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Apparently, the biblical "land of milk and honey" is also more like "yogourt and fruit syrup," but accuracy on that point is rather low on the list of ongoing problems for exegesis to the laity, for scriptural scholars.
Huh.
Cool.
I love honey in my Greek yogurt.
Oh man.
This is a weird one to be naked for.
An Amazon van decided to do a left turn right in front of me on my motorcycle today. I got stopped with about two meters of space. So that was fun. It was on a blind curve. More than 90 degrees angle turn. Lucky, I wasn’t hauling ass.
I almost had a similar accident when I was cycling regularly. I genuinely thought the last thing I was going to see was a fire truck.
You know of dust bunnies, but have you heard of cobweb sheep?
I really like this one.
"But the entire reason I went into management was so I can manage people! Directly! As minutely as possible! I need the power trip!""So how am I supposed to know who is behind in their work? Open all their emails? Please advise?"(1) Unlearn any and all stupidity someone whose brain resides in the 1970s taught you.
(2) Determine the industry standard expected production from each employee based on their role.
(3) Instead of monitoring their emails, or how many bathroom breaks they take, or whether they're watching YouTube or YouPorn at their desks, monitor their production as well-defined for every job in every industry.
(4) If they're meeting their production quota and their work is of acceptable quality, leave them the f*** alone.EDIT: I swear, such requests enrage me because they show such a fundamental lack of comprehension as to why you hired an employee in the first place. You needed a job done. You hired someone to do that job. Either they are doing that job satisfactorily or they aren't. Anything else is none of your f***ing business unless they're breaking the law.
You just described my boss.
Sometimes I forget that some people's coping mechanism is to avoid all news entirely.
NobodysHome: I hope that you and yours are safe!
Boston Friend: ???
NH: From the fire.
BF: There was a fire??So of course she looked it up and now she's gone dead silent because I'm sure she's feeling overwhelmed with grief. But it's really hard to see a tragic disaster befall a friend's home city and not ask, "Are you OK?"
there was a flood here yesterday. I will have to research the fire in Boston. I pray for those affected.
Awesome!
I'm planning to get back into roller skating after the Big Move. One of our PnP group had her BDay get together at a local roller rink, and I discovered I still have most of the muscle memory to get back into skating... provided I have skates that fit. (The rink did not have skates in my size, sadly, and it was painful to wear one size down.)
So going to buy skates after the move and see about getting into the groove again. There's a skate park in the city we're moving to so that'll be an opportunity.
I had no idea skating rinks were big out there. That's awesome.
Yes, I will make that speech naked. Adds to the absurdity of the request.
Helicopter into the room to establish dominance.
The fact that it was called 'breakfast stout' should have been a warning sign, since nobody but the most abandoned rakehell actually drinks stout for breakfast, and Heaven hides its face in shame and anguish from someone who voluntarily drinks beer that tastes of jam - jam! - at any time. Revolting, but I shall still finish it, since it cost me £4.90.I gather that in the days when water was a health risk people did drink beer at breakfast, so, out of morbid curiosity, what sort of beer should one drink for breakfast, if not stout? Ale? Or is "ale" synonymous with "beer" in the most generic sense?
Traditionally, beer was brewed with hops and ale wasn't, though I don't think that's the case any more. Back in t'day, people drank small beer as a kind of soft drink, which was far weaker than modern beers (around 2%, maybe?) - you'd get a buzz out of it if you were guzzling it down by the quart all day, but it wouldn't enliven your morning as much as LM's 6% plus Leffe would if you had some first thing.
I would love to see a Lisamarlene so enlivened.
there was a flood here yesterday. I will have to research the fire in Boston. I pray for those affected.Sometimes I forget that some people's coping mechanism is to avoid all news entirely.
NobodysHome: I hope that you and yours are safe!
Boston Friend: ???
NH: From the fire.
