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I like that they added Balthier to the Psp version, I still play that version to this day when the mood strikes me. It's been awhile though, I should play Tactics again after Hollow Knight.
Ooh ooh, Balthier, a FF character I know!
So, at the moment, I play FFXIV online.To those who play, what are the selling points of LotRO?
I've been looking for a digital game to play with Mrs Sunrise -- and others! -- and I may be able to sell her on a LotR-based MMORPG.
To those who play, what are the selling points of LotRO?
I've been looking for a digital game to play with Mrs Sunrise -- and others! -- and I may be able to sell her on a LotR-based MMORPG.
It's fairly easy, expands on Lord Of The Rings lore in a rather nice way (though note I am no purist in that matter), has charming moments, though it is advisable to actually read the quests to enjoy them. It had excellent community, though the quality of the global chat dropped significantly in the last four or five years, with more politrolls and PvPers. People still tend to be helpful though.
PvP is purely optional in the form of players (Free People or Freeps) vs monster players (Creeps) in a dedicated zone. No possibility of a typical PvP otherwise, except for fully voluntary duels.
Thanks for the rundowns. :)
Now I just have to figure out whether our machines can run either of these. Which will probably involve me posting our graphic card info and begging FAWTL for translations. :/
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Oh and when I relayed your LotRO injunction to always read the quests, Mrs. Sunrise's innocent reply was "Why wouldn't you read the quests?"
<:D
Weird. Any idea why the cost goes up exponentially?
Will you be using an inverter? More panels than your roof can support?
I have *NO* idea; I just know that when I was looking at prices to purchase solar panels, 6.2 kW was around $11,000, 10 kW was $22,000, and 25 kW was $75,000. So not quite exponential, but definitely non-linear.
I'm not particularly worried about letting you know the quote when I get it, but overall:
(1) The power companies continue their appalling tactics: I will run a surplus during the day and the power company will buy it from me at $0.04 per kWh. At night I have to draw from them at $0.11 per kWh. There are smaller competitors coming in and managing to steal big utilities' business on this alone. (A company just opened in Albany this year that'll pay me $0.08 per kWh, and Albany's already switching everyone over to them, because PG&E is Evil.)
(2) Everyone says not to buy batteries unless the price difference is at least $0.10 per kWh and to be leery even then. The roof has a 50-year warranty. The panels have a 30-year warranty and are installed in easily-replaced blocks. The batteries cost a mint, may last 10 years, and at the moment the best tech is lithium ion, which (in both my words and the sales guy's) is like strapping a bomb to the side of your house.
(3) Because of #1, yes, I'll be using an inverter, but I can't see using solar without one. It's not like I'm going to go out and buy a bunch of DC appliances...
Anyway, the quote's supposed to come in tomorrow and I'll let you know what a straightforward 6.2 kW system costs in Albany, California, which will likely be far more than almost anywhere else in the country. I just get massive tax subsidies back next year...
Oh, and FWIW Shiro and GothBard feel really bad about abandoning me in FF to play Far Cry: A New Dawn, so they're trying to get me started on Devil May Cry 5.
We installed it last night, but tonight is gaming at Shiro's house and tomorrow night is the aforementioned Superintendent's Concert, so expect news of what it's like on Friday...
Weird. Any idea why the cost goes up exponentially?
Will you be using an inverter? More panels than your roof can support?
I have *NO* idea; I just know that when I was looking at prices to purchase solar panels, 6.2 kW was around $11,000, 10 kW was $22,000, and 25 kW was $75,000. So not quite exponential, but definitely non-linear.
I'm not particularly worried about letting you know the quote when I get it, but overall:
(1) The power companies continue their appalling tactics: I will run a surplus during the day and the power company will buy it from me at $0.04 per kWh. At night I have to draw from them at $0.11 per kWh. There are smaller competitors coming in and managing to steal big utilities' business on this alone. (A company just opened in Albany this year that'll pay me $0.08 per kWh, and Albany's already switching everyone over to them, because PG&E is Evil.)
(2) Everyone says not to buy batteries unless the price difference is at least $0.10 per kWh and to be leery even then. The roof has a 50-year warranty. The panels have a 30-year warranty and are installed in easily-replaced blocks. The batteries cost a mint, may last 10 years, and at the moment the best tech is lithium ion, which (in both my words and the sales guy's) is like strapping a bomb to the side of your house.
