sheets. There is a bin of folded towels (who did them, I don't know) and that's all that is done. Otherwise there are 4 bins of unsorted laundry, and one bin of decorative sheets waiting to be washed. So, maybe, she finished some towels that 1st shift started, but she certainly didn't do anything else.

Also, from what I've been told by another desk clerk, our laundry person calls off more days than she works. She started about a month ago, and has called off every Saturday and 3 of the 4 Sundays. Also, anytime someone tells her she is doing something wrong-or not working fast enough-she calls off the next day. So out of 25ish days she has been scheduled for, she has only worked about 10 of them. I don't know why she hasn't been fired, but she probably should be so that we can try to get someone more reliable in.

Oh, and when does she work, she doesn't do a great job and then tries to blame it on the desk clerks, saying 1st shift "isn't helping" and 2nd and 3rd "aren't doing enough". This from the girl who, one day, went outside and sat down where no one could see her for 3 hours, ignoring all texts and calls from people trying to find out where she was and if she was okay. Yeah, she got yelled at for that, so she called off the next 2 days.

[gran rey de los mono]

You know what's also fun? When they change the Windows password at work, and then don't tell you or write it down. That's real fun.

[captain yesterday]

We're going to go see Ben Folds at the Sylvee tonight, should be a fun show!

To be honest, I just got tickets for it because the General gets super turned on by live music, I didn't even know what songs he wrote, just that she kinda liked his music in college.

Not that I need live music to turn her on, but if milady wants to get gropey and grind on me at a concert, then damn it, I'm going to make that happen!

So here we are.

[gran rey de los mono]

captain yesterday wrote:

We're going to go see Ben Folds at the Sylvee tonight, should be a fun show!

To be honest, I just got tickets for it because the General gets super turned on by live music, I didn't even know what songs he wrote, just that she kinda liked his music in college.

Not that I need live music to turn her on, but if milady wants to get gropey and grind on me at a concert, then damn it, I'm going to make that happen!

So here we are.

Only song of his I know is "Brick", which probably shouldn't turn people on since it's about how he felt when his high school girlfriend had an abortion.