BF: There was a fire??So of course she looked it up and now she's gone dead silent because I'm sure she's feeling overwhelmed with grief. But it's really hard to see a tragic disaster befall a friend's home city and not ask, "Are you OK?"
Assisted Living facility in I think Fall River.
Okay. So.
A friend of mine passed away suddenly on Sunday. As they are Jewish they had to be buried swiftly. Went to the funeral today with minimal notice. She was a serious role player but far more interested in the World of Darkness side of things than anything here. We are remembering her with pizza(her favorite, real ny pizza,I pity you all who do not know such glories) and a marathon of Kindred The Embraced, which we watched at her house for the premiere so many years ago.
My god this is even worse than I remember it. I know she's laughing at us right now. Heartily.
Please know that I love each and every one of you. And hug your nearest loved one tight for me.
Yesterday, at the age of fifty, I took my very first surfing lesson.
I spent an hour and a half falling down, looking stupid, dodging lion's mane jellyfish, and drinking the Atlantic, but it felt absolutely exhilarating.
Holy s#@@ lions mane jellyfish are no joke.
I don’t drink stout (or much in the way of alcohol), and I hate coffee but love tea. Also, I’m an Englishman born and raised.TEA FOREVER COFFEE NEVER
But coffee-flavored ice cream, milkshakes, and chocolates are actually nice... Usually.
Apparently, the biblical "land of milk and honey" is also more like "yogourt and fruit syrup," but accuracy on that point is rather low on the list of ongoing problems for exegesis to the laity, for scriptural scholars.Huh.
Cool.
I love honey in my Greek yogurt.
Oh man.
This is a weird one to be naked for.
Sweet regular yogurts? Sure! Sweet Greek yogurt? Meh, it works much better savory (in fact I ate some with shredded cheese and shredded lettuce a few hours ago).
Sadly, we are reaching point where we can expect to lose more friends than we make...
... and a marathon of Kindred The Embraced, which we watched at her house for the premiere so many years ago.
My god this is even worse than I remember it. I know she's laughing at us right now. Heartily.
It's a title I haven't heard in a while...
Oh, wait, we spoke about it earlier this year, probably when we were telling the neonates young vampire players about the glories hilariousness of the past...
I had no idea skating rinks were big out there. That's awesome.Awesome!
I'm planning to get back into roller skating after the Big Move. One of our PnP group had her BDay get together at a local roller rink, and I discovered I still have most of the muscle memory to get back into skating... provided I have skates that fit. (The rink did not have skates in my size, sadly, and it was painful to wear one size down.)
So going to buy skates after the move and see about getting into the groove again. There's a skate park in the city we're moving to so that'll be an opportunity.
I have no idea how big they are, but it exists! So taking advantage of that.
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Okay. So.
A friend of mine passed away suddenly on Sunday. As they are Jewish they had to be buried swiftly. Went to the funeral today with minimal notice. She was a serious role player but far more interested in the World of Darkness side of things than anything here. We are remembering her with pizza(her favorite, real ny pizza,I pity you all who do not know such glories) and a marathon of Kindred The Embraced, which we watched at her house for the premiere so many years ago.
My god this is even worse than I remember it. I know she's laughing at us right now. Heartily.
Please know that I love each and every one of you. And hug your nearest loved one tight for me.
May her memory be a blessing.
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So my cousin and I are going to a local bridge club here in Kennebunk this afternoon. I'm scared to death that I'm going to make the wrong bids and play the wrong cards and look like a complete idiot, but he's almost 80 and he's flying back to Sacramento tomorrow and I have no idea when I'm going to see him again or how many chances we're going to have to do anything special together again and if this is what he wants to do on his last day here then by God we're going to do it. And no I am not getting weepy over the idea of going to a bridge club. There's just dust in my eye.
Building bridges with cards?
Perhaps I could suggest using sturdy logs instead.
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I think the idea is that you club the bridge itself, just to remind it who's boss.
I thought you just took a 300 pound log flattened the top and put it across the river.