(3) Because of #1, yes, I'll be using an inverter, but I can't see using solar without one. It's not like I'm going to go out and buy a bunch of DC appliances...
Anyway, the quote's supposed to come in tomorrow and I'll let you know what a straightforward 6.2 kW system costs in Albany, California, which will likely be far more than almost anywhere else in the country. I just get massive tax subsidies back next year...
Yes, you have to use the inverter if you want to continue to use AC power instead of DC. You also have to have the power company change (or enable) your meter to run backwards.
Mine is also going to be roof-mounted, but we also have to get a few trees (diseased and dying anyway) removed to get the panels out of the shade, so that's upping the total project cost a touch.
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Random roof question for homeowners:
I've mentioned the upcoming necessity of re-roofing my mother-in-law's house. And the fact that, because it's been layered over three times, this time they will have to rip everything off and start fresh.
In recent talks with the MIL, we've learned that one of the things holding up the roofing project is that the house is not currently insured, because it needs a new roof. And in obtaining bids from roofers, she says that many won't even bid her because she doesn't have insurance. But she's not accepting help from WW with either trying to talk to insurance agents or in talking to roofers. She just says it's a catch-22.
Has anyone heard of this or have any advice? She hasn't given WW a DPA, she's holding control of everything herself (she's only 80), and says she doesn't need help. But she clearly does.
I'm with NH on this, but I can see from a company view that they would consider the situation "safer" if they can assume their payment is coming from an insurance company rather than whether or not they'll be able to get the money owed from the individual. And, well, she may be only 80, but if she's not paying in a lump sum, that changes they're outlook as to whether or not they'll get paid.
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Man Hollow Knight is fun, It's like a metroidvania (my fav type of game)with a little Dark Souls thrown in (also fun) and it's both so cute and also kinda depressing it tickles me just right.
Now if only it had a level up system so I could grind exp and cheese the bosses instead of having to beat them legit with my sucky gaming skills.
Oh, and as far as the 10 kW systems go - we were told that the formula changes at that point when determining the cost of the panels. I honestly don't know why. Possibly the type of panel they have to use to keep the total number of panels down to a reasonable number.
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Another little bit of my childhood died today.
Since my earliest memories of my nanny giving me peanut butter and jelly toast when I was a kindergartner, I have been a peanut butter fiend: Peanut butter sandwiches, peanut butter on my ice cream, satay sauce; anything that had that strong roasted peanuts and salt flavor. I didn't care for "processed" peanut butters: I only ate Laura Scudder's All Natural peanut butter (just peanuts and salt), and didn't care for any peanut butter-flavored desserts (peanut butter cookies, candy, etc.) because they never tasted like peanut butter; they tasted like sugar-coated peanuts. Not my cup of tea at all.
EXCEPT Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. . they were always my go-to candy growing up. Imagine my delight when I was in grad school and not only could I get them at Costco, but Trader Joe's started selling dark chocolate peanut butter cups of comparable deliciousness at half the price.
So, we were at the store a couple of days ago and I decided to treat myself and slipped a bag of Reese's mini peanut butter cups into the basket.
I ate one today. And quite nearly spit it out and rinsed out my mouth.
OMG what have they done? It had a massive chemical flavor; somewhat like soap or perfume. There was no taste of peanut at all, nor any chocolate flavor. Just sugar and soap and something artificial and nasty.
I'll never buy THEM again.
Why do companies keep thinking that they can change recipes for the worse and people will keep buying their stuff? I'm looking at you Coke. Or Hostess. Or Reese's.
Bleah.
Raid on the Kett flagship or whatever went surprisingly well.
Met another Pathfinder but she didn't make it, I freed some bad ass lizard commandoes instead.
I also cleared the glacier around the car.
Next up is fixing it or getting it fixed.
You need to get the seasonal Reese's shapes, otherwise in my experience Reese's get stale sitting so long on the shelf.
Another little bit of my childhood died today.
Since my earliest memories of my nanny giving me peanut butter and jelly toast when I was a kindergartner, I have been a peanut butter fiend: Peanut butter sandwiches, peanut butter on my ice cream, satay sauce; anything that had that strong roasted peanuts and salt flavor. I didn't care for "processed" peanut butters: I only ate Laura Scudder's All Natural peanut butter (just peanuts and salt), and didn't care for any peanut butter-flavored desserts (peanut butter cookies, candy, etc.) because they never tasted like peanut butter; they tasted like sugar-coated peanuts. Not my cup of tea at all.
EXCEPT Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. . they were always my go-to candy growing up. Imagine my delight when I was in grad school and not only could I get them at Costco, but Trader Joe's started selling dark chocolate peanut butter cups of comparable deliciousness at half the price.
So, we were at the store a couple of days ago and I decided to treat myself and slipped a bag of Reese's mini peanut butter cups into the basket.
I ate one today. And quite nearly spit it out and rinsed out my mouth.
OMG what have they done? It had a massive chemical flavor; somewhat like soap or perfume. There was no taste of peanut at all, nor any chocolate flavor. Just sugar and soap and something artificial and nasty.
I'll never buy THEM again.
Why do companies keep thinking that they can change recipes for the worse and people will keep buying their stuff? I'm looking at you Coke. Or Hostess. Or Reese's.
Bleah.
Really? I love Reese's, maybe you got a bad batch or something?
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The most interesting man in the world's voice; "I don't always eat food, but when I do, Reese's is high on the list."
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Really? I love Reese's, maybe you got a bad batch or something?Another little bit of my childhood died today.
Since my earliest memories of my nanny giving me peanut butter and jelly toast when I was a kindergartner, I have been a peanut butter fiend: Peanut butter sandwiches, peanut butter on my ice cream, satay sauce; anything that had that strong roasted peanuts and salt flavor. I didn't care for "processed" peanut butters: I only ate Laura Scudder's All Natural peanut butter (just peanuts and salt), and didn't care for any peanut butter-flavored desserts (peanut butter cookies, candy, etc.) because they never tasted like peanut butter; they tasted like sugar-coated peanuts. Not my cup of tea at all.
EXCEPT Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. . they were always my go-to candy growing up. Imagine my delight when I was in grad school and not only could I get them at Costco, but Trader Joe's started selling dark chocolate peanut butter cups of comparable deliciousness at half the price.
So, we were at the store a couple of days ago and I decided to treat myself and slipped a bag of Reese's mini peanut butter cups into the basket.
I ate one today. And quite nearly spit it out and rinsed out my mouth.
OMG what have they done? It had a massive chemical flavor; somewhat like soap or perfume. There was no taste of peanut at all, nor any chocolate flavor. Just sugar and soap and something artificial and nasty.
I'll never buy THEM again.
Why do companies keep thinking that they can change recipes for the worse and people will keep buying their stuff? I'm looking at you Coke. Or Hostess. Or Reese's.
Bleah.
Possibly. Especially considering I still love the Trader Joe's dark chocolate ones.
I've just had too many life experiences of, "Oh, these were awesome in the 1970s! Bleeeeeeargh!"
"Oh, they reformulated those in the 1980s during the whole, 'Greed is good' movement. Now they're inedible."
*SIGH*
I'm a pessimist about anything that's been around as long as I have. That's why old people are bitter, y'know. And why we always talk about how stuff back in our day was much better.
Now where's my cane? There are some dadgum kids in my onions again!
Lol!
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say what?I KNOW coffee is a drug. I get withdrawal headaches when I don't drink it, or when I drink my mother's. My children both say "If Mama doesn't get her coffee, she gets grumpy" and think it's hilarious. And I don't care.
I love tea, but I can only drink it in the afternoons. If I drink tea (black, green, oolong, doesn't matter) in the morning, I get very nauseous.
Energy drinks are not good for me. I bought two of them once, driving long-distance by myself, and they gave me heart arrhythmia and tunnel vision and made my brain do weird things. Actually, almost exactly the same symptoms as when I get bit by cats, but minus the hallucinations.
Marijuana is not for me. I think it should be legal and is, on the whole, far safer and less dangerous than alcohol (both for the person taking it and for those in contact with them), but it's not a substance I particularly enjoy. It makes me stop caring about everything, laugh a lot, cook weird food, and then pass out. It's also inexperience with dosage; I know how to drink just a little to take the edge off and enjoy it without getting stupid unless I choose to (but I really hate being drunk, so I almost never do), but I have never been successful in having that little pot. So I stopped being interested in it.
When I get bitten by cats.
I have the following symptoms:Heart arrhythmia.
Tunnel vision.
Brain fog (like when you're hypothermic).All of which I also get on energy drinks.
But with cat bites, also add:
Hallucinations.
You remember "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and "Cool World"? Animation layered over live-action film? It's like that. The real world stays the same, but there's this whole other layer of hallucinated characters and set designed on top of it that no one but me can see. Really freaky. I hate it a lot. This is why I will not pet a cat. Because cats are evil m************rs who are all sweetness and fluff until they capriciously sink the fangs in, much...
I only need the mildest of fevers to get delerious. I have hallucinated SO MANY TIMES that the curtains were things. Or the lamp.
So, at the moment, I play FFXIV online.To those who play, what are the selling points of LotRO?
I've been looking for a digital game to play with Mrs Sunrise -- and others! -- and I may be able to sell her on a LotR-based MMORPG.
To those who play, what are the selling points of LotRO?
I've been looking for a digital game to play with Mrs Sunrise -- and others! -- and I may be able to sell her on a LotR-based MMORPG.
It's fairly easy, expands on Lord Of The Rings lore in a rather nice way (though note I am no purist in that matter), has charming moments, though it is advisable to actually read the quests to enjoy them. It had excellent community, though the quality of the global chat dropped significantly in the last four or five years, with more politrolls and PvPers. People still tend to be helpful though.
PvP is purely optional in the form of players (Free People or Freeps) vs monster players (Creeps) in a dedicated zone. No possibility of a typical PvP otherwise, except for fully voluntary duels.
Thanks for the rundowns. :)
Now I just have to figure out whether our machines can run either of these. Which will probably involve me posting our graphic card info and begging FAWTL for translations. :/
I run LOTRO on an 8 GB RAM laptop with integrated Radeon HD 8330. Absolutely nothing special, though I put the game in a very low graphic settings.
The game has some issues with lags in some areas to many players, though, which are not related to graphic settings but the coding/connection errors.
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Really? I love Reese's, maybe you got a bad batch or something?Another little bit of my childhood died today.
Since my earliest memories of my nanny giving me peanut butter and jelly toast when I was a kindergartner, I have been a peanut butter fiend: Peanut butter sandwiches, peanut butter on my ice cream, satay sauce; anything that had that strong roasted peanuts and salt flavor. I didn't care for "processed" peanut butters: I only ate Laura Scudder's All Natural peanut butter (just peanuts and salt), and didn't care for any peanut butter-flavored desserts (peanut butter cookies, candy, etc.) because they never tasted like peanut butter; they tasted like sugar-coated peanuts. Not my cup of tea at all.
EXCEPT Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. . they were always my go-to candy growing up. Imagine my delight when I was in grad school and not only could I get them at Costco, but Trader Joe's started selling dark chocolate peanut butter cups of comparable deliciousness at half the price.
So, we were at the store a couple of days ago and I decided to treat myself and slipped a bag of Reese's mini peanut butter cups into the basket.
I ate one today. And quite nearly spit it out and rinsed out my mouth.
OMG what have they done? It had a massive chemical flavor; somewhat like soap or perfume. There was no taste of peanut at all, nor any chocolate flavor. Just sugar and soap and something artificial and nasty.
I'll never buy THEM again.
Why do companies keep thinking that they can change recipes for the worse and people will keep buying their stuff? I'm looking at you Coke. Or Hostess. Or Reese's.
Bleah.
Possibly. Especially considering I still love the Trader Joe's dark chocolate ones.
I've just had too many life experiences of, "Oh, these were awesome in the 1970s! Bleeeeeeargh!"
"Oh, they reformulated those in the 1980s during the whole, 'Greed is good' movement. Now they're...
Fun fact. In eighties, during the late stages of communism in Poland there were available chocolate substitutes. There were some that were in the form of a small cuboid, slightly thicker but otherwise close to the size of modern USB pen-drives.
I miss them dearly.
I wonder if I would taste them now, they would be as great as they were then, though.
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say what?I KNOW coffee is a drug. I get withdrawal headaches when I don't drink it, or when I drink my mother's. My children both say "If Mama doesn't get her coffee, she gets grumpy" and think it's hilarious. And I don't care.
I love tea, but I can only drink it in the afternoons. If I drink tea (black, green, oolong, doesn't matter) in the morning, I get very nauseous.
Energy drinks are not good for me. I bought two of them once, driving long-distance by myself, and they gave me heart arrhythmia and tunnel vision and made my brain do weird things. Actually, almost exactly the same symptoms as when I get bit by cats, but minus the hallucinations.
Marijuana is not for me. I think it should be legal and is, on the whole, far safer and less dangerous than alcohol (both for the person taking it and for those in contact with them), but it's not a substance I particularly enjoy. It makes me stop caring about everything, laugh a lot, cook weird food, and then pass out. It's also inexperience with dosage; I know how to drink just a little to take the edge off and enjoy it without getting stupid unless I choose to (but I really hate being drunk, so I almost never do), but I have never been successful in having that little pot. So I stopped being interested in it.
When I get bitten by cats.
I have the following symptoms:Heart arrhythmia.
Tunnel vision.
Brain fog (like when you're hypothermic).All of which I also get on energy drinks.
But with cat bites, also add:
Hallucinations.
You remember "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and "Cool World"? Animation layered over live-action film? It's like that. The real world stays the same, but there's this whole other layer of hallucinated characters and set designed on top of it that no one but me can see. Really freaky. I hate it a lot. This is why I will not pet a cat. Because cats are evil m************rs who are all sweetness and fluff until they capriciously sink the fangs in, much...
*Gives LM a sad Mao. Not all of us cats are like that... *
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Trader Joe's has good chocolates I give you that but I think anything other then the dark chocolate with cherries one is too sweet. Most brands the ice cream is too sweet.
Eh. Sugar controls so these days I don't take that much sweet stuff.
I still have a sweet tooth, it's just hidden under all those dieting protocols.
70% cocoa dark chocolate for me thanks, and even so I wouldn't have that too often, chocolates =calories.
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And the bid is in.
Because of the shape of our roof, he was only able to squeeze 5.76 kW onto it.
But his bid was a highly-entertaining $26,787. I'm feeling pretty good about my guesstimate powers right about now...
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Back from the Legend Of Five Rings game. Not doing what we were supposed to do and doing something else starts to be a running theme now.
Apparently Otomo Kyoshiro support's his older nephew's bid of power and asked Bayushi to vouch for us in the help. While his yojimbo killed Bayushi Kachiko's spies.
And then a zombie come to us and it was revealed that a corrupted water kami was accidentally summoned by one of the party's shugenja (we have three of them) and now we have to get rid of it before it corrupts him...
And after some alteraction I blatantly demanded our Bayushi to declare her loyalty - is she loyal to the Scorpion or the Otomo... As she is the younger sister of our daimyo, if our next talks go wrong she might ask him to order me to commit seppuku. Yay.
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Really? I love Reese's, maybe you got a bad batch or something?Another little bit of my childhood died today.
Since my earliest memories of my nanny giving me peanut butter and jelly toast when I was a kindergartner, I have been a peanut butter fiend: Peanut butter sandwiches, peanut butter on my ice cream, satay sauce; anything that had that strong roasted peanuts and salt flavor. I didn't care for "processed" peanut butters: I only ate Laura Scudder's All Natural peanut butter (just peanuts and salt), and didn't care for any peanut butter-flavored desserts (peanut butter cookies, candy, etc.) because they never tasted like peanut butter; they tasted like sugar-coated peanuts. Not my cup of tea at all.
EXCEPT Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. . they were always my go-to candy growing up. Imagine my delight when I was in grad school and not only could I get them at Costco, but Trader Joe's started selling dark chocolate peanut butter cups of comparable deliciousness at half the price.
So, we were at the store a couple of days ago and I decided to treat myself and slipped a bag of Reese's mini peanut butter cups into the basket.
I ate one today. And quite nearly spit it out and rinsed out my mouth.
OMG what have they done? It had a massive chemical flavor; somewhat like soap or perfume. There was no taste of peanut at all, nor any chocolate flavor. Just sugar and soap and something artificial and nasty.
I'll never buy THEM again.
Why do companies keep thinking that they can change recipes for the worse and people will keep buying their stuff? I'm looking at you Coke. Or Hostess. Or Reese's.
Bleah.
Possibly. Especially considering I still love the Trader Joe's dark chocolate ones.
I've just had too many life experiences of, "Oh, these were awesome in the 1970s! Bleeeeeeargh!"
"Oh, they reformulated those in the 1980s during the whole, 'Greed is good' movement. Now they're...
wow. You're old!
Now if you will excuse me, I am going to go on and on and on about how awesome final fantasy 6 is compared to 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, and so on...
Back from the Legend Of Five Rings game. Not doing what we were supposed to do and doing something else starts to be a running theme now.
** spoiler omitted **
things are never this complicated with the Spider.
I only need the mildest of fevers to get delerious. I have hallucinated SO MANY TIMES that the curtains were things. Or the lamp.say what?I KNOW coffee is a drug. I get withdrawal headaches when I don't drink it, or when I drink my mother's. My children both say "If Mama doesn't get her coffee, she gets grumpy" and think it's hilarious. And I don't care.
I love tea, but I can only drink it in the afternoons. If I drink tea (black, green, oolong, doesn't matter) in the morning, I get very nauseous.
Energy drinks are not good for me. I bought two of them once, driving long-distance by myself, and they gave me heart arrhythmia and tunnel vision and made my brain do weird things. Actually, almost exactly the same symptoms as when I get bit by cats, but minus the hallucinations.
Marijuana is not for me. I think it should be legal and is, on the whole, far safer and less dangerous than alcohol (both for the person taking it and for those in contact with them), but it's not a substance I particularly enjoy. It makes me stop caring about everything, laugh a lot, cook weird food, and then pass out. It's also inexperience with dosage; I know how to drink just a little to take the edge off and enjoy it without getting stupid unless I choose to (but I really hate being drunk, so I almost never do), but I have never been successful in having that little pot. So I stopped being interested in it.
When I get bitten by cats.
I have the following symptoms:Heart arrhythmia.
Tunnel vision.
Brain fog (like when you're hypothermic).All of which I also get on energy drinks.
But with cat bites, also add:
Hallucinations.
You remember "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and "Cool World"? Animation layered over live-action film? It's like that. The real world stays the same, but there's this whole other layer of hallucinated characters and set designed on top of it that no one but me can see. Really freaky. I hate it a lot. This is why I will not pet a cat. Because cats are evil m************rs who are all sweetness and fluff until they
Bad fort save?
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*Gives LM a sad Mao. Not all of us cats are like that... *say what?I KNOW coffee is a drug. I get withdrawal headaches when I don't drink it, or when I drink my mother's. My children both say "If Mama doesn't get her coffee, she gets grumpy" and think it's hilarious. And I don't care.
I love tea, but I can only drink it in the afternoons. If I drink tea (black, green, oolong, doesn't matter) in the morning, I get very nauseous.
Energy drinks are not good for me. I bought two of them once, driving long-distance by myself, and they gave me heart arrhythmia and tunnel vision and made my brain do weird things. Actually, almost exactly the same symptoms as when I get bit by cats, but minus the hallucinations.
Marijuana is not for me. I think it should be legal and is, on the whole, far safer and less dangerous than alcohol (both for the person taking it and for those in contact with them), but it's not a substance I particularly enjoy. It makes me stop caring about everything, laugh a lot, cook weird food, and then pass out. It's also inexperience with dosage; I know how to drink just a little to take the edge off and enjoy it without getting stupid unless I choose to (but I really hate being drunk, so I almost never do), but I have never been successful in having that little pot. So I stopped being interested in it.
When I get bitten by cats.
I have the following symptoms:Heart arrhythmia.
Tunnel vision.
Brain fog (like when you're hypothermic).All of which I also get on energy drinks.
But with cat bites, also add:
Hallucinations.
You remember "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and "Cool World"? Animation layered over live-action film? It's like that. The real world stays the same, but there's this whole other layer of hallucinated characters and set designed on top of it that no one but me can see. Really freaky. I hate it a lot. This is why I will not pet a cat. Because cats are evil m************rs who are all sweetness and fluff until they
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wow. You're old!
Now if you will excuse me, I am going to go on and on and on about how awesome final fantasy 6 is compared to 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, and so on...
Had you included 10 I would have argued.
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Well, our lawyer just might have gotten herself fired. *SIGH*
Don't they teach these people ANYTHING about tact, sense motive, or diplomacy? You'd think it would be a must to be an attorney, but NOOOOOOO...
So, the whole "wife takes the husband's name" thing has been anathema to GothBard for her entire life. She railed about it when she was in elementary school. "Why does the girl have to stop being a person as soon as she gets married?"
A lifetime of insults, degradation, marginalization, and out-and-out open abuse of her sex has done nothing but deepened that fundamental gut feeling.
If we walk into a store or get a phone call and someone calls her, "Mrs. Home" it's over. She will NOT do business with them.
The lawyer got a taste of it when they first met. "Oh, are you Mr. Home's other half?"
"No."
"Oh, I'm sorry, are you..."
"Oh, we're still married. I am just nobody's "other half".
GothBard already doesn't like the lawyer because she's a smoker, and it was agony sitting in her office for 45 minutes.
And now she's sent us the documents and she labeled the trust "The Home Family Trust".
GothBard will fire her on the spot if she sees it.
Seriously. Get a clue!
Oh, and as far as the 10 kW systems go - we were told that the formula changes at that point when determining the cost of the panels. I honestly don't know why. Possibly the type of panel they have to use to keep the total number of panels down to a reasonable number.
Oh you know, that's probably it. I know my plant has basically the best panels on the market, but I've no idea what the overall market price range is per panel.
Actually I don't have much idea how much we pay for our own panels.
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Had you included 10 I would have argued.wow. You're old!
Now if you will excuse me, I am going to go on and on and on about how awesome final fantasy 6 is compared to 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, and so on...
Nothing wrong with being old, I'm old too, I remember that greatest of all RPGs in history, Chrono Trigger!
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In other news, Impus Major finally got his first driving lesson!
I am rather jealous, as he had a natural "feel" for the size of the car from all his video game experience, and the Celica was obviously a MUCH better stick to learn on than our old clunky 1970 Volvo station wagon I trained on.
But he did really well... until Security came by and chased us off and made me sad all over again.
As one parent in the Berkeley Parents' Group posted: Kids have been learning to drive in the Golden Gate Fields parking lot for nearly 40 years now.
Well, apparently too many idiot parents let their kids run into too many things, and Golden Gate Fields revoked the privilege some years ago. The security guys were really nice about it; I'm not going to fault them one bit for doing their job in a kind, lighthearted, and friendly way. And I'm not going to fault management for protecting themselves from lawsuits.
But I *AM* going to blame the idiot parents who managed to let their kids crash IN AN EMPTY PARKING LOT!!!!
I mean seriously, WTF #2 for the night!
Oh, and as far as the 10 kW systems go - we were told that the formula changes at that point when determining the cost of the panels. I honestly don't know why. Possibly the type of panel they have to use to keep the total number of panels down to a reasonable number.Oh you know, that's probably it. I know my plant has basically the best panels on the market, but I've no idea what the overall market price range is per panel.
Actually I don't have much idea how much we pay for our own panels.
Yeah, my guy said I could upgrade the panels to get up to 6.2 kW, but it would cost a LOT more because they'd have to use a different brand/type of panel...
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Oh, and my favorite "wife takes the husband's name": My mother was an M.D./Ph.D. My father was a Ph.D. So people called the house all the time asking for, "Dr. Home."
And they would get mad at me for asking, "Which one?", because they couldn't conceive of there being TWO "Dr. Homes" in one house. I even got yelled at by one guy for being a smart-a$$ so I handed him over to my mother, who said, "This is Dr. Home," to which he meekly replied that he was looking for the other Dr. Home.
He never apologized.
The best came years later when I was visiting and got a call for, "Dr. Home" and the usual exasperation. At which point I got to say, "Look, buddy, there are THREE of us in this house! You're going to have to be more specific than that!"
He meekly asked to speak to my mother.
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Nothing wrong with being old, I'm old too, I remember that greatest of all RPGs in history, Chrono Trigger!Had you included 10 I would have argued.wow. You're old!
Now if you will excuse me, I am going to go on and on and on about how awesome final fantasy 6 is compared to 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, and so on...
Best game in history, at least in my opinion.
If you are willing to PM me what size you got and what it cost, that would be awesome. I'd like to do some comparisons, and I expect your system to be significantly cheaper than mine because location. But I'm curious...12.5 kw and about 28k after rebates
What's making me happiest is the consistency in pricing I'm seeing throughout... nothing like the 1/3 price roof I'm suddenly getting...
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My big task for tonight:
Turn on season 4 of Luther, make a cup of tea, and sculpt a miniature Spaceman Spiff, his crash-landed saucer, and two blobby green aliens for the top of Teensy Valeros' cake tomorrow. In a few hours, he will be six. (Birthday breakfast is peach waffles and bacon, because he's Waffle Neutral.)
My big task for tonight:
Turn on season 4 of Luther, make a cup of tea, and sculpt a miniature Spaceman Spiff, his crash-landed saucer, and two blobby green aliens for the top of Teensy Valeros' cake tomorrow. In a few hours, he will be six. (Birthday breakfast is peach waffles and bacon, because he's Waffle Neutral.)
Luther is on my Netflix list...along with 85 other